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)

My education and training

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

Spoken languages

English
English

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.

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

Research

Publications

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