Katherine Courtright, MD
Pulmonary Medicine
Accepting new patients
Sees patients age 18 and up
Harron Lung Center Perelman
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Penn Medicine Provider

About me

  • Assistant Professor of Medicine (Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care)

Education and training

  • Medical School: Temple University
  • 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.
  • 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: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
Dr. Courtright is a Penn Medicine physician.

Qualifications and experience

Treatments and Conditions

My research

Moin EE, Bayes B, Madden V, Halpern SD, Courtright KR Disease and Race-Based Differences in Inpatient Palliative Care Consultation in Cancer and Noncancer Serious Illnesses , J Am Geriatr Soc, 73(7): 2025,2155-2165


Catherine L Auriemma, Anne Song, Lake Walsh, Jason Han, Sophia Yapalater, Alexander Bain, Lindsay Haines, Stefania Scott, Casey Whitman, Stephanie P Taylor, Gary E Weissman, Matthew J Gonzales, Roshanthi Weerasinghe, Staci J Wendt, Katherine R Courtright Measuring goal-concordant care using electronic clinical notes , JAMA Netw Open, 8(7): 2025,e2518967


Foxwell AM, Meghani S, Courtright KR, Deatrick J, Hirschman K, Ulrich C A Mixed Method Integration of Clinician Distress Typologies in those Caring for Seriously Ill Patients within the Hospital Setting , American Society of Clinical Oncology, Chicago, IL: 2025


Foxwell AM, Meghani S, Courtright KR, Huang L, Rhodes J, Deatrick J, Hirschman K, Ulrich C A Cluster Analysis of Clinician Distress Trajectories when Caring for Seriously Ill Hospitalized Patients , American Society of Clinical Oncology, Chicago, IL: 2025


Courtright, K. R., Singh, J., Dress, E. M., Bayes, B., Harhay, M. O., Chowdhury, M., Lu, Y., Lee, K. M., Small, D. S., Whitman, C., Tian, J., Madden, V., Hetherington, T., Plickert, L., Sullivan, D. M., Burke, H. L., Green, M. B., & Halpern, S. D. Nudging Clinicians to Promote Serious Illness Communication for Critically Ill Patients: A Pragmatic Cluster-Randomized Trial , JAMA Intern Med, 185(5): 2025,510-520


Auriemma CL, Bahti M, Merlino C, Sewell B, Courtright KR Stakeholder perspectives on categorizing care settings for measures of hospital- and institution-free days , Annals Am Thor Soc, 22(4): 2025,615-618


Zhang J, Chen Z, Courtright KR, Halpern SD, Harhay MO, Small DS, Li F Randomization inference for stepped-wedge designs with noncompliance with application to a palliative care pragmatic trial , arxiv: 2025


Claudia Nau, Susan E. Wang, Mina Habib, Haoyuan Zhong, Lori Viveros, Sergio Mendoza Sida, Kathleen Mulvaney, Kevin Durr, Bing Han, Beth Creekmur, Scott D. Halpern, Katherine R. Courtright, Janet S. Lee, Huong Q. Nguyen Responsible AI in Action: Planning through Implementation of a Mortality Model for Palliative Care , medRxiv: 2025


Courtright KR, Downar J The Struggle Continues: Improving Outcomes for Surrogate Decision-Makers After the Intensive Care Unit , Am J Resp Crit Care Med: 2024,epub ahead of press


Roberson JL, Gasior JA, Ginzberg SP, Bakillah E, Passman J, Shreve L, Sharoky CE, Nadolski G, Courtright KR, Kaufman EJ. The Impact of Palliative Decompressive Gastrostomy Tube Placement on Patients and Their Caregivers: A Mixed Methods Analysis , Ann Surg Oncol, 31(10): 2024,6931-6938


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