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null Justin Sanders, MD, M.Sc.

Scientist, RI-MUHC, Glen site

Cancer Research Program

Centre for Outcomes Research and Evaluation

Associate Professor, Department of Family Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, McGill University

 

Keywords

palliative care • serious illness • clinical relationships • communication • qualitative methods

Research Focus

My research program uses social science-informed communication and implementation research to understand and improve the quality of authentic healing relationships for all people affected by serious illness.

Selected Publications

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  • Sanders JJ, Curtis JR, Tulsky JA. Achieving goal-concordant care: a conceptual model and approach to measuring serious illness communication and its impact. Journal of palliative medicine. 2018 Mar 1;21(S2):S-17.

  • Sanders JJ, Robinson MT, Block SD. Factors impacting advance care planning among African Americans: results of a systematic integrated review. Journal of palliative medicine. 2016 Feb 1;19(2):202-27.

  • Sanders JJ, Dubey M, Hall JA, Catzen HZ, Blanch‐Hartigan D, Schwartz R. What is empathy? Oncology patient perspectives on empathic clinician behaviors. Cancer. 2021 Nov 15;127(22):4258-65.

  • Paladino J, Lakin JR, Sanders JJ. Communication strategies for sharing prognostic information with patients: beyond survival statistics. JAMA. 2019 Oct 8;322(14):1345-6.

  • Tarbi EC, Blanch-Hartigan D, van Vliet LM, Gramling R, Tulsky JA, Sanders JJ. Toward a basic science of communication in serious illness. Patient education and counseling. 2022 Jul 1;105(7):1963-9.