Katherine R. Courtright, MD, MS
Assistant Professor of Medicine (Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care)
Faculty member, Institute for Translational Medicine and Therapeutics (ITMAT)
Member, Center for Health Incentives and Behavioral Economics
Core Faculty, Palliative and Advanced Illness Research (PAIR) Center, Department of Medicine, PSOM
Senior Fellow, Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics
Director of Palliative Care Research, Penn Medicine
Affiliate faculty, Penn Center for Cancer Care Innovation (PC3I)
Full member, Abramson Cancer Center's Cancer Control Program
Department: Medicine
Contact information
303 Blockley Hall
423 Guardian Dr
Philadelphia, PA 19104
423 Guardian Dr
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Office: 215-746-0253
Publications
Education:
BA (Molecular Biology)
University of Pennsylvania, 2002.
MD (Medicine)
Temple University School of Medicine, 2008.
MS (Health Policy Research)
University of Pennsylvania, 2015.
Permanent linkBA (Molecular Biology)
University of Pennsylvania, 2002.
MD (Medicine)
Temple University School of Medicine, 2008.
MS (Health Policy Research)
University of Pennsylvania, 2015.
Selected Publications
Foxwell AM, Meghani S, Courtright KR, Deatrick J, Hirschman K, Ulrich C: A Mixed Method Integration of Clinician Distress Typologies in those Caring for Seriously Ill Patients within the Hospital Setting. American Society of Clinical Oncology, Chicago, IL Jun 2025 Notes: poster session.Foxwell AM, Meghani S, Courtright KR, Huang L, Rhodes J, Deatrick J, Hirschman K, Ulrich C : A Cluster Analysis of Clinician Distress Trajectories when Caring for Seriously Ill Hospitalized Patients. American Society of Clinical Oncology, Chicago, IL Jun 2025 Notes: poster session.
Courtright, K. R., Singh, J., Dress, E. M., Bayes, B., Harhay, M. O., Chowdhury, M., Lu, Y., Lee, K. M., Small, D. S., Whitman, C., Tian, J., Madden, V., Hetherington, T., Plickert, L., Sullivan, D. M., Burke, H. L., Green, M. B., & Halpern, S. D.: Nudging Clinicians to Promote Serious Illness Communication for Critically Ill Patients: A Pragmatic Cluster-Randomized Trial. JAMA Intern Med Page: epub ahead of print, Jan 2025.
Moin EE, Bayes B, Madden V, Halpern SD, Courtright KR: Disease and Race-Based Differences in Inpatient Palliative Care Consultation in Cancer and Noncancer Serious Illnesses. J Am Geriatr Soc Page: in press, 2025.
Courtright KR, Downar J: The Struggle Continues: Improving Outcomes for Surrogate Decision-Makers After the Intensive Care Unit Am J Resp Crit Care Med Page: epub ahead of press, Dec 2024.
Auriemma CL, Bahti M, Merlino C, Sewell B, Courtright KR: Stakeholder perspectives on categorizing care settings for measures of hospital- and institution-free days. Annals Am Thor Soc Page: epub ahead of press, Nov 2024.
Roberson JL, Gasior JA, Ginzberg SP, Bakillah E, Passman J, Shreve L, Sharoky CE, Nadolski G, Courtright KR, Kaufman EJ.: The Impact of Palliative Decompressive Gastrostomy Tube Placement on Patients and Their Caregivers: A Mixed Methods Analysis. Ann Surg Oncol 31(10): 6931-6938, Oct 2024.
Auriemma CL, Song A, Walsh L, Han J, Yapalater S, Bain A, Haines L, Scott S, Whitman C, Taylor SP, Weissman GE, Gonzales MJ, Weerasinghe R, Wendt SJ, Courtright KR.: Leveraging the electronic health record to identify delivery of goal-concordant care. medRxiv Sep 2024.
Auriemma CL, Song A, Walsh L, Han JJ, Yapalater SR, Bain A, Haines L, Scott S, Whitman C, Taylor SP, Halpern SD, Courtright KR.: Classification of Documented Goals of Care Among Hospitalized Patients with High Mortality Risk: a Mixed-Methods Feasibility Study. J Gen Intern Med 39(10): 1839-1849, Aug 2024.
Krutsinger DC, Maloney SI, Courtright KR, Bartels K: Barriers and Facilitators of Surrogates Providing Consent for Critically Ill Patients in Clinical Trials: A Qualitative Study. Chest 166(2): 304-310, Augf 2024.