DavidBekelmanMDMPH

Hospice & Palliative Medicine

Associate Professor, Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine

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University of Iowa Hospitals and ClinicsResidency, Internal Medicine/Psychiatry, 1996 - 2001
Emory University School of MedicineClass of 1996

Improving Symptoms and Quality of Life in Chronic Heart Failure: Pilot Study Start of enrollment: 2011 Oct 01
Completed
Not Applicable
Collaborative Care to Alleviate Symptoms and Adjust to Illness in Chronic Heart Failure (CASA) Trial Start of enrollment: 2012 Aug 01
Completed
Not Applicable
Vets Helping Vets Pilot Study Start of enrollment: 2016 Feb 01
Completed
Not Applicable
Advancing Symptom Alleviation With Palliative Treatment Start of enrollment: 2016 Sep 01
Active, not recruiting
Not Applicable
Psychosocial Intervention in Latino Patients With Advanced Cancer Start of enrollment: 2018 Jan 23
Active, not recruiting
Not Applicable
Goals of Care Conversations Study Start of enrollment: 2022 Sep 13
Enrolling by invitation
Not Applicable
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PubMed

198 citations
Symptom Burden, Depression, and Spiritual Well-Being: A Comparison of Heart Failure and Advanced Cancer Patients
David B. Bekelman, John S. Rumsfeld, Edward P. Havranek, Traci E. Yamashita, Evelyn Hutt
Journal of General Internal Medicine. 2009-03-14
15 citations
Association of Somatic and Cognitive Depressive Symptoms and Biomarkers in Acute Myocardial Infarction: Insights from the Translational Research Investigating Underlyi...
Kim G. Smolderen, John A. Spertus, Kimberly J. Reid, Donna M Buchanan, Viola Vaccarino
Biological Psychiatry. 2012-01-01
73 citations
Patient and caregiver congruence: the importance of dyads in heart failure care.
Jessica H. Retrum, Carolyn T. Nowels, David B. Bekelman
The Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing. 2013-03-01

Grand Rounds August 23, 2024: Improving Quality of Life in COPD and Heart Failure: Unpacking a Successful Multicomponent Virtual Team Intervention (David B. Bekelman, MD, MPH; Lyndsay DeGroot PhD, RN, CNE)August 23rd, 2024
How Can Technology Improve End-of-Life and Palliative Care?July 31st, 2018
Collaborative Heart Failure Care Did Reduce Hospitalizations or Mortality, but Reduced Depression and FatigueFebruary 27th, 2018
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