Amanda Stephens

Amanda Stephens, MD, is a pulmonologist at National Jewish Health. Dr. Stephens is in the Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine.

Programs and Services

Specialties & Conditions

Research Areas

  • Palliative Care Integration for Patients with Chronic Respiratory Diseases

Special Interests

My clinical interest is providing the best possible care for patients with pulmonary disease and critical illness. In addition to identifying and treating the causes of shortness of breath, I am interested in providing multidisciplinary and integrative treatment for the symptom of breathlessness in the outpatient setting. In the inpatient and intensive care settings, I strive to offer as many state of the art interventions as possible along with helping patients and families to determine how we can use these therapies in a way that aligns with their values and goals.

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Education

Education

2011
New York University School of Medicine (New York, NY), MD
2007
Stony Brook University Honors College (Stony Brook NY), BS, Pharmacology & Journalism

Residency

2011 - 2014
Boston University School of Medicine (Boston, MA), Internal Medicine

Fellowship

2014 - 2017
Boston University School of Medicine (Boston, MA), Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine
2017
University of Colorado School of Medicine (Aurora, CO), Fellow

Awards & Recognition

Boston Medical Center Quality Improvement Award
Sir James Black Award and Scholarship in Pharmacology
Phi Beta Kappa and Golden Key Honor Society

Board Certification

2017: ABIM Certified: Critical Care Medicine
2016: ABIM Certified: Pulmonary Diseases
2014: Board Certified in Internal Medicine

Publications

Stevenson, E. K., Rubenstein, AR., Radin, G. T., Wiener, R. S., & Walkey, A. J. (2014). Two decades of mortality trends among patients with severe sepsis: a comparative meta-analysis. Critical care medicine, 42(3), 625.

Stephens AR, Wiener RS, Ieong MH. (In press).  Comparison of Strategies to Identify Documented Advance Care Planning Among Patients Presenting with Severe COPD Exacerbations.  Journal of Palliative Medicine. URL: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28850288

Stephens, A. R., Karin A. Sloan and Deborah Whalen et al.  A Multidisciplinary Quality Improvement Initiative to Reduce Alarm Fatigue from Unnecessary Pulse Oximetry Alarms (American Thoracic Society Poster Discussion Session)

Stephens, A. R., Renda S. Wiener and Michael Ieong.  “Advance Care Planning in Patients Admitted to the Medical Intensive Care Unit of a Urban Safety-net Hospital for Acute Exacerbation Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease” (American Thoracic Society Poster Discussion Session 2016)