Dr. Justin Baker, MD

• Hospice & Palliative Medicine

• Pediatric Hematology & Oncology

• Pediatrics

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• University Of Texas Health Science Center At Houston

  Medical School, 2004

• Use of Epidural and Peripheral Nerve Blocks at End of Life in Children and Young Adults with Cancer: The Collaboration between a Pain Service and a Palliative Care Service, 2015-04-02

• Conflicting Goals and Obligations: Tensions Affecting Communication in Pediatric Oncology, 2021-05-07

• Advice to Clinicians on Communication from Adolescents and Young Adults with Cancer and Parents of Children with Cancer, 2022-12-21

• Recommended Scoring Approach for the Pediatric Patient-Reported Outcomes version of the Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events, 2021-12-06

• Expanding construct validity of established and new PROMIS Pediatric measures for children and adolescents receiving cancer treatment, 2020-01-06

• A Pediatric Brain Tumor Consortium Phase II Trial of Capecitabine Rapidly Disintegrating Tablets with Concomitant Radiation Therapy in Children with Newly Diagnosed Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Gliomas, 2017-11-01

• Clinician Emotions Surrounding Pediatric Oncology Patient Deterioration, 2021-02-25

• Ten Considerations for Integrating Patient-Reported Outcomes into Clinical Care for Childhood Cancer Survivors, 2023-02-06

• Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Outcomes Among Long-Term Survivors of Childhood Cancer: A Scoping Review, 2021-10-29

• Patients, Caregivers, and Clinicians Differ in Performance Status Ratings: Implications for Pediatric Cancer Clinical Trials, 2021-07-01

• Physician Perceptions of Palliative Care for Children With Cancer in Latin America Physician Perceptions of Palliative Care for Children With Cancer in Latin America, 2022-03-08

• The Art of Saying Nothing, 2022-06-01

• Availability of palliative care services for children with cancer in economically diverse regions of the world, 2010-06-10

• Barriers and Opportunities for Patient-Reported Outcome Implementation: A National Pediatrician Survey in the United States, 2022-02-02

• Congruence Gaps Between Adolescents With Cancer and Their Families Regarding Values, Goals, and Beliefs About End-of-Life Care Congruence Gaps Between Adolescents With Cancer and Their Families Regarding End-of-Life Care, 2020-05-19

• The Underappreciated Influence of Elisabeth Kubler-Ross on the Development of Palliative Care for Children, 2019-11-22

• "You are not alone”: Connecting through a bereaved parent mentor program for parents whose child died of cancer, 2022-04-01

• Unrealistic Parental Expectations for Cure in Poor-Prognosis Childhood Cancer, 2019-10-04

• A Review of Patient-Reported Outcome Measures in Childhood Cancer, 2022-09-30

• Investigation of modifiable variables to increase hospice nurse comfort with care provision to children and families in the community: A population-level study across Tennessee, Mississippi, and Arkansas, 2020-07-02

• Communicating Effectively in Pediatric Cancer Care: Translating Evidence into Practice, 2018-03-11

• Illness and end-of-life experiences of children with cancer who receive palliative care., 2017-12-08

• Role of Amputation in Improving the Quality of Life, Mobility, and Pain Outcomes in Children with Metastatic Osteosarcoma, 2018-07-29

• Impact of PEWS on Perceived Quality of Care During Deterioration in Children With Cancer Hospitalized in Different Resource-Settings, 2021-06-23

• Parental Views on Communication between Children and Clinicians in Pediatric Oncology: A Qualitative Study, 2021-02-10

• Shared spiritual beliefs between adolescents with cancer and their families, 2020-09-12

• "Don't Be Afraid to Speak Up:” Communication Advice from Parents and Clinicians of Children with Cancer, 2021-04-16

• Grief and Bereavement in Parents After the Death of a Child in Low- and Middle-Income Countries, 2020-05-01

• Predictors of Late Palliative Care Referral in Children with Cancer, 2018-02-08

• Mapping Child and Adolescent Self-Reported Symptom Data to Clinician-Reported Adverse Event Grading to Improve Pediatric Oncology Care and Research, 2019-09-25

• Informed Consent for Pediatric Phase I Cancer Trials: Physicians' Perspectives, 2010-07-01

• "Living life as if I never had cancer”: A study of the meaning of living well in adolescents and young adults who have experienced cancer, 2020-07-19

• Advancing the Field of Communication Research in Pediatric Oncology: A Systematic Review of the Literature Analyzing Medical Dialogue, 2018-08-01

• A Multi-Country Assessment in Eurasia: Alignment of Physician Perspectives on Palliative Care Integration in Pediatric Oncology with WHO Guidelines, 2020-06-12

• The impact of specialty palliative care in pediatric oncology: a systematic review, 2020-12-24

• Practical Communication Guidance to Improve Phase I Informed Consent Conversations and Decision-Making in Pediatric Oncology, 2015-04-14

• Thoughts from the Threshold: Patient and Family Hopes, Fears, Values, and Goals at the Onset of Pediatric Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation, 2020-01-28

• Qualitative Study of Pediatric Early Warning Systems' Impact on Interdisciplinary Communication in Two Pediatric Oncology Hospitals With Varying Resources, 2020-07-16

• Leveraging Grief: Involving Bereaved Parents in Pediatric Palliative Oncology Program Planning and Development, 2021-06-03

• Pediatric Early Warning Systems (PEWS) improve provider-family communication from the provider perspective in pediatric cancer patients experiencing clinical deterioration, 2022-09-21

• Compassionate de-escalation of life-sustaining treatments in pediatric oncology: An opportunity for palliative care and intensive care collaboration, 2022-10-13

• Eliciting the child's voice in adverse event reporting in oncology trials: Cognitive interview findings from the Pediatric Patient-Reported Outcomes version of the Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events initiative, 2016-09-21

• Importance ratings on patient-reported outcome items for survivorship care: comparison between pediatric cancer survivors, parents, and clinicians, 2018-04-18

• Pediatric Advance Care Planning and Families' Positive Caregiving Appraisals: An RCT, 2021-05-06

• Ethics Consultation in Pediatrics: Long-Term Experience from a Pediatric Oncology Center, 2015-12-04

• Palliative Sedation Therapy in Pediatrics: An Algorithm and Clinical Practice Update, 2022-12-01

• Status of Palliative Oncology Care for Children and Young People in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Perspective Paper on Priorities for New Frontiers, 2021-09-21

• The intersectionality of gender and poverty on symptom suffering among adolescents with cancer, 2021-06-01

• Prospective Collection of Tissue Samples at Autopsy in Children with Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma, 2010-10-01

• Does Phase I Trial Enrollment Preclude Quality End of Life Care? Phase I Trial Enrollment and End of Life Care Characteristics in Children with Cancer, 2014-12-29

• The association of age, literacy and race on completing patient-reported outcome measures in pediatric oncology, 2019-01-17

• Patient-Controlled Analgesia at the End of Life at a Pediatric Oncology Institution, 2015-03-27

• Patient Involvement in Informed Consent for Pediatric Phase I Cancer Research, 2014-03-13

• Regional adaptation of the education in palliative and end-of-life Care Pediatrics ( EPEC-Pediatrics ) curriculum in Eurasia, 2022-09-08

• Evaluation of Physician and Nurse Dyad Training Procedures to Deliver a Palliative and End-of-Life Communication Intervention to Parents of Children with a Brain Tumor, 2015-01-26

• Cognitive Interview-based Validation of the Patient-Reported Outcomes Version of the Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events (PRO-CTCAE) in Adolescents with Cancer, 2017-01-03

• Using EmPalPed-An Educational Toolkit on Essential Messages in Palliative Care and Pain Management in Children-As a Strategy to Promote Pediatric Palliative Care, 2022-06-06

• Multilevel Barriers to Communication in Pediatric Oncology: Clinicians' Perspectives, 2021-02-17

• Treatment Intensity and Symptom Burden in Hospitalized Adolescent and Young Adult Hematopoietic Cell Transplant Recipients at the End of Life, 2017-11-13

• Association of Religious and Spiritual Factors With Patient-Reported Outcomes of Anxiety, Depressive Symptoms, Fatigue, and Pain Interference Among Adolescents and Young Adults With Cancer Religious and Spiritual Factors and Patient-Reported Outcomes in Young People With Cancer, 2020-06-16

• Are We Meeting the Informational Needs of Cancer Patients and Families? Perception of Physician Communication in Pediatric Oncology, 2019-01-02

• Palliative Care, Version 2.2021 Featured Updates to the NCCN Guidelines, 2021-07-28

• Research Priorities in Pediatric Palliative Care, 2015-05-28

• Oncologist approaches to communicating uncertain disease status in pediatric cancer: a qualitative study, 2022-10-31

• Adolescent Perspectives on Phase I Cancer Research, 2012-10-03

• The bereavement experience of adolescents and early young adults with cancer: Peer and parental loss due to death is associated with increased risk of adverse psychological outcomes, 2017-08-23

• Child and adolescent self-report symptom measurement in pediatric oncology research: a systematic literature review, 2017-09-06

• Effect of the Family-Centered Advance Care Planning for Teens with Cancer Intervention on Sustainability of Congruence About End-of-Life Treatment Preferences A Randomized Clinical Trial Effect of FACE-TC on Sustainability of Congruence About End-of-Life Treatment, 2022-07-12

• Ideal vs Actual Timing of Palliative Care Integration for Children With Cancer in Latin America Ideal vs Actual Timing of Palliative Care Integration for Children With Cancer, 2023-01-19

• Barriers to Early Integration of Palliative Care in Pediatric Oncology in 11 Eurasian Countries, 2020-08-19

• Interdependent Functions of Communication with Adolescents and Young Adults in Oncology, 2022-01-29

• Silence in Conversations About Advancing Pediatric Cancer, 2022-06-29

• Subjective Toxicity Profiles of Children in Treatment for Cancer: A New Guide to Supportive Care?, 2020-10-20

• Phase I Trial, Pharmacokinetics, and Pharmacodynamics of Vandetanib and Dasatinib in Children with Newly Diagnosed Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma, 2013-03-27

• Methadone prolongs cardiac conduction in young patients with cancer-related pain, 2016-08-31

• Co-management of communication and care in adolescent and young adult oncology, 2022-06-19

• Bereaved parents' intentions and suggestions about research autopsies in children with lethal brain tumors, 2013-02-19

• Integrating Palliative Care in Pediatric Oncology: An Evolving Paradigm for Comprehensive Cancer Care, 2017-02-19

• Broaching goals-of-care conversations in advancing pediatric cancer, 2021-08-06

• Prognostic Communication Between Oncologists and Parents of Children With Advanced Cancer, 2021-05-05

• Community Hospice Nurses' Perspectives on Needs, Preferences, and Challenges Related to Caring for Children With Serious Illness Hospice Nurses' Perspectives on Caring for Children With Serious Illness, 2021-10-04

• Integrating Next Generation Sequencing into Pediatric Oncology Practice: An Assessment of Physician Confidence and Understanding of Clinical Genomics, 2017-02-13

• Facilitators Associated With Building and Sustaining Therapeutic Alliance in Advanced Pediatric Cancer Building and Sustaining Therapeutic Alliance in Advanced Pediatric Cancer, 2021-08-20