Penn Medicine Provider
Geriatric Medicine, Hospice and Palliative Care
Niharika Ganta, MD, MPH
Penn Palliative Care - Inpatient HUP
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About me

  • Medical Director, Penn Home Palliative Care
  • Chief, Penn Palliative Care
  • Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine (General Internal Medicine)

Education and training

  • Medical School: Temple University
  • Residency: Yale-New Haven Hospital
  • Fellowship: Mount Sinai Medical Center

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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
  • Chester County Hospital: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
Dr. Ganta is a Penn Medicine physician.

Qualifications and experience

Treatments and Conditions

My research

Levoy K, Ashare RL, Ganta N, O'Connor N, Meghani SH. Caregiver Engagement in Serious Illness Communication in a Long-Term Acute Care Hospital Setting , American Journal of Hospice & Palliative Care, 41(19): 2024,1109-1119

Parikh RB, Sedhom R, Ferrell WJ, Villarin K, Berwanger K, Scarborough B, Oyer R, Kumar P, Ganta N, Sivendran S, Chen J, Volpp KG, Bekelman JE. 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

Tarshish, Yael, Olenik, Jennifer, and Ganta, Niharika Pembrolizumab Neurotoxicity: A Prognostic Challenge , Poster Presentation, Annual Assembly for American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine: 2021

Hatchimonji JS, Huston-Patterson HH, Dortche K, Orji W, Ganta N, O’Connor N, Kaplan LJ, Martin ND. Do We Know Our Patients’ Goals? Evaluating Preoperative Discussions in Emergency Surgery. , Am J Surg, 220(4): 2020,861-862

Haines L, Ganta N, Jones CA, Martin ND. Palliative Care for Trauma Patients: Today and into the Next Decade. , J Palliat Med., 23(9): 2020,1147-1148

Klinedinst R, Dingfield L, Farabelli JP, Ganta N. Balancing Democracy with Efficiency: Strategies for Leading an Interdisciplinary Palliative Care Team , Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, 59(2): 2020,493-494

Pasricha V, Bhardwaj A, Gorman D, Laothamatas K, Mikkelsen ME, and Ganta N. Implementation of a Standardized Serious Illness Conversation Guide within the ICU , Critical Care Medicine Poster Presentation, 48(1): 2020,645

Pasricha V, Gorman D, Laothamatas K, Bhardwaj A, Ganta N, and Mikkelsen ME Use of the Serious Illness Conversation Guide to Improve Communication with Surrogates of Critically Ill Patients. A Pilot Study , ATS Scholar, 1(2): 2020

Ganta N, Mayro G, Yen P, Greenblatt J, OConnor N A Comprehensive Quality Improvement Initiative to Improve Serious Illness Communication in the Long Term Acute Care Hospital Setting. , Society of General Internal Medicine, Poster Session (meeting cancelled due to travel restrictions): 2020

Ganta, Niharika and Haines, Lindsay Clinical Pearls: The Itch to Cure: Managing Pruritus , AAHPM Quarterly: 2019