Alexandria Bear, MD

Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine

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Locations

Froedtert Hospital

Specialties

Hospice and Palliative Medicine

Languages

English

Inpatient Only (Hospital Based)

(414) 805-0820

Education

MD - Doctor of Medicine

Biography

Alexandria Bear, MD, is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Medical College of Wisconsin in the Division of Geriatric and Palliative Medicine specializing in hospice and palliative medicine. She completed her medical degree (2013), residency in Internal Medicine (2016),and fellowship in Palliative Care (2017) at the Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW). A year after, she went on to complete her fellowship in hospice and palliative medicine at MCW. Her clinical interests include prognostication in end-stage illnesses and early introduction of end-of-life teaching concepts for medical trainees.

Ongoing Palliative Medicine Clinical and Scholarship Projects

Educational effectiveness of improving internal medicine residents skills in prognostication
Educational effectiveness of utilizing videotaped feedback of standardized patient experiences to improve communication skills among critical care physicians.
Interdisciplinary approach to improving communication in the ICU.
Designing educational workshops to teach end-of-life communication.

A Scoping Review of the Experiences of Adolescents and Young Adults in the ICU, Their Family Members, and Their Health Care Team

(McAndrew NS, Erickson JM, Guttormson J, Bear A, Marks S, Patel J, Harding ES.) Critical Care Nursing Clinics of North America. March 2022;34(1):31-55 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85123376149 03/01/2022
High-Value Palliative Care in Critical Illness.

(Patel JJ, Marks S, Bear AJ, McAndrew NS.) Crit Care Med. 2020 Apr;48(4):e341 PMID: 32205636 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85082380705 03/25/2020
Unique palliative care needs of patients with advanced chronic kidney disease - the scope of the problem and several solutions.

(Sturgill D, Bear A.) Clin Med (Lond). 2019 Jan;19(1):26-29 PMID: 30651241 PMCID: PMC6399628 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85060138957 01/18/2019
The Impact of Teaching Prognostication at the End of Life: A Pre-Post Interventional Study.

(Bear A, Keuter T, Patel JJ.) Am J Hosp Palliat Care. 2018 Mar;35(3):473-477 PMID: 28731361 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85041625474 07/22/2017
Documentation of Crucial Information Relating to Critically Ill Patients.

(Bear A, Thiel E.) J Palliat Care. 2018 Jan;33(1):5-8 PMID: 29260613 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85048535259 12/21/2017
Artificial Hydration at the End of Life.

(Bear AJ, Bukowy EA, Patel JJ.) Nutr Clin Pract. 2017 Oct;32(5):628-632 PMID: 28813202 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85029765399 08/17/2017
Ketogenic diet for high partial pressure oxygen diving.

(Valadao JM, Vigilante JA, DiGeorge NW, O'Connor SE, Bear A, Kenyon J, Annis H, Dituri J, Dituri AE, Whelan HT.) Undersea Hyperb Med. 2014;41(4):331-5 PMID: 25109086 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-84904437307 08/12/2014
Faculty and students perceive common tenets associated with medical student curriculum reform

(Bear AJ, Simpson D, Brown D, Bragg D, and Marcdante K.) International Journal of Medical Education. 08/31/2013