Robert Macauley, M.D., F.A.A.P., F.A.A.H.P.M.

  • Professor of Pediatrics, School of Medicine
  • Director, Bridges Program
  • Cambia Health Foundation Endowed Chair in Pediatric Palliative Care

Biography

As the director of the OHSU Doernbecher Bridges program, Dr. Macauley specializes in palliative care, which focuses on improving quality of life for kids facing life-limiting illness. He is one of only three hundred pediatricians in the United States board certified in palliative medicine. He values the chance to help children and their families work through some of the most difficult situations anyone can ever face. When life ends far too soon, there are a lot of tears, hand-holding, and silence. And when a child makes it through, there are tears of a different kind. The sweetest words he can ever hear from a family are “We don’t need you anymore.”

In his spare time, Dr. Macauley enjoys writing stories with his eldest daughter, doing aikido with his son, cooking with his center (never “middle”) daughter, and reading with his youngest. Throw in music lessons, concerts, plays, a couple of dogs, and a love of travel, and he and his wife got more than they bargained for (except when it comes to sleep).

Education and training

  • Degrees

    • M.D., 1995, Yale University School of Medicine

  • Residency

    • Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, 1998

  • Certifications

    • American Board of Pediatrics, Hospice and Palliative Medicine, 2008

Memberships and associations:

  • American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine
  • American Academy of Pediatrics
  • American Society for Bioethics and Humanities

Publications

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Publications

  • “Mr. Smith Has No Mealtimes”

    Journal of Pain and Symptom Management
    1. Hope A. Wechkin
    2. Paul T. Menzel
    3. Elizabeth T. Loggers
    4. Robert C. Macauley
    5. Thaddeus M. Pope
    6. Peter L. Reagan
    7. Timothy E. Quill

  • Fire and Magic and All Things Spectacular

    Journal of palliative medicine
    1. Robert Macauley

  • Clinical Guidelines for Voluntarily Stopping Eating and Drinking (VSED)

    Journal of Pain and Symptom Management
    1. Hope Wechkin
    2. Robert Macauley
    3. Paul T. Menzel
    4. Peter L. Reagan
    5. Nancy Simmers
    6. Timothy E. Quill

  • Congruent Communication

    Journal of Pain and Symptom Management
    1. Lauren Treat
    2. Robert Macauley

  • Differences in US Regional Healthcare Allocation Guidelines During the COVID-19 Pandemic

    Journal of general internal medicine
    1. Donald R. Sullivan
    2. Nandini Sarma
    3. Catherine L. Hough
    4. Richard A. Mularski
    5. Molly L. Osborne
    6. Kevin M. Dirksen
    7. Robert C. Macauley

  • Early and often

    Current problems in cancer
    1. Sara Taub
    2. Robert Macauley

  • Responding to parental requests for nondisclosure to patients of diagnostic and prognostic information in the setting of serious disease

    Pediatrics
    1. Sara Taub
    2. Robert Macauley

  • Evolution of Investigating Informed Assent Discussions about CPR in Seriously Ill Patients

    Journal of Pain and Symptom Management
    1. Renee D. Stapleton
    2. Dee W. Ford
    3. Katherine R. Sterba
    4. Nandita R. Nadig
    5. Steven Ades
    6. Anthony L. Back
    7. Shannon S. Carson
    8. Katharine L. Cheung
    9. Janet Ely
    10. Erin K. Kross
    11. Robert C. Macauley
    12. Jennifer M. Maguire
    13. Theodore W. Marcy
    14. Jennifer J. McEntee
    15. Prema R. Menon
    16. Amanda Overstreet
    17. Christine S. Ritchie
    18. Blair Wendlandt
    19. Sara S. Ardren
    20. Michael Balassone
    21. Stephanie Burns
    22. Summer Choudhury
    23. Sandra Diehl
    24. Ellen McCown
    25. Elizabeth L. Nielsen
    26. Sudiptho R. Paul
    27. Colleen Rice
    28. Katherine K. Taylor
    29. Ruth A. Engelberg

  • Health Care Clinicians and Product Promotion by Industry

    Pediatrics
    1. Douglas S. Diekema
    2. Robert MacAuley
    3. Ratna Basak
    4. Gina Marie Geis
    5. Naomi Tricot Laventhal
    6. Douglas J. Opel
    7. Mindy B. Statter

  • Pediatric Hospice and Palliative Care Services and Needs Across the Northwest United States

    Journal of Pain and Symptom Management
    1. Jori F. Bogetz
    2. Anne Anderson
    3. Monica Holland
    4. Robert Macauley

  • Social Determinants of Health May Predict End of Life Portable Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment Form Completion and Treatment Selections

    American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine
    1. Ladawna Gievers
    2. Sheevaun Khaki
    3. Abby Dotson
    4. Zunqiu Chen
    5. Robert C. Macauley
    6. Susan Tolle

  • A Mixed-Methods Quasi-Experimental Study on Perspectives Among Physicians and Nurses Regarding Use of Palliative Care Teams in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit After Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest

    American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine
    1. Alia Broman
    2. Cydni Williams
    3. Robert Macauley
    4. Patricia A. Carney

  • Epileptologists infrequently discuss the risk of intubation with patients with epilepsy in the United States

    Annals of Palliative Medicine
    1. Andrew J. Solomon
    2. Robert Macauley
    3. David Spencer

  • Ethical considerations in pediatricians' use of social media

    Pediatrics
    1. Robert Macauley
    2. Nanette Elster
    3. Jonathan M. Fanaroff

  • Top Ten Tips Palliative Care Clinicians Should Know about Medical Decision-Making Capacity Assessment

    Journal of palliative medicine
    1. Sarah E. Ehrman
    2. Kavitha P. Norton
    3. David E. Karol
    4. Meaghann S. Weaver
    5. Bethany Lockwood
    6. Abigail Latimer
    7. Erin Scott
    8. Christopher A. Jones
    9. Robert Macauley

  • Betting on CPR

    Journal of medical ethics
    1. David Y. Harari
    2. Robert C. MacAuley

  • Children with intellectual and developmental disabilities as organ transplantation recipients

    Pediatrics
    1. Mindy B. Statter
    2. Garey Noritz
    3. Robert Conover Macauley
    4. Ratna Basak
    5. Gina Marie Geis
    6. Naomi Tricot Laventhal
    7. Douglas J. Opel
    8. Mindy B. Statter
    9. Dennis Z. Kuo
    10. Susan Apkon
    11. Lynn F. Davidson
    12. Kathryn A. Ellerbeck
    13. Jessica E.A. Foster
    14. Susan L. Hyman
    15. Garey H. Noritz
    16. Mary O.connor Leppert
    17. Barbara S. Saunders
    18. Christopher J. Stille
    19. Larry Yin

  • Diagnosis, management, and treatment of female genital mutilation or cutting in girls

    Pediatrics
    1. Janine Young
    2. Nawal M. Nour
    3. Robert C. Macauley
    4. Sandeep K. Narang
    5. Crista Johnson-Agbakwu

  • Ethical Challenges Arising in the COVID-19 Pandemic

    American Journal of Bioethics
    1. Amy L. McGuire
    2. Mark P. Aulisio
    3. F. Daniel Davis
    4. Cheryl Erwin
    5. Thomas D. Harter
    6. Reshma Jagsi
    7. Robert Klitzman
    8. Robert Macauley
    9. Eric Racine
    10. Susan M. Wolf
    11. Matthew Wynia
    12. Paul Root Wolpe

  • Provider perspective on the role of palliative care in hypoplastic left heart syndrome

    Cardiology in the young
    1. Sarah Lowenstein
    2. Robert MacAuley
    3. Kathleen Perko
    4. Christina Ronai

  • The ethics of creating a resource allocation strategy during the COVID-19 Pandemic

    Pediatrics
    1. Naomi Laventhal
    2. Ratna Basak
    3. Mary Lynn Dell
    4. Douglas Diekema
    5. Nanette Elster
    6. Gina Geis
    7. Mark Mercurio
    8. Douglas Opel
    9. David Shalowitz
    10. Mindy Statter
    11. Robert MacAuley

  • Institutional Ethics committees

    Pediatrics
    1. Margaret Moon
    2. Robert C. Macauley
    3. Gina Marie Geis
    4. Naomi Tricot Laventhal
    5. Douglas J. Opel
    6. William R. Sexson
    7. Mindy B. Statter

  • Pediatric Palliative Care in the Multicultural Context

    Journal of Pain and Symptom Management
    1. Abby R. Rosenberg
    2. Kira Bona
    3. Tumaini Coker
    4. Chris Feudtner
    5. Kelli Houston
    6. Anisa Ibrahim
    7. Robert Macauley
    8. Joanne Wolfe
    9. Ross Hays

  • Surgical overlap

    International Anesthesiology Clinics
    1. Peter Hyson
    2. Robert Macauley
    3. Kevin Sexton
    4. Joseph Sanford

  • The Limits of “Life-Limiting”

    Journal of Pain and Symptom Management
    1. Robert C. Macauley