Shwetha Sudhakar, MD
Hospital Medicine
Accepting new patients
Sees patients age 18 and up
Penn Hospital Medicine HUP
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Penn Medicine Provider

About me

  • Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine (Hospital Medicine)

Education and training

  • Medical School: Case Western Reserve University
  • Residency: Rainbow Babies and Children' Hospital
  • Residency: University Hospitals of Cleveland

Insurance accepted

My 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.
  • Penn Medicine Rittenhouse Long-Term Acute Care Hospital
Dr. Sudhakar is a Penn Medicine physician.

Qualifications and experience

Treatments and Conditions

My research

Yousif PA, Sudhakar S, Malemud C, Blumenthal DE. Cardiac Tamponade as Initial Presentation of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus in Third-Trimester Pregnancy. , Am J Case Rep., 23: 2022,e936273


Glenn T, Sudhakar S, Markowski A, Malay S, Hibbs AM. Patient characteristics associated with complications during neonatal intubations. , Pediatr Pulmonol., 56(8): 2021,2576-2582


Kumar S, Sudhakar S, Sajatovic M, Levin JB. Antipsychotic Medication in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Systematic Literature Review. , J Clin Psychopharmacol., 40(6): 2020,541-552


Lee SG, Harline K, Abar O, Akadri SO, Bastian AG, Chen HS, Duan M, Focht CM, Groziak AR, Kao J, Kottapalli JS, Leong MC, Lin JJ, Liu R, Luo JE, Meyer CM, Mo AF, Pahng SH, Penna V, Raciti CD, Srinath A, Sudhakar S, Tang JD, Cox BR, Holland CK, Cascella B, Cruz W, McClerkin SA, Kunkel BN, Jez JM. The plant pathogen enzyme AldC is a long-chain aliphatic aldehyde dehydrogenase. , J Biol Chem. , 295(40): 2020,13914-13926


Sudhakar S, Aebi ME, Burant CJ, Wilson B, Wenk J, Briggs FBS, Pyatka N, Blixen C, Sajatovic M. Health literacy and education level correlates of participation and outcome in a remotely delivered epilepsy self-management program. , Epilepsy Behav., 107: 2020,107026


Wang Y, Cella M, Mallinson K, Ulrich JD, Young KL, Robinette ML, Gilfillan S, Krishnan GM, Sudhakar S, Zinselmeyer BH, Holtzman DM, Cirrito JR, Colonna M. TREM2 lipid sensing sustains the microglial response in an Alzheimer's disease model. , Cell. , 160(6): 2015,1061-71