Hari Shankar, MD

Pulmonary Medicine
Accepting new patients
Sees patients age 18 and up
Harron Lung Center Perelman
Schedule onlineCall 215-615-5864
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About me

  • Associate Medical Director, Penn Presbyterian MICU and Respiratory Care Services
  • Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine (Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care)

My education and training

  • Medical School: Mount Sinai Medical Center
  • Residency: University of Pennsylvania Health System
  • Fellowship: University of Pennsylvania Health System

Spoken languages

English
English

Reviews

Average Rating

188 reviews

Comments are submitted by patients and reflect their views and opinions. The comments are not endorsed by and do not necessarily reflect the views of Penn Medicine.

Anonymous
June 2026
i have been to 'too many to count' pulmonologists over the past 15++ years and not one decided to 'look outside the box' for a solution, which dr shankar provided!!!!!
Anonymous
June 2026
very knowledgeable
Anonymous
May 2026
i am not usually around people with symptoms as mine, although i would definitely recommend if i knew the depth of his specialty as a pulmonary physician. what are some good strategies for recommending dr. shankar?
Anonymous
May 2026
great doctor

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.
  • Penn Medicine Rittenhouse Long-Term Acute Care Hospital
Dr. Shankar is a Penn Medicine physician.

Qualifications and experience

Treatments and conditions

Research

Publications

Rabin AS, Lai PG, Maximous SI, Shankar HM How I Do It: Reducing the Climate Impact of Critical Care , CHEST Critical Care: 2024

Shankar HM, Anderson BJ Hemodynamic and Respiratory Monitoring in Acute Respiratory Failure. , Fishman’s Pulmonary Diseases and Disorders: 2023

Steven C Pugliese, Hari M Shankar Pulmonary Embolic Disorders: Thrombus, Air and Fat. , Hall, Schmidt and Wood’s Principles of Critical Care: 2023

Shankar HM, Rice MB Update on Climate Change: Its Impact on Respiratory Health at Work, Home, and at Play , Clin Chest Med, 41(4): 2020,753-761

Shankar HM, Ewart G, Garcia E, Hicks A, Hardie W COVID-19, Climate Change, and the American Thoracic Society. A Shared Responsibility , Ann Am Thorac Soc, 17(9): 2020,1052-1055

Shankar H, Baston C, Hansen-Flaschen J A Gut Instinct: A 45-year-old man with new onset bronchiectasis , American Thoracic Society: 2019

Knecht VR, McGinniss JE, Shankar HM, Clarke EL, Kelly BJ, Imai I, Fitzgerald AS, Bittinger K, Bushman FD, Collman RG Molecular analysis of bacterial contamination on stethoscopes in an intensive care unit , Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol, 18: 2018,1-7

Shankar H, Pearson C Lymphoma Masquerading as a Sporotrichoid Rash in an Immunocompromised Patient , American College of Physicians: 2017

Shankar H, Blanas D, Bichoupan K, Ndiaye D, Carmody E, Martel-Laferriere V, Culpepper-Morgan J, Dieterich DT, Branch AD, Bekele M, Nichols K, Perumalswami PV A Novel Collaborative Community-Based Hepatitis B Screening and Linkage to Care Program for African Immigrants , Clin Infect Dis, 62(Suppl 4): 2016,S289-297

Blanas DA, Nichols K, Bekele M, Shankar H, Bekele S, Jandorf L, Izzeldin S, Ndiaye D, Traore A, Bassam M, Perumalswami PV Adapting the Andersen model to a francophone West African immigrant population: hepatitis B screening and linkage to care in New York City , J Community Health, 40(1): 2015,175-184