Laura Dingfield, MD, MSEd
Hospice and Palliative Care
Sees patients age 18 and up
Penn Palliative Care - Inpatient HUP
Penn Medicine Provider
About me
- Program Director, Hospice and Palliative Medicine Fellowship
- Director of Palliative Care Education
- Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine (General Internal Medicine)
My education and training
- Medical School: University of Michigan
- Residency: University of Pennsylvania Health System
- Fellowship: University of Pennsylvania Health System
Spoken languages
English
English
Insurance accepted
Please contact the practice and/or the member services department of your insurance company for specific details before receiving services. Providers may participate in some, but not all, products offered by a health plan; providers may also accept plans at some practice locations but not others.
- Aetna Advantra Cares D-SNP
- Aetna Advantra Credit Value
- Aetna Advantra Eagle HMO
- Aetna Advantra Eagle POS
- Aetna Advantra Premier Plus PPO
- Aetna Advantra Value
- Aetna Advantra Value Plus
- Aetna APCN Plus (Multi-Tier)
- Aetna Better Health Kids (CHIP) - DH Only
- Aetna Flexible Five
- Aetna Freedom Core
- Aetna Gold
- Aetna HMO
- Aetna Philly Prime
- Aetna POS
- Aetna PPO APCN
- Aetna Premier
- Aetna Premier Plus
- Aetna Savings Plus
- Aetna Signature Administrators
- Aetna Student Health Plan PPO
- Aetna Upfront Advantage
- First Health HMO
- First Health POS
- First Health PPO
- Meritain - Aramark (Other)
- Meritain - Aramark (Pennsylvania Premier Medical Plan)
- Americhealth Caritas of PA VIP - LGH Only
- Amerihealth Caritas (Transplant patients only)
- Amerihealth Caritas of PA - LGH Only
- Centivo EPO
- Cigna Healthcare EPO
- Cigna Healthcare HMO
- Cigna Healthcare POS
- Cigna Healthcare PPO
- Claim Watcher (Homestead/ INDECs) Open Access
- Clover Health Choice
- Clover Health Choice Value PPO
- Clover Health Classic HMO
- Clover Health Value
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.
Qualifications and experience
- Internal Medicine, Hospice and Palliative Medicine
- Internal Medicine, 2013
- American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine, National
- American Board of Internal Medicine, National
- Palliative Medicine Reports, National
Treatments and conditions
Research
Publications
Albrecht A, Schweikert WD, Myers J, and Dingfield L Department of Medicine Fellowship Quality, Safety, and Operations Curriculum Needs Assessment , Poster Presentation, APDIM Fall Meeting. Louisville, KY. : 2026
Sagin A, Musheno-King R, Olenik JM, Bennett NL, Dine CJ, Dingfield L, Balmer DF. Outcomes from a Longitudinal Palliative Care Curriculum for Medical Students , Journal of Palliative Medicine: 2026
Anand S Iyer, Kathleen M Akgün, Brynn Bowman, Crystal E Brown, Laura Dingfield, Doranne Donesky, Tracy Fasolino, Betty Ferrell, Rebecca Anna Gersten, Joanna L Hart, Margaret M Hayes, Bradley Hayward, Heather Kagel, Erin K Kross, Kathleen Oare Lindell, Cara L McDermott, Thanh H Neville, Ronan O'Beirne, William E Rosa, Lekshmi Santhosh, Jennifer B Seaman, Nneka O Sederstrom, Danetta Sloan, Natasha Smallwood, Natalia Smirnova, Rick Tidwell, Courtney Wagner, Leah J Witt, Lynn F Reinke, Donald R Sullivan A "PalliPulm" framework to improve palliative care education and practice in pulmonary-critical care medicine: an official American Thoracic Society Workshop Report , Annals of the American Thoracic Society, 23(1): 2026,1-16
Liebling S, Lefler D, Aizenberg D, Bird A, Dingfield L, Barton T, Heath J Structured Behavioral Interview Questions as Predictors of ACGME Milestone Performance among Internal Medicine Residents , Poster Presentation, APDIM Fall Meeting. Atlanta, GA.: 2025
Lai D, Dingfield L Assessment of Generative AI and Large Language Model (LLM) Utilization Among Internal Medicine Residents, a Single-Institution Study , Poster Presentation, APDIM Fall Meeting. Atlanta, GA.: 2025
Briana Ketterer, Laura Dingfield, Katie H. Stowers, Katherine Morrison, Amos Bailey, Hilary Flint, Gary Buckholz, Laura J. Morrison, Holly Yang, Stephen Berns AAHPM Assessment Workgroup: Hospice and Palliative Medicine Fellowship Assessment Needs & Directions , Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, 69(3): 2025,e220-e227
Janae Heath, Shannon Devlin, Richard Leiter, Elizabeth Lindenberger, Jaclyn Shameklis, Laura Dingfield A Novel Competency-Based, Time-Variable Mid-Career Fellowship Program in Hospice and Palliative Medicine , Academic Medicine, 100(6): 2025,684-688
Shameklis J, Devlin S, Mullin J, Shalman D, Leiter RE, Biewald MA, Nijjar A, Martin R, Doyle KP, Cipta A, and Dingfield L. Competency Based Fellowship Impact on Traditional HPM Fellowship Experience , Poster Presentation, American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine Annual Assembly. Phoenix, AZ. : 2025
Biewald M, Cipta A, Leiter A, Shameklis J, Dingfield L Trainee Perceptions of a Competency-Based Mid-Career Fellowship in Hospice and Palliative Medicine , Journal of Palliative Medicine, 27(11): 2024,1522-1526
Hachem Y, Lakin J, Teuteberg W, Cullinan A, Gonzales MJ, Lindvall C, Kumar P, Dingfield L, Kilpatrick L, Greenwald J, Miller A, Keeney T, Fromme EK, and Paladino J Electronic Health Record Serious Illness Conversation Dashboards: An Implementation Case Series , Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, 69(2): 2024,e139-e146