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Positions

Associate Professor

Medicine-Geriatrics
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, TX, US

Director

Palliative Care
Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center

Professional Interests

• Decision making for end-of-life care, surrogate decision-making, racial/ethnic disparities in end-of-life care, dementia

Websites

Selected Publications

• Spitzer M, Braun U, Hermle L, Maier S. " Associative semantic network dysfunction in thought-disordered schizophrenic patients: direct evidence from indirect semantic priming. " Biol. Psychiatry. 1993 Dec 15; 34 (12) : 864-77.
  Pubmed PMID: 8110913.
• Harris PF, Arnold RM, Braun UK, Fromme E, Ghermay R, Harman S, Jayes RL, Walling AM. " Update in palliative care - 2011. " J Gen Intern Med. 2012 May ; 27 (5) : 582-7.
  Pubmed PMID: 22127796.
• Braun UK, Beyth RJ, Ford ME, McCullough LB. " Voices of African American, Caucasian, and Hispanic surrogates on the burdens of end-of-life decision making. " J Gen Intern Med. 2008 Mar ; 23 (3) : 267-74.
  Pubmed PMID: 18172738.
• Braun UK, Kunik ME, Pham C. " Treating depression in terminally ill patients can optimize their physical comfort at the end of life and provide them the opportunity to confront and prepare for death. " Geriatrics. 2008 Jun ; 63 (6) : 25-7.
  Pubmed PMID: 18512998.
• Dy SM, Harman SM, Braun UK, Howie LJ, Harris PF, Jayes RL. " To stent or not to stent: an evidence-based approach to palliative procedures at the end of life. " J Pain Symptom Manage. 2012 Apr ; 43 (4) : 795-801.
  Pubmed PMID: 22464354.
• Braun UK, Ford ME, Beyth RJ, McCullough LB. " The physician's professional role in end-of-life decision-making: Voices of racially and ethnically diverse physicians. " Patient Educ Couns. 2010 Jul ; 80 (1) : 41342.
  Pubmed PMID: 19948388.
• Lin AP, Orengo-Nania S, Braun UK. " The PCP's role in chronic open-angle glaucoma. " Geriatrics. 2009 Jul ; 64 (7) : 20-8.
  Pubmed PMID: 19586087.
• Poon IO, Lal L, Brown EN, Braun UK. " The impact of pharmacist-managed oral anticoagulation therapy in older veterans. " J Clin Pharm Ther. 2007 Feb ; 32 (1) : 21-9.
  Pubmed PMID: 17286786.
• Braun UK, Naik AD, McCullough LB. " Reconceptualizing the experience of surrogate decision making: reports vs genuine decisions. " Ann Fam Med. ; 7 (3) : 249-53.
  Pubmed PMID: 19433843.
• Poon I, Lal LS, Ford ME, Braun UK. " Racial/ethnic disparities in medication use among veterans with hypertension and dementia: a national cohort study. " Ann Pharmacother. 2009 Feb ; 43 (2) : 185-93.
  Pubmed PMID: 19193586.
• Poon I, Lal LS, Ford ME, Braun UK. " Racial/Ethnic differences in blood pressure control and medication utilization in a cohort of older veterans with dementia. " Am J Ther. ; 17 (1) : 34-41.
  Pubmed PMID: 19535967.
• Braun UK, McCullough LB, Beyth RJ, Wray NP, Kunik ME, Morgan RO. " Racial and ethnic differences in the treatment of seriously ill patients: a comparison of African-American, Caucasian and Hispanic veterans. " J Natl Med Assoc. 2008 Sep ; 100 (9) : 1041-51.
  Pubmed PMID: 18807433.
• Braun UK, McCullough LB. " Preventing life-sustaining treatment by default. " Ann Fam Med. ; 9 (3) : 250-6.
  Pubmed PMID: 21555753.
• Krishnan LL, Petersen NJ, Snow AL, Cully JA, Schulz PE, Graham DP, Morgan RO, Braun U, Moffett ML, Yu HJ, Kunik ME. " Prevalence of dementia among Veterans Affairs medical care system users. " Dement Geriatr Cogn Disord. 2005 ; 20 (4) : 245-53.
  Pubmed PMID: 16088141.
• Kunik ME, Braun U, Stanley MA, Wristers K, Molinari V, Stoebner D, Orengo CA. " One session cognitive behavioural therapy for elderly patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. " Psychol Med. 2001 May ; 31 (4) : 717-23.
  Pubmed PMID: 11352373.
• Poon IO, Braun U. " High prevalence of orthostatic hypotension and its correlation with potentially causative medications among elderly veterans. " J Clin Pharm Ther. 2005 Apr ; 30 (2) : 173-8.
  Pubmed PMID: 15811171.
• Asghar-Ali AA, Wagle KC, Braun UK. " Depression in terminally ill patients: dilemmas in diagnosis and treatment. " J Pain Symptom Manage. 2013 May ; 45 (5) : 926-33.
  Pubmed PMID: 23571209.
• Abbas Asghar-Ali A, Braun UK. " Depression in geriatric patients. " Minerva Med.. 2009 Feb ; 100 (1) : 105-13.
  Pubmed PMID: 19277008.
• Braun UK, Beyth RJ, Ford ME, McCullough LB. " Defining limits in care of terminally ill patients. " BMJ. 2007 Feb 3; 334 (7587) : 239-41.
  Pubmed PMID: 17272566.
• Braun UK, Rabeneck L, McCullough LB, Urbauer DL, Wray NP, Lairson DR, Beyth RJ. " Decreasing use of percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy tube feeding for veterans with dementia-racial differences remain. " J Am Geriatr Soc. 2005 Feb ; 53 (2) : 242-8.
  Pubmed PMID: 15673347.