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Recent Publications and Educational Resources from the NIH Pain and Palliative Care Team

Supportive Oncology and Palliative Care

Basi J, Cornish N, Spevak C, Cheng MJ: Empathy Training Seminar in the Military Health System: A Qualitative Self-Assessment Pilot Study. Mil Med 2025 10.1093/milmed/usaf076

Carr DB, Ann Berger, and Sharon Kim: 'Dying Alone'. In: Clinical and Ethical Dilemmas in Palliative and End-of-Life Care, What Do I Do Now Palliative Care. edn. New York: Oxford Academic; 2025: 57–62.

Snyder D GE, Lipshutz A, Cheng MJ: Making ACGME Milestones Work: An Innovative Path Forward in Assessing Physician Trainee Burnout. The Clinical Teacher 2024, 21(4) 10.1093/med/9780197681541.001.0001

Snyder DJ, Guinee EP, Lipshutz AKM, Cheng MJ: An innovative programme to track and address burnout in physician trainees. Clin Teach 2024, 21(4):e13706 10.1111/tct.13706

Ameli R, Skeath P, Abraham PA, Panahi S, Kazman JB, Foote F, Deuster PA, Ahmad N, Berger A: A nature-based health intervention at a military healthcare center: a randomized, controlled, cross-over study. PeerJ 2021, 9:e10519 10.7717/peerj.10519

Ameli R, Sinaii N, West CP, Luna MJ, Panahi S, Zoosman M, Rusch HL, Berger A: Effect of a Brief Mindfulness-Based Program on Stress in Health Care Professionals at a US Biomedical Research Hospital: A Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA Netw Open 2020, 3(8):e2013424 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.13424

Ameli R, Sinaii N, Luna MJ, Cheringal J, Gril B, Berger A: The National Institutes of Health measure of Healing Experience of All Life Stressors (NIH-HEALS): Factor analysis and validation. PLoS One 2018, 13(12):e0207820 10.1371/journal.pone.0207820

Downloadable PDFs

African American Elders' Serious Illness Experiences: Narratives of "God Did," "God Will," and "Life Is Better"

Current Status of Spirituality in Cardiac Rehabilitation Programs

Establishing a Palliative Care Program in a Research Center: Evolution of a Model

Increasing the Number of Outpatients Receiving Spiritual Assessment: A Pain and Palliative Care Service Quality Improvement Project

Initiating pain and palliative care outpatient services for the suburban underserved in Montgomery County, Maryland: Lessons learned at the NIH Clinical Center and MobileMed

Interaction of palliative care and primary care

"Mother MD Intense": The Need for Intentional Healing

Psychosocial experiences in the context of life-threatening illness: The cardiac rehabilitation patient

Psychosocial Spiritual Healing

Spirituality in the context of life-threatening illness and life-transforming change

Supportive medical care in life-threatening illness: A pilot study

Testing domains of the healing experiences in all life stressors questionnaire in a cohort of HIV-infected and HIV-uninfected Chicago women

The lived experience of individuals in cardiac rehabilitation who have a positive outlook on their cardiac recovery: A phenomenological inquiry

The Nature of Life-Transforming Changes Among Cancer Survivors