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

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


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: 2025,epub ahead of print


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 Network Open: 2025,epub ahead of print


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


Auriemma CL, Song A, Walsh L, Han JJ, Yapalater SR, Bain A, Haines L, Scott S, Whitman C, Taylor SP, Halpern SD, Courtright KR. Classification of Documented Goals of Care Among Hospitalized Patients with High Mortality Risk: a Mixed-Methods Feasibility Study , J Gen Intern Med, 39(10): 2024,1839-1849


Krutsinger DC, Maloney SI, Courtright KR, Bartels K Barriers and Facilitators of Surrogates Providing Consent for Critically Ill Patients in Clinical Trials: A Qualitative Study , Chest, 166(2): 2024,304-310


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