Mark Kissler, MD

Recognitions

• 5280 Top Doctor, 5280 Magazine (2026)
• 5280 Top Doctor, 5280 Magazine (2025)
• Model of Humanism Award, Divison of Hospital Medicine Advanced Practice Fellowship (2023)
• Gold Humanism Honor Society, Gold Humanism Honor Society (2015)
• Alpha Omega Alpha, Alpha Omega Alpha (2015)
• Michael E Debakey Scholar, Baylor College of Medicine (2015)

Research Interests

I study attention in clinical practice: how clinicians think, notice, and are present to patients, and how the systems around clinicians shape their attention. My work spans narrative medicine and health humanities, reflective writing, and clinical work design; I also write essays on medical practice.

Publications

• Burke J, Kissler MJ, Nguyen AQ, Amass T, New ML. Reading between the lines: evaluating an undergraduate medical education shared decision making curriculum via thematic and narrative analyses. Acad Med. 2026 Jul 1;101(7):814-822. PubMed PMID: 41746795
• Porter S, Knees M, Meimari L, Piper C, Kissler M. Hospitalist time-motion studies: A systematic review. J Hosp Med. 2025 Oct;20(10):1099-1107. PubMed PMID: 40500897
• Cognitive Load Theory and Its Impact on Diagnostic Accuracy. Content last reviewed August 2024. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. https://www.ahrq.gov/diagnostic-safety/resources/issue-briefs/dxsafety-cognitive-load.html
• Kissler M. The Rarest and Purest Form of Generosity: Simone Weil's Attention and Medical Practice. J Med Humanit. 2024 Dec;45(4):391-402. PubMed PMID: 39302539
• Kissler MJ, Porter S, Knees M, Kissler K, Keniston A, Burden M. Attention Among Health Care Professionals : A Scoping Review. Ann Intern Med. 2024 Jul;177(7):941-952. PubMed PMID: 38885508
• Keniston A, Hall MAK, Kissler MJ. Penning the future: Cultivating writing and scholarship in hospital medicine. J Hosp Med. 2024 Jul;19(7):648-649. PubMed PMID: 38678445
• Kissler M. To the Fig Tree on 9th and Christian Commentary on Ross Gay's "To the Fig Tree on 9th and Christian". Acad Med. 2023 May 25. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 37232852
• Burden M, Patel M, Kissler M, Harry E, Keniston A. Measuring and driving hospitalist value: Expanding beyond wRVUs. J Hosp Med. 2022 Sep;17(9):760-764. PubMed PMID: 35652672
• Kissler MJ, Kissler K, Porter SC, Keniston A, Jankousky K, Burden M. Concepts and metrics of clinician attention: a scoping review protocol. BMJ Open. 2022 Jun 13;12(6):e052334. PubMed PMID: 35697461
• Kissler M. Cornelius Jordan Casteel Commentary on Jordan Casteel's Cornelius. Acad Med. 2022 Oct 11. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 36222513
• Kissler MJ, Kissler K, Burden M. Toward a Medical "Ecology of Attention". N Engl J Med. 2021 Jan 28;384(4):299-301. PubMed PMID: 33503689
• Maw AM, Ho PM, Morris MA, Glasgow RE, Huebschmann AG, Barnard JG, Metter R, Tierney DM, Mathews BK, Havranek EP, Kissler M, Fleshner M, Burian BK, Platz E, Soni NJ. Hospitalist Perceptions of Barriers to Lung Ultrasound Adoption in Diverse Hospital Environments. Diagnostics (Basel). 2021 Aug 11;11(8). PubMed PMID: 34441385

Practice Locations

UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital (UCH)
12605 E. 16th Ave
Aurora, CO 80045
720-848-0000

Specialty Information

Specialties

• Hospital Medicine
• Internal Medicine, Board Certification
• Pediatrics, Board Certification