Scott D. Halpern - Faculty Biosketch

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

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

Senior Fellow, Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, University of Pennsylvania

Fellow, Institute on Aging, University of Pennsylvania Health System

Senior Scholar, Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Pennsylvania

Director, Palliative and Advanced Illness Research (PAIR) Center

Director, Penn Roybal Center on Palliative Care in Dementia

Director, Behavioral Economics to Transform Trial Enrollment Representativeness (BETTER) Center, University of Pennsylvania

Director (with co-direction by mentees Drs. Meeta Kerlin and Mucio Delgado), University of Pennsylvania of Patient-Oriented Research and Training to Accelerate Learning (Penn PORTAL)

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Department: Medicine

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shalpern@upenn.edu

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1f Graduate Group Affiliations 8

Graduate Group in Epidemiology and Biostatistics

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18 Publications
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Links
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13 Education:
21 9 B.S. 25 (Psychology and Economics) c
28 Duke University, 1995.
21 d M.S.C.E. 19 (Epidemiology) c
33 University of Pennsylvania, 2001.
21 a Ph.D. 19 (Epidemiology) c
33 University of Pennsylvania, 2002.
21 9 M.Be 16 (Bioethics) c
33 University of Pennsylvania, 2002.
21 9 M.D. 15 (Medicine) c
33 University of Pennsylvania, 2003.
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1f Post-Graduate Training
24 74 Intern in Medicine, Department of Medicine, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, 2003-2004.
24 76 Resident in Medicine, Department of Medicine, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, 2004-2006.
24 97 Fellow, Department of Medicine, Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Division, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, 2006-2009.
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17 Certifications
28 51 American Board of Internal Medicine - Pulmonary Diseases, 2008.
28 4c American Board of Internal Medicine - Critical Care, 2009.
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Description of Research Expertise

2c End of Life Decision Making
2e Critical Care Health Services Research
3e Methodological Innovations in Randomized Trial Designs
1b Empirical Bioethics
1d Organ Transplantation
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25 Allocation of Scarce Resources
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Description of Clinical Expertise

26 Critical Care Medicine
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Selected Publications

11b 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.

d8 Courtright, KR, Cassell JB, Halpern, SD: A Research Agenda for High-Value Palliative Care. Annals of Internal Medicine 168(7): 71-72, Jan 2018.

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

f0 Rolnick, JA; Asch, DA; Halpern, SD: Delegalizing Advance Directives - Facilitating Advance Care Planning. New England Journal of Medicine 376(22): 2105-2107, Jun 2017.

f9 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.

c0 Halpern Scott D: Toward Evidence-Based End-of-Life Care. The New England journal of medicine 373(21): 2001-3, Nov 2015.

187 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.

16c 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.

114 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

107 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.

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