Katherine Courtright MD, MS
University of Pennsylvania
Katherine (Kate) Courtright, MD, MS, is an Assistant Professor of
Medicine at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
where she attends in the medical intensive care unit and on the palliative care
consultative service. Her research interests bridge the fields of
bioinformatics and behavioral economics to improve the effectiveness and value
of palliative care delivery. She is exploring the palliative care needs among
seriously ill hospitalized patients and testing clinician-targeted behavioral
interventions in pragmatic clinical trials to improve the quality of palliative
care. This work is critical to address the gap between the unmet needs of
seriously ill patients and the resource-constraints of specialty palliative
care. Dr. Courtright received a National Palliative Care Research Center Junior
Faculty Career Development Award in 2017 and is currently supported by a K23
(NHLBI) Mentored Patient-Oriented Research Career Development Award from the
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.