Associate Professor
UCSF
Joanna Sharpless, MD is an Associate Professor in the Division of Palliative Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). She is a graduate of the Program in Liberal Medical Education at Brown University and completed her residency in Family and Social Medicine at Montefiore Medical Center before attending the Harvard Interprofessional Palliative Care Fellowship Program. Her scholarly and narrative work has been published in the Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, Journal of Palliative Medicine, Academic Medicine, the Journal of General Internal Medicine, Time magazine, and Pulse Voices. She lives north of San Francisco, where she loves to enjoy tasty pastries under the redwoods with her husband and daughter.
Thursday, March 5, 2026
2:30pm - 4:00pm PST
Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose
Extending Specialty Palliative Care’s Reach: The Use of Comfort Care Order Sets
Friday, March 6, 2026
10:50am - 11:10am PST
Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose