Doctor's Bio
Board Certifications
American Board of Internal Medicine
Affiliations
Emory
Education & Training
- Medical School: University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine
- Residency: Yale Combined Internal Medicine-Pediatrics Residency
Fellowships
Yale General Internal Medicine Medical Education Fellowship
Locations and Directions
Grady Memorial Hospital
Phone: (404) 616-1000
Location:
80 Jesse Hill Jr Drive SE
Atlanta, GA 30303
Publications
- One-year impact of an ambulatory pulmonary curriculum for fellows leveraging adult learning theory.
McAvoy KA, Gielissen KA, Honiden S, Possick JD
ATS scholar. 2026;
PMID: 41734003 - Reconsidering Pediatric Critical Care Sequencing: A Qualitative Exploration of Postgraduate Year 1 PICU Rotations Among Senior Pediatric Residents.
Johnson RR, Flodman K, Lichak B, Benoit L, Asnes A, Osborn R, Watson CM, Kuo K, Murtha T, Brigham E, Jain PN, Carney S, Gielissen KA
Pediatric critical care medicine : a journal of the Society of Critical Care Medicine and the World Federation of Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care Societies. 2026;
PMID: 41711500 - Patient-Centered Podcasts: An Educational Innovation to Improve Attitudes Toward Patients with Opioid Use Disorder Among Internal Medicine Practitioners.
Onyango J, Webber C, Davidson M, Cai H, Gielissen KA, Dewey CM
Journal of general internal medicine. 2026;
PMID: 41609933 - Pre-to-post COVID-19 pandemic trends in time from emergency department arrival to inpatient floor arrival: Door to floor time.
Loza AJ, Sangal RB, Gielissen KA, Melnick ER, Sankey C, Ostfeld-Johns S
The American journal of emergency medicine. 2025;
PMID: 39731897 - A Rapid-Response Curricular Approach to Teaching Politically Charged Topics.
Henrich JB, Gielissen KA, McNamara CF, Pathy S, Hirschman AF, Canarie JX, Dhond M, Richman I, Rabin TL, Vasquez L, Encandela J
Journal of graduate medical education. 2024;16(6):723-729.
PMID: 39677323 - How Internal Medicine Clerkship Directors Are Using Entrustable Professional Activities: A National Survey Study.
Gielissen KA, Foust A, Weinstein AR, Duca N, Jenkins MO, Kisielewski M, Misra S, Dunne D
Journal of general internal medicine. 2025;40(1):46-53.
PMID: 39147939 - Impact of Ambulatory Blocks on Pulmonary Critical Care Fellow Outpatient Training Experience.
McAvoy KA, Gielissen KA, Possick JD, Honiden S
ATS scholar. 2024;5(2):286-301.
PMID: 39055327 - It Takes a Village: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Preparing Internal Medicine Residents to Care for Patients at the Intersection of Women's Health, Gender-Affirming Care, and Health Disparities.
Henrich JB, Richman I, Rabin TL, Gielissen KA, Dhond M, Canarie JX, Hirschman AF, Windham MR, Maya S, McNamara C, Pathy S, Bernstein P, Smith R, Vasquez L
Journal of women's health (2002). 2024;33(2):152-162.
PMID: 38190490 - How well do workplace-based assessments support summative entrustment decisions? A multi-institutional generalisability study.
Ryan MS, Gielissen KA, Shin D, Perera RA, Gusic M, Ferenchick G, Ownby A, Cutrer WB, Obeso V, Santen SA
Medical education. 2024;58(7):825-837.
PMID: 38167833 - "Zoom"ing to the Kitchen: A Novel Approach to Virtual Nutrition Education for Medical Trainees.
Charles JA, Wood NI, Neary S, Moreno JO, Scierka L, Brink B, Zhao X, Gielissen KA
Nutrients. 2023;
PMID: 37836450
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