- Anal cancer
- Appendiceal tumor
- Bile duct cancer (Cholangiocarcinoma)
- Colon cancer
- Colorectal cancer
- Esophageal cancer
- Gallbladder cancer
- Gastrointestinal cancer
- Liver cancer
- Rectal cancer
- Small bowel cancer
Pallavi Kumar, MD, MPH
About me
- Director, Oncology Palliative Care
- Section Chief, Oncology Palliative Care, Hematology-Oncology
- Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine (Hematology-Oncology)
My education and training
- Medical School: Duke University Medical Center
- Residency: University of Pennsylvania Health System
- Fellowship: University of Pennsylvania Health System
- Fellowship: Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Spoken languages
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- Aetna Advantra Premier Plus PPO
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- Aetna Advantra Value Plus
- Aetna APCN Plus (Multi-Tier)
- Aetna Better Health Kids (CHIP) - DH Only
- Aetna Flexible Five
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- Aetna Gold
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- Aetna POS
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- 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
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- 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.
Qualifications and experience
- Medical Oncology, 2014
- Internal Medicine, Hospice and Palliative Medicine
- Internal Medicine, 2010
- American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine, National
- American Society of Clinical Oncology, National
- Penn Gastrointestinal Cancer Program
- Penn Symptom Management Program
Treatments and conditions
Research
Publications
Jennifer S Temel 1 2, Vicki A Jackson 1 2, Areej El-Jawahri 1 2, Simone P Rinaldi 1, Laura A Petrillo 1 2, Pallavi Kumar 3, Kathryn A McGrath 3, Thomas W LeBlanc 4, Arif H Kamal 4 5, Christopher A Jones 4, Dustin J Rabideau 1 2, Nora Horick 1, Kedie Pintro 1, Emily R Gallagher Medeiros 1, Kathryn E Post 1 2, Joseph A Greer 1 2 Stepped Palliative Care for Patients With Advanced Lung Cancer: A Randomized Clinical Trial , JAMA, 332 ((6)): 2024,471-481
Takvorian SU, Gabriel P, Wileyto EP, Blumenthal D, Tejada S, Clifton ABW, Asch DA, Buttenheim AM, Rendle KA, Shelton RC, Chaiyachati KH, Fayanju OM, Ware S, Schuchter LM, Kumar P, Salam T, Lieberman A, Ragusano D, Bauer AM, Scott CA, Shulman LN, Schnoll R, Beidas RS, Bekelman JE, Parikh RB. Clinician- and Patient-Directed Communication Strategies for Patients With Cancer at High Mortality Risk: A Cluster Randomized Trial , JAMA Netw Open , 7(7): 2024,e2418639
Erin M Bange 1, Yimei Li 2 3, Pallavi Kumar 4 5, Abigail Doucette 5, Peter Gabriel 5, Ravi Parikh 5 6, Eric H Li 7, Ronac Mamtani 3, Kelly D Getz 2 3 The association between telemedicine, advance care planning, and unplanned hospitalizations among high-risk patients with cancer , Cancer, 130(4): 2024,636-644
Christopher R Manz 1 2, Yichen Zhang 3, Kan Chen 4, Qi Long 4, Dylan S Small 5, Chalanda N Evans 6, Corey Chivers 7, Susan H Regli 7, C William Hanson 7, Justin E Bekelman 3 8, Jennifer Braun 7, Charles A L Rareshide 6, Nina O'Connor 6, Pallavi Kumar 6 9, Lynn M Schuchter 6 8, Lawrence N Shulman 6 8, Mitesh S Patel 10, Ravi B Parikh 3 6 8 9 Long-term Effect of Machine Learning-Triggered Behavioral Nudges on Serious Illness Conversations and End-of-Life Outcomes Among Patients With Cancer: A Randomized Clinical Trial , JAMA Oncol, 9(3): 2023,414-418
Ravi B Parikh 1 2, Ramy Sedhom 3, William J Ferrell 3 2, Katherine Villarin 2, Kara Berwanger 3 2, Bethann Scarborough 4, Randall Oyer 4, Pallavi Kumar 3 2, Niharika Ganta 2, Shanthi Sivendran 4, Jinbo Chen 3 2, Kevin G Volpp 2 5, Justin E Bekelman 3 2 Behavioural economic interventions to embed palliative care in community oncology (BE-EPIC): study protocol for the BE-EPIC randomised controlled trial , BMJ Open, 13(3): 2023
Michelle B Riba 1, Kristine A Donovan 2, Kauser Ahmed 3, Barbara Andersen 4, IIana Braun 5, William S Breitbart 6, Benjamin W Brewer 7, Cheyenne Corbett 8, Jesse Fann 9, Stewart Fleishman 10, Sofia Garcia 11, Donna B Greenberg 12, George F Handzo 10, Laura Herald Hoofring 13, Chao-Hui Huang 14, Sean Hutchinson 15, Shelley Johns 16, Jennifer Keller 17, Pallavi Kumar 18, Sheila Lahijani 19, Sara Martin 20, Shehzad K Niazi 21, Megan Pailler 22, Francine Parnes 23, Vinay Rao 24, Jaroslava Salman 25, Eli Scher 26, Jessica Schuster 27, Melissa Teply 28, Angela Usher 29, Alan D Valentine 30, Jessica Vanderlan 31, Megan S Lyons 32, Nicole R McMillian 32, Susan D Darlow 32 NCCN Guidelines® Insights: Distress Management, Version 2.2023 , J Natl Compr Canc Netw ., 21((5)): 2023,450-457
Pallavi Kumar, MD, MPH, Joanna Paladino, MD, Peter E. Gabriel, MD, William J. Ferrell, MPH, Joshua Jones, MD, MA, Lynn M. Schuchter, MD, Lawrence N. Shulman, MD, and Ravi B. Parikh, MD, MPP The Serious Illness Care Program: Implementing a Key Element of High-Quality Oncology Care (Case Study) , New England Journal of Medicine - Catalyst, 4(2): 2023
Eric Li 1, Christopher Manz 2, Manqing Liu 1, Jinbo Chen 1, Corey Chivers 1, Jennifer Braun 1, Lynn Mara Schuchter 1, Pallavi Kumar 1, Mitesh S Patel 1, Lawrence N Shulman 1, Ravi B Parikh 1 Oncologist phenotypes and associations with response to a machine learning-based intervention to increase advance care planning: Secondary analysis of a randomized clinical trial , PLoS One, 17((5) ): 2022
Eric H Li, William Ferrell, Tamar Klaiman, Pallavi Kumar, Nina O'Connor, Lynn M Schuchter, Jinbo Chen, Mitesh S Patel, Christopher R Manz, Ravi B Parikh. Impact of Behavioral Nudges on the Quality of Serious Illness Conversations Among Patients With Cancer: Secondary Analysis of a Randomized Controlled Trial , J Oncology Practice, 18(4): 2022,e495-e503.
Kathryn E Post 1, Lauren B Heuer 2, Arif H Kamal 3, Pallavi Kumar 4, Madeleine Elyze 2, Sarah Griffith 2, Jacqueline Han 2, Fred Friedman 3, Ashley Jackson 4, Chardria Trotter 2, Rachel Plotke 2, Charu Vyas 2, Vicki Jackson 2, Dustin J Rabideau 2, Joseph A Greer 5, Jennifer S Temel 2 Study protocol for a randomised trial evaluating the non-inferiority of stepped palliative care versus early integrated palliative care for patients with advanced lung cancer , BMJ Open , 12((2)): 2022