Bridget Reilly Durkin, MD

Hospice and Palliative Care
Accepting new patients
Sees patients age 18 and up
Penn Palliative Care - Inpatient Penn Presbyterian
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Penn Medicine Provider

About me

  • Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine (General Internal Medicine)

My education and training

  • Medical School: University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
  • Residency: Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
  • Fellowship: Cooper University Hospital
  • Fellowship: Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania

Spoken languages

English
English

Insurance accepted

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Locations

Penn Medicine hospital privileges

  • Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
  • Pennsylvania Hospital: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
  • Penn Presbyterian Medical Center: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
  • Chester County Hospital: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
Dr. Durkin is a Penn Medicine physician.

Qualifications and experience

Treatments and conditions

Research

Publications

Tyler G. Boyce, Ashish P. Thakrar, MD, MS, Bridget R. Durkin, MD, MBE, Emily R. Casey, PharmD, BCPMP, Lin Xu, MS, Margaret Lowenstein, MD, MPhil, MSHP "Trends in Hospital and Intensive Care Unit Admissions for Medetomidine Withdrawal" , in review: 2026

Ann A. Soliman, MD, Jennifer M. Olenik, MD, Alana Sagin, MD, MSEd, Bridget Durkin, MD, MBE Qualitative Study of Preclinical Medical Student Reflections on Required Palliative Care Experience , Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, 70(3): 2025,287-294

Samantha Huo, MD; Kory London, MD; Lauren Murphy, MD; Emily Casey, PharmD; Philip Durney, MD; Maya Arora; Rita McKeever, MD; Abriana Tasillo, MD; Dennis Goodstein, PharmD; Brendan Hart, MD, PhD; Jeanmarie Perrone, MD "Notes from the Field: Suspected Medetomidine Withdrawal Syndrome Among Fentanyl-Exposed Patients — Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, September 2024–January 2025" , Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report: 2025,266-268

Bridget Durkin “Managing the Clinical and Ethical Challenges of Naloxone in Hospitalized Palliative Care Patients.” , Annual Assembly of Hospice & Palliative Care. Poster Presentation. Montreal, Canada: 2023

Maley JH, et al “Six-Month Impairment in Cognition, Mental Health, and Physical Function Following COVID-19-Associated Respiratory Failure.” , Critical Care Exploration, 4(4): 2022