Joanna Hart, MD, MSHP

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Assistant Professor of Medicine (Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care)
Affiliated Faculty, Center for Health Incentives and Behavioral Economics
Faculty Fellow, Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Faculty Member, Institute for Translational Medicine and Therapeutics
Core Faculty, Palliative and Advanced Illness Research Center
Senior Fellow, Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics
Department: Medicine

Contact information
Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Division
University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
423 Guardian Drive
Blockley 305
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Education:
BA (Sociology)
Northwestern University, 2003.
M.D. (Medicine)
University of Virginia, 2008.
M.S. (Health Policy Research)
University of Pennsylvania, 2014.
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Description of Clinical Expertise

COPD; general pulmonary medicine; critical care medicine

Description of Other Expertise

teaching in bias, communication, ethics, and patient- and family-centered care; mentoring expertise in behavioral sciences, mixed methods, longitudinal cohort development and maintenance, community-based or participatory research, and groups underrepresented in medical research

Description of Research Expertise

health care decision making, family-centered care, community-based participatory research practices, behavioral science, qualitative and mixed methods

Selected Publications

Ramadurai D, Patel H, Chan J, Young J, Clapp JT, Hart JL: Looking to "level the field": a qualitative study of how clinicians operationalize social determinants in critical care. Ann Am Thorac Soc 21(11): 1583-1591, Nov 2024.

Hart JL: Cognitive barriers to effective surrogate decision making. Management of Family ICU Syndrome: Improving Outcomes in the ICU. Giora Netzer (eds.). Page: epub ahead of print, Nov 2024.

Hart JL, Klaiman T, Scott M, Fernandez G, Sheu D, Belk A, Silvestri JA, Kim J, Halpern SD, Farrell N: Community-engaged development of equitable and scalable mobile health tools for tobacco treatment: the healthy lungs trial experience. CHEST Pulm Page: epub ahead of print, Nov 2024.

Song A, Hart JL: Palliative care for advanced pulmonary diseases: a call to action. CHEST Pulm Page: epub ahead of print, Nov 2024.

Hart JL, Malik L, Li C, Summer A, Ogunduyile L, Steingrub J, Lo B, Zlatev J, White DB: Clinicians' use of choice framing in intensive care unit family meetings. Crit Care Med 52(10): 1533-1542, Oct 2024.

Weissman GE, Silvestri JA, Lapite F, Mullen I, Bishop NS, Kmiec T, Summer A, Sims MW, Ahya VN, Kangovi S, Klaiman TA, Szymczak JE, Hart JL: A qualitative study identifying the potential risk mechanisms leading to hospitalization for patients with chronic lung disease. CHEST Pulm 2(3): 100060, Sept 2024.

Klaiman T, Farrell N, Sheu D, Belk A, Silvestri J, Kim J, Coffman R, Hart JL: Use of tobacco during COVID-19: a qualitative study among medically underserved individuals. PLoS One 19(8): e0308966, Aug 2024.

Miller KE, Useche MR, Hart JL, Coe, NB: Youth caregivers of adults in the United States: prevalence and the association between caregiving and education. Demography 61(3): 829–847, June 2024.

Olive AM, Finnsdottir Wagner A, Mulhall DT, October TW, Hart JL, Sherman AK, Wallisch JS, Miller-Smith L: Nudging during pediatric intensive care conferences with family members: Retrospective analysis of transcripts from a single-center, 2015-2019. Pediatr Crit Care Med 25(5): 407-415, Feb 2024.

Andersen SK, Yang Y, Kross EK, Haas B, Hart J, Bagshaw SM, Dzeng E, Fischhoff B, White DB.: Achieving goals of care decisions in chronic critical illness: a multi-institutional qualitative study. CHEST 166(1): 107-117, Feb 2024.

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