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Sarah Rossmassler is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Nursing at the MGH Institute of Health Professions (MGH IHP), where she teaches in the Adult-Gerontology Advanced Practice Track. She is also a Nurse Champion on the NIH-funded ED GOAL clinical trial at Brigham & Women's Hospital, focusing on advance care planning in emergency departments. Her clinical work involves inpatient palliative care at Baystate Medical Center since 2014.
Education: B.A. in English Literature from St. Lawrence University (1988), MSN from MGH IHP (2001), and DNP from MGH IHP (2018). She completed the Harvard Interdisciplinary Palliative Care Fellowship (2012-2013).
Research interests include nurse-led interventions in emergency departments, palliative care for older adults with serious illness, and advance care planning. Her work emphasizes interdisciplinary teamwork, shared decision-making, and deprescribing in long-term care settings.
Key publications focus on ED-based serious illness conversations and palliative care in advanced dementia. Presentations span topics like deprescribing frameworks, scenario planning for medical decisions, and shared decision-making in surgical emergencies.
Awards include the Exceptional Advanced Practice Clinician Award (2017) and Cooley Dickinson All-Star Award (2013). Her grants include NIH funding for the ED GOAL trial, which evaluates nurse-led advance care planning interventions.
Labs/Teams: Active member of the palliative care teams at Baystate Medical Center and MGH, collaborating on clinical research and education initiatives.
