Elaine Meyer

Elaine C. Meyer, PhD, RN, MBE

Associate Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry, Boston Children's Hospital

Elaine C. Meyer, PhD, RN, is a nurse, clinical psychologist at Boston Children’s Hospital, and associate professor of psychology at Harvard Medical School. She received her BSN and MSN from University of Pennsylvania, PhD from University of Rhode Island, and MBE from Harvard Medical School. Her work emphasizes patient/family perspectives and priorities, end-of-life care, challenging conversations in healthcare, and simulation education. Bioethics interests focus on everyday clinical ethical encounters, serving vulnerable populations, and humanism in healthcare. She is fellow of the Society for Simulation in Healthcare, delivered a TEDx Talk, “On Being Present, Not Perfect,” and has published over 100 peer-reviewed articles. She looks forward to clinical ethics consultations, teaching, consulting and research partnerships, and writing about everyday clinical ethics and ethics education.

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Epidemiology of death in the PICU at five U.S. teaching hospitals*.
Authors: Authors: Burns JP, Sellers DE, Meyer EC, Lewis-Newby M, Truog RD.
Crit Care Med
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The educational value of improvisational actors to teach communication and relational skills: perspectives of interprofessional learners, faculty, and actors.
Authors: Authors: Bell SK, Pascucci R, Fancy K, Coleman K, Zurakowski D, Meyer EC.
Patient Educ Couns
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Courage, brains and heart: lessons from the Wizard of Oz for difficult healthcare conversations.
Authors: Authors: Meyer EC.
Aust Crit Care
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Radiology trainees' comfort with difficult conversations and attitudes about error disclosure: effect of a communication skills workshop.
Authors: Authors: Brown SD, Callahan MJ, Browning DM, Lebowitz RL, Bell SK, Jang J, Meyer EC.
J Am Coll Radiol
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Integrating actors into a simulation program: a primer.
Authors: Authors: Pascucci RC, Weinstock PH, O'Connor BE, Fancy KM, Meyer EC.
Simul Healthc
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Deception and death in medical simulation.
Authors: Authors: Truog RD, Meyer EC.
Simul Healthc
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Parent presence during invasive procedures and resuscitation: evaluating a clinical practice change.
Authors: Authors: Curley MA, Meyer EC, Scoppettuolo LA, McGann EA, Trainor BP, Rachwal CM, Hickey PA.
Am J Respir Crit Care Med
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"What would you do if this were your child?": practitioners' responses during enacted conversations in the United States.
Authors: Authors: Meyer EC, Lamiani G, Foer MR, Truog RD.
Pediatr Crit Care Med
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"I was able to still be her mom"--parenting at end of life in the pediatric intensive care unit.
Authors: Authors: McGraw SA, Truog RD, Solomon MZ, Cohen-Bearak A, Sellers DE, Meyer EC.
Pediatr Crit Care Med
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Uncovering and validating clinicians' experiential knowledge when facing difficult conversations: a cross-cultural perspective.
Authors: Authors: Lamiani G, Barello S, Browning DM, Vegni E, Meyer EC.
Patient Educ Couns
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