Clinical Focus

  • Hospice and Palliative Medicine
  • Clinics, Outpatient
  • Hospice Care

Academic Appointments

Administrative Appointments

  • Associate program director, Hospice & Palliative Medicine Fellowship Program (2023 - Present)

Honors & Awards

  • VITAS BEST Award, VITAS Healtchare (2014)
  • VITAS Leadership Council Award for Outstanding Team Physician, VITAS Healthcare (2012)
  • Member, Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society (2006-present)

Boards, Advisory Committees, Professional Organizations

  • Member, ABIM SEP Committee for Hospice and Palliative Medicine (2014 - 2016)

Professional Education

  • Fellowship: VA Medical Center Palo Alto (2010) CA
  • Residency: Stanford University Hospital and Clinics (2009) CA
  • Board Certification: American Board of Internal Medicine, Hospice and Palliative Medicine (2010)
  • Medical Education: Oregon Health Science University (2006) OR

Contact

  • Clinical (Primary)  Stanford Cancer Center South Bay 2589 Samaritan Dr San Jose, CA 95124 (650) 497-6853 (fax)

Additional Clinical Info

Graduate and Fellowship Programs

  • Hospice & Palliative Medicine (Fellowship Program)

All Publications

  • Dronabinol for the Treatment of Paraneoplastic Night Sweats in Cancer Patients: A Report of Five Cases JOURNAL OF PALLIATIVE MEDICINE Carr, C., Vertelney, H., Fronk, J., Trieu, S. 2019; 22 (10): 1221–23

    View details for DOI 10.1089/jpm.2018.0551

    View details for Web of Science ID 000496264500011

  • PALLIATIVE CARE AND ANTI-CANCER CARE INTEGRATION: DESCRIPTION OF THREE MODELS OF CARE DELIVERY AT A TERTIARY MEDICAL CENTER Ramchandran, K. J., Fronk, J., Trieu, S., Wakelee, H. A., Das, M., Neal, J. W., Harman, S., Dwyer, P., Bosch, J., Shaw, H., Safari, S., Oden, R., Morrison, T., Blayney, D. LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS. 2013: S1324

    View details for Web of Science ID 000339624906208

  • Outpatient palliative care at a tertiary cancer center: Perceptions, pathways, and pitfalls Ramchandran, K., Trieu, S., Harman, S., Passaglia, J., Rodriguez, J., Dwyer, P., Oden, R. AMER SOC CLINICAL ONCOLOGY. 2012

    View details for DOI 10.1200/jco.2012.30.34_suppl.28

    View details for Web of Science ID 000208943900029

  • Malignancy in the Setting of the Anti-Synthetase Syndrome JCR-JOURNAL OF CLINICAL RHEUMATOLOGY Rozelle, A., Trieu, S., Chung, L. 2008; 14 (5): 285-288

    Abstract

    Malignancy and interstitial lung disease (ILD) are 2 conditions associated with dermatomyositis (DM) that are responsible for a significant portion of the morbidity and mortality related to this disease; however, they rarely occur in the same patient. The antisynthetase syndrome consists of several characteristics, including ILD, arthritis, Raynaud phenomenon, "mechanic's hands," and positive antibodies to tRNA synthetases, which have each been negatively associated with cancer. When patients with DM present with such characteristics, clinicians may be falsely reassured that a thorough malignancy screen is unnecessary. We describe a patient who presented with the antisynthetase syndrome and was subsequently found to have colon cancer. Removal of the cancer led to resolution of the myositis and lung disease, but the patient's rash and arthritis persisted and ultimately required immunosuppressive therapy. We provide a review of the literature describing the concurrence of both this syndrome and ILD alone, with malignancy. We conclude that a thorough and expedited age-appropriate malignancy work up is indicated in all patients with a new diagnosis of DM, despite the presence of disease characteristics that are usually not associated with cancer.

    View details for DOI 10.1097/RHU.0b013e31817d116f

    View details for Web of Science ID 000260154000008

    View details for PubMedID 18664993