Resource
Jessica B. McCannon
About
McCannon's fellowship faculty profile lists academic interests in end-of-life care, medical decision-making, and faculty development and wellness.
Journey
Education, training and research through time.
- 2012
1 attributed work
- Augmenting communication and decision making in the intensive care unit with a cardiopulmonary resuscitation video decision support tool: a temporal intervention study
Journal of palliative medicine · First author
- Augmenting communication and decision making in the intensive care unit with a cardiopulmonary resuscitation video decision support tool: a temporal intervention study
- 2018
1 attributed work
- Physician Approaches to Conflict with Families Surrounding End-of-Life Decision-making in the Intensive Care Unit. A Qualitative Study
Annals of the American Thoracic Society
- Physician Approaches to Conflict with Families Surrounding End-of-Life Decision-making in the Intensive Care Unit. A Qualitative Study
- 2020
- Appointment dates not documented
Works appear by publication year. Their position does not establish where or when the underlying research was performed.
Education and training
Degrees, training periods and the milestones within them.
No documented activity in this view yet.
Research
Resources
Projects and appearances
Can’t shake that cough?
interview · 2024-11-01Harvard Health quotes McCannon explaining the complexity of chronic-cough assessment and the importance of setting expectations.
Quoted expert
Findings
- Her attributed comments describe evaluating several possible contributors and avoiding promises of a diagnosis after one visit.
Limitations
- The article is a patient-facing interview, not a study of clinical or teaching outcomes.
Let’s Discuss Dying: The Conversation About How My Dad Wants To Go
interview · 2012-08-17WBUR quotes McCannon as an MGH critical-care physician and Conversation Project advisor.
Quoted expert
Findings
- Her attributed comment explains how prior family conversations can clarify patient values during urgent decisions.
Limitations
- McCannon is an expert quoted in the article; the article’s extended father–daughter conversation belongs to its author, not to McCannon.
MGH MICU Teaching Award
recognition · 2023McCannon’s 2025 Harvard CV records an MGH MICU Teaching Award in 2023.
Honoree
Limitations
- This is a self-reported CV entry, without independent award-selection criteria or educational-outcome evaluation.
MGH Pillar of Excellence Award, Fostering Community
recognition · 2024McCannon’s 2025 Harvard CV records the MGH Pillar of Excellence Award in the Fostering Community category in 2024.
Honoree
Limitations
- This is a self-reported CV entry, without independent award-selection criteria or educational-outcome evaluation.
In an undated first-person essay, McCannon describes starting advance-care conversations despite having professional experience helping ICU families.
First person essay subject
Findings
- She describes prior conversation as providing a starting point for understanding a loved one’s values before a crisis.
Limitations
- This is an undated personal essay, not an intervention study.
Selected reading
Augmenting communication and decision making in the intensive care unit with a cardiopulmonary resuscitation video decision support tool: a temporal intervention study
Six-month quasi-experimental pre/post study
Compared 23 historical-control surrogates with 27 subsequent surrogates shown a three-minute CPR video using a four-question knowledge assessment.
Methods
- Compared 23 historical-control surrogates with 27 subsequent surrogates shown a three-minute CPR video using a four-question knowledge assessment.
Findings
- Among 50 ICU surrogate decision-makers, the 27 who viewed a three-minute CPR video had higher mean CPR knowledge scores than the preceding 23 controls (2.9 versus 2.0 of 4; p=.008).
- Most viewers reported comfort with and willingness to recommend the video; the difference in patient CPR preference was not statistically significant.
Limitations
- The temporal, nonrandomized design is vulnerable to secular and selection effects; the sample was small, and increased immediate knowledge did not establish better shared decisions, family outcomes, or durable understanding.
Effect of Ascorbic Acid, Corticosteroids, and Thiamine on Organ Injury in Septic Shock: The ACTS Randomized Clinical Trial
Multicenter randomized blinded trial
Randomized 205 adults with septic shock at 14 US centers to vitamin C, hydrocortisone and thiamine or placebo; analyzed 200 who received study treatment.
Methods
- Randomized 205 adults with septic shock at 14 US centers to vitamin C, hydrocortisone and thiamine or placebo; analyzed 200 who received study treatment.
Findings
- In 205 randomized patients at 14 US centers, vitamin C, hydrocortisone, and thiamine did not significantly improve the 72-hour SOFA trajectory versus placebo and showed no statistically significant difference in kidney failure or 30-day mortality.
Limitations
- The trial was designed around early organ-dysfunction change, not powered to exclude smaller mortality effects or effects in biologically selected subgroups.
Initiation and Assessment of Timekeeping Roles During In-Hospital Cardiac Arrests to Track Rhythm Checks and Epinephrine Dosing
Single-center pre/post quality-improvement study
Compared 13 historical arrests with 13 arrests following assignment of separate rhythm-check and epinephrine timekeepers.
Methods
- Compared 13 historical arrests with 13 arrests following assignment of separate rhythm-check and epinephrine timekeepers.
Findings
- Assigning separate rhythm-check and epinephrine timekeepers reduced median ACLS deviations from five in 13 historical arrests to one in 13 post-intervention arrests.
- Staff surveys favored the roles, and time to first epinephrine was shorter.
Limitations
- The study used historical controls, convenience sampling, only 26 arrests, and no long-term outcomes.
- Higher return of spontaneous circulation after implementation was descriptive and cannot be attributed causally.
Physician Approaches to Conflict with Families Surrounding End-of-Life Decision-making in the Intensive Care Unit. A Qualitative Study
Qualitative study
Interviewed 18 critical-care physicians at four academically affiliated hospitals and analyzed their accounts with grounded-theory methods.
Methods
- Interviewed 18 critical-care physicians at four academically affiliated hospitals and analyzed their accounts with grounded-theory methods.
Findings
- Interviews with 18 critical-care physicians across four academically affiliated hospitals identified a layered response to conflict: assess family receptivity, vary between deference and persuasion, attend to emotional burden, communicate nonabandonment, and repair damaged relationships.
- Some persuasive strategies were recognized as potentially counterproductive or harmful.
Limitations
- The study reports physicians' accounts, not family perceptions or observed encounters.
- A small regional sample and grounded-theory interpretation cannot estimate how often strategies occur or which approach improves outcomes.
Publications
4 attributed works · 1 first author. Counts reflect resolved authorship and may be incomplete.
- 2020Initiation and Assessment of Timekeeping Roles During In-Hospital Cardiac Arrests to Track Rhythm Checks and Epinephrine DosingCritical care explorationsPMID 32166289
- 2018Physician Approaches to Conflict with Families Surrounding End-of-Life Decision-making in the Intensive Care Unit. A Qualitative StudyAnnals of the American Thoracic SocietyPMID 29099239
- 2012Augmenting communication and decision making in the intensive care unit with a cardiopulmonary resuscitation video decision support tool: a temporal intervention studyJournal of palliative medicinefirst authorPMID 23098632
Sources
Sources are listed once and connected to each accepted claim they support. Excerpts preserve the source language used in the review.
- [1]Augmenting communication and decision making in the intensive care unit with a cardiopulmonary resuscitation video decision support tool: a temporal intervention study
1 source claim · Reviewed Sep 9, 2026
Attributed work: Augmenting communication and decision making in the intensive care unit with a cardiopulmonary resuscitation video decision support tool: a temporal intervention study | DOI 10.1089/jpm.2012.0215 | PMID 23098632 | 2012
2012
resultList.result[0].authorList; own id and doi; matched byline Jessica B McCannon
- [2]Effect of Ascorbic Acid, Corticosteroids, and Thiamine on Organ Injury in Septic Shock: The ACTS Randomized Clinical Trial
1 source claim · Reviewed Sep 9, 2026
Attributed work: Effect of Ascorbic Acid, Corticosteroids, and Thiamine on Organ Injury in Septic Shock: The ACTS Randomized Clinical Trial | DOI 10.1001/jama.2020.11946 | PMID 32809003 | 2020
2020
resultList.result[0].authorList; own id and doi; matched byline Jessica B McCannon
- [3]Initiation and Assessment of Timekeeping Roles During In-Hospital Cardiac Arrests to Track Rhythm Checks and Epinephrine Dosing
1 source claim · Reviewed Sep 9, 2026
Attributed work: Initiation and Assessment of Timekeeping Roles During In-Hospital Cardiac Arrests to Track Rhythm Checks and Epinephrine Dosing | DOI 10.1097/cce.0000000000000069 | PMID 32166289 | 2020
2020
JATS front/article-meta/contrib-group/contrib/name; own article-id[@pub-id-type="doi"]; matched byline McCannon Jessica B
- [4]Physician Approaches to Conflict with Families Surrounding End-of-Life Decision-making in the Intensive Care Unit. A Qualitative Study
1 source claim · Reviewed Sep 9, 2026
Attributed work: Physician Approaches to Conflict with Families Surrounding End-of-Life Decision-making in the Intensive Care Unit. A Qualitative Study | DOI 10.1513/annalsats.201702-105oc | PMID 29099239 | 2018
2018
resultList.result[0].authorList; own id and doi; matched byline Jessica B McCannon
- [5]https://www.pulmonaryfellowship.hms.harvard.edu/jessica-mccannon-md
3 source claims · 2 journey details · Reviewed Sep 9, 2026
Documented faculty and education roles: Appointment dates not documented. Faculty Development; Massachusetts General Hospital; MGH-BIDMC fellowship faculty development faculty
Appointment dates that are not stated in the sources remain unknown. Education completion dates mark completion only; they do not establish attendance periods.
Biographical context: McCannon's fellowship faculty profile lists academic interests in end-of-life care, medical decision-making, and faculty development and wellness.
Named person profile, Academic Interests and Current Projects; each sentence limited to this source. Undated project descriptions do not establish current enrollment or personal mentorship availability.
Official headshot: Portrait
Image attached to named official Jessica B. McCannon profile/card; original source URL https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5989e512d2b8578f99509325/c8672a64-e906-4ee7-95ce-2505e560ab10/McCannon%2C+Jessica1.jpg?format=750w Retained normalized text /Users/tejas/.local/share/medcorpus/research/shared-person-knowledge-2026-09-08/mgh/derived/src-0ed6b1bccf609ff5.txt; candidate evidence lines 47-49, 42-44, 41-43.
Professional role: MGH-BIDMC fellowship faculty development faculty
Named person role heading or biography; source-specific role: MGH-BIDMC fellowship faculty development faculty. Currentness requires independent source-date review.
- [6]https://www.pulmonaryfellowship.hms.harvard.edu/faculty
1 source claim · 2 journey details · Reviewed Sep 9, 2026
Documented faculty and education roles: Appointment dates not documented. Faculty Development; Massachusetts General Hospital; MGH-BIDMC fellowship faculty development faculty
Appointment dates that are not stated in the sources remain unknown. Education completion dates mark completion only; they do not establish attendance periods.
Professional role: Faculty Development; Massachusetts General Hospital
Named roster card for Jessica McCannon; preserve source cohort label rather than infer current year. Retained normalized text /Users/tejas/.local/share/medcorpus/research/shared-person-knowledge-2026-09-08/mgh/derived/src-c88a0638f794cc0e.txt; candidate evidence lines 280-282, 281-283, 357-359.
- [7]Initiation and Assessment of Timekeeping Roles During In-Hospital Cardiac Arrests
1 source claim · Reviewed Sep 9, 2026
Resource: Initiation and Assessment of Timekeeping Roles During In-Hospital Cardiac Arrests
Article title and named author/affiliation block: Initiation and Assessment of Timekeeping Roles During In-Hospital Cardiac Arrests Retained normalized text /Users/tejas/.local/share/medcorpus/research/shared-person-knowledge-2026-09-08/mgh/derived/src-68e9572513f2c5e9.txt; candidate evidence lines 35-37, 1-2.
