João Carlos Geber-Júnior

@usp.br

Preceptor - Department of Hematology, Hemotherapy and Cell Therapy / Faculty of Medicine of the University of São Paulo
University of São Paulo Medical School

João Carlos Geber-Júnior
Doctor graduated from the Faculty of Medicine of the Higher School of Health Sciences (ESCS), specialist in Internal Medicine from the Hospital das Clínicas of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of São Paulo (HCFMUSP). He is currently a preceptor of the Discipline of Hematology at the Medical Internship, a special graduate student at FMUSP and conducts research on Myelodysplastic Neoplasms. He is also an Instructor of the Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS) course by Berkeley Educacional endorsed by the American Heart Association in Brazil. He received the Human Dignity Merit Medal from the Secretariat of Justice and Citizenship of Brasilia for articulating and executing medical assistance actions for vulnerable populations in the Federal District. He also received training with honors from Johns Hopkins University in an extension course in Oncology.

EDUCATION

- Physician from the Higher School of Health Sciences, Federal District, Brazil.

- Specialist in Internal Medicine at the Hospital das Clínicas of the University of São Paulo (HCFMUSP), São Paulo, Brazil.

- Preceptor of the discipline of the Hematology Medical Internship at HCFMUSP.

- Special Graduate student at the Department of Pathology at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of São Paulo.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Internal Medicine / Hematology / Pathology / Epidemiology / Economic Burden of Diseases / Neglected Diseases
18

Scopus Publications

101

Scholar Citations

6

Scholar h-index

2

Scholar i10-index

Scopus Publications

RECENT SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

  • Beyond intervention: The clinical meaning of non-intervention in serious illness
    JC Geber-Júnior
    Palliative & Supportive Care 24, e131 , 2026
    2026
  • When the place of dying is lost: Reflections on care, uncertainty, and the limits of intervention
    M Augusto-Rodrigues, JC Geber-Júnior
    Palliative & Supportive Care 24, e126 , 2026
    2026
  • At the threshold of care: Palliative ethics in severe mental illness
    CA de Oliveira-Filho, JC Geber-Júnior, T Perissotto, DN Forte
    Palliative & Supportive Care 24, e119 , 2026
    2026
  • Possible autonomy: Finitude, vulnerability, and the ethical duty of listening
    JC Geber-Júnior
    Palliative & Supportive Care 24, e111 , 2026
    2026
  • The ethics of staying: Medicine at the limits of intervention
    JC Geber-Júnior
    Palliative & Supportive Care 24, e116 , 2026
    2026
  • Relational–ethical transformational leadership in palliative care nursing: A conceptual perspective
    JD de Camargo, ICR de Oliveira, JC Geber-Júnior
    Palliative & Supportive Care 24, e114 , 2026
    2026
  • The fragrance of sadness: Resisting the medicalization of human emotion in palliative care
    R Milan-Youssef, JC Geber-Júnior
    Palliative & Supportive Care 24, e79 , 2026
    2026
    Citations: 2
  • The Therapeutics of Staying
    JC Geber-Junior
    Journal of Palliative Medicine, 10966218251398401 , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 1
  • When pain becomes the teacher: Confronting my own suffering while learning to heal
    JC Geber-Junior
    Journal of Palliative Medicine 28 (12), 1691-1692 , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 3
  • The Anatomy of connection: Rethinking communication beyond the script
    JC Geber-Junior, DN Forte
    Palliative & Supportive Care 23, e216 , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 7
  • When Autonomy Fails: Ethics, Philosophy, and the Legal Duty of Palliative Care-Reflections on End-of-Life Medicine in the 21st Century
    JC Geber-Júnior
    Palliative & Supportive Care 23, e200 , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 2
  • Waiting for the biopsy, finding goodbye
    RC Curatolo, JC Geber-Júnior
    Palliative & Supportive Care 23, e160 , 2025
    2025
  • Caring with time and despite de time: Reflections on prognosis
    JC Geber-Junior, DN Forte
    Palliative & Supportive Care 23, e148 , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 8
  • Understanding the Pandemic: Pathophysiology, Transmission, and Treatment of COVID-19
    S Chatterjee, AND Neto, M Cascella, S Villapol, A Viswanathan, ...
    Elsevier , 2024
    2024
    Citations: 1
  • Chapter 16 - Postmortem neuropathology in COVID-19
    AN Duarte-Neto, JC Geber-Junior, VR Paes, PH do Nascimento Saldiva, ...
    Understanding the Pandemic: Pathophysiology, Transmission, and Treatment of … , 2024
    2024
  • Correlation between the severity and blood alcohol level of traffic accidents victims
    AC Gonçalves, HS Bombana, AC Canonica, JC Geber-Junior, V Leyton, ...
    Acta ortopedica brasileira 32 (spe1), e271878 , 2024
    2024
    Citations: 6
  • CORRELAÇÃO ENTRE GRAVIDADE E ALCOOLEMIA DE VÍTIMAS DE ACIDENTES DE TRÂNSITO
    AC Gonçalves, HS Bombana, AC Canonica, JC Geber-Junior, V Leyton, ...
    Acta Ortopédica Brasileira 32, e271878 , 2024
    2024
  • Osteoporotic hip fracture-Comorbidities and factors associated with in-hospital mortality in the elderly: A nine-year cohort study in Brazil (vol 17, e0272006, 2022)
    VCU Peterle, MRCG Novaes, PE Bezerra-Junior, JC Geber-Junior, ...
    PLOS ONE 18 (11) , 2023
    2023
  • Correction: Osteoporotic hip fracture—Comorbidities and factors associated with in-hospital mortality in the elderly: A nine-year cohort study in Brazil
    VCU Peterle, MRCG Novaes, PEB Junior, JCG Júnior, ...
    Plos one 18 (11), e0294101 , 2023
    2023
  • What else in times of COVID-19? The role of minimally invasive autopsy for the differential diagnosis of acute respiratory failure in a case of kala-azar
    JC Geber Júnior, RAA Monteiro, JWP Rocha, ELT Duarte, E Nicodemo, ...
    Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo 65, e36 , 2023
    2023
    Citations: 3

MOST CITED SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

  • Indicators of morbidity and mortality by femur fractures in older people: a decade-long study in brazilian hospitals
    VCU Peterle, JC Geber Junior, W Darwin Junior, AV Lima, ...
    Acta Ortopédica Brasileira 28, 142-148 , 2020
    2020
    Citations: 29
  • Osteoporotic hip fracture—Comorbidities and factors associated with in-hospital mortality in the elderly: A nine-year cohort study in Brazil
    VCU Peterle, MRCG Novaes, PEB Junior, JCG Júnior, ...
    PLoS One 17 (8), e0272006 , 2022
    2022
    Citations: 20
  • Carotid intima-media thickness and flow-mediated dilation do not predict acute in-hospital outcomes in patients hospitalized with COVID-19
    M Cristina-Oliveira, K Meireles, S Gil, F Cavalcante Assis, ...
    American Journal of Physiology-Heart and Circulatory Physiology 322 (6 … , 2022
    2022
    Citations: 9
  • Caring with time and despite de time: Reflections on prognosis
    JC Geber-Junior, DN Forte
    Palliative & Supportive Care 23, e148 , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 8
  • The Anatomy of connection: Rethinking communication beyond the script
    JC Geber-Junior, DN Forte
    Palliative & Supportive Care 23, e216 , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 7
  • Correlation between the severity and blood alcohol level of traffic accidents victims
    AC Gonçalves, HS Bombana, AC Canonica, JC Geber-Junior, V Leyton, ...
    Acta ortopedica brasileira 32 (spe1), e271878 , 2024
    2024
    Citations: 6
  • Association of health vulnerability with adverse outcomes in older people with COVID-19: a prospective cohort study
    FC de Assis, MCO da Silva, JC Geber-Júnior, H Roschel, T Peçanha, ...
    Clinics 76, e3369 , 2021
    2021
    Citations: 5
  • Indicadores de morbidade e mortalidade por fraturas de fêmur em idosos: análise de uma década em hospitais brasileiros
    VCU PETERLE, JC GEBER JUNIOR, W DARWIN JUNIOR, AV LIMA, ...
    Acta Ortopédica Brasileira 28, 142-148 , 2020
    2020
    Citations: 4
  • When pain becomes the teacher: Confronting my own suffering while learning to heal
    JC Geber-Junior
    Journal of Palliative Medicine 28 (12), 1691-1692 , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 3
  • What else in times of COVID-19? The role of minimally invasive autopsy for the differential diagnosis of acute respiratory failure in a case of kala-azar
    JC Geber Júnior, RAA Monteiro, JWP Rocha, ELT Duarte, E Nicodemo, ...
    Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo 65, e36 , 2023
    2023
    Citations: 3
  • The fragrance of sadness: Resisting the medicalization of human emotion in palliative care
    R Milan-Youssef, JC Geber-Júnior
    Palliative & Supportive Care 24, e79 , 2026
    2026
    Citations: 2
  • When Autonomy Fails: Ethics, Philosophy, and the Legal Duty of Palliative Care-Reflections on End-of-Life Medicine in the 21st Century
    JC Geber-Júnior
    Palliative & Supportive Care 23, e200 , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 2
  • The Therapeutics of Staying
    JC Geber-Junior
    Journal of Palliative Medicine, 10966218251398401 , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 1
  • Understanding the Pandemic: Pathophysiology, Transmission, and Treatment of COVID-19
    S Chatterjee, AND Neto, M Cascella, S Villapol, A Viswanathan, ...
    Elsevier , 2024
    2024
    Citations: 1
  • Sjögren’s Syndrome Associated with Celiac Disease
    FF Silva, A Lerner, JCG Júnior, JF de Carvalho, Y Shoenfeld
    International Journal 8 (3), 76-82 , 2020
    2020
    Citations: 1
  • Beyond intervention: The clinical meaning of non-intervention in serious illness
    JC Geber-Júnior
    Palliative & Supportive Care 24, e131 , 2026
    2026
  • When the place of dying is lost: Reflections on care, uncertainty, and the limits of intervention
    M Augusto-Rodrigues, JC Geber-Júnior
    Palliative & Supportive Care 24, e126 , 2026
    2026
  • At the threshold of care: Palliative ethics in severe mental illness
    CA de Oliveira-Filho, JC Geber-Júnior, T Perissotto, DN Forte
    Palliative & Supportive Care 24, e119 , 2026
    2026
  • Possible autonomy: Finitude, vulnerability, and the ethical duty of listening
    JC Geber-Júnior
    Palliative & Supportive Care 24, e111 , 2026
    2026
  • The ethics of staying: Medicine at the limits of intervention
    JC Geber-Júnior
    Palliative & Supportive Care 24, e116 , 2026
    2026