Lauren Reed-Guy

Lauren Reed-Guy, MD, is a Hematology/Oncology Fellow at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and a student in the Master of Science in Health Policy Research (MSHP) program. Dr. Reed-Guy’s research interests center on communication and decision-making in oncology, the integration of palliative care into the oncology clinic, and end-of-life care. She is currently working with her mentor, Dr. Kate Courtright, MD, MSHP, to develop a interventions to facilitate goals-of-care communication in oncology.

Originally from California, Dr. Reed-Guy completed an undergraduate degree in English at the University of Pennsylvania. She subsequently earned her medical degree at the University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School of Medicine and stayed on to complete her Internal Medicine residency at Penn.