Carolyn Rennels • UCSF Profiles (original) (raw)

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Stanford University , Stanford, CA BA 06/2014 Human Biology
University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA MD 06/2020 Medicine
University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA Resident 06/2023 Internal Medicine
University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA Fellow 06/024 Palliative Medicine
UCSF 2024 Fellow of the Year - Hospice and Palliative Medicine Fellowship

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Carolyn Rennels, MD, is a palliative care physician who practices in the outpatient and inpatient clinical settings. Rennels earned her medical degree at UCSF, where she also completed a residency in internal medicine and a fellowship in palliative medicine.

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  1. Characteristics and Motivations of People With Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Who Pursue Medical Aid in Dying in California. Neurol Clin Pract. 2025 Jun; 15(3):e200478. Rennels CF, Rosow L, Pantilat S, Bell BK, Lomen-Hoerth C, Cohen E, Bischoff KE. PMID: 40321197; PMCID: PMC12048867.
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  2. Disproportionate Use of Aid in Dying Among People with ALS: Why ALS aid-in-dying requests are common while ALS is rare. Journal of Aid-in-Dying Medicine. 2025; 1(2):12-21. Carolyn Rennels, MD; Steven Z. Pantilat, MD, FAAHPM, MHM; Ambereen K. Mehta, MD MPH FAAMPH; Allison Kestenmaum, MA, MPA, BCC-PCHAC, ACPE; Kelsey Noble, DO; Jessica Besbris, MD; Ali Mendelson, MD; Kara Bischoff, MD. View Publication.
  3. Health Affairs Forefront. Supporting Perinatal Mental Health For Medical Trainees. 2024. Lekshmi Santhosh, Carolyn Rennels, Jessica Lee, Christina Mangurian. View Publication.
  4. Informal Caregiving Among Faculty at a Large Academic Health Sciences University in the United States: an Opportunity for Policy Changes. Acad Psychiatry. 2024 Aug; 48(4):320-328. Rennels C, Murthy SG, Handley MA, Morris MD, Alldredge BK, Dahiya P, Jagsi R, Kerns JL, Mangurian C. PMID: 37821717.
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  5. Journal of Pain and Symptom Management. Patient and Caregiver Experiences of Telehealth in an Outpatient Palliative Care Center (QI121). 2023; 65(5):e632-633. Carolyn Rennels, MD, Kara E. Bischoff, MD, Eve Cohen, RN, Jeffrey Sicotte, MBA .
  6. PREPARE for your care and easy-to-read advance directives increase real-time goal concordant care. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2023 02; 71(2):668-670. Rennels CF, Barnes DE, Volow A, Shi Y, Li B, Sudore RL. PMID: 36214201; PMCID: PMC9957783.
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  7. Behavioral Health and Burnout Among Physician Mothers Who Care for a Person With a Serious Health Problem, Long-term Illness, or Disability. JAMA Intern Med. 2019 04 01; 179(4):571-574. Yank V, Rennels C, Linos E, Choo EK, Jagsi R, Mangurian C. PMID: 30688972; PMCID: PMC6450290.
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