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.
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
Patel N, Whitman C, Lieberman A, Blady S, Morse C, Naseer N, Weaver J, Ogunniyi M, Kohn R, Volpp KG, Halpern S, Morris AA, Stephens-Shields A, Fanaroff AC: A series of iterative randomized clinical trials leveraging behavioral economics to increase racial and ethnic diversity of patients: Rationale and design of ITERATE. American Heart Journal 286: 80-87, August 2025.
Kohn R, Kerlin MP: Gender inequities in academic medicine: Peer review and beyond. CHEST 168(1), July 2025.
Federico L, Kwiatkowski C, Dine CJ, Prasad TV, Dress E, Scott S, Harhay MO, Hadler RA, Kohn R: Internal consistency of the Patient Dignity Inventory in survivors of acute respiratory failure. The University of Pennsylvania Department of Medicine Research Day June 2025.
Patel N, Whitman C, Lieberman A, Blady S, Morse C, Naseer N, Weaver J, Ogunniyi MO, Kohn R, Volpp KG, Halpern SD, Morris AA, Stephens-Shields A, Fanaroff AC: A series of randomized trials testing behavioral economic strategies to increase the racial and ethnic diversity in clinical research participation. AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting June 2025.
Levy E, Claar D, Co I, Fuchs B, Ginestra J, Kohn R, McSparron JI, Patel B, Weissman GE, Kerlin MP, Sjoding MW: Development and external validation of a detection model to retrospectively identify patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome. Critical Care Medicine 53(6): e1224-e1234, June 2025 Notes: DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0000000000006662.
Patel N, Whitman C, Lieberman A, Blady S, Morse C, Naseer N, Weaver J, Ogunniyi MO, Kohn R, Volpp KG, Halpern SD, Morris AA, Stephens-Shields A, Fanaroff AC: A series of randomized trials testing behavioral economic strategies to increase the racial and ethnic diversity in clinical research participation. The University of Pennsylvania Department of Medicine Research Day June 2025.
Kwiatkowski C, Silvestri JA, Dress EM, Prasad TV, Ryu E, Kerlin MP, Harhay MO, Klaiman T, Kohn R: Acute respiratory failure survivors’ needs throughout a year of recovery: A qualitative analysis using the Timing It Right framework. The University of Pennsylvania Department of Medicine Research Day June 2025.
Patel B, Bayes B, Madden V, Dircksen J, Suleiman Z, Berger R, Lazo L, Arcot K, Roth D, Halpern SD, Kohn R: Factors associated with social needs screening in a multistate healthcare system. The University of Pennsylvania Department of Medicine Research Day June 2025.
Joseph B, Mitchell S, Richards J, Klaiman T, Silvestri J, Maitra MR, Ross M, Sheu D, Lieberman A, Kohn R: The Joint Research Practices Working Group: Disseminating research results to study participants. The University of Pennsylvania Department of Medicine Research Day June 2025.
Weissman GE, Hubbard RA, Himes BE, Goodman-O’Leary KL, Harhay MO, Ginestra JC, Kohn R, Admon AJ, Taylor SP, Halpern SD: Sepsis prediction models are trained on labels that diverge from clinician-recommended treatment times. AMIA Annu Symp Proc 2024: 1215-1224, May 2025 Notes: eCollection 2024.
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