Catherine Auriemma

Dr. Catherine (Katie) Auriemma is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care and Core Faculty at the PAIR Center. She cares for patients in the medical intensive care unit at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and maintains an outpatient pulmonary clinic at the Harron Lung Center. She is passionate about providing longitudinal follow-up care for survivors of critical illness.

Dr. Auriemma’s research focuses on improving the value of serious illness care by better aligning interventions with the values and preferences of patients and their families. She is building a research program that approaches this goal in three complementary ways: (1) striving to understand how communication, documentation, and decision-making can be improved for patients and families prior to a clinical decompensation event; (2) developing and validating novel patient-centered outcome measures; and (3) enhancing the rigor of robust patient and stakeholder engagement in research. Her scholarship combines qualitative and mixed methods research, clinical epidemiology, and prospective observational cohort studies.

Dr. Auriemma is actively involved in mentorship and education of medical students and trainees and has received multiple education awards. In 2025, Dr. Auriemma received the Donald B. Martin Award from the Department of Medicine at the Perelman School of Medicine, one of the highest teaching achievements in graduate medical education at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research has been recognized and funded by the NHLBI, the NIA, and the Alzheimer’s Association.

Dr. Auriemma received her medical degree from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. She completed her internal medicine residency at the University of California, San Francisco, where she subsequently served as Chief Resident at Moffitt-Long Hospital. She completed her fellowship training in pulmonary and critical care medicine at the University of Pennsylvania where she also received her Master of Science in Health Policy Research.