Catherine L. Auriemma

Catherine L. Auriemma serves as an Assistant Professor in the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (HUP), with formal affiliations through the Perelman School of Medicine. She holds core faculty positions at the Palliative and Advanced Illness Research (PAIR) Center and the Fostering Improvement in End-of-Life Decision Science (FIELDS) program, while maintaining affiliated status at the Center for Health Incentives and Behavioral Economics (CHIBE) and the Population Aging Research Center (PARC). As a senior fellow at the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics and member of the American Thoracic Society, her institutional footprint spans clinical, research, and policy domains.

Her educational trajectory includes:

• Medical degree from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
• Internal medicine residency at the University of California, San Francisco (serving as Chief Resident at Moffitt-Long Hospital)
• Fellowship in pulmonary and critical care medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
• Master’s degree in health policy research from the University of Pennsylvania

Dr. Auriemma’s research program centers on realigning serious illness care with patient and family goals through the development of patient-centered outcome measures for critically ill populations. Her work bridges clinical practice in medical intensive care units with health services research, specifically targeting value improvement in end-of-life decision pathways. Current investigations focus on states worse than death, survivorship care models, and preference-sensitive interventions in geriatric critical care contexts.

Analysis of her 2023-2024 publications reveals consistent emphasis on measuring patient-defined value across pulmonary, critical care, and geriatrics journals. Her collaborative work with the PAIR Center demonstrates methodological innovation in capturing family perspectives while addressing systemic gaps in serious illness care delivery. The recurring themes of patient autonomy validation and outcome metric development indicate a cohesive research trajectory toward evidence-based palliative integration in acute care settings.

Clinically active in HUP’s medical intensive care unit and Harron Lung Center, she specializes in post-critical illness survivorship care. Her dual expertise in pulmonary/critical care medicine and health policy positions her at the intersection of clinical practice transformation and health economics research within the PAIR Center and FIELDS program frameworks.