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Joanna Hart, MD, Pulmonology, Philadelphia, PA, Philadelphia Veterans Affairs Medical Center

JoannaHartMDMS

Pulmonology • Philadelphia, PA

Critical Care Medicine

Faculty Physician, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine

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Summary

  • I am a faculty member at the University of Pennsylvania and the Michael J. Crescenz VAMC. I provide inpatient critical care services at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and maintain an outpatient pulmonary clinic at the VAMC in Philadelphia. My outpatient practice has a particular emphasis on smoking-associated lung disease and tobacco cessation.

    In addition, I am a clinician-scientist and perform research focused on complex medical decision making. I have particular research interests in empirical bioethics, expectation formation, and physician-attributable variation in care delivery. Current research projects include physician use of and competency in choice architecture, stakeholders' views on physician use of benevolent deception, and expectation formation and accuracy among patients with advanced lung disease.

    I am also deeply committed to the education of the next generation of physicians. My teaching responsibilities include serving as a faculty facilitator for Doctoring, Pulmonary Medicine, and Bioethics courses at Penn's Perelman School of Medicine.

Education & Training

  • Penn Medicine
    Penn MedicinePost-Doctoral Fellowship, Decision science, 2015 - 2015
  • University of Pennsylvania
    University of PennsylvaniaMS, Health Policy Research, 2012 - 2014
  • University of Pennsylvania Health System
    University of Pennsylvania Health SystemFellowship, Pulmonary Disease and Critical Care Medicine, 2011 - 2014
  • University of Pennsylvania
    University of PennsylvaniaMS, Health Policy Research, 2014
  • University of Pennsylvania Health System
    University of Pennsylvania Health SystemResidency, Internal Medicine, 2008 - 2011
  • University of Virginia School of Medicine
    University of Virginia School of MedicineClass of 2008
  • Northwestern University
    Northwestern UniversityBA, Sociology, 2003

Certifications & Licensure

  • NJ State Medical License
    NJ State Medical License 2021 - 2025
  • PA State Medical License
    PA State Medical License 2008 - 2024
  • American Board of Internal Medicine Critical Care Medicine
  • American Board of Internal Medicine Pulmonary Disease

Awards, Honors, & Recognition

  • Top-rated Reviewer Annals of Internal Medicine, 2017
  • Top Rated Abstract Society for Medical Decision Making, 2017
  • Presidential Citation Society of Critical Care Medicine, 2015
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Publications & Presentations

PubMed

Journal Articles

  • Numeracy and Understanding of Quantitative Aspects of Predictive Models: A Pilot Study  
    Scott D Halpern, Gary E Weissman, Joanna L Hart, Marilyn M Schapira, Applied Clinical Informatics
  • The surprising costs of silence: Asymmetric preferences for prosocial lies of commission and omission  
    Levine E, Hart JL, Moore K, Rubin E, Yadav K, Halpern SD, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology: Attitudes and Social Cognition, 1/2/2017
  • Guidelines for family-centered care in the neonatal, pediatric, and adult intensive care unit  
    Davidson JE, Aslakson RA, Long AC, Puntillo KA, Kross EK, Hart JL, Cox CE, Wunsch H, Wickline MA, Nunnally ME, Netzer G, Kentish-Barnes N, Sprung CL, Hartog CS, Coombs..., Critical Care Medicine, 1/1/2017
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Abstracts/Posters

  • What's behind the white coat: potential mechanisms of physician-attributable variation in critical care
    Hart, JL, Yadav, KN, Josephs, M, Gabler, N, Detsky, M, Halpern, SD, American Thoracic Society International Conference, 1/1/2018
  • Physician competency in the use of choice architecture
    Hart, JL, Yadav, KN, Szymanski, S, Summer, A, Zlatev, J, Daniels, D, Halpern, SD, American Thoracic Society International Conference, 1/1/2018
  • The absence of associations of demographic characteristics with advance directive completion among seriously ill patients
    Hart JL, Gabler N, Cooney E, Bayes B, Yadav K, Olorunnisola M, Chen L, Grundy S, Syzmanski S, Hays MW, Tomko H, Bryce CL, Halpern SD, American Thoracic Society International Conference, 1/1/2017
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Lectures

  • Innovations in Behavioral Modification 
    2019 ACP Internal Medicine Meeting, Philadelphia - 4/11/2019
  • Family-centered ICU care: evidence-based guidelines for bedside care 
    Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services - 1/1/2017
  • Nudges, irrationality, and choice architecture: how decision science can transform critical care 
    Philadelphia, PA - 1/1/2017
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Press Mentions

  • Scientists Monitored 631 People as They Died. This Is What They Found
    Scientists Monitored 631 People as They Died. This Is What They FoundJanuary 29th, 2021
  • Rounding up: Perfecting ICU Rounds
    Rounding up: Perfecting ICU RoundsMay 22nd, 2018
  • Already in Fiscal Crisis, Rural Hospitals Face COVID-19
    Already in Fiscal Crisis, Rural Hospitals Face COVID-19June 10th, 2020
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Grant Support

  • Optimizing Outcome Predictions Among Patients With Smoking-Associated Lung DiseaseNIH-NHLBI2017–2021
  • The Ethical Acceptability Of Deception In Physician Patient CommunicationGreenwall Foundation2016–2018

Hospital Affiliations

Dr. Joanna Hart, Dr. Joanna Hart, MD, Dr. J Hart