Joshua C Briscoe, MD

Medical Instructor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

Medical Instructor in the Department of Medicine

Campus mail Duke University Medical Center Box 3670, Durham, NC 27710

Email address joshua.briscoe@duke.edu

Education and Training

College/University
West Virginia Wesleyan College

Medical School
West Virginia University School of Medicine

Residency
Duke University

Career and Research Goals

Caring for people with advanced and terminal illness; caring for people with significant mental illness; applying psychotherapy in severe medical illness; ethics at the end of life; ethics in mental health care

Honors, awards and distinctions

Chief Resident, Internal Medicine & Psychiatry Residency, 2016-2017

Follow me on Twitter

@jcbriscoe1

Education and Training

Hospice and Palliative Medicine Fellowship, Hospice And Palliative Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, 2017 - 2018
Internal Medicine and Psychiatry Residency, Psychiatry, Duke University School of Medicine, 2012 - 2017
M.D., West Virginia University, 2012

Publications

Riordan, Paul A., Joshua Briscoe, Tanya J. Uritsky, Christopher A. Jones, and Jason A. Webb. “Top Ten Tips Palliative Care Clinicians Should Know About Psychopharmacology.” J Palliat Med 22, no. 5 (May 2019): 572–79. https://doi.org/10.1089/jpm.2019.0106.

PMID

30925078

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Briscoe, Joshua, Arif H. Kamal, and David J. Casarett. “Top Ten Tips Palliative Care Clinicians Should Know About Medical Cannabis.” Journal of Palliative Medicine 22, no. 3 (March 2019): 319–25. https://doi.org/10.1089/jpm.2018.0641.

PMID

30638427

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Riordan, Paul, Joshua Briscoe, Arif H. Kamal, Christopher A. Jones, and Jason A. Webb. “Top Ten Tips Palliative Care Clinicians Should Know About Mental Health and Serious Illness.” J Palliat Med 21, no. 8 (August 2018): 1171–76. https://doi.org/10.1089/jpm.2018.0207.

PMID

30133368

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Briscoe, Joshua, and David Casarett. “Medical Marijuana Use in Older Adults.” J Am Geriatr Soc 66, no. 5 (May 2018): 859–63. https://doi.org/10.1111/jgs.15346.

PMID

29668039

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Briscoe, J., and W. Kinghorn. “Spirituality, Religion, and Rational Suicide.” In Rational Suicide in the Elderly Clinical, Ethical, and Sociocultural Aspects, edited by R. McCue and M. Balasubramaniam, 187–202. Springer, 2016.

Scholars@Duke

Briscoe, Joshua, and Jason A. Webb. “Scratching the Surface of Suicide in Head and Neck Cancer.” Jama Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg 142, no. 6 (June 1, 2016): 610. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamaoto.2016.0255.

PMID

27031661

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