Dawn Michelle Gross MD PhD (She/Her)
Hospice & Palliative Medicine
Hospice & Palliative Medicine, San Francisco, CA
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1633 Old Bayshore Hwyste 236Burlingame, CA 94010
Phone+1 650-991-1106
Fax+1 949-916-7710
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Summary
- aka DrAsYouWish, Hospice & Palliative Medicine, Writer, Dying To Talk Podcast and Magic Wand Bearer. I am the medical director of ANX Hospice and part of the UCSF Palliative Care Service. My 2024 TEDx talk “Ask. The Time is Now” is inspired by my first book of true stories from the bedside, Heart Sounds: How a Stethoscope, A Magic Wand, and a Fishing Pole Teach Us to Listen for What Matters Most.
Education & Training
Stanford Health Care-Sponsored Stanford UniversityFellowship, Hematology, 2003 - 2006
Tufts Medical CenterResidency, Internal Medicine, 2001 - 2003
Tufts University School of MedicineClass of 2000, MD, PhD
Certifications & Licensure
CA State Medical License 2003 - 2027
American Board of Internal Medicine Hospice and Palliative Medicine
Awards, Honors, & Recognition
- TEDx Speaker TEDx Sonoma County, 2024
- UCSF Wellness Community Grant for new podcast-Dying Talk: UCSF Heart Sounds UCSF, 2022
- CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification eClinicalWorks, eClinicalWorks, LLC, 2016
Publications & Presentations
PubMed
- 5 citationsFor People Dying to Talk, It Finally Pays to Listen with Reimbursable Advance Care Planning.Carin van Zyl, Dawn Gross
AMA Journal of Ethics. 2018-08-01 - 23 citationsThe transfusion tether: Bridging the gap between end‐stage hematologic malignancies and optimal end‐of‐life careGabriel N. Mannis, Lisa M. McNey, Neel K. Gupta, Dawn Gross
American Journal of Hematology. 2016-06-01 - A piece of my mind. Yitgadal.Dawn Gross
JAMA. 2011-09-21
Journal Articles
- The Error in "There's Nothing Ore We Can Do"Dawn M. Gross, New York Times
- Identification of LFA-1 as a candidate autoantigen in treatment-resistant Lyme arthritisGross, DM et al, Science
- Th1 response is dominant and localized to the synovial fluid in patients with Lyme arthritisGross, DM et al, J. immunology
Books/Book Chapters
Authored Content
- “Something Is off Tonight”August 2018
- “Something Is off Tonight”August 2018
Professional Memberships
- International Women's ForumMember
Industry Relationships
- Board President, We Players2025 - Present
- Board Member, Zen Hospice ProjectNon-profit rooted in the Buddhist tradition of compassionate action with the intention of alleviating suffering providing education in end-of-life care giving, volunteer training based in Zen practice of mindfulness; Residential care home for terminally ill patients receiving hospice care2008 - 2014
External Links
- DrAsYouWishhttps://drasyouwish.com/
- ANX Home Healthcare and Hospicehttps://www.anxlife.com/heartsounds/
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