Professor
Oncology
Dr. Anthony L. Back, MD
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Doctor Anthony L. Back, MD practices Oncology. He graduated from Harvard Medical School. Harvard Medical School is one of the top medical schools in the US. Harvard Medical School is ranked 1 in research and 12 in primary care medicine He over the years received 3 awards: "America's Top Doctors", "America's Top Doctors for Cancer" and "Super Doctor". Anthony Back is also a published doctor. He has 101 publication published. The most recent publication is: Responding to patient requests for physician-assisted suicide. He is registered with Medicare and accepts Medicare payments.
Publications
- A snapshot of the person within: using smartphone photos to understand values.
- "Why are we doing this?": clinician helplessness in the face of suffering.
- The Critical Care Communication project: Improving fellows' communication skills.
- Quality of dying in the ICU: is it worse for patients admitted from the hospital ward compared to those admitted from the emergency department?
- Clinician roles in early integrated palliative care for patients with advanced Cancer: a qualitative study.
- Advance care planning among hematopoietic Cell transplant patients and bereaved caregivers.
- Electronic Health Records (EHRs) in the Oncology Clinic: How Clinician Interaction With EHRs Can Improve Communication With the Patient.
- Real-time Feedback on Nonverbal Clinical Communication. Theoretical Framework and Clinician Acceptance of Ambient Visual Design.
- Reframing the Goals of Care Conversation: "We're in a Different Place"
- Training for effective patient communication--reply.
- Race, Income and Education: Associations with Patient and Family Ratings of End-of-Life Care and Communication Provided by Physicians-in-Training.
- Association between Physician Trainee Self-Assessments in Discussing Religion and Spirituality and Their Patients' Reports.
- "Yes It's Sad, But What Should I Do?": Moving from Empathy to Action in Discussing Goals of Care.
- Effect of communication skills training for residents and nurse practitioners on quality of communication with patients with serious illness: a randomized trial.
- Interprofessional Communication Skills Training for Serious Illness: Evaluation of a Small-Group, Simulated Patient Intervention.
- "Isn't There Anything More You Can Do?" When Empathic Statements Work, and When They Don't.
- The cultivation of prognostic awareness through the provision of early palliative care in the ambulatory setting: a communication guide.
- Promoting Resilience among Parents and Caregivers of Children with Cancer.
- Implementing a Death with Dignity program at a comprehensive Cancer center.
- Keys to supportive care in pancreatic Cancer: early palliative care, improved communication.
- Hospital Variation and Temporal Trends in Palliative and End-of-Life Care in the ICU.
- Early palliative care in advanced lung Cancer: a qualitative study.
- Identifying Elements of ICU Care that Families Report as Important But Unsatisfactory: Decision-Making, Control and ICU Atmosphere.
- Internal Medicine Trainee Self-Assessments of End-of-Life Communication Skills Do Not Predict Assessments of Patients, Families, or Clinician-Evaluators.
- Information giving and receiving in hematological malignancy consultations.
- Compassion, compassion fatigue, and burnout: key insights for oncology professionals.
- The Power of Words.
- Values and options in Cancer care (VOICE): study design and rationale for a patient-centered communication and decision-making intervention for physicians, patients wi...
- Patterns of sexually transmitted enteric Diseases in a city.
- Leukocyte integrin CD11b promoter directs expression in lymphocytes and granulocytes in transgenic mice.
- The pedagogical use of discomfort.
- Euthanasia on television: dying Kevorkian style.
- Culturally clueless: does it have to be terminal?
- A feeling for the humanities, in a short white coat.
- Communication between professions: doctors are from mars, social workers are from venus.
- A point mutation associated with leukocyte adhesion deficiency type 1 of moderate severity.
- Fatal outcome due to cyclosporine neurotoxicity with associated pathological findings.
- Identification of two molecular defects in a child with leukocyte adherence deficiency.
- cDNA sequence for the alpha M subunit of the human neutrophil adherence receptor indicates homology to integrin alpha subunits.
- Retroviral-mediated gene transfer of the leukocyte integrin CD18 subunit.
- Regulation of expression of the leukocyte integrin CD11a (LFA-1) molecule during differentiation of HL-60 Cells along the monocyte/macrophage pathway.
- Identification of the promoter of the myelomonocytic leukocyte integrin CD11b.
- Transfected leukocyte integrin CD11b/CD18 (Mac-1) mediates phorbol ester-activated, homotypic Cell:Cell adherence in the K562 Cell line.
- Provoking nonepileptic seizures: the ethics of deceptive diagnostic testing.
- Regulation of expression of the CD11b and CD18 subunits of the neutrophil adherence receptor during human Myeloid differentiation.
- On teaching and learning communication.
- Oncology and palliative care: are oncologists evil, or just oblivious?
- Regimen-related toxicity and early posttransplant survival in patients undergoing marrow transplantation for Lymphoma.
- Dealing with anger about pain management.
- NCCN clinical practice guidelines in oncology: palliative care.
- Responding to patient requests for physician-assisted suicide.
- Palliative care. Clinical practice guidelines in oncology.
- When does primary care turn into palliative care?
- Patient-physician communication in oncology: what does the evidence show?
- Physician-assisted suicide. Finding common ground.
- The inner life of physicians and care of the seriously ill.
- Desire for physician-assisted suicide: requests for a better death?
- Design, conDuct and evaluation of a communication course for oncology fellows.
- Communication skills: myths, realities, and new developments.
- Physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia in Washington State. Patient requests and physician responses.
- Reflective teaching practices: an approach to teaching communication skills in a small-group setting.
- Manualized communication interventions to enhance palliative care research and training: rigorous, testable approaches.
- Discussing prognosis: "how much do you want to know?" talking to patients who do not want information or who are ambivalent.
- Discussing prognosis: "how much do you want to know?" talking to patients who are prepared for explicit information.
- How primary care providers talk to patients about alcohol: a qualitative study.
- Linking palliative care and oncology practice: performance status as a common thread.
- Discussing religion and spirituality is an advanced communication skill: an exploratory structural equation model of physician trainee self-ratings.
- Geritalk: Communication Skills Training for Geriatric and Palliative Medicine Fellows.
- Coping styles, health status and advance care planning in patients with hematologic malignancies.
- Teaching communication skills using role-play: an experience-based guide for educators.
- What patients value when oncologists give news of Cancer recurrence: commentary on specific moments in audio-recorded conversations.
- Discussing prognosis: balancing hope and realism.
- When praise is worth considering in a difficult conversation.
- Effect of a quality-improvement intervention on end-of-life care in the intensive care unit: a randomized trial.
- Impact of hospice disenrollment on health care use and medicare expenditures for patients with Cancer.
- "Could I add something?": Teaching communication by intervening in real time during a clinical encounter.
- How oncology fellows discuss transitions in goals of care: a snapshot of approaches used prior to training.
- Discussing treatment preferences with patients who want "everything".
- Compassionate silence in the patient-clinician encounter: a contemplative approach.
- Humanism in oncology. What makes education in communication transformative?
- Abandonment at the end of life from patient, caregiver, nurse, and physician perspectives: loss of continuity and lack of closure.
- Faculty development to change the paradigm of communication skills teaching in oncology.
- Patients'' reflections on communication in the second-opinion hematology-oncology consultation.
- Communication about Cancer near the end of life.
- Titrating guidance: a model to guide physicians in assisting patients and family members who are facing complex decisions.
- An approach to understanding the interaction of hope and desire for explicit prognostic information among individuals with severe Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease...
- Transitions regarding palliative and end-of-life care in severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease or advanced Cancer: themes identified by patients, families, and ...
- Family member involvement in hastened death.
- Efficacy of communication skills training for giving bad news and discussing transitions to palliative care.
- Communication at times of transitions: how to help patients cope with loss and re-define hope.
- The effects of work-hour limitations on resident well-being, patient care, and education in an internal medicine residency program.
- How should physicians communicate the transition to palliative care?
- Why now? Timing and circumstances of hastened deaths.
- Approaching difficult communication tasks in oncology.
- On saying goodbye: acknowledging the end of the patient-physician relationship with patients who are near death.
- Motivations for physician-assisted suicide.
- Dealing with conflict in caring for the seriously ill: "it was just out of the question".
- Impact of palliative care case management on resource use by patients dying of Cancer at a Veterans Affairs medical center.
- The pursuit of physician-assisted suicide: role of psychiatric factors.
- Building Resilience for Palliative Care Clinicians: An Approach to Burnout Prevention Based on Individual Skills and Workplace Factors.
Schools
Harvard Medical School
University of Washington
Procedures Preformed
- Thoracentesis
Conditions Treated
- Acute Leukemia
- Adrenal Gland Cancer
- Anal and Rectal Cancer
- Anemia
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Doctors Specialties
- Medical Oncology
- Oncology
Accepted Insurances
- Choice Plus POS II
- Blue Card PPO
- Cigna HMO
- Cigna PPO
- Great West Healthcare-Cigna PPO
- Open Access Plus
- Commercial Insurance Company
- First Choice Health PPO
- GEHA
- Coop Core
- Medicare Advantage PFFS
- Kaiser Permanente
- Connect
- Mail Handlers Benefit Plan (MHBP)
- Medicaid
- Medicare MCR
- MultiPlan PPO
- NGS CoreSource
- ODS Health Plan
- Heritage Plus
- Heritage Signature
- Personal Option EPO
- Preferred Provider Network PPN
- Choice Plus POS
- Navigate HMO
- Navigate POS
- Options PPO
- United Healthcare
- Wells Fargo Insurance
Awards
- America's Top Doctors
- America's Top Doctors for Cancer
- Super Doctor
Education
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University of Washington -
Harvard Medical School
Hospital
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Seattle Children's Hospital -
University of Washington Medical Center
Drug Facts
| NPI NUMBER | 1932285731 | |
| NPPES Provider LastName | BACK | |
| NPPES Provider FirstName | ANTHONY | |
| NPPES Provider ZIPCode | 98109 | |
| NPPES Provider State | WA | |
| Specialty Description | Medical Oncology | |
| Total Claim Count | 100.0 | |
| Distinct Opioid Count | 0.0 | |
| Opioid Claim Count | 0.0 | |
| Percent Opioid Claims | 0.0 |
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Medicare Facts
| National Provider Identifier [NPI] | 1932285731 |
| Last Name Of The Provider | BACK |
| First Name Of The Provider | ANTHONY |
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