JamesAaronTulskyMDFACP, FAAHPM

PubMed

• Cannabidiol for Scan-Related Anxiety in Women With Advanced Breast Cancer: A Randomized Clinical Trial.
  Manan M Nayak, Peter Chai, Paul J Catalano, William F Pirl, James A Tulsky
  JAMA Network Open. 2024-12-02
• Integration of Palliative Care into Heart Failure Care: Consensus-Based Recommendations from the Heart Failure Society of America.
  Sarah Chuzi, Martha Abshire Saylor, Larry A Allen, Akshay S Desai, Shelli Feder
  Journal of Cardiac Failure. 2024-11-26
• 2 citations
  Development of an Actor Rehearsal Guide for Communication Skills Courses.
  Andrew J Lawton, Lauren Greco, Remo Airaldi, James A Tulsky
  BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care. 2024-11-20

Journal Articles

• Surviving critical illness: the acute respiratory distress syndrome as experienced by patients and their caregivers.  
  Cox CE, Docherty SL, Brandon DH, Whaley C, Attix DK, Clay AS, Dore DV, Hough CT, White DB, Tulsky JA, Crit Care Med 2009;37(10):2702-2708.
• How do non-physician clinicians respond to advanced cancer patient's negative expressions of emotions?  
  Alexander SC, Pollak KI, Morgan PA, Strand J, Abernethy AP, Jeffreys AS, Arnold RM, Olsen M, Rodriguez KL, Garrigues SK, Manusov JR, Tulsky JA, Supp Care Cancer 2011;19(1):155-59.
• Effective “On-Boarding”: Transitioning from trainee to faculty.  
  Gustin J, Tulsky JA, J Pall Med 2010;13(10):1279-83.
• Do patient attributes predict oncologist empathic responses and patient perceptions of empathy?  
  Pollak KI, Arnold RM, Alexander SC, Jeffreys AS, Olsen MK, Abernethy AP, Rodriguez KL, Tulsky JA, Supp Care Cancer 2010;18(11):1405-1411
• When praise is worth considering in a difficult conversation.  
  Back AL, Arnold RM, Baile WF, Edwards KA, Tulsky JA, Lancet 2010;376:866-7
• Project CHAT: Physician communication style and weight loss in overweight and obese adults.  
  Pollak KI, Alexander SC, Coffman CJ, Tulsky JA, Lyna P, Dolor RJ, Esoimeme I, Brouwer RJN, Manusov JRE, Ostbye, T, Am J Prev Med 2010;39(4):321-28
• Effect of palliative oxygen versus medical (room) air in relieving breathlessness in patients with refractory dyspnea: a double-blind randomized controlled trial (NCT0...  
  Abernethy AP, McDonald CF, Frith PA, Clark K, Herndon JE, Marcello J, Young IH, Bull J, Wilcock A, Booth S, Wheeler JL, Tulsky JA, Crockett AJ, Currow DC, Lancet 2010;376:784-93.
• One-year trajectories of care and resource utilization for recipients of prolonged mechanical ventilation.  
  Unroe M, Kahn JM, Carson SS, Govert JA, Martinu T, Sathy SJ, Clay AS, Chia J, Gray A, Tulsky JA, Cox CE, Ann Intern Med 2010;153:167-75
• Decision-making in serious illness: A matter of life, death and words.  
  Tulsky JA, Pt Educ Couns 2010;80(1):1-2.
• Oncologist patient-centered communication with patients with advanced cancer: exploring whether race or socioeconomic status matter.  
  Pollak KI, Alexander SC, Grambow SC, Tulsky JA, Pall Med 2010;24(1):96-8
• How oncologists and their patients with advanced cancer communicate about health related quality of life.  
  Rodriguez KL, Bayliss N, Alexander SC, Jeffreys AS, Olsen MK, Pollak KI, Kennifer SL, Tulsky JA, Arnold RM, Psycho Oncology 2010;19(5):490-99
• Negative Emotions in Cancer Care: Do Oncologists' Responses Depend on Severity and Type of Emotion?  
  Kennifer SL, Alexander SC, Pollak KI, Jeffreys AS, Olsen MK, Rodriguez KL, Arnold RM, Tulsky JA, Pt Educ Couns 2009;76(1):51-56
• Clergy-laity support and patients’ mood during serious illness.  
  Hays JC, Wood L, Steinhauser KE, Olsen MK, Lindquist JH, Tulsky JA, Pall Supp Care 2011;9(3):273-80
• Seriously-ill patients’ discussions of preparation and life completion: an intervention to assist with transition at end of life.  
  Steinhauser KE, Alexander SC, Byock IR, George LK, Tulsky JA, Pall Support Care 2009;7(4):393-404
• Use of and reactions to a tailored CD-ROM designed to enhance oncologist-patient communication: the SCOPE trial intervention.  
  Skinner CS, Pollak KI, Farrell D, Olsen MK, Jeffreys AS, Tulsky JA, Pt Educ Couns 2009;77(1):90-96.
• Primary care physicians' discussions of weight-related topics with at risk and overweight adolescents: Results from the Teen CHAT pilot study.  
  Pollak KI, Alexander SC, Ostbye T, Lyna P, Tulsky JA, Dolor RJ, Coffman C, Namenek-Brouwer RJ, Esoimeme I, Manusov JRE, Bravender T, Adolescent Health 2009;45(2):205-07
• What explains racial differences in the use of advance directives and attitudes towards hospice care?  
  Johnson KS, Kuchibhatla M, Tulsky JA, J Amer Ger Soc 2008;56:1953-58
• Patient-oncologist communication in advanced cancer: predictors of patient perception of prognosis.  
  Robinson TM, Alexander SC, Hays M, Jeffreys AS, Olsen MK, Rodriguez KL, Pollak KI, Abernethy AP, Arnold RM, Tulsky JA, Support Care Cancer 2008;16(9):1049-57.
• “What concerns me is…” Expression of emotion by advanced cancer patients during outpatient visits.  
  Anderson WG, Alexander SC, Rodriguez KL, Jeffreys AS, Olsen MK, Pollak KI, Tulsky JA, Arnold RM, Support Care Cancer 2007;16(7):803-11
• . Oncologist communication about emotion during visits with advanced cancer patients.  
  Pollak KI, Arnold RM, Jeffreys A, Alexander SC, Olsen M, Abernethy AP, Skinner CS, Rodriguez KL, Tulsky JA, J Clin Oncol 2007;25(36):5748-52
• What length of hospice use maximizes reduction in medical expenditures near death?  
  Taylor DH, Ostermann J, Van Houtven CH, Tulsky JA, Steinhauser KE, Soc Sci Med 2007;65:1466-78.
• Developing initial competency-based outcomes for the hospice and palliative medicine specialist: phase I of the hospice and palliative medicine competencies project.  
  Morrison LJ, Scott JO, Block SD, Arnold RM, Billings JA, Goldstein NE, Okun T, Sanchez-Reilly S, Tucker R, Tulsky JA, von Gunton C, Weissman D, J Pall Med 2007;10(2):313-30
• Efficacy of communication skills training for giving bad news and transitions to palliative care.  
  Back AL, Arnold RM, Baile WF, Fryer-Edwards KA, Alexander SC, Barley GE, Gooley TA, Tulsky JA, Arch Intern Med 2006;167:453-60.
• Can physicians accurately predict which patients will lose weight, improve nutrition, and increase physical activity?  
  Pollak, KI, Coffman, CJ, Alexander, SC, Tulsky, JA, Lyna, P, Dolor, RJ, Cox, ME, Brouwer, RJN, Bodner, ME, Østbye, T, Family Pract 2012; 29(5):553-60.
• Race and residence: Intercounty variation in black-white differences in hospice use.  
  Johnson KS, Kuchibhatla MN, Payne RP, Tulsky JA, J Pain Symptom Manage 2013
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Books/Book Chapters

• Book Review: Death Foretold: Prophecy and prognosis in medical care. 
  Tulsky JAEditors: N Christakis.N Engl J Med; 2000;342(7):522
• Geriatrics, a Lange Clinical Manual. 
  Tulsky JA, Goldschlager N. SyncopeEditors: Lonergan, Edmund T.Stamford: Appleton & Lange
• 20 Common Problems: Ethics in Primary Care. 
  Chapter: Advance Care Planning 
  Tulsky JAEditors: Sugarman, J.McGraw Hill, New York
• Mastering Communication With Seriously Ill Patients: Balancing Honesty With Empathy And Hope. 
  Back AL, Arnold RM, Tulsky JACambridge
• Topics in Palliative Care. 
  Chapter: Communicating a Poor Prognosis 
  Fischer GS, Tulsky JA, Arnold RMEditors: Portenoy RK, Bruera E.Oxford University Press, New YorkEdition 4,
• Talking to the Older Adult about Advance Directives. 
  Fischer GS, Arnold RM, Tulsky JAClin Geriatric Med 2000;16:239-54.
• Physicians Guide to End-of-Life Care. 
  Chapter: Responding to Legal Requests for Physician-Assisted Suicide 
  Tulsky JA, Ciampa R, Rosen EJEditors: Snyder L, Quill TE.ACP-ASIM, Philadelphia
• Physicians Guide to End-of-Life Care. 
  Chapter: Discussing palliative care with patients 
  Lo B, Quill TE, Tulsky JAEditors: Snyder L, Quill TE.ACP-ASIM, Philadelphia
• Principles and Practice of Palliative Care and Supportive Oncology. 
  Chapter: Communication at End of Life 
  Tulsky JA, Arnold RMEditors: Berger AM, Portenoy RK, Weissman DE.Lipincott Williams & Wilkins, 2002:673-84, PhiladelphiaEdition 2,
• Palliative and End-of-Life Pearls. 
  Chapter: Patient 61. A 48 year old man with metastatic cancer who has not yet recognized the terminal nature of his disease.. 
  Tulsky JAEditors: Heffner JE, Byock IR.Hanley & Belfus, 2002:192-94, Philadelphia
• Geriatric Medicine. 
  Chapter: Doctor-Patient Communication Issues 
  Tulsky, JAEditors: CK, Leipzig RM, Cohen HJ, Larson EB, Meier DE, Capello CF.Springer, 2003:287-98, New YorkEdition 4,
• Geriatric Palliative Care. 
  Chapter: Doctor-Patient Communication 
  Tulsky, JAEditors: Morrison RS, Meier DE, Capello CF.Oxford University Press, 2003:314-331, New York
• Encyclopedia of Bioethics. 
  Chapter: Advance Directives 
  Fischer GS, Tulsky JA, Arnold RMEditors: Stephen G.Macmillan Reference USA, New YorkEdition 3,
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Abstracts/Posters

• Virtual-Reality Training Improves Angled Telescope Skills in Novice Laparoscopists.
  Ganai S, Donroe JA, St. Louis MR, Lewis GM, Seymour NE, New England Surgical Society, 12th Annual Surgical Resident and Fellow Research Day, New England Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts,
• Suture Survival in an Acidic Environment: Implications for Natural Orifice Transgastric Endolumenal Surgery (NOTES).
  Wohaibi EM, Ganai S, Wait RB, Romanelli JR, 2008 Surgical Spring Week, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• Clinical Assessment of the Axillary Sentinel Lymph Node for Breast Cancer Metastasis By The Surgeon: A Study of One Institution’s Voluntary Policy Change.
  Meyer JE, Ganai S, Goulart RA, Mason HS, The American Society of Breast Surgeons, 9 th Annual Meeting, New York, New York
• Tumor-Targeted Delivery of TRAIL Using Salmonella typhimurium Enhances Breast Cancer Survival.
  Ganai S, Arenas RB, Forbes NS, Tufts University Cancer Research Day, Boston, Massachusetts
• Tumor-Targeted Delivery of TRAIL Using Salmonella typhimurium Enhances Breast Cancer Survival.
  Ganai S, Arenas RB, Forbes NS, Massachusetts Chapter of the American College of Surgeons, 55 th Annual Meeting, Boston, Massachuse
• Outcomes from Laparoscopic Resection of Submucosal Gastric Neoplasms.
  Ganai S, Prachand VK, Posner MC, Alverdy JC, Waxman I, Chennat J, Choi E, Patti MG, Matthews JB, Roggin KK, 18 th Annual Charles B. Huggins Research Symposium, Gordon Center for Integrative Sciences
• Outcomes of Multivisceral Resection of Gastric Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumors.
  Ganai S, Posner MC, Prachand VN, Alverdy JC, Choi EA, Waxman I, Patti MG, Roggin KK, American Society of Clinical Oncology, Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium, San Francisco
• Laparoscopic Ischemic Conditioning as a Modality to Reduce Gastric Conduit Morbidity Following Esophagectomy.
  Zahedi M, Ganai S, Yetasook AK, Talamonti MS, Ujiki MB, Carbray J, Howington J, 53 rd Annual Meeting. Digestive Disease Week, San Diego, California
• Outcomes of Multivisceral Resection of Gastric Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumors.
  Ganai S, Posner MC, Prachand VN, Alverdy JC, Choi EA, Waxman I, Patti MG, Roggin KK, American Society of Clinical Oncology, Chicago, Illinois
• Pathologic Response to Induction Therapy Predicts Survival after Resection in Locally-Advanced Esophageal Cancer.
  Ganai S, Ziesat MC, Posner MC, Patti MG, Prachand VN, Villaflor VM, Malik R, Ferguson MK, 13 th Biennial World Congress, Venice, Italy
• Venous Thromboembolic Events and Esophagectomy: Implications for DVT Prophylaxis in the Perioperative Management of Esophageal Cancer.
  Ganai S, Ziesat MC, Posner MC, Patti MG, Prachand VN, Villaflor VM, Malik R, Ferguson MK, 13 th Biennial World Congress, Venice, Italy
• Implications of Lymph Node Involvement in pT1b Esophageal Cancer.
  Ziesat MC, Ganai S, Posner MC, Patti MG, Prachand VN, Siddiqui U, Konda V, Waxman I, Ferguson MK, 13 th Biennial World Congress, Venice, Italy
• Determinants of Tumor Metastatic Potential in a Syngeneic Murine Melanoma Model.
  Ganai S, Khan SA, Uppal A, Wightman S, Khodarev NN, Posner MC, Weichselbaum RR, Society of Surgical Oncology, 66 th Annual Cancer Symposium, National Harbor, Maryland
• Virtual-Reality Training Improves Angled Telescope Skills in Novice Laparoscopists.
  Ganai S, Donroe JA, St. Louis MR, Lewis GM, Seymour NE, The Association for Surgical Education, 2005 Surgical Education Week, New York City, New York
• Tumor-Targeted Delivery of TRAIL Using Salmonella typhimurium Enhances Breast Cancer Survival.
  Ganai S, Arenas RB, Forbes NS, 61 st Annual Cancer Symposium, Chicago, Illinois
• Mapping the Rectum: Spatial Analysis of Microsurgical Outcomes using GIS.
  Ganai S, Garb JL, Kanumuri P, Rao RS, Alexander AI, Wait RB, ESRI 2005 Health User Conference, Chicago, Illinois
• Mapping the Rectum: Spatial Analysis of Transanal Endoscopic Microsurgical Outcomes using GIS Technology.
  Ganai S, Garb JL, Kanumuri P, Rao RS, Alexander AI, Wait RB, American College of Surgeons, Massachusetts Chapter, Dedham, Massachusetts
• Virtual Reality and Computer-Enhanced Skills Training Devices are Equally Effective in Building Complex Surgical Skills in Novices.
  Kanumuri P, Ganai S, Wohaibi EM, Bush RW, Grow DR, Seymour NE, The Association for Surgical Education, 2007 Surgical Education Week. Washington, DC
• Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Attenuated Salmonella typhimurium Proliferation in Tumor Microenvironments.
  Ganai S, Arenas RB, Sauer JP, Bentley B, Forbes NS, New England Surgical Society, 14th Annual Surgical Resident and Fellow Research Day, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts,
• Tumor-Targeted Delivery of TRAIL Using Salmonella typhimurium Enhances Breast Cancer Survival.
  Ganai S, Arenas RB, Forbes NS, New England Surgical Society, 15th Annual Surgical Resident and Fellow Research Day,, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts,
• Suture Survival in an Acidic Environment: Implications for Natural Orifice Transgastric Endolumenal Surgery (NOTES).
  Wohaibi EM, Ganai S, Wait RB, Romanelli JR, New England Surgical Society, 15th Annual Surgical Resident and Fellow Research Day,, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts,
• Tumor-targeting attenuated Salmonella typhimurium accumulates within therapeutically-resistant microenvironments adjacent to tumor necrosis.
  Ganai S, Arenas RB, Sauer JP, Bentley B, Forbes NS, American College of Surgeons, 97 th Annual Clinical Congress,, San Francisco, California,
• Attenuated Salmonella typhimurium effectively targets breast cancer metastases.
  Ganai S, Arenas RB, Sauer JP, Bentley B, Forbes NS, Society of Surgical Oncology, 62 nd Annual Cancer Symposium,, Phoenix, Arizona,
• Tumor-Targeted Delivery of TRAIL Using Salmonella typhimurium in Metastatic Breast Cancer in the Syngeneic Murine Model.
  Rossini CJ, Ganai S, Arenas RB, Forbes NS, Baystate Medical Center / Tufts University School of Medicine, 11th Annual Research Week,, Springfield, Massachusetts,
• Predictors of Unsuccessful Laparoscopic Resection of Gastric Submucosal Neoplasms.
  Ganai S, Prachand VN, Posner MC, Alverdy JC, Choi E, Waxman I, Patti MG, Roggin KK, Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract, 53 rd Annual Meeting,, Digestive Disease Week, San Diego, California,
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Lectures

• The Art of Caring. 
  Detroit, MI
• Talking the talk: communicating with patients about advance directives. 
  Workshop Leader, Society of General Internal Medicine Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, May 2, 1997
• How do we Communicate with Dying Patients? 
  Invited Speaker, The 1997 National Conference on End-of-Life Issues, Chicago, IL, May 10, 1997
• The great teaching case: Ethical dilemmas in OB/GYN training. 
  Obstetrics and Gynecology Grand Rounds, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, February 4, 199
• Should physicians use numbers to describe outcome probabilities when discussing cardiopulmonary resuscitation preferences with patients? 
  Poster presentation at VA HSR&D Service Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, February 19, 1998
• Research in Communication Issues. 
  1st International Conference on Research in Palliative Care, Bethesda, MD
• Healing the Dying. 
  Feinberg Lecturer, St. Joseph Hospital, Chicago, IL, October 27, 1998
• Transitions: Having the Conversation. 
  North Carolina End of Life Care Coalition. The Current State of Dying, Clemmons, NC, February 8, 200
• In search of a good death. 
  Washington, DC, March 22, 2000
• The prevalence and nature of patient expectations in a VA general medicine clinic. 
  Oral presentation at VA HSR&D Service Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, March 24, 2000.
• Palliative Care: Living at the End of Life. 
  Program of the Duke Pain and Palliative Care Initiative, Durham, NC, May 30, 2000.
• Communicating with Physicians and Other Health Care Providers. 
  “Partners in Caring: End-of-Life Care in the Church and Community,” Durham, NC, August 23, 2000
• Meet-the-Professor - Communicating with patients at the end of life, 
  ACP Annual Session, Philadelphia, PA, March 22, 1997
• Making tough decisions: talking with patients and families about end-of-life care. 
  15th Annual Bryan Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center Conference, February 9, 2001.
• Communicating with Patients at the end of Life. 
  University of Wisconsin
• Developing empathy, reflection, and courage in physicians: The parallel chart. 
  American Society for Bioethics and Humanities Annual Meeting, Nashville, TN, Oct. 25, 2001
• Jewish Bioethics in the 21st Century, 
  Jewish Theological Seminary, New York, NY, March 17-18, 2002.
• Update on the State of the Science: Communication. 
  PDIA Annual Retreat, July 14, 2004
• Update in Palliative Care. 
  Society of General Internal Medicine Annual Session, New Orleans, May 14, 2005.
• Developing a Palliative Care Research Program. 
  University of Wisconsin Comprehensive Cancer Center, Madison, WI, January 23, 2006.
• Communicating Prognosis: How Oncologists Can Be More Effective. 
  ASCO Invited Session, Chicago, IL, June 1, 2008
• NephroTalk Course. 
  Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY, April 24, 2012.
• Teaching Communication Skills. 
  European Association of Communication in HealthCare Conference, St. Andrews, Scotland, Sept 6, 2012.
• Why don’t patients discuss advance directives with physicians? 
  Hartford Foundation research symposium, American Geriatrics Society Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, CA
• Delivering Bad News to Patients with AIDS. 
  Guest speaker, Center for AIDS Prevention Studies, San Francisco, CA
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