Billy Rosa, PhD, MBE, APRN
@billyrosaphd.bsky.social
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#PalliativeCare & #equity researcher-advocate @MSKCancerCenter | Cambia Sojourns Scholar | @RWJF Amos Scholar | Editor=Psycho-Oncology | Views=all mine. Kindness=Everything. He/him🏳️‍🌈☮️
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In the US, 851 anti-trans bills have been introduced in 49 states as of April 2025—a 495% increase since 2021. Sixty-four have passed in 21 states. #LGBTQIA+ #TransRights
The Role of Affirming Language
This Viewpoint discusses the ways in which clinicians can support transgender patients in the face of a growing number of antitransgender policies in the US.
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JAMA @jama.com · May 12
"Gender-affirming communication can preserve the sacredness of patient-clinician relationships."

This Viewpoint discusses the role of affirming language and actions.

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This truth -- "The guiding ethical principles of autonomy, beneficence, nonmaleficence, and justice compel clinicians to communicate and act with the best interest of patients, regardless of their identity, background, or needs."
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The Role of Affirming Language
This Viewpoint discusses the ways in which clinicians can support transgender patients in the face of a growing number of antitransgender policies in the US.
jamanetwork.com
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🏳️‍🌈JUST OUT: 2025 is the 6th consecutive record-breaking year of anti-trans legislation in the US. Our
@jama.com paper calls for gender affirming communication for all people - very important amid rapidly increasing anti-trans and anti-#LGBTQ+ policies. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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📘New paper - the discriminatory experiences of #LGBTQ+ & #queer people with serious illness & their loved ones matter. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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New pub: Thanks Dr. Natalie McAndrew for leading us on this rapid review for @hpna-info.bsky.social's Journal of #Hospice & #PalliativeNursing. journals.lww.com/jhpn/abstrac...
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Our new @thelancet.bsky.social comment brings together regional and global organizations and people with lived experience of serious illness to put forward a global vision for #PalliativeCare in the next decade. 🔗: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... @iahpc.org, @pallchase.bsky.social
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🥳So thrilled to be nominated by @gohealio.bsky.social HemOnc Today & Oncology Nursing Society for the Advanced Practice Trailblazer Award - please repost & send a vote my way if you have a moment: www.surveymonkey.com/r/HealioInno...
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In @Lancet @thelancet.bsky.social Global Health we show global PC need 1990-2021➡️Partner paper in @thelancetph.bsky.social gives multi-sector strategies to achieve a balanced approach to #opioid access without excess. 🔗: authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S... 🔗: authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
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🙌One of my academic joys is editing the Palliative Specialist Series for Journal of Palliative Medicine. We've launched a new site to consolidate & more easily leverage the collection. Please share & see instructions if you want to write a piece. 🔗: home.liebertpub.com/top-ten-tips...
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#Grateful to work with so many diverse teams doing incredible work to advance #palliativecare science & scholarship➡️an overview of #psychedelic-assisted therapy in the pal care context. journals.lww.com/jhpn/abstrac...
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🙌Thrilled to see our work on health-related values growing to the stem cell transplant population ➡️led by Abbie Cohen we show having values convos is feasible & acceptable w plans to scale 🔗:https://sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2666636724008108?via%3Dihub @astct.bsky.social
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🥳Thrilled to see this first paper from my
Cambia Health Foundation Sojourns Award out on the development of an #LGBTQ+ Inclusive Communication Skills Training. Full paper: mdpi.com/2227-9032/12... Feasibility findings soon-next phase being created with funding from @rwjf.bsky.social AMFDP.
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🏥 Check out our new paper on adapting Meaning-Centered Psychotherapy for Healthcare Providers (MCP-HCP) to enhance meaning in work while decreasing associated distress & #burnout. System level interventions ALSO needed to address this epidemic of HCP distress.🔗: academic.oup.com/tbm/advance-...
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In the face of uncertainty, our mind tends to focus on the worst case scenarios. There are few answers in predicting the future but we can still offer reassuring and therapeutic presence. Just be there this BowTieFriday MedSky OncSky hapc hpm @billyrosaphd.bsky.social @djweiner.bsky.social
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📕Our new JCO CCI paper eliciting patient values via patient portals➡️Among >6.3K patients, intervention was acceptable & ⬆️ ratings of clinician communication🟰implications for integrated #PalliativeCare & improved advance care planning🔗:https://ascopubs.org/doi/abs/10.1200/CCI.23.00125
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I have been so delinquent on this site - but all my #PalliativeCare #hapm #nursing #hapc #hospice peeps hit me up.
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Thanks @hollyby.bsky.social - I first have to remember to sign on here and add it to my social media "to do" list - lol. Hope all is beautiful. Thanks for the guidance.