- Blood clot in lung
- Chronic blood clots in lung
- Chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH)
- Pulmonary hypertension (PH)
Steven M. Kawut, MD, MS
Pulmonary Medicine
Accepting new patients
Sees patients age 18 and up
Harron Lung Center Perelman
Penn Medicine Provider
About me
- Director, Pulmonary Hypertension/Pulmonary Vascular Disease Program
- Professor of Medicine (Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care)
- Professor of Medicine in Biostatistics and Epidemiology
My education and training
- Medical School: Yale University School of Medicine
- Residency: University of Pennsylvania Health System
- Fellowship: University of Pennsylvania Health System
Spoken languages
English
English
Reviews
118 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.
- 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
Qualifications and experience
- Critical Care Medicine, 2001
- Pulmonary Disease, 2000
- Acuta, National
- American College of Chest Physicians, National
- American Society for Clinical Investigation, National
- American Thoracic Society, National
- Chair. DSMB, International
- Getting from Genes to Function in Lung Disease, NHLBI, NIH, National
- Infectious Disease, Reproduction, Allergy, and Pulmonary Study Section, National Institutes of Health (Ad Hoc Member), National
- Life after Linkage Study Section, NHLBI, NIH, National
- Morphic, National
- NHLBI AIDS Working Group: Advancing HIV/AIDS Research in Heart, Lung, and Blood Diseases, National
- NHLBI Primary Prevention of Chronic Lung Diseases Workshop, National
- Pulmonary Hypertension Association, National
- Pulmonary Hypertension Association, National
- PureTech Health, National
- Respiratory Integrative Biology and Translational Research Study Section, National Institutes of Health (Ad Hoc Member), National
- Reviewer, NHLBI Biologic Specimen Repository Study Section, National Institutes of Health, National
- Reviewer, RC2 Study Section, National Institutes of Health, National
- Workshop on Future Research Directions in Pulmonary Vascular Disease, NHLBI, National
- Workshop on Improving Outcomes in Pulmonary Vascular Disease, NHLBI, National
Treatments and conditions
Research
Publications
Ventetuolo CE, Praestgaard A, Palevsky HI, Klinger JR, Halpern SD, Kawut SM Sex and hemodynamics in pulmonary arterial hypertension , Eur Respir J, 43(2): 2014,523-30
Goncharov DA, Kudryashova TV, Ziai H, Ihida-Stansbury K, DeLisser H, Krymskaya VP, Tuder RM, Kawut SM, Goncharova EA. mTORC2 coordinates pulmonary artery smooth muscle cell metabolism, proliferation and survival in pulmonary arterial hypertension , Circulation, 129(8): 2014,864-74
Whitman I, Patel VV, Soliman EZ, Bluemke DA, Praestgaard A, Jain A, Herrington D, Lima JAC, Kawut SM Validity of the surface electrocardiogram criteria for right ventricular hypertrophy: The MESA - Right Ventricle Study , JACC: 2014,5435
Smith BM, Kawut SM, Bluemke DA, Basner RC, Gomes AS, Hoffman E, Kalhan R, Lima JAC, Liu C-Y, Michos ED, Prince MR, Rabbani L, Rabinowitz D, Shimbo D, Shea S, Barr RG Pulmonary hyperinflation and left ventricular mass: The Multi-Ethic Study of Atherosclerosis COPD Study , Circulation, 127(14): 2013,1503-11
Grau M, Graham Barr R, Lima JA, Hoffman EA, Bluemke DA, Carr JJ, Chahal H, Enright PL, Jain A, Prince MR, Kawut SM Percent emphysema and right ventricular structure and function: The MESA Lung and MESA-RV Studies , Chest, 144(1): 2013,136-44
Fritz J, Blair C, Oudiz R, Dufton C, Olschewski H, Despain D, Gillies H, Kawut SM Baseline and follow-up six minute walk distance and BNP predict 2-year mortalilty in pulmonary arterial hypertension , Chest, 143(2): 2013,315-23
Kawut SM, Barr RG, Lima JA, Praestgaard A, Johnson WC, Chahal H, Ogunyankin KO, Bristow MR, Kizer JR, Tandri H, Bluemke DA. Right ventricular structure is associated with the risk of heart failure and cardiovascular death: The MESA-Right Ventricle Study , Circulation, 126(14): 2012,1681-8
Gabler NB, French B, Strom BL, Liu Z, Palevsky HI, Taichman DB, Kawut, SM, Halpern SD Race and sex differences in response to endothelin receptor antagonists for pulmonary arterial hypertension , Chest, 141(1): 2012,20-6
Gabler NM, French B, Strom BL, Palevsky HI, Taichman DB, Kawut SM, Halpern SD Validation of 6-minute walk distance as a surrogate end point in pulmonary arterial hypertension trials , Circulation, 126(3): 2012,349-56