Carmen E. Guerra, MD, MSCE, FACP
Internal Medicine
Sees patients age 18 and up
Penn Internal Medicine University City
Make an appointmentCall 215-349-5200
Penn Medicine Provider

About me

  • Advisory Dean, Dr. Helen O. Dickens House, Perelman School of Medicine
  • Ruth C. and Raymond G. Perelman Professor of Medicine
  • Professor of Biostatistics and Epidemiology

NIH Office of Behavioral and Social Science Research

Robert Wood Johnson Amos Faculty Development Program

Education and training

  • Medical School: University of Rochester School of Medicine
  • Residency: Strong Memorial Hospital - University of Rochester

What my patients think about me

Average Rating

136 reviews

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October 2025
excellent care
September 2025
very thorough and detailed
September 2025
excellent physician.
August 2025
excellent

Insurance accepted

My Locations

Penn Medicine hospital privileges

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

Qualifications and experience

Treatments and Conditions

My research

Lin JK, Niu J, Giordano S, Li P, Snyder R, Liao K, Li M, Guerra CE, Doshi J. Racial and Ethnic Disparities among Medicare Fee-For-Service Beneficiaries with Metastatic Breast, Colorectal, Lung, and Prostate Cancer. , J Clin Oncol, 43(30): 2025,3254-3265

Hoadley A, Fleisher L, Kenny C, Kelly PJ, Ma X, Wu J, Guerra C, Leader AE, Alhajji M, D'Avanzo P, Landau Z, Bass SB. Exploring Racial Disparities in Awareness and Perceptions of Oncology Clinical Trials: Cross-Sectional Analysis of Baseline Data From the mychoice Study. , JMIR Cancer, 30(10): 2025,e56048

Paruzzo L, Eshaghi K, Ghilardi G, Doucette A, Ho M, Carturan A, Vogl DT, Waxman AJ, Kapur S, Fardella E, Pucillo M, Imparato A, Stella F, Guruprasad P, De Souza V, Maillie L, Kapariz-Ruiz S, Bouvier R, Cohen AD, Joshi D, Porter D, Garfall A, Stadtmauer EA, Guerra CE, Susanibar S, Ruella M. Access and Outcomes of Racial and Ethnic Minority Health Populations Receiving Commercial Anti-BCMA CART Therapy for Myeloma , Blood ICT, 1(2): 2025,100007

Dako F, Karasek P, Seward J, White K, Vachani A, Rendle K, Guerra C. Measuring Health-Related Social Risks in a Lung Cancer Screening Cohort. , J Am Coll Radiol, 22(7): 2025,737-743

Guerra CE, Litton JK, Viswanath CE, Fendrick AM Multicancer Early Detection Tests at a Crossroads: Commercial Availability Ahead of Definitive Evidence. , Am Soc Clin Oncol Educ Book, 45(3): 2025,e473834

Maillie L, Sisk S, Coghill A, Guerra C, Aboulafia D, Atkinson T, Barta S. Geospatial disparities in access to clinical trials for AIDS-defining malignancies in the continental United States. , J Clin Oncol, 43 (supp 16): 2025

Parikh R, Hearn C, Frimpong Y, Li Y, Goel K, Ferber J, Berwanger K, Boyd D, Guerra C Machine learning–informed navigation of patients in persistent poverty zip codes to improve colorectal cancer screening: A prospective controlled study. , J Clin Oncol, 23 (supp 16): 2025

Bakillah E, Rosenthal JW, Syvyk S, Wirtalla C, Sharpe J, Merchant RM, Mehta SJ, Guerra CE, Kelz R. Colorectal Cancer and Quality of Life: A Medicare Advantage Study by Race, Ethnicity, and Language , J Surg Oncol, 131(7): 2025,1373-1383

National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Opportunities and challenges for the development and adoption of multicancer detection tests: Proceedings of a workshop , National Cancer Policy Forum Proceedings: 2025

Hoffman RM, Wolf AMD, Raoof S, Guerra CE, Church TR, Elkin EB, Etzioni RD, Shih YT, Skates SJ, Manassaram-Baptiste D, Smith RA Multicancer early detection testing: Guidance for primary care discussions with patients , Cancer, 131(7): 2025,e35823

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