Penn Medicine Provider
Pulmonary Medicine
Rachel Kohn, MD, MSCE
Accepting new patients
Sees patients age 18 and up
Harron Lung Center - Inpatient Care

About me

  • Core Faculty, Palliative and Advanced Illness Research (PAIR) Center
  • Assistant Professor of Medicine (Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care) at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania

Education and training

  • Medical School: University of Pennsylvania
  • Residency: Massachusetts General Hospital
  • Fellowship: Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania

Insurance accepted

My 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
Dr. Kohn is a Penn Medicine physician.

Qualifications and experience

Treatments and Conditions

My research

Patel N, Whitman C, Lieberman A, Blady S, Morse C, Naseer N, Weaver J, Ogunniyi M, Kohn R, Volpp KG, Halpern S, Morris AA, Stephens-Shields A, Fanaroff AC A series of iterative randomized clinical trials leveraging behavioral economics to increase racial and ethnic diversity of patients: Rationale and design of ITERATE , American Heart Journal, 286: 2025,80-87


Levy E, Claar D, Co I, Fuchs B, Ginestra J, Kohn R, McSparron JI, Patel B, Weissman GE, Kerlin MP, Sjoding MW Development and external validation of a detection model to retrospectively identify patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome , Critical Care Medicine, 53(6): 2025,e1224-e1234


Weissman GE, Hubbard RA, Himes BE, Goodman-O’Leary KL, Harhay MO, Ginestra JC, Kohn R, Admon AJ, Taylor SP, Halpern SD Sepsis prediction models are trained on labels that diverge from clinician-recommended treatment times , AMIA Annu Symp Proc, 2024: 2025,1215-1224


Patel B, Clancy C, Halpern SD, Kohn R Comparison of inpatient subspecialty care delivery models: Clinical outcomes and racial disparities in dedicated vs consultative pulmonary care , Journal of Hospital Medicine: 2025


Kohn R, Kwiatkowski C, Lu Y, Prasad TV, Dress E, Scott S, Harhay MO, Hadler RA Patient dignity in long-term recovery among survivors of acute respiratory failure: A prospective cohort study , American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine: 2025


Kohn R, Ashana DC, Vranas KC, Viglianti EM, Hauschildt K, Chen C, Vail EA, Moroz L, Gershengorn HB Author response to the Letter to the Editor – Enhancing the understanding of pregnancy outcomes in critical illness: Addressing unexplored variable and time-related bias , CHEST, 167(2): 2025,e68-e69


Sanyi A, Byiringiro S, Dabiri S, Jacobson M, Boyd A, Ogunniyi MO, Morris AA, Kohn R, Dickert NW, Lane-Fall MB, Lewis EF, Halpern SD, Fanaroff AC Measuring representativeness in clinical trials , Circulation, 151: 2025,318-3310


Silvestri JA, Kwiatkowski C, Dress EM, Prasad TV, Ryu E, Kerlin MP, Harhay MO, Klaiman T, Kohn R Acute respiratory failure survivors’ needs throughout a year of recovery: A qualitative analysis using the Timing It Right framework , CHEST Critical Care: 2025


Zimo J, Navuluri N, Ashana DC, Chen C, Gershengorn HB, Kohn R, Vail EA, Nadig NR, Hauschildt KE, Vranas KC, Viglianti EM Critical care fellows’ training experiences with obstetric critical care: A cross-sectional survey , ATS Scholar: 2025


Kohn R, Kerlin MP Gender inequities in academic medicine: Peer review and beyond , CHEST: 2025


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