- Diabetes
- Gestational diabetes
- Hyperglycemia
- Latent autoimmune diabetes in adults (LADA)
- Mature onset diabetes of the young (MODY)
- Steroid induced diabetes
- Type 1 diabetes
- Type 2 diabetes
Serena Cardillo, MD
Diabetes
Accepting new patients
Sees patients age 18 and up
Penn Rodebaugh Diabetes Center
Penn Medicine Provider
About me
- Fellowship Program Director, Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism
- Director of Education, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism
- Professor of Clinical Medicine (Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism)
My education and training
- Medical School: University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
- Residency: University of Pennsylvania Health System
- Fellowship: University of Pennsylvania Health System
Spoken languages
English
English
Italiano
Italian
Reviews
791 reviews
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Insurance accepted
Please contact the practice and/or the member services department of your insurance company for specific details before receiving services. Providers may participate in some, but not all, products offered by a health plan; providers may also accept plans at some practice locations but not others.
- Aetna Advantra Cares D-SNP
- Aetna Advantra Credit Value
- Aetna Advantra Eagle HMO
- Aetna Advantra Eagle POS
- Aetna Advantra Premier Plus PPO
- Aetna Advantra Value
- Aetna Advantra Value Plus
- Aetna APCN Plus (Multi-Tier)
- Aetna Better Health Kids (CHIP) - DH Only
- Aetna Flexible Five
- Aetna Freedom Core
- Aetna Gold
- Aetna HMO
- Aetna Philly Prime
- Aetna POS
- Aetna PPO APCN
- Aetna Premier
- Aetna Premier Plus
- Aetna Savings Plus
- Aetna Signature Administrators
- Aetna Student Health Plan PPO
- Aetna Upfront Advantage
- First Health HMO
- First Health POS
- First Health PPO
- Meritain - Aramark (Other)
- Meritain - Aramark (Pennsylvania Premier Medical Plan)
- Americhealth Caritas of PA VIP - LGH Only
- Amerihealth Caritas (Transplant patients only)
- Amerihealth Caritas of PA - LGH Only
- Centivo EPO
- Cigna Healthcare EPO
- Cigna Healthcare HMO
- Cigna Healthcare POS
- Cigna Healthcare PPO
- Claim Watcher (Homestead/ INDECs) Open Access
- Clover Health Choice
- Clover Health Choice Value PPO
- Clover Health Classic HMO
- Clover Health Value
Locations
Penn Medicine hospital privileges
- Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
- Penn Presbyterian Medical Center: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
Qualifications and experience
- Alliance for Academic Internal Medicine, National
- American Diabetes Association, National
- Association of Program Directors in Endocrinology,, National
- Endocrine Society, National
- Penn Adult Cystic Fibrosis Program
- Recognized annually in Philadelphia Magazine's Top Docs issue from 2018 through 2025
Treatments and conditions
Research
Publications
Dapas N, Al Mukaddam M, Attallah H, Burns C, Jones R, Kharlip J, Kobaly K, Cardillo S Creation of Educations Resources to Improve Endocrine Fellow Outpatient Curriculum , Poster Presentation, Endocrine Society: 2025
Mamtani R, Maskart C, LaMarra D, Cardillo S "Mitigating the Effects of Weight Bias in Clinical Practice: Enhacing Communication and Documentation Skills in Medical Trainees" Poster Presentation, Endocrine Society Meeting, , Poster Presentation, ENDO 2025 Chicago: 2025
R Benson Jones Jr, Cori Maskart, Janice Radway, Anastassia Amaro, Serena Cardillo A Multimodal Curriculum to Improved Medical Student Gender-Affirming Communication Skills , Poster Presentation Endocrine Society: 2023
Nnenia Francis, Serena Cardillo, Deepa Nandiwada Exploring Primary Care Residents Perspectives on Diabetes Education in Training , Poster Presentation Endocrine Society: 2023
Heath J, Dine CJ, Lamarra D, Cardillo S The Impact of Trainee and Standardized Patient Race and Gender on Internal Medicine Resident Communication Assessment Scores , Journal of Graduate Medical Education, 13(5): 2021,643-649
Caitlin White MD, Serena Cardillo MD Introduction of an Ambulatory Curriculum in Endocrinology Diabetes and Metabolism for Internal Medicine Trainees , Poster Presentation, Endocrine Society: 2020
Caitlin A White, MD1; Paul Guido, MD2; Laura Young, MD, PhD2; Serena Cardillo, MD1 Redesigning Fellowship Curriculum Amidst The Covid-19 Pandemic: Our Shared Experiences , Endocrine Practice, 26(8): 2020,926-928
Janae Heath, c. Jessica Dine, Denise Lamarra, Serena Cardillo Impact of Trainee and Standardized Patient Gender on Communication Assessment Scores , APDIM Online 2020: 2020
M Elle Saine, Dena M Carbonari, Craig W Newcomb, Arlene M Gallagher, Betina T Blak, Jason A Roy, Jennifer Wood, Serena Cardillo, Sean Hennessy 1, Brian L Strom, Vincent Lo Re 3rd Concordance of hospitalizations between Clinical Practice Research Datalink and linked Hospital Episode Statistics among patients treated with oral antidiabetic therapies , Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Safety , 28(10): 2019,1328-1335
Rahul Agarwal MD and Serena Cardillo MD Successful Long-Term Treatment of Hyperinsulinemic Hypoglycemia Using a Monthly Somatostatin Receptor Analog in a 91 Year Old Patient , Poster Presentation, Endocrine Society: 2018