Jennifer Snaman, MD
Attending Physician, Cancer and Blood Disorders Center
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
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Jennifer Snaman, MD
Attending Physician, Cancer and Blood Disorders Center
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
Medical Services
Languages
English
Education
Medical School
Eastern Virginia Medical School
Norfolk
VA
Residency
Boston Combined Residency Program (BCRP)
Boston
MA
Certifications
American Board of Pediatrics (General)
American Board of Pediatrics (Hematology-Oncology)
American Board of Pediatrics (Hospice and Palliative Medicine)
Professional History
Jennifer Snaman is PACT Attending and an Attending in Neuro-oncology at Boston Children’s Hospital. She completed fellowships in Pediatric Hematology/Oncology and Hospice and Palliative Medicine at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, TN before returning to Boston to join PACT in August 2017. She is board certified in Pediatrics, Hospice and Palliative Medicine and Pediatric Hematology/Oncology. Her research interests include communication and decision making in patients with advanced cancer and parental grief and bereavement.
Publications
Navigating Time-Critical Decisions in Pediatric Critical Care: A Proactive Communication Guide for Cultivating Prognostic Awareness. View Abstract
Pediatric Respite Homes: A Call to Action. View Abstract
Is it Time to Rethink Pediatric Palliative Care Staffing to Optimize Access? View Abstract
Treatment and Decision-Making Preferences of Adolescents and Young Adults With Advanced Cancer and Their Parents or Trusted Persons: An Adaptive Conjoint Analysis Study. View Abstract
Education Needs for Pediatrics Residency Training: Bringing Palliative Care to the Table. View Abstract
Location of Death Preferences in Adolescents and Young Adults With Cancer. View Abstract
Navigating Gatekeeping Challenges in Pediatric and Young Adult Palliative Oncology and End-of-Life Research. View Abstract
Who Better Than Palliative Care? Supporting Clinicians in the Face of Serious Illness. View Abstract
Teaching pediatric cardiology fellows to communicate serious news: a pilot study. View Abstract
Bereaved parent preferences on quality end-of-life care for children with cancer in the South. View Abstract
Parent-Clinician Communication and Prolonged Grief in Parents Whose Child Died From Cancer. View Abstract
Letter to the Editor: Medical Interpreters as Coaches for Pediatric Palliative Care Clinicians. View Abstract
Caring for Kids, Families, and Ourselves: A Call for Collaboration to Develop the Science of Caregiver Support Across the Lifespan. View Abstract
Principles of Pediatric Palliative Surgical Oncology: A Guide To Palliative Care For Pediatric Surgeons. View Abstract
Partnering With Parents to Dismantle "Good-Death" Narratives. View Abstract
"At Least I Can Push this Morphine": PICU Nurses' Approaches to Suffering Among Dying Children. View Abstract
Family characteristics and childcare patterns associated with early social functioning in cancer-bereaved parents. View Abstract
Defining the Denominator for Measuring Quality of End-of-Life Care in Children with Cancer: Results of a Nominal Group Technique. View Abstract
Adolescents and young adults with cancer conversations following participation in an advance care planning video pilot. View Abstract
"We were made to mourn": A meta-ethnographic synthesis of living through the loss of a child to cancer for Latinx families in the United States. View Abstract
"Palliative Intensive Care" at the End of a Child's Life. View Abstract
CritCom: assessment of quality of interdisciplinary communication around deterioration in pediatric oncologic patients. View Abstract
A call to improve paediatric palliative care quality through research. View Abstract
Dying and Death in a Pediatric Cardiac ICU: Mixed Methods Evaluation of Multidisciplinary Staff Responses. View Abstract
A tool for guiding goal-concordant medical recommendations in paediatric serious illness. View Abstract
Mixed-methods analysis of decisional regret in parents following a child's death from cancer. View Abstract
A Pilot Randomized Trial of an Advance Care Planning Video Decision Support Tool for Adolescents and Young Adults With Advanced Cancer. View Abstract
The roles of preparation, location, and palliative care involvement in parent-perceived child suffering at the end of life. View Abstract
"It's a lot of things": Household material hardship among Black and Hispanic parents of children with cancer. View Abstract
A new measure for multi-professional medical team communication: design and methodology for multilingual measurement development. View Abstract
Staff Perceptions of Dying and Death in a Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care Unit During COVID-19. View Abstract
Top Ten Tips Palliative Care Clinicians Should Know About Delivering Specialty-Aligned Palliative Care. View Abstract
Going Virtual: Adapting an Institutional Annual Bereavement Event During the COVID-19 Pandemic. View Abstract
Early Bereavement Psychosocial Outcomes in Parents of Children Who Died of Cancer With a Focus on Social Functioning. View Abstract
"It's Hard Not to Have Regrets:" Qualitative Analysis of Decisional Regret in Bereaved Parents. View Abstract
Assessment of an Instrument to Measure Interdisciplinary Staff Perceptions of Quality of Dying and Death in a Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care Unit. View Abstract
"You are not alone": Connecting through a bereaved parent mentor program for parents whose child died of cancer. View Abstract
One Size Doesn't Fit All in Early Pediatric Oncology Bereavement Support. View Abstract
Top Ten Tips Palliative Care Clinicians Should Know About Prognostication in Children. View Abstract
"Still Caring for the Family": Condolence Expression Training for Pediatric Residents. View Abstract
Factors Affecting Recruitment and Participation of Bereaved Parents in Research: A Brief Report. View Abstract
Are we undermining the value of palliative care through advanced cancer clinical trial consent language? View Abstract
"We're Performing Improvisational Jazz": Interprofessional Pediatric Palliative Care Fellowship Prepares Trainees for Team-Based Collaborative Practice. View Abstract
Palliative Care Referrals in Cardiac Disease. View Abstract
A Stakeholder-Driven Qualitative Study to Define High Quality End-of-Life Care for Children With Cancer. View Abstract
Parental Perceptions of Hospital-Based Bereavement Support Following a Child's Death From Cancer: Room for Improvement. View Abstract
MyPref: pilot study of a novel communication and decision-making tool for adolescents and young adults with advanced cancer. View Abstract
Identification of adolescents and young adults' preferences and priorities for future cancer treatment using a novel decision-making tool. View Abstract
Engaging Parents of Children Who Died From Cancer in Research on the Early Grief Experience. View Abstract
Definitely Mixed Feelings: The Effect of COVID-19 on Bereavement in Parents of Children Who Died of Cancer. View Abstract
Humanism and professionalism training for pediatric hematology-oncology fellows: Results of a multicenter randomized trial. View Abstract
The state of the science for communication training in pediatric oncology: A systematic review. View Abstract
Pediatric Palliative Care in Oncology. View Abstract
Reconsidering early parental grief following the death of a child from cancer: a new framework for future research and bereavement support. View Abstract
Integration of Pediatric Palliative Care Into Cardiac Intensive Care: A Champion-Based Model. View Abstract
Models of Pediatric Palliative Oncology Outpatient Care-Benefits, Challenges, and Opportunities. View Abstract
Impact of Race and Ethnicity on End-of-Life Experiences for Children With Cancer. View Abstract
"What if?": Addressing uncertainty with families. View Abstract
Identifying and Quantifying Adolescent and Young Adult Patient Preferences in Cancer Care: Development of a Conjoint Analysis-Based Decision-Making Tool. View Abstract
Top Ten Tips Palliative Care Clinicians Should Know About Caring for Children. View Abstract
Incorporating Bereaved Parents as Faculty Facilitators and Educators in Teaching Principles of Palliative and End-of-Life Care. View Abstract
Predictors of Location of Death for Children with Cancer Enrolled on a Palliative Care Service. View Abstract
Predictors of Late Palliative Care Referral in Children With Cancer. View Abstract
Pediatric palliative oncology: the state of the science and art of caring for children with cancer. View Abstract
Illness and end-of-life experiences of children with cancer who receive palliative care. View Abstract
Treatment intensity and symptom burden in hospitalized adolescent and young adult hematopoietic cell transplant recipients at the end of life. View Abstract
Pediatric Palliative Oncology: Bridging Silos of Care Through an Embedded Model. View Abstract
Palliative Care Involvement Is Associated with Less Intensive End-of-Life Care in Adolescent and Young Adult Oncology Patients. View Abstract
Productivity in Pediatric Palliative Care: Measuring and Monitoring an Elusive Metric. View Abstract
Empowering Bereaved Parents Through the Development of a Comprehensive Bereavement Program. View Abstract
Going straight to the source: A pilot study of bereaved parent-facilitated communication training for pediatric subspecialty fellows. View Abstract
Pediatric Oncology: Managing Pain at the End of Life. View Abstract
Helping parents live with the hole in their heart: The role of health care providers and institutions in the bereaved parents' grief journeys. View Abstract
Parental Grief Following the Death of a Child from Cancer: The Ongoing Odyssey. View Abstract
Parental Perspectives of Communication at the End of Life at a Pediatric Oncology Institution. View Abstract
Pediatric Palliative Oncology: A New Training Model for an Emerging Field. View Abstract
Patient-controlled analgesia at the end of life at a pediatric oncology institution. View Abstract
End-of-life care for hospitalized children. View Abstract
International volunteer medicine. View Abstract
Unifying the spatial population dynamics and molecular evolution of epidemic rabies virus. View Abstract