Heather M. Giannini, MD

Heather M. Giannini, MD is a Clinical Fellow of Penn Health-Tech. At Penn, she is an Instructor of Medicine and Attending Physician in the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine. She has a background in basic and translational science, using clinical informatics and prediction algorithms to develop early warning systems for sepsis across the UPHS hospitals and studying molecular diagnostics and gene expression patterns in sepsis and critical illness. 
 
Heather completed dual bachelor’s and master’s degrees at Villanova University in Biology, then attended medical school at the Georgetown University School of Medicine. She did her Internship and Residency at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, and subsequently served as Chief Resident. She then pursued fellowship training in Pulmonary and Critical Care at Penn as well. During fellowship, she completed an additional Master’s degree with the Institute for Translational Medicine and Therapeutics (ITMAT) in Bioinformatics, where she developed further expertise with computational data analytics and coding languages. She hopes to help develop new technologies to make the complicated healthcare environment better for everyone.

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