Faculty

Scott D. Halpern, MD, PhD, M.Bioethics

John M. Eisenberg, M.D. Professor in Medicine

Department: Medicine

Graduate Group Affiliations

Graduate Group in Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Contact information

301 Blockley Hall
423 Guardian Drive
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6021

Office: 215-898-1462

Email:
shalpern@upenn.edu

Publications

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Education:
B.S. (Psychology and Economics)
Duke University, 1995.
M.S.C.E. (Epidemiology)
University of Pennsylvania, 2001.
Ph.D. (Epidemiology)
University of Pennsylvania, 2002.
M.Be (Bioethics)
University of Pennsylvania, 2002.
M.D. (Medicine)
University of Pennsylvania, 2003.

Links
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Lung Center
CCEB Faculty
Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy faculty page
PSOM
Center for Health Incentives and Behavioral Economics, Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics
FIELDS program website

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Description of Research Expertise

End of Life Decision Making
Critical Care Health Services Research
Methodological Innovations in Randomized Trial Designs
Empirical Bioethics
Organ Transplantation
Research Ethics
Allocation of Scarce Resources

Description of Clinical Expertise

Critical Care Medicine

Selected Publications

Halpern SD, Harhay MO, Saulsgiver KA, Brophy C, Troxel A, Volpp KG: A Pragmatic Trial of E-Cigarettes, Incentives, and Drugs for Smoking Cessation. New England Journal of Medicine 378(24): 2302-2310, Jun 2018.

Courtright, KR, Cassell JB, Halpern, SD: A Research Agenda for High-Value Palliative Care. Annals of Internal Medicine 168(7): 71-72, Jan 2018.

Detsky ME, Harhay MO, Bayard DF, Delman AM, Buehler AE, Kent SA, Ciuffetelli IV, Cooney E, Gabler NB, Ratcliffe SJ, Mikkelsen ME, Halpern SD : Discriminative accuracy of physician and nurse predictions of survival and functional outcomes 6 months after ICU admission. JAMA 317(2): 2187-2195, Jun 2017.

Rolnick, JA; Asch, DA; Halpern, SD: Delegalizing Advance Directives - Facilitating Advance Care Planning. New England Journal of Medicine 376(22): 2105-2107, Jun 2017.

Rubin Emily B, Buehler Anna E, Halpern Scott D: States Worse Than Death Among Hospitalized Patients With Serious Illnesses. JAMA internal medicine 176(10): 1557-1559, Oct 2016.

Halpern Scott D: Toward Evidence-Based End-of-Life Care. The New England journal of medicine 373(21): 2001-3, Nov 2015.

Halpern Scott D, French Benjamin, Small Dylan S, Saulsgiver Kathryn, Harhay Michael O, Audrain-McGovern Janet, Loewenstein George, Brennan Troyen A, Asch David A, Volpp Kevin G: Randomized trial of four financial-incentive programs for smoking cessation. The New England Journal of Medicine 372(22): 2108-17, May 2015.

Hart Joanna L, Harhay Michael O, Gabler Nicole B, Ratcliffe Sarah J, Quill Caroline M, Halpern Scott D: Variability Among US Intensive Care Units in Managing the Care of Patients Admitted With Preexisting Limits on Life-Sustaining Therapies. JAMA Internal Medicine 175(6): 1019-26, Jun 2015.

Auriemma CL, Nguyen CA, Bronheim R, Kent S, Nadigu S, Pardo D, Halpern SD. : Stability of end-of-life preferences: A systematic review of the evidence. JAMA Internal Medicine 174(7): 1085-1092, Jul 2014

Wagner J, Gabler NB, Ratcliffe SJ, Brown SES, Strom BL, Halpern SD.: Outcomes among patients discharged from busy intensive care units. Annals of Internal Medicine 159(7): 447-455, Oct 2013.