Penn Medicine Provider
Cardiology
Esther Sung Hee Pak, MD
Accepting new patients
Sees patients age 18 and up
Penn Heart and Vascular Center

About me

  • Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine (Cardiovascular Medicine)

Education and training

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

Insurance accepted

My Locations

Penn Medicine hospital privileges

  • Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
  • Penn Medicine Rittenhouse Long-Term Acute Care Hospital
Dr. Pak is a Penn Medicine physician.

Qualifications and experience

Treatments and Conditions

My research

Gruen J, Pak ES. Evaluation of Dementia for Patients with Cardiovascular Disease. , http://www.acc.org: 2021


Chuzi S, Khan SS, Pak ES Primary Palliative Care Education in Advanced Heart Failure and Transplantation Cardiology Fellowships. , J Am Coll Cardiol, 77(4): 2021,501-505


Mathias Schlögl, Esther S. Pak, Amar D. Bansal, Jane O. Schell, Sabha Ganai, Arif H. Kamal, Keith M. Swetz, Jennifer M. Maguire, Aristotelis Perrakis, Haider J. Warraich, and Christopher A. Jones. Top Ten Tips Palliative Care Clinicians Should Know About Prognostication in Critical Illness and Heart, Kidney, and Liver Diseases , Journal of Palliative Medicine.: 2021


Chuzi S, Pak ES, Desai AS, Schaefer KG, Warraich HJ Role of Palliative Care in the Outpatient Management of the Chronic Heart Failure Patient , Curr Heart Fail Rep, 16(6): 2019,220-228


Pak E “Case Presentation: Managing a Patient with Cardiac Devices at the End of Life” , 68th Annual American College of Cardiology Scientific Sessions, New Orleans, Louisiana : 2019


Pak, E., Tanner, C., Kirkpatrick, JN., and Goodlin, S “Ethical Decisions and End of Life in Older Patients with Cardiovascular Disease” , Tresch and Aronow’s Cardiovascular Disease in the Elderly: Sixth Edition: 2019


Pak E “Prolonging the Inevitable: Incorporating Palliative Care Earlier in the Process” , 66th Annual American College of Cardiology Scientific Sessions, Washington DC: 2017


Pak E, Wald J, Kirkpatrick JN Multimorbidity and End of Life Care in Patients with Cardiovascular Disease , Clin Geriatr Med, 32(2): 2016,385-97


Pak E, Justice C, Laverty-Wilson E, Wald J, Atluri P, Rame JE, Kirkpatrick JN How Do Patients with Ventricular Assist Devices Die? A Look at End of Life Outcomes , J Card Fail, 21(8): 2015,S122


Pak, E, Perfetto, C, Yu, Q, McNabney, M Effect of Enrollment in the Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly on End of Life Care , J Am Geriatr Soc, 60(1): 2012,166-170