Rachel Kohn, MD, MSCE

Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Palliative and Advanced Illness Research (PAIR) Center, core member, University of Pennsylvania
Senior Fellow, Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics
Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Department of Medicine
Department: Medicine
Contact information
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
3400 Spruce Street
836 Gates Building
Philadelphia, PA 19104
3400 Spruce Street
836 Gates Building
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Publications
Education:
BA (Chemistry)
University of Pennsylvania, 2006.
MD (Medicine)
University of Pennsylvania, 2011.
MSCE (Clinical Epidemiology, concentration in Patient Centered Outcomes Research)
University of Pennsylvania, 2017.
Permanent linkBA (Chemistry)
University of Pennsylvania, 2006.
MD (Medicine)
University of Pennsylvania, 2011.
MSCE (Clinical Epidemiology, concentration in Patient Centered Outcomes Research)
University of Pennsylvania, 2017.
Description of Clinical Expertise
Dr. Kohn's clinical interests include pulmonology and critical care. She serves as an attending physician on the following services: Pulmonology Primary and Consult Services, Pulmonary Diagnostic Lab, Medical Intensive Care Unit, Long-Term Acute Care Hospital, and Critical Care Outreach and Procedure Service of the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.Description of Research Expertise
Dr. Kohn completed a Master of Science in Clinical Epidemiology at the Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research interests lie at the intersection of health services research and healthcare operations within learning health systems. Her primary research interests include "ward capacity strain," when the demand for clinical resources on hospital wards exceeds availability thus impacting patient care, and "geographic dispersion," when specialty wards exceed capacity and patients overflow to alternate locations. Her goals include improving patient-centered outcomes and healthcare efficiency within learning health systems.Selected Publications
Lieberman A, Iglesias L, Kohn R, Scott S, Fuchs BD, Weissman GE, Kerlin MP: Prone positioning in COVID-19 vs non-COVID-19 acute respiratory distress syndrome in the COVID-19 pandemic. CHEST International Conference October 2022.Iglesias L, Lieberman A, Kohn R, Scott S, Fuchs BD, Weissman GE, Kerlin MP: Does evidence-based care for individuals with ARDS differ by race? A retrospective cohort. CHEST International Conference October 2022.
Women in Critical Care (WICC) Interest Group of the American Thoracic Society* *member of the WICC Interest Group of the American Thoracic Society: Wellness and coping of physicians who worked in intensive care units during the pandemic: A North American survey. Critical Care Medicine July 2022.
Lee JT, Winston A, Clancy CB, Health JK, Kohn R: Evaluations of racial disparities in pulmonary consultation and the association with patient-centered outcomes. American Thoracic Society International Conference May 2022.
Ingraham NE*, Kohn R*, Kerlin MP, Dudley RA: Identifying daily attending among critically ill patients using electronic healthcare records: A methodological comparison. American Thoracic Society International Conference May 2022.
Winston A, Clancy CB, Heath JK, Lee JT, Kohn R: The association of race with subspecialty pulmonary service admission and patient-centered outcomes: A retrospective cohort study. American Thoracic Society International Conference May 2022.
Ingraham NE*, Kohn R*, Scott S, Bayes B, Wang W, Tran T, Anesi GL, Weissman GE, Halpern SD, Dudley RA, Kerlin MP: Evaluation of daily Pre-Laboratory-based Acute Physiology Score, version 2 (pre-LAPS2) to predict in-hospital and daily mortality among intensive care unit patients. American Thoracic Society International Conference May 2022.
Kohn R*, Ingraham NE*, Scott S, Bayes B, Wang W, Tran T, Anesi GL, Weissman GE, Halpern SD, Dudley RA, Kerlin MP: Evaluation of daily Laboratory-based Acute Physiology Score, version 2 (LAPS2) to predict 30-day in-hospital mortality among intensive care unit patients. American Thoracic Society International Conference May 2022.
Chow C, Neergaard R, Ward M, Kohn R, Harhay MO, Auriemma CL: Patients’ perspectives on life and recovery one year after severe COVID-19. American Thoracic Society International Conference May 2022.
Kohn R, Vachani A, Small D, Stephens-Shields AJ, Sheu D, Madden VL, Bayes BA, Chowdhury M, Friday S, Kim J, Gould MK, Ismail MH, Creekmur B, Facktor MA, Collins C, Blessing KK, Neslund-Dudas CM, Simoff MJ, Alleman ER, Epstein LH, Horst MA, Scott ME, Volpp KG, Halpern SD, Hart JL: Comparing smoking cessation interventions among underserved patients referred for lung cancer screening: A pragmatic trial protocol. Annals of the American Thoracic Society 19(2): 303-314, February 2022.