Katherine R. Courtright - Faculty Biosketch

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

Office: 215-746-0253

Email:
katherine.courtright@uphs.upenn.edu

Publications

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Education:
BA (Molecular Biology)
University of Pennsylvania, 2002.
MD (Medicine)
Temple University School of Medicine, 2008.
MS (Health Policy Research)
University of Pennsylvania, 2015.

Links
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The Palliative and Advanced Illness Research (PAIR) Center at Penn

Post-Graduate Training
Internal Medicine, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, 2008-2009.
Resident, Internal Medicine, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, 2009-2011.
Chief Resident, Internal Medicine, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, 2011-2012.
Fellow, Pulmonary and Critical Care, Penn Medicine, 2012-2015.
Fellow, Hospice and Palliative Medicine, Penn Medicine, 2016-2017.
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Pulmonary and Critical Care, University of Pennsylvania, 2016-2016.

Certifications
American Board of Internal Medicine, Internal Medicine, 2011.
American Board of Internal Medicine, Pulmonary Medicine, 2014.
American Board of Internal Medicine, Critical Care Medicine, 2016.
American Board of Internal Medicine, Hospice and Palliative Medicine, eligible, 2025.

Permanent link

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Selected Publications

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 presentation.

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.

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.

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.

Claudia Nau, Susan E. Wang, Mina Habib, Haoyuan Zhong, Lori Viveros, Sergio Mendoza Sida, Kathleen Mulvaney, Kevin Durr, Bing Han, Beth Creekmur, Scott D. Halpern, Katherine R. Courtright, Janet S. Lee, Huong Q. Nguyen: Responsible AI in Action: Planning through Implementation of a Mortality Model for Palliative Care. medRxiv 2025.