Erica C. Kaye, MD
Erica C. Kaye, MD

Erica C. Kaye, MD

Associate Member, St. Jude Faculty

  • Director of Research, Quality of Life and Palliative Care Division

Departments

Divisions

Education

MD – Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
MPH - Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland (anticipated May 2018)
BA – Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut

Honors & Awards

  • 2017  Kathleen M. Foley AAHPM/NHPCO Research Scholars Award
  • 2017  St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital CETO Clinical Education Award
  • 2017  Early Investigator Award at the Massachusetts General Hospital Workshop in Supportive Care in Cancer, funded by the National Cancer Institute
  • 2015  Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Welsh Scholarship
  • 2011  Boston Children’s Hospital Frederick Lovejoy Research Grant
  • 2011  American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM) Palliative Medicine Scholarship
  • 2010  Harvard Medical School Bemy Jelin ’91 Award
  • 2010  Harvard University Presidential Scholars Public Service Award
  • 2009-2010  Neil Ghiso Foundation Palliative Care Fellowship and Grant
  • 2006  Harvard Medical School Louis Pasteur Research Award

Research Interests

  • Early integration of palliative care into the ongoing care of children with cancer
  • Communication between pediatric oncology clinicians, patients with high risk cancer, and their families at high stress time points during the illness trajectory
  • Bereavement care for families of children who die from cancer
  • Delivery of pediatric palliative care in developing countries

Clinical Research Profile

Contact Information

Erica C. Kaye, MD Quality of Life and Palliative Care MS 260, Room C6066 St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital 262 Danny Thomas Place Memphis, TN 38105-3678

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Clinical Trials

Selected Publications

Kaye EC, Gushue CA, DeMarsh S, et al. Illness and end-of-life experiences of children with cancer who receive palliative care. Pediatr Blood Cancer 2017 (in press).

Kaye EC, Snaman JM, Baker JN. Pediatric Palliative Oncology: Bridging Silos of Care Through an Embedded Model. J Clin Oncol 35(24):2740-44, 2017.

Kaye EC. Lullaby of a Palliative Care Physician. J Palliat Med 20(8):902, 2017.

Kaye EC, Brinkman T, Baker JN. Development of Depression in Survivors of Childhood and Adolescent Cancer: A Multi-Level Life Course Conceptual Framework. J Support Care Cancer 25(6):2009-17, 2017.

Snaman JM, Lu, JJ, Kaye EC, Sykes A, Baker JN. Palliative Care Involvement is Associated with Less Intensive End of Life Care Characteristics in Adolescent and Young Adult Oncology Patients. J Palliat Med 20(5):509-16, 2017.

Kaye EC, Abramson ZR, Snaman JM, Friebert SE, Baker JN. Productivity in Pediatric Palliative Care: Measuring and Monitoring an Elusive Metric. J Pain Symptom Manage 53(5):952-61, 2017.

Snaman JM, Kaye EC, Levine DR, Cochran B, Wilcox R, Sparrow CK, Noyes N, Clark L, Avery W, Baker JN. Empowering bereaved parent through the development of a comprehensive bereavement program. J Pain Symptom Manage 53(4):767-75, 2016.

Snaman JM, Kaye EC, Cunningham M, Sykes A, Levine DR, Mahoney D, Baker J. Going Straight to the Source: A Pilot Study of Bereaved Parent-Facilitated Communication Training for Pediatric Subspecialty Fellows. Pediatr Blood Cancer 64(1):156-162, 2017.

Snaman JM, Kaye EC, Torres C, Gibson D, Baker JN. Helping parents live with the hole in their heart: the role of health care providers and institutions in the bereaved parents’ grief journeys. Cancer 122(17):2757-65, 2016.

Snaman JM, Kaye EC, Torres C, Gibson D, Baker JN. Parental Grief Following the Death of a Child from Cancer. Pediatr Blood Cancer 63(9):1594-602, 2016.

Alexander T, Mcgee RB, Kaye EC, McCarville MB, Choi JK, Cavender CP, Nichols KE, Sandlund JT. Metachronous T-Lymphoblastic Lymphoma and Burkitt Lymphoma in a Child with Constitutional Mismatch Repair Deficiency Syndrome. Pediatr Blood Cancer 63(8):1454-6, 2016.

Snaman JM, Kaye EC, Levine DR, Chesney PJ, Jackson WC, Cunningham MJ, Baker JN. Pediatric Palliative Oncology: A New Training Model for an Emerging Field. J Clin Oncol 34(3):288-9, 2016.

Kaye EC, Friebert S, Baker JN. Early Integration of Palliative Care for Children with High-Risk Cancer and their Families. Pediatr Blood Cancer 63(4):593-7, 2016.

Kaye EC. The Right to Grief. J Palliat Med 18(10):901, 2015.

Kaye EC. Pieces of Grief. J Clin Oncol 33(26):2923-4, 2015. PMID 26240232.

Kaye EC, Rubinstein J, Levine D, Baker JN, Dabbs D, Friebert SE. Pediatric Palliative Care in the Community. CA Cancer J Clin 65(4):315-33, 2015.

Kaye EC, Mixter S, Sheth K, Shaffer K. Choledochocele Presenting as Recurrent Pancreatitis. Radiol Case Rep 3(3):174, 2015.

Kaye EC, Baker J, Broniscer A. Management of diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma in children: current and future strategies for improving prognosis. CNS Oncology 3(6):421-31, 2014.

Kaye E, Johnson L. Beyond Day Thirty. Acad Pediatr 14(4):330-1, 2014.

Kaye E. Apnea in a Refugee Child. Pediatr Neurol 50(1):119-20, 2014.

Kaye E, Mack JW. Parent perceptions of the quality of information received about a child’s cancer. Pediatr Blood Cancer 60(11):1896-901, 2013.

McQueen A, Wright RO, Kedo MM, Kaye EC, Krauss B. Procedural sedation and analgesia outcomes in children after discharge from the emergency department: ketamine vs. fentanyl/midazolam. Ann Emerg Med 54(2):191-7, 2009.

Last update: December 2017

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