Pavitra Krishnamani
Department of Emergency Medicine, Division of Internal Medicine
Present Title & Affiliation
Primary Appointment
Assistant Professor, Emergency Medicine, Internal Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas
Dual/Joint/Adjunct Appointment
Instructor, Emergency Medicine, UT MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
Education & Training
Degree-Granting Education
| 2019 | Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US, Doctor of Medicine |
| 2014 | University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, US, Bachelor of Arts |
| 2014 | University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, US, Global Medicine, Master of Science |
Postgraduate Training
| 2022-2023 | Postgraduate Fellow, Oncologic Emergency Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas |
| 2019-2022 | Postgraduate Resident, Emergency Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas |
| 2018-2019 | Clinical Fellow, Healthcare Innovation, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA |
Licenses & Certifications
| 2025 | ACLS |
| 2025 | PALS |
| 2025 | American Board of Emergency Medicine |
| 2022 | Texas Medical Board Physician License |
Experience & Service
Administrative Appointments/Responsibilities
Faculty Senator, Faculty Senate, UT MD Anderson Cancer Center, 2024 - Present
Lab Co-Founder; Product Innovation & Research Lead, DICE XR Lab at Jefferson, Thomas Jefferson University, Houston, Texas, 2017 - 2018
Other Professional Positions
Board Member, Emergency Medicine, Texas College of Emergency Physicians, Texas, 2025 - 2026
Board Member, Healthcare Innovation, Rally Conference, 2023 - 2024
Co-Founder, Product and Research Lead DICE XR Lab, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2017 - 2018
Member, Board of Trustees, American Medical Student Association, Washington DC, Virginia, 2015 - 2016
Trustee, National Board of Trustees, The American Medical Student Association (AMSA), 2015 - 2016
Intramural Institutional Committee Activities
Chair, The Artificial Intelligence and Digital Health GME Subcommittee, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, 2024 - Present
Extramural Institutional Committee Activities
Baylor College of Medicine's Emergency Medicine Representative, National Representative Council, Emergency Medicine Residents' Association, 2019 - 2021
Student Editor, American Medical Student Association's Board of Trustees, American Medical Student Association, 2015 - 2016
Editorial Activities
Student Editor, The New Physician, 2015 - 2016
Honors & Awards
| 2016 - Present | Carson Scholars Fund 30 Under 30 Hall of Fame |
| Arnold P. Gold Foundation Humanism in Medicine Award, The Society for Academic Emergency Medicine |
Selected Presentations & Talks
Local Presentations
- 2026. Copilot Workshop. Invited. MD Anderson’s DEM Didactics. Houston, Texas, US.
- 2026. AI in Medicine. Invited. MD Anderson LBJ Faculty Consensus. Houston, Texas, US.
- 2026. Tracheostomies in the ER. Invited. MD Anderson’s DEM Didactics. Houston, Texas, US.
- 2026. AI in Oncology. Invited. MD Anderson’s Heme/Onc Lecture Series. Houston, Texas, US.
- 2025. AI in Clinical Trials. Invited. MD Anderson’s Surgical Oncology Lecture Series. Houston, Texas, US.
- 2025. The Innovation Studio: Wearable Devices in Oncology. Invited. MD Anderson's Emergency Medicine Didactics. Houston, Texas, US.
- 2016. Refugee Health. Invited. Course Guest Lecture: Introduction to Global Health. Newark, DE, US.
- 2016. Deconstructing the Syrian Refugee Crisis. Invited. Course Guest Lecture: Introduction to Epidemiology. Newark, DE, US.
Regional Presentations
- 2016. Designing for Refugee Health. Invited. Workshop: University of Maryand, MD, US.
National Presentations
- 2026. TBD. Invited. CHiME Fall Forum 2026. denver, CO, US.
- 2026. Build Elite Tech: Enabled Beside Teams. Invited. Becker's Digital Health, and RCM Conference. Chicago, Illinois, US.
- 2026. Viva La Revolution: How the Digital Age is Transforming Wellness. Invited. SXSW. San Antonio, Texas, US.
- 2026. Reimagining Clinical Informatics for Decision Intelligence. Panelist. ViVE.
- 2026. Research- From Question to Manuscript with AI. Invited. ACEP. Coronado, Florida, US.
- 2024. The Innovation Studio: Artificial Intelligence in Oncology. Invited. Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare Summit. San Diego, CA, US.
- 2023. Home is Where the Health Is: How Digital Health Tools are Decentralizing Healthcare. Invited. Inventures. Calgary, Alberta, CA.
- 2023. Doctor's Orders: Go Home!. Invited. South By Southwest. Austin, TX, US.
- 2021. Gadgets & Gizmos: Digital Health Tools That Can Transform the Emergency Department of the Future. Invited. SAEM. Virtual, US.
- 2019. The Virtual Health Toolbox: How Emerging Technologies Can Enhance Healthcare Quality & Access. Invited. The Virtual Health Summit. Las Vegas, NV, US.
- 2019. Human Centered Innovation: How to Approach Digital Innovation in an Evolving Healthcare Ecosystem. Invited. Disease Prevention & Health Promotion Lectureship. Newark, DE, US.
- 2018. The Flip Side: How Medicine Can Transform Virtual Reality. VR & Healthcare Symposium at Harvard Medical School. Boston, MA, US.
- 2018. Transforming Clinical and Patient Education with Virtual Reality. Invited. Stanford Medicine X | Ed. Palo Alto, CA, US.
- 2018. The Virtual Reality of Healthcare. Invited. IDSA Medical Design Conference. Boston, MA, US.
- 2017. Get involved with design in medicine. Invited. Podcast: AMSA Ad Lib, Episode 67. Virtual, US.
- 2017. AI, Voice UI & Our Pursuit of Enhancing the Patient Experience. Invited. Philadelphia, PA, US.
- 2016. The Role of Culture in Caring for Refugees. Invited. AMSA National Convention. Washington, District of Columbia, US.
- 2016. Physicians and the refugee's journey. Invited. Podcast: AMSA Ad Lib, Episode 35. Virtual, US.
- 2015. Understanding a Refugee's Narrative. Invited. AMSA Fall Conference. New York City, NY, US.
- 2015. How to end your "Us vs. Them" attitude in Global Medicine. Invited. Podcast: AMSA Ad Lib, Episode 27. Virtual, US.
International Presentations
- 2026. GPT GPs: Should medical exams teach AI?. Panelist. HLTH Europe.
- 2023. Designing for Wellness: How Human-Centered Design Can Enhance Physician Resilience. Coalition for Physician Well-Being. Virtual.
- 2023. Home is Where the Health Is: How Digital Health Tools are Decentralizing Healthcare. Inventures. Calgary, CA.
- 2019. The Future Landscape of Global Health (Panelist). Invited. Il Festival Della Salute Globale. Padova, IT.
Selected Publications
Peer-Reviewed Articles
- Schadler, KL, Klopp, AH, Kouzy, R, Krishnamani, P, Filson, R, Moody, A, Grubbs, EG, Munoz, N, Payne, L, Stapleton, S, Chung, C. Knowledge and Use of Artificial Intelligence Among Oncology Faculty and Trainees at a Comprehensive Cancer Center in 2025. JCO Clinical Cancer Informatics 10, 2026. e-Pub 2026. PMID: 42202236.
- Lipe DN, Qdaisat A, Chaftari P, Wattana MK, Krishnamani PP, Reyes-Gibby C, Yeung SJ. Emergency department use by patients who received chimeric antigen receptor T cell infusion therapy. Front Oncol 13:1122329, 2023. e-Pub 2023. PMID: 37007139.
- Krishnamani PP, Qdaisat A, Wattana MK, Lipe DN, Sandoval M, Elsayem A, Cruz Carreras MT, Yeung SJ, Chaftari PS. Characteristics and Outcomes of Patients with Cancer Pain Placed in an Emergency Department Observation Unit. Cancers (Basel) 14(23), 2022. e-Pub 2022. PMID: 36497353.
- Krishnamani, PP. Computed tomography imaging in a pregnant woman presenting to the emergency department after a motor vehicle collision. Visual Journal of Emergency Medicine 29, 2022. e-Pub 2022.
- Srinivasan, A, Brown, J, Krishnamani, PP, Cornett, B, Kesavan, RB, Sarva, ST, Raza, SA, Kayani, WT. Aspirin use is associated with decreased inpatient mortality in patients with COVID-19. American Heart Journal Plus: Cardiology Research and Practice 20, 2022. e-Pub 2022. PMID: 35971534.
- Chaftari P, Lipe DN, Wattana MK, Qdaisat A, Krishnamani PP, Thomas J, Elsayem AF, Sandoval M. Outcomes of Patients Placed in an Emergency Department Observation Unit of a Comprehensive Cancer Center. JCO Oncol Pract 18(4):e574-e585, 2022. e-Pub 2022. PMID: 34905410.
- Gulick, V, Graves, DE, Ames, S, Krishnamani, PP. Effect of a virtual reality-enhanced exercise and education intervention on patient engagement and learning in cardiac rehabilitation. Journal of medical Internet research 23(4), 2021. e-Pub 2021. PMID: 33856355.
- Amen, DG, Krishnamani, PP, Meysami, S, Newberg, A, Raji, C. Classification of Depression, Cognitive Disorders, and Co-Morbid Depression and Cognitive Disorders with Perfusion SPECT Neuroimaging. Journal of Alzheimer's Disease 57(1):253-266, 2017. e-Pub 2017. PMID: 28211813.
Review Articles
- Lee, KL, Msadabwe-Chikuni, SC, Lombe, DC, Nogueras Gonzalez, G, Krishnamani, P, Carriere, P, Huang, A, Sichizya, L, Chiao, EY, Krause, KJ, Lin, LL, Peterson, SK. Use of Interactive, Patient-Centric Mobile Health Technology in Sub-Saharan Africa. JCO Global Oncology 11, 2025. e-Pub 2025. PMID: 40768687.
- Lipe DN, Qdaisat A, Krishnamani PP, Nguyen TD, Chaftari P, El Messiri N, Srinivasan A, Galvis-Carvajal E, Reyes-Gibby CC, Wattana MK. Myocarditis, Myositis, and Myasthenia Gravis Overlap Syndrome Associated with Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors: A Systematic Review. Diagnostics (Basel) 14(16), 2024. e-Pub 2024. PMID: 39202282.
- Krishnamani PP, Sandoval M, Chaftari P, Lipe DN, Qdaisat A, Elsayem A, Wattana MK. The Value Proposition of Observation Medicine in Managing Acute Oncologic Pain. Curr Oncol Rep 24(5):595-602, 2022. e-Pub 2022. PMID: 35192121.
- Krishnamani PP. Undernutrition in Refugee Children. Delaware Journal of Public Health, 2016. e-Pub 2016.
Other Articles
- Krishnamani PP Embracing Artificial Intelligence and Digital Health in Cancer Care. in Advances in Cancer Education and Quality Improvement, 2025.
- An Exploratory Sequential Mixed-Methods Protocol to Design and Evaluate a Hospital- at-Home Program Pilot Study for Patients with Cancer.
Abstracts
- Srinivasan A, Wilson B, Krishnamani PP, Bear M, Jayaram TH, Kesavan R, Sarva S, Patel PR, Alim S. Pneumomediastinum in COVID-19, 2021. e-Pub 2021.
- . Emergency Department Utilization for Patients Receiving Chimeric Antigen Receptor T Cell Infusion Therapy. The Journal of Emergency Medicine.
- . The lethal M triad of myocarditis, myositis, and myasthenia gravis post immune checkpoint inhibitors therapy. The Journal of Emergency Medicine.
- . Utilization of oncologic emergency department observation units by cancer patients presenting with pain. The Journal of Emergency Medicine.
Patents
- Moyer TG, Krishnamani PP, Fischer CB, Holmes D, Naik T. Virtual reality training for medical events. Patent Number: 11540883.
Patient Reviews
CV information above last modified September 11, 2026