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Katherine R. Courtright, MD, MS
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Assistant Professor of Medicine (Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care)
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Faculty member, Institute for Translational Medicine and Therapeutics (ITMAT)
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Core Faculty, Palliative and Advanced Illness Research (PAIR) Center, Department of Medicine, PSOM
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Senior Fellow, Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics
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Director of Palliative Care Research, Penn Medicine
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Affiliate faculty, Penn Center for Cancer Care Innovation (PC3I)
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Full member, Abramson Cancer Center's Cancer Control Program
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Department: Medicine
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303 Blockley Hall
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21 7 BA 1e (Molecular Biology) c
33 University of Pennsylvania, 2002.
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21 7 MS 23 (Health Policy Research) c
33 University of Pennsylvania, 2015.
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14f Foxwell, A.M., Meghani, S.M., Courtright, K.R., Huang, L., Rhoads, J., Deatrick, J., Hirschman, K., & Ulrich, C.M. : A Cluster Analysis Of Clinician Distress Trajectories When Caring For Seriously Ill Hospitalized Patients. J Palliative Med Page: in press, 2026.
2b0 Marshall, Mary Faith; Davis, F. Daniel; Fogelman, Patricia A.; Oczkowski, Simon; Reid, Julie C.; Arellano, Daniel; Aslakson, Rebecca A.; Campbell, Joshua; Courtright, Katherine; Egressy, Katarine; Epstein, Elizabeth; Green, Ebonye; Hua, May; John, Preeti R.; Kross, Erin K.; Martin, Niels D.; Melo, Bethany A.; Muehlschlegel, Susanne; Perez-Protto, Silvia; Roberts, Ben; Shalev, Daniel; Wescoe Singley, Jennifer MEd; Strickland, Shawna L.; Korzick, Karen A. : Society of Critical Care Medicine Clinical Practice Guidelines on Adult End-of-Life Care in the ICU. Critical Care Medicine 53(12): e2734-e2746, Dec 2025.
124 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 73(7): 2155-2165, Jul 2025.
1b1 Catherine L Auriemma, Anne Song, Lake Walsh, Jason Han, Sophia Yapalater, Alexander Bain, Lindsay Haines, Stefania Scott, Casey Whitman, Stephanie P Taylor, Gary E Weissman, Matthew J Gonzales, Roshanthi Weerasinghe, Staci J Wendt, Katherine R Courtright: Measuring goal-concordant care using electronic clinical notes. JAMA Netw Open 8(7): e2518967, Jul 2025.
168 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.
167 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 presentation.
1eb 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 185(5): 510-520, May 2025.
11b 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 22(4): 615-618, Apr 2025.
117 Zhang J, Chen Z, Courtright KR, Halpern SD, Harhay MO, Small DS, Li F: Randomization inference for stepped-wedge designs with noncompliance with application to a palliative care pragmatic trial. arxiv 2025.
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Selected Publications
127 Wang, Hao, Chen, Xinyuan, Courtright, Katherine R, Halpern, Scott, Harhay, Michael, Taljaard, Monica, Li, Fan: On anticipation effect in stepped wedge cluster randomized trials. Statistics in Medicine Page: in press, 2026.14f Foxwell, A.M., Meghani, S.M., Courtright, K.R., Huang, L., Rhoads, J., Deatrick, J., Hirschman, K., & Ulrich, C.M. : A Cluster Analysis Of Clinician Distress Trajectories When Caring For Seriously Ill Hospitalized Patients. J Palliative Med Page: in press, 2026.
2b0 Marshall, Mary Faith; Davis, F. Daniel; Fogelman, Patricia A.; Oczkowski, Simon; Reid, Julie C.; Arellano, Daniel; Aslakson, Rebecca A.; Campbell, Joshua; Courtright, Katherine; Egressy, Katarine; Epstein, Elizabeth; Green, Ebonye; Hua, May; John, Preeti R.; Kross, Erin K.; Martin, Niels D.; Melo, Bethany A.; Muehlschlegel, Susanne; Perez-Protto, Silvia; Roberts, Ben; Shalev, Daniel; Wescoe Singley, Jennifer MEd; Strickland, Shawna L.; Korzick, Karen A. : Society of Critical Care Medicine Clinical Practice Guidelines on Adult End-of-Life Care in the ICU. Critical Care Medicine 53(12): e2734-e2746, Dec 2025.
124 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 73(7): 2155-2165, Jul 2025.
1b1 Catherine L Auriemma, Anne Song, Lake Walsh, Jason Han, Sophia Yapalater, Alexander Bain, Lindsay Haines, Stefania Scott, Casey Whitman, Stephanie P Taylor, Gary E Weissman, Matthew J Gonzales, Roshanthi Weerasinghe, Staci J Wendt, Katherine R Courtright: Measuring goal-concordant care using electronic clinical notes. JAMA Netw Open 8(7): e2518967, Jul 2025.
168 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.
167 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 presentation.
1eb 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 185(5): 510-520, May 2025.
11b 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 22(4): 615-618, Apr 2025.
117 Zhang J, Chen Z, Courtright KR, Halpern SD, Harhay MO, Small DS, Li F: Randomization inference for stepped-wedge designs with noncompliance with application to a palliative care pragmatic trial. arxiv 2025.
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