Penn Medicine Provider
Medical Oncology
Pallavi Kumar, MD, MPH
5.0
(101)
Accepting new patients
Sees patients age 18 and up
Abramson Cancer Center Perelman 2nd Floor West
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About me

  • Director, Oncology Palliative Care
  • Section Chief, Oncology Palliative Care, Hematology-Oncology
  • Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine (Hematology-Oncology)

Education and training

  • Medical School: Duke University School of Medicine
  • Residency: Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
  • Fellowship: Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
  • Fellowship: Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

What my patients think about me

Average Rating
5.0

101 reviews

Comments are submitted by patients and reflect their views and opinions. The comments are not endorsed by and do not necessarily reflect the views of Penn Medicine.

March 2025
5.0
5.0
dr. kumar is a good listener. she didn't rush me or talk over me. she is sympathetic to my issues.
March 2025
5.0
5.0
i happy that she's part of the team
February 2025
5.0
5.0
she has a wonderful bedside manner
February 2025
5.0
5.0
my provider is the perfect blend of pragmatic and logical, while maintaining a very empathetic and compassionate bedside manner.

Insurance accepted

My Locations

Penn Medicine hospital privileges

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

Qualifications and experience

My research

Jennifer S Temel 1 2, Vicki A Jackson 1 2, Areej El-Jawahri 1 2, Simone P Rinaldi 1, Laura A Petrillo 1 2, Pallavi Kumar 3, Kathryn A McGrath 3, Thomas W LeBlanc 4, Arif H Kamal 4 5, Christopher A Jones 4, Dustin J Rabideau 1 2, Nora Horick 1, Kedie Pintro 1, Emily R Gallagher Medeiros 1, Kathryn E Post 1 2, Joseph A Greer 1 2 Stepped Palliative Care for Patients With Advanced Lung Cancer: A Randomized Clinical Trial , JAMA, 332 ((6)): 2024,471-481


Takvorian SU, Gabriel P, Wileyto EP, Blumenthal D, Tejada S, Clifton ABW, Asch DA, Buttenheim AM, Rendle KA, Shelton RC, Chaiyachati KH, Fayanju OM, Ware S, Schuchter LM, Kumar P, Salam T, Lieberman A, Ragusano D, Bauer AM, Scott CA, Shulman LN, Schnoll R, Beidas RS, Bekelman JE, Parikh RB. Clinician- and Patient-Directed Communication Strategies for Patients With Cancer at High Mortality Risk: A Cluster Randomized Trial , JAMA Netw Open , 7(7): 2024,e2418639


Erin M Bange 1, Yimei Li 2 3, Pallavi Kumar 4 5, Abigail Doucette 5, Peter Gabriel 5, Ravi Parikh 5 6, Eric H Li 7, Ronac Mamtani 3, Kelly D Getz 2 3 The association between telemedicine, advance care planning, and unplanned hospitalizations among high-risk patients with cancer , Cancer, 130(4): 2024,636-644


Christopher R Manz 1 2, Yichen Zhang 3, Kan Chen 4, Qi Long 4, Dylan S Small 5, Chalanda N Evans 6, Corey Chivers 7, Susan H Regli 7, C William Hanson 7, Justin E Bekelman 3 8, Jennifer Braun 7, Charles A L Rareshide 6, Nina O'Connor 6, Pallavi Kumar 6 9, Lynn M Schuchter 6 8, Lawrence N Shulman 6 8, Mitesh S Patel 10, Ravi B Parikh 3 6 8 9 Long-term Effect of Machine Learning-Triggered Behavioral Nudges on Serious Illness Conversations and End-of-Life Outcomes Among Patients With Cancer: A Randomized Clinical Trial , JAMA Oncol, 9(3): 2023,414-418


Ravi B Parikh 1 2, Ramy Sedhom 3, William J Ferrell 3 2, Katherine Villarin 2, Kara Berwanger 3 2, Bethann Scarborough 4, Randall Oyer 4, Pallavi Kumar 3 2, Niharika Ganta 2, Shanthi Sivendran 4, Jinbo Chen 3 2, Kevin G Volpp 2 5, Justin E Bekelman 3 2 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


Michelle B Riba 1, Kristine A Donovan 2, Kauser Ahmed 3, Barbara Andersen 4, IIana Braun 5, William S Breitbart 6, Benjamin W Brewer 7, Cheyenne Corbett 8, Jesse Fann 9, Stewart Fleishman 10, Sofia Garcia 11, Donna B Greenberg 12, George F Handzo 10, Laura Herald Hoofring 13, Chao-Hui Huang 14, Sean Hutchinson 15, Shelley Johns 16, Jennifer Keller 17, Pallavi Kumar 18, Sheila Lahijani 19, Sara Martin 20, Shehzad K Niazi 21, Megan Pailler 22, Francine Parnes 23, Vinay Rao 24, Jaroslava Salman 25, Eli Scher 26, Jessica Schuster 27, Melissa Teply 28, Angela Usher 29, Alan D Valentine 30, Jessica Vanderlan 31, Megan S Lyons 32, Nicole R McMillian 32, Susan D Darlow 32 NCCN Guidelines® Insights: Distress Management, Version 2.2023 , J Natl Compr Canc Netw ., 21((5)): 2023,450-457


Pallavi Kumar, MD, MPH, Joanna Paladino, MD, Peter E. Gabriel, MD, William J. Ferrell, MPH, Joshua Jones, MD, MA, Lynn M. Schuchter, MD, Lawrence N. Shulman, MD, and Ravi B. Parikh, MD, MPP The Serious Illness Care Program: Implementing a Key Element of High-Quality Oncology Care (Case Study) , New England Journal of Medicine - Catalyst, 4(2): 2023


Eric Li 1, Christopher Manz 2, Manqing Liu 1, Jinbo Chen 1, Corey Chivers 1, Jennifer Braun 1, Lynn Mara Schuchter 1, Pallavi Kumar 1, Mitesh S Patel 1, Lawrence N Shulman 1, Ravi B Parikh 1 Oncologist phenotypes and associations with response to a machine learning-based intervention to increase advance care planning: Secondary analysis of a randomized clinical trial , PLoS One, 17((5) ): 2022


Eric H Li, William Ferrell, Tamar Klaiman, Pallavi Kumar, Nina O'Connor, Lynn M Schuchter, Jinbo Chen, Mitesh S Patel, Christopher R Manz, Ravi B Parikh. Impact of Behavioral Nudges on the Quality of Serious Illness Conversations Among Patients With Cancer: Secondary Analysis of a Randomized Controlled Trial , J Oncology Practice, 18(4): 2022,e495-e503.


Kathryn E Post 1, Lauren B Heuer 2, Arif H Kamal 3, Pallavi Kumar 4, Madeleine Elyze 2, Sarah Griffith 2, Jacqueline Han 2, Fred Friedman 3, Ashley Jackson 4, Chardria Trotter 2, Rachel Plotke 2, Charu Vyas 2, Vicki Jackson 2, Dustin J Rabideau 2, Joseph A Greer 5, Jennifer S Temel 2 Study protocol for a randomised trial evaluating the non-inferiority of stepped palliative care versus early integrated palliative care for patients with advanced lung cancer , BMJ Open , 12((2)): 2022