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

Supportive Oncology and Palliative Care

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

Ameli R, Skeath P, Abraham P, Panahi S, Kazman J, Foote F, Deuster P, Ahmad N, and Berger A, A Nature-Based Heath Intervention at a Military Healthcare Center: A randomized, controlled, cross-over qualitative study, PeerJ, in press.

Aredo, J,Tandon H, Panahi S, Phan V, Ameli R, Karp B, Stratton P, Mindfulness for Facilitating Gynecologic Procedures in Women with Pelvic Pain, submitted.

Luna, MJ, Ameli, R. Cheringal, J, Berger, A. (2019) Gender Differences in Psycho-social-spiritual Healing, Journal of Women’s Helath, Published Online:6 Sep 2019 https://doi.org/10.1089/jwh.2019.7837

Lichtenstein, A. Jolliffe A, and Ameli, R. (2018) Psychiatric Symptom Management in Adult and Pediatric Cancer Patients, In Handbook of supportive Oncology and Palliative Care, eds Berger, Hinds, Puchalski, Springer Publishing.

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

African American Elders' Serious Illness Experiences: Narratives of "God Did," "God Will," and "Life Is Better"; Heather Coats, Janice D. Crist, Ann Berger, Esther Sternberg, and Anne G. Rosenfeld

Current Status of Spirituality in Cardiac Rehabilitation Programs; Sheeba Nadarajah , PhD, RN; Ann M. Berger, MSN, MD; Sue Ann Thomas , PhD, RN

Establishing a Palliative Care Program in a Research Center: Evolution of a Model; Ann Berger, RN, MSN, MD; Karen Baker, RN, MSN, CS, APN; Jacques Bolle, RN, DNSc; and Donna Pereira, RN, MA, PCAPN, CHPN

Healing Pain–The Innovative Breakthrough Plan to Overcome Your Physical Pain & Emotional Suffering; Ann Berger, MSN, MD; and D.B. deSwaan

Increasing the Number of Outpatients Receiving Spiritual Assessment: A Pain and Palliative Care Service Quality Improvement Project; Blanca J. Gomez-Castillo, BS, MS; Rosemarie Hirsch, MPH, MD; Hunter Groninger, MD; Karen Baker, CRNP; M. Jennifer Cheng, MD; Jayne Phillips, CRNP; John Pollack, MDiv, BCC; and Ann M. Berger, MSN, MD

Initiating pain and palliative care outpatient services for the suburban underserved in Montgomery County, Maryland: Lessons learned at the NIH Clinical Center and MobileMed; Sunil K. Aggarwal, MD, PHD; Amrita Ghosh, MD, PHD; M. Jennifer Cheng, MD; Kathleen Luton, RN, MSN, CRNP, COHN-S; Peter F. Lowet, MBA; Ann Berger, MSN, MD

Interaction of palliative care and primary care. Clinical Geriatric Medicine, 31(2), 207-218; Ghosh A, Dzeng E, Cheng MJ.(2015)

"Mother MD Intense": The Need for Intentional Healing; Ann Berger, MSN, MD

Principles and Practice of Palliative Care and Supportive Oncology 4th Edition; Ann M. Berger, John L. Shuster, Jr, Jamie H. von Roen

Psychosocial experiences in the context of life-threatening illness: The cardiac rehabilitation patient; Gerard N. Holder, BS, MS; William C. Young, BA, MA; Sheeba R. Nadarajah, PHD, RN; and Ann M. Berger, MSN, MD

Psychosocial Spiritual Healing. Annals of Palliative Medicine 2017;6 (3):203-205. Ann Berger, MSN, MD

Spirituality in the context of life-threatening illness and life-transforming change; William C. Young, BA, MA; Sheeba R. Nadarajah, PHD, RN; Perry R. Skeath, PHD; and Ann M. Berger, MSN, MD

Supportive medical care in life-threatening illness: A pilot study; William C. Young, BA, MA; Sheeba R. Nadarajah, PHD, RN; and Ann M. Berger, MSN, MD

Testing domains of the healing experiences in all life stressors questionnaire in a cohort of HIV-infected and HIV-uninfected Chicago women; Ann Berger, Karlynn BrintzenhofeSzoc, Erin G Mistretta, Danetta Sloan, Kathleen M Weber

The lived experience of individuals in cardiac rehabilitation who have a positive outlook on their cardiac recovery: A phenomenological inquiry; Sheeba R Nadarajah, Susan W Buchholz, Debra L Wiegand and Ann Berger

The Nature of Life-Transforming Changes Among Cancer Survivors; Perry Skeath, Shanti Norris, Vani Katheria, Jonathan White, Karen Baker, Dan Handel, Esther Sternberg, John Pollack, Hunter Groninger, Jayne Phillips and Ann Berger