Bio

Dr. Cassandra Gross is a physician specializing in internal medicine and geriatric medicine, with a clinical focus on post-acute and long-term care. Dr. Gross is passionate about empowering older adults to make healthcare decisions that reflect what matters most to the individual and collaborating with interdisciplinary teams to deliver high quality care. Her academic interests include medical education in the skilled nursing facility setting, improving LGBT+ care across the continuum of care, and optimizing nutrition in older adults. She leads a Sustainable Practices Curriculum for geriatrics fellows to help foster self- reflection and career resilience.

Clinical Focus

  • Geriatric Medicine
  • Post-Acute Care

Academic Appointments

Honors & Awards

  • Gold Humanism Honor Society, USF Health Morsani College of Medicine (2024)
  • Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society, USF Health Morsani College of Medicine (2023)

Professional Education

  • Board Certification: American Board of Internal Medicine, Geriatric Medicine (2025)
  • Fellowship: Stanford University Geriatric Medicine Fellowship (2025) CA
  • Board Certification: American Board of Internal Medicine, Internal Medicine (2024)
  • Residency: University of Southern Florida (2024) FL
  • Medical Education: Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra Northwell GME Program (2021) NY

Contact

  • Academic
    Department: Med/Primary Care and Population Health Position: Clinical Assistant Professor
  • Clinical (Primary)  Stanford Family Medicine 211 Quarry Rd Ste 405 MC 5985 Palo Alto, CA 94304 (650) 721-2227 (fax)

Additional Clinical Info

Additional Info

All Publications

  • The Boldness of the Biopsy in a Case of Organizing Pneumonia. The American journal of medicine Martin, D., Cobb, J. K., Gross, C. A. 2024; 137 (4): 308-310

    View details for DOI 10.1016/j.amjmed.2023.11.005

    View details for PubMedID 38043885

  • A Quality Improvement Project of Increasing Utilization of SGLT2i in Patients With Heart Failure Within a Veterans Affairs Health System Through an Interdisciplinary Approach in the Primary Care Setting Baviriseaty, N., Parza, K., Gross, C., Nehaul, R. LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS. 2023

    View details for DOI 10.1161/circ.148.suppl_1.15893

    View details for Web of Science ID 001157891305358

  • Impact of Organized Palliative Didactic Curriculum on Internal Medicine Resident Comfort with Topics in Palliative Care Ouellette, M., Gross, C., Oller, K., Cacioppo, J., Morris, A., Braverman, J. ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC. 2023: E625-E626

    View details for Web of Science ID 001006227200212

  • A novel approach for assigning levels to monkey and human lumbosacral spinal cord based on ventral horn morphology. PloS one Gross, C., Ellison, B., Buchman, A. S., Terasawa, E., VanderHorst, V. G. 2017; 12 (5): e0177243

    Abstract

    Proper identification of spinal cord levels is crucial for clinical-pathological and imaging studies in humans, but can be a challenge given technical limitations. We have previously demonstrated in non-primate models that the contours of the spinal ventral horn are determined by the position of motoneuron pools. These positions are preserved within and among individuals and can be used to identify lumbosacral spinal levels. Here we tested the hypothesis that this approach can be extended to identify monkey and human spinal levels. In 7 rhesus monkeys, we retrogradely labeled motoneuron pools that represent rostral, middle and caudal landmarks of the lumbosacral enlargement. We then aligned the lumbosacral enlargements among animals using absolute length, segmental level or a relative scale based upon rostral and caudal landmarks. Inter-animal matching of labeled motoneurons across the lumbosacral enlargement was most precise when using internal landmarks. We then reconstructed 3 human lumbosacral spinal cords, and aligned these based upon homologous internal landmarks. Changes in shape of the ventral horn were consistent among human subjects using this relative scale, despite marked differences in absolute length or age. These data suggest that the relative position of spinal motoneuron pools is conserved across species, including primates. Therefore, in clinical-pathological or imaging studies in humans, one can assign spinal cord levels to even single sections by matching ventral horn shape to standardized series.

    View details for DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0177243

    View details for PubMedID 28542213

    View details for PubMedCentralID PMC5443490

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