Penn Medicine Provider
Hospital Medicine
Todd E. H. Hecht, MD, SFHM, FACP
Sees patients age 18 and up
Penn Hospital Medicine HUP
Call 800-789-7366

About me

  • Director, Anticoagulation Management Program, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
  • Director, Anticoagulation Management Center
  • Professor of Clinical Medicine (Hospital Medicine)

My primary clinical role is to take care of hospitalized patients, but I have an additional quality improvement role that is focused on the safe and effective administration of anticoagulants. In this latter role, I serve as the Medical Director of the Anticoagulation Management Center which provides anticoagulation monitoring services to our outpatient population.

Education and training

  • Medical School: University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
  • Residency: Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania

Insurance accepted

My Locations

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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: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
Dr. Hecht is a Penn Medicine physician.

Qualifications and experience

My research

Steinkamp J, Hecht TEH, Hennessy S, Leonard CE, Shu D, Airan-Javia S. Off-brand: A 6-year study of medication brand and generic name usage in a multifacility academic healthcare system , J Hosp Med, 18(9): 2023,812-821

Sokoloff LJ, Iocalano M, Jones JA, Hecht TEH. Carotid Sinus Syndrome from Recurrent Laryngeal Cancer. , 2023 Annual Meeting of the Society of Hospital Medicine, Austin, TX.: 2023

Sokoloff LJ, Asher ME, Kovach SJ, Itkin M, Hecht TEH. Ascites from protein losing enteropathy due to thoracic duct obstruction. , Poster Presentation, 2023 Annual Meeting of the Society of Hospital Medicine, Austin, TX.: 2023

Leonard CE, Brensinger CM, Bilker WB, Soprano SE, Dhopeshwarkar N, Hecht TEH, Kasner SE, Nutescu EA, Holbrook A, Carr M, Ashcroft DM, Chen C, Hennessy S Thromboembolic Events in Users of Warfarin Treated with Different Skeletal Muscle Relaxants , Medicina, 58(9): 2022,1171

Zhou Y, Hecht TEH, Park J, Smith N, Dharia T. Reactive Infectious Mucocutaneous Eruption (RIME) through Reason: Evaluating Oral Swelling in a Patient with COVID-19. , Oral presentation, 2022 Society of General Internal Medicine Annual Meeting: 2022

Zhou Y, Hecht TEH, Dharia T. Peripheral Neuropathy Masking Rare, Metastatic Neuroendocrine Tumor. , Poster presentation, 2022 Society of General Internal Medicine Annual Meeting: 2022

Ramadan OI, Raper SE, Kaspar JE, Escosio D, Major-Joynes B, Anderson M, Gullotti S, Boyes N, Hecht TEH. Postoperative Venous Thromboembolism Prophylaxis: Why Are Patients Refusing, and What Should We Do About It? , Poster presentation, 2021 American College of Surgeons Quality and Safety Conference, virtual.: 2021

Jiang C, Lerer R, Hecht T. COVID-19 dysautonomia: a case report. , Poster presentation, 2013 Research Day of the Department of Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.: 2021

Halaby R, Cuker A, Yui J, Matthews A, Ishaaya E, Traxler E, Domenico C, Cooper T, Tierney A, Niami P, van der Rijst N, Adusumalli S, Gutsche J, Giri J, Pugliese S, Hecht TEH, Pishko AM. Bleeding risk by intensity of anticoagulation in critically ill patients with COVID-19: A retrospective cohort study , J Thromb Haemost, 19(6): 2021,1533–1545

Kelly Servick, Jennifer Couzin-Frankel, and Catherine Matacic "Medicine's longest year" , Science, 371(6535): 2021,1195-1199