M. Jennifer Cheng, MD

BA, University of Virginia;
MD, University of Virginia School of Medicine

Dr. Cheng is board certified in Hospice and Palliative Care and Internal Medicine.

She completed her Internal Medicine Internship and Residency at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical and remained on staff as Chief Resident in Internal Medicine. She was a clinical fellow in Hospice and Palliative Care at the National Institutes of Health, and a Palliative Care research fellow at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.

She is currently a staff clinician on the NIH Clinical Center Pain and Palliative Care Service and is the Program Director of the NIH Hospice and Palliative Medicine Fellowship Program. She participates in community outreach programs targeting advance care planning and end-of-life care in Chinese populations.

• NIH Clinical Center CEO Awards for Hospice Unit Establishment Team, 2018
• Clinical Center Director's Award in the Quality of Worklife/Diversity category for the Bereavement Debriefing Team, 2015

Berger R, Cheng MJ. Chapter in Handbook of Supportive Oncology and Palliative Care: Whole-Person Adult and Pediatric Care; Palliative Care and Survivorship Issues: 2019

A Single Center Survey of Health-Related Quality of Life among Acute Myeloid Leukemia Survivors in First Complete Remission. Cheng MJ, Smith BD, Hourigan CS, Gojo I, Pratz KW, Blackford AL, Mehta AK, Smith TJ. J Palliat Med. 2017 Nov;20(11):1267-1273.

Definitions of healing and healing interventions across different cultures. Lichtenstein AH, Berger A, Cheng MJ. Ann Palliat Med. 2017 Jul;6(3):248-252.

Nurses' Interest in Independently Initiating End-of-Life Conversations and Palliative Care Consultations in a Suburban, Community Hospital. Mehta AK, Wilks S, Cheng MJ, Baker K, Berger A. Am J Hosp Palliat Care. 2017 Jan 1:1049909117704403.

Ghosh A, Dzeng E, Cheng MJ. Interaction of palliative care and primary care. Clinics in Geriatric Medicine: Geriatric Palliative Care. 2015

Cheng MJ, Hourigan CS, Smith TJ. Adult acute myeloid leukemia long-term survivors. J Leuk. 2014 Apr 10;2(2). pii: 26855

Sexauer A, Cheng MJ, Knight L, Riley A, King, L, Smith TJ. Patterns of hospice use in patients dying from hematologic malignancies. Journal of Palliative Medicine. 2014 Nov; 17(2):195-199.

Cheng MJ, King LM, Alesi ER, Smith TJ. Doing palliative care in the oncology office. Journal of Oncology Practice 2013; 9(2):1-5.

Schoenborn NL, Cheng MJ, Christmas C. A memorial service to provide reflection on patient death during residency. Journal of Graduate Medical Education. 2013 Dec;5(4):686-8.