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
Affiliate Faculty, Institute of Data Science in Oncology (IDSO), IDSO, MD Anderson Cancer, 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
Faculty Academic Appointments
Instructor, Emergency Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, 2023 - 2025
Administrative Appointments/Responsibilities
Director, AI and Digital Health Education, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, 2026 - Present
Physician Innovation Partner, Technology, Data, and Innovation Team, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, 2026 - Present
Faculty Senator, Faculty Senate, UT MD Anderson Cancer Center, 2024 - 2025
Lab Co-Founder; Product Innovation & Research Lead, DICE XR Lab at Jefferson, Thomas Jefferson University, Houston, Texas, 2017 - 2018
Clinical Lead, DICE Cognitive Patient Room Initiative, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 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
Co-Chair, AI Advisory Council, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, 2026 - Present
Steering Committee Member, UT REAL AI Education & Upskilling, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, 2026 - Present
Chair, Artificial Intelligence & Digital Health, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, 2024 - Present
Co-Director, AI & Digital Health Hackathon, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, 2024 - Present
Collaborator, Care & Monitoring at Home Program, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, 2022 - 2024
Extramural Institutional Committee Activities
Member, Texas Medical Association, MD Anderson Cancer Center, 2026 - Present
Vice Chair, American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP), MD Anderson Cancer Center, 2025 - Present
Board Member, Texas College of Emergency Physicians, MD Anderson Cancer Center, 2025 - 2026
Reviewer, SmartHealth Program, National Science Foundation (NSF), National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Science Foundation, 2023 - Present
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 |
Professional Memberships
Selected Presentations & Talks
Local Presentations
- 2026. Leading Through Transformation: The Human Side of Healthcare. Invited. Healthcare Innovation Summit 2026. Houston, Texas, US.
- 2026. AI in Medicine. Invited. MD Anderson LBJ Faculty Consensus. Houston, Texas, US.
- 2026. Copilot Workshop. Invited. MD Anderson’s DEM Didactics. 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.
- 2019. Human Centered Innovation: How to Approach Digital Innovation in an Evolving Healthcare Ecosystem. Invited. Disease Prevention & Health Promotion Lectureship. Newark, DE, 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.
- 2016. Designing for Refugee Health. Invited. College Park, Maryland, US.
Regional Presentations
- 2016. Designing for Refugee Health. Invited. Workshop: University of Maryand, MD, US.
National Presentations
- 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. San Diego, California, US.
- 2025. AI in Healthcare. Panelist. RICE AI in Healthcare. Houston, Texas, US.
- 2024. The Innovation Studio: Artificial Intelligence in Oncology. Invited. Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare Summit. San Diego, CA, US.
- 2023. Doctor's Orders: Go Home!. Invited. South By Southwest. Austin, TX, US.
- 2023. Home is Where the Health Is: How Digital Health Tools are Decentralizing Healthcare. Inventures. Calgary, CA.
- 2021. Designing for Wellness: How Human-Centered Design Can Enhance Physician Resilience. Invited. Coalition for Physician Well-Being Annual Conference.
- 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.
- 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. AI, Voice UI & Our Pursuit of Enhancing the Patient Experience. Invited. Philadelphia, PA, US.
- 2017. Get involved with design in medicine. Invited. Podcast: AMSA Ad Lib, Episode 67. Virtual, 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. How to end your "Us vs. Them" attitude in Global Medicine. Invited. Podcast: AMSA Ad Lib, Episode 27. Virtual, US.
- 2015. Understanding a Refugee's Narrative. Invited. AMSA Fall Conference. New York City, NY, US.
International Presentations
- 2026. GPT GPs: Should medical exams teach AI?. Panelist. HLTH Europe.
- 2023. Home is Where the Health Is: How Digital Health Tools are Decentralizing Healthcare. Invited. Inventures. Calgary, CA.
- 2023. Designing for Wellness: How Human-Centered Design Can Enhance Physician Resilience. Coalition for Physician Well-Being. Virtual.
- 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
- Aiham Qdaisat, Pavitra Krishnamani, Trung D. Nguyen, Patrick Chaftari, Monica K. Wattana, Cielito C. Reyes-Gibby, Demis Lipe, Elkin Galvis-Carvajal, Aswin Srinivasan. The lethal M triad of myocarditis, myositis, and myasthenia gravis post immune checkpoint inhibitors therapy. The Journal of Emergency Medicine, 2024. e-Pub 2024.
- Patrick Chaftari, Pavitra Krishnamani, Aiham Qdaisat, Monica Wattana, Demis Lipe, Marcelo Sandoval, Ahmed Elsayem, Maria Cruz Carreras, Sai-Ching Yeung. Utilization of oncologic emergency department observation units by cancer patients presenting with pain. The Journal of Emergency Medicine, 2024. e-Pub 2024.
- 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.
- Demis N Lipe, Aiham Qdaisat, Patrick Chaftari, Monica K Wattana, Pavitra P Krishnamani, Cielito Reyes-Gibby, Sai-Ching J Yeung. Emergency Department Utilization for Patients Receiving Chimeric Antigen Receptor T Cell Infusion Therapy. The Journal of Emergency Medicine. PMID: 37007139.
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 17, 2026