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Eric Isaacs, MD

Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine

Location: UCSF San Francisco & Oakland
Specialty: Emergency Medicine

Biography

Education:
BA: University of California, Berkeley
MD: Northwestern University Medical Center
Residency: UCLA Medical Center Emergency Medicine
Board Certification: Emergency Medicine

Research and Academic Interests: 
Emergency Medicine, Palliative Care, Clinical Ethics

Education and Training

  • 2019 - Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion Training, University of California
  • 06/1994 - Emergency Medicine, UCLA/Olive-View UCLA Medical Center
  • 06/1991 - Transitional Internship, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center
  • MD, 06/1990 - Medicine, Northwestern University School of Medicine
  • AB, 06/1986 - Organismal Biology, University of California

Publications

Do not resuscitate, but do not forget comfort.
van Stralen D, Perkin RM, Isaacs E
Palliative Care Initiated in the Emergency Department: A Cluster Randomized Clinical Trial.
Grudzen CR, Siman N, Cuthel AM, Adeyemi O, Yamarik RL, Goldfeld KS, PRIM-ER Investigators, Abella BS, Bellolio F, Bourenane S, Brody AA, Cameron-Comasco L, Chodosh J, Cooper JJ, Deutsch AL, Elie MC, Elsayem A, Fernandez R, Fleischer-Black J, Gang M, Genes N, Goett R, Heaton H, Hill J, Horwitz L, Isaacs E, Jubanyik K, Lamba S, Lawrence K, Lin M, Loprinzi-Brauer C, Madsen T, Miller J, Modrek A, Otero R, Ouchi K, Richardson C, Richardson LD, Ryan M, Schoenfeld E, Shaw M, Shreves A, Southerland LT, Tan A, Uspal J, Venkat A, Walker L, Wittman I, Zimny E
2023 Society for Academic Emergency Medicine Consensus Conference on Precision Emergency Medicine: Development of a policy-relevant, patient-centered research agenda.
Strehlow M, Gisondi MA, Caretta-Weyer H, Ankel F, Brackett A, Brar P, Chan TM, Garabedian A, Gunn B, Isaacs E, von Isenburg M, Jarman A, Kuehl D, Limkakeng AT, Lydston M, McGregor A, Pierce A, Raven MC, Salhi RA, Stave C, Tan J, Taylor RA, Wong HN, Yiadom MYAB, Zachrison KS, Vogel J
Advancing patient-centered research practices in a pragmatic patient-level randomized clinical trial: A thematic analysis of stakeholder engagement in Emergency Medicine Palliative Care Access (EMPallA).
Zhao N, Cuthel AM, Storms O, Zhang R, Yamarik RL, Hill J, Kaur R, Van Allen K, Flannery M, Chang A, Chung F, Randhawa S, Alvarez IC, Young-Brinn A, Kizzie-Gillett CL, Rosini D, Isaacs ED, Hopkins E, Chan GK, Booker-Vaughns J, Maguire M, Navarro M, Pidatala NR, Dunn P, Williams P, Galvin R, Batra R, Welsh S, Vaughan W, Bouillon-Minois JB, Grudzen CR
What's in This For You? What's in This For Me?: A Win-Win Perspective of Involving Study Advisory Committee Members in Palliative Care Research.
Booker-Vaughns J, Rosini D, Batra R, Chan GK, Dunn P, Galvin R, Hopkins E, Isaacs E, Kizzie-Gillett CL, Maguire M, Navarro M, Reddy Pidatala N, Vaughan W, Welsh S, Williams P, Young-Brinn A, Van Allen K, Cuthel AM, Liddicoat Yamarik R, Flannery M, Goldfeld KS, Grudzen CR
Quality measures for palliative care in the emergency department.
Goett R, Isaacs ED, Chan GK, Wang D, Aberger K, Pearl R, Rosenberg M, Loffredo AJ, Lamba S
Paramedic use of the Physician Order for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST) for medical intervention and transportation decisions.
Breyre AM, Sporer KA, Davenport G, Isaacs E, Glomb NW
Palliative care models for patients living with advanced cancer: a narrative review for the emergency department clinician.
Grudzen CR, Barker PC, Bischof JJ, Cuthel AM, Isaacs ED, Southerland LT, Yamarik RL
Emergency Department Communication in Persons Living With Dementia and Care Partners: A Scoping Review.
Carpenter CR, Leggett J, Bellolio F, Betz M, Carnahan RM, Carr D, Doering M, Hansen JC, Isaacs ED, Jobe D, Kelly K, Morrow-Howell N, Prusaczyk B, Savage B, Suyama J, Vann AS, Rising KL, Hwang U, Shah MN, GEAR 2.0-ADC Network
Developing a decision instrument to guide abdominal-pelvic imaging of blunt trauma patients: Methodology and protocol of the NEXUS abdominal-pelvic imaging study.
Raja AS, Rodriguez RM, Gupta M, Isaacs ED, Kornblith LZ, Prabhakar A, Saillant N, Schmit PJ, Wei SH, Mower WR
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