Pallavi Kumar, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine
Attending, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Director, Outpatient Palliative and Supportive Oncology Clinic , Abramson Cancer Center, University of Pennsylvania
Director of Oncology Palliative Care, Penn Medicine
Department: Medicine
Contact information
Division of Hematology Oncology
Perelman Center for Advanced Medicine
10th Floor, South Pavilion
Office #10-200
3400 Civic Center Blvd
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Perelman Center for Advanced Medicine
10th Floor, South Pavilion
Office #10-200
3400 Civic Center Blvd
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Office: 215-360-0737
Fax: 215-615-5122
Fax: 215-615-5122
Education:
BS (Accounting)
Binghamton University, 1999.
MD (Medicine)
Duke University, Durham NC, 2007.
MPH (Clinical Effectiveness)
Harvard School of Public Health, 2014.
Permanent linkBS (Accounting)
Binghamton University, 1999.
MD (Medicine)
Duke University, Durham NC, 2007.
MPH (Clinical Effectiveness)
Harvard School of Public Health, 2014.
Description of Clinical Expertise
palliative medicinethoracic oncology
gastrointestinal oncology
Description of Other Expertise
Serious Illness Care Program - faculty training and program implementationDescription of Research Expertise
Health Services Research - palliative care integration into oncology careHealth Services Research - serious illness communication
Selected Publications
Eric H Li, William Ferrell, Tamar Klaiman, Pallavi Kumar, Nina O'Connor, Lynn M Schuchter, Jinbo Chen, Mitesh S Patel, Christopher R Manz, Ravi B Parikh.: Impact of Behavioral Nudges on the Quality of Serious Illness Conversations Among Patients With Cancer: Secondary Analysis of a Randomized Controlled Trial. J Oncology Practice 18(4): e495-e503. Apr 2022.Lauren Reed-Guy 1, Stephen P Miranda 2, Tyler D Alexander 2, Gregory Biggiani 2, M Sean Grady 2, Joshua A Jones 3, Stephen J Bagley 1, Pallavi Kumar 1, Nina R O'Connor 1: Serious Illness Communication Practices in Glioblastoma: An Institutional Perspective. J Palliat Med 25(2): 234-242, Feb 2022.
Samuel U Takvorian, Justin Bekelman, Rinad S Beidas, Robert Schnoll, Alicia B W Clifton, Tasnim Salam, Peter Gabriel, E Paul Wileyto, Callie A Scott, David A Asch, Alison M Buttenheim, Katharine A Rendle, Krisda Chaiyachati, Rachel C Shelton, Sue Ware, Corey Chivers, Lynn M Schuchter, Pallavi Kumar, Lawrence N Shulman Nina O'Connor, Adina Lieberman, Kelly Zentgraf, Ravi B Parikh.: Behavioral economic implementation strategies to improve serious illness communication between clinicians and high-risk patients with cancer: protocol for a cluster randomized pragmatic trial. Implement Sci 16(1): 90, Sep 2021.
Mathias Schlögl 1 2, Anand S Iyer 3 4 5 6, Florian Riese 7, David Blum 8, Lanier O'Hare 3, Tejaswini Kulkarni 3, Sophie Pautex 9, Jan Schildmann 10, Keith M Swetz 5 11, Pallavi Kumar 12, Christopher A Jones 13: Top Ten Tips Palliative Care Clinicians Should Know About Prognostication in Oncology, Dementia, Frailty, and Pulmonary Diseases. J Palliat Med 24(9): 1391-1397, Sep 2021.
Paladino J, Sanders J, Kilpatrick LB, Prabhakar R, Kumar P, O'Connor N, Durieux B, Fromme EK, Benjamin E, Mitchell S.: Serious Illness Care Programme-contextual factors and implementation strategies: a qualitative study. BMJ Support Palliat Care bmjspcare: 003401. Feb 15 2021.
Kumar P, Wixon-Genack J, Kavanagh J, Sanders JJ, Paladino J, O'Connor NR. : Serious Illness Conversations With Outpatient Oncology Clinicians: Understanding the Patient Experience. JCO Oncol Pract. 16(12): e1507-e1515, Aug 2020.
Perez GK, Gareen IF, Sicks J, Lathan C, Carr A, Kumar P, Ponzani C, Hyland K, Park ER. : Racial Differences in Smoking-related Disease Risk Perceptions Among Adults Completing Lung Cancer Screening: Follow-up Results from the ACRIN/NLST Ancillary Study. J Racial Ethn Health Disparities. 6(4): 676-685, Aug 2019.
Japuntich SJ, Kumar P, Pendergast JF, Juarez Caballero GY, Malin JL, Wallace RB, Chrischilles EA, Keating NL, Park ER. : Smoking Status and Survival Among a National Cohort of Lung and Colorectal Cancer Patients. Nicotine Tob Res. 21(4): 497-504, Mar 2019.
Orr AR, Lefler D, Deshpande C, Kumar P. : Extranodal Rosai-Dorfman Disease Presenting as a Mediastinal Mass with Pulmonary Artery Invasion. Case Rep Hematol. 12: 3915319, Apr 2018.
Kumar P, Wright AA, Hatfield LA, Temel JS, Keating NL. : Family Perspectives on Hospice Care Experiences of Patients with Cancer. J Clin Oncol. 35(4): 432-439, Feb 2017.