Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
Department of
Medical Ethics and Health Policy

Department of Medical Ethics / People / Hart

Joanna Hart, MD, MSHP

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Assistant Professor of Medicine (Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care)
Department: Medicine

Contact information
Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Division
University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
423 Guardian Drive
Blockley 305
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Education:
BA (Sociology)
Northwestern University, 2003.
M.D. (Medicine)
University of Virginia, 2008.
M.S. (Health Policy Research)
University of Pennsylvania, 2014.
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Description of Clinical Expertise

COPD; general pulmonary medicine; critical care medicine

Description of Other Expertise

teaching in bias, communication, ethics, and patient- and family-centered care; mentoring expertise in behavioral sciences, mixed methods, longitudinal cohort development and maintenance, community-based or participatory research, and groups underrepresented in medical research

Description of Research Expertise

health care decision making, family-centered care, community-based participatory research practices, behavioral science, qualitative and mixed methods

Selected Publications

Ramadurai D, Patel H, Chan J, Young J, Clapp JT, Hart JL: Looking to "level the field": a qualitative study of how clinicians operationalize social determinants in critical care. Ann Am Thorac Soc 21(11): 1583-1591, Nov 2024.

Hart JL: Cognitive barriers to effective surrogate decision making. Management of Family ICU Syndrome: Improving Outcomes in the ICU. Giora Netzer (eds.). Page: epub ahead of print, Nov 2024.

Hart JL, Klaiman T, Scott M, Fernandez G, Sheu D, Belk A, Silvestri JA, Kim J, Halpern SD, Farrell N: Community-engaged development of equitable and scalable mobile health tools for tobacco treatment: the healthy lungs trial experience. CHEST Pulm Page: epub ahead of print, Nov 2024.

Song A, Hart JL: Palliative care for advanced pulmonary diseases: a call to action. CHEST Pulm Page: epub ahead of print, Nov 2024.

Hart JL, Malik L, Li C, Summer A, Ogunduyile L, Steingrub J, Lo B, Zlatev J, White DB: Clinicians' use of choice framing in intensive care unit family meetings. Crit Care Med 52(10): 1533-1542, Oct 2024.

Weissman GE, Silvestri JA, Lapite F, Mullen I, Bishop NS, Kmiec T, Summer A, Sims MW, Ahya VN, Kangovi S, Klaiman TA, Szymczak JE, Hart JL: A qualitative study identifying the potential risk mechanisms leading to hospitalization for patients with chronic lung disease. CHEST Pulm 2(3): 100060, Sept 2024.

Klaiman T, Farrell N, Sheu D, Belk A, Silvestri J, Kim J, Coffman R, Hart JL: Use of tobacco during COVID-19: a qualitative study among medically underserved individuals. PLoS One 19(8): e0308966, Aug 2024.

Miller KE, Useche MR, Hart JL, Coe, NB: Youth caregivers of adults in the United States: prevalence and the association between caregiving and education. Demography 61(3): 829–847, June 2024.

Olive AM, Finnsdottir Wagner A, Mulhall DT, October TW, Hart JL, Sherman AK, Wallisch JS, Miller-Smith L: Nudging during pediatric intensive care conferences with family members: Retrospective analysis of transcripts from a single-center, 2015-2019. Pediatr Crit Care Med 25(5): 407-415, Feb 2024.

Andersen SK, Yang Y, Kross EK, Haas B, Hart J, Bagshaw SM, Dzeng E, Fischhoff B, White DB.: Achieving goals of care decisions in chronic critical illness: a multi-institutional qualitative study. CHEST 166(1): 107-117, Feb 2024.

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