
Avani Prabhakar, MBBS, MPH
Hospice and Palliative Care
- Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Faculty
About Avani Prabhakar
Primary Academic Title
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Background
Dr. Avani Prabhakar is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. She provides direct clinical care to hospitalized patients with serious illness as part of inpatient palliative care consultation team at the main campus of The Johns Hopkins Hospital.
In 2003, she came to United States to pursue Master of Public Health at The Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health which she completed with concentration in Epidemiological and Biostatistical Methods for Public Health and Clinical Research.
Dr. Prabhakar is born and raised in Gujarat State, India and earned her medical degree MBBS from Smt. N.H.L. Municipal Medical College, Gujarat State, India and completed her residency training at East Tennessee State University Quillen College of Medicine and Wayne State University School of Medicine Detroit Medical Center.
Dr. Prabhakar has practiced hospital medicine at Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak in private group practice with Hospital Consultants where she led Physician Quality Reporting System initiative. She was elected member at large from 2012-2015 at Beaumont Health System. She practiced Hospice and Palliative Medicine at Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak providing directing clinical care to hospitalized seriously ill patients as part of inpatient palliative care interdisciplinary team and served as Attending Physician in inpatient hospice unit, during which time she was lead teaching faculty on Palliative care clinical elective for internal medicine residency and Clinical Ethics elective for medical students.
Dr. Prabhakar’s interests are Narrative Medicine and Mindfulness Meditation. Her clinical practice is infused with principles of narrative medicine and mindfulness. She is a Certified Mindfulness teacher by International Mindfulness Teachers Association. She has led Narrative Medicine workshops and taught Mindfulness Meditation to various groups including medical students, residents, fellows, cancer survivors at Johns Hopkins and beyond in national and international mindfulness communities.
Recent News Articles and Media Coverage
- Empathy at end of life, CLOSLER May 2021
- Validating my patient’s despair, CLOSLER May 2021
- 4 Things to consider when supporting patients through difficult times, CLOSLER July 2021
- Responding instead of reacting, CLOSLER July 2021
- Patient-Family Conflict, CLOSLER August 2021
- What patient’s with serious illness want to know most, CLOSLER December 2021
- Throw the heart machine out the window, CLOSLER February 2022
- Listening to my patient's anger, CLOSLER March 2022
- Explainaholics, CLOSLER April 2022
- Listening to your patients’ grief, CLOSLER April 2022
- Life Long Learning In Clinical Excellence, Between the lines(May 25, 2022)
- Life Long Learning In Clinical Excellence, Pause, Relax, Open (June 13, 2022 )
- Life Long Learning In Clinical Excellence, Life is short (June 30 2022)
- Life Long Learning In Clinical Excellence, Sharing one more pint (July 26, 2022)
- Processing the ICU experience, Connecting with Patients (August 4,2022)
- A Mother's death, Connecting with Patients (August 11, 2022)
- The Fist Bump, Connecting with Patients (September 28, 2022)
- Still working after all these years, Connecting with Patients (April 12, 2023)
- Love and Loss, Passion in the Medical Profession (May 3, 2023)
- Clinging to hope, Passion in the Medical Profession (October 2023)
- Toxic Positivity, Connecting with Patients (April 10, 2024)
- When the end is near, Connecting with Patients (April 5 2024)
Selected Publications
- Prabhakar, A. and L. MacLean, The Interface Between Psychiatry and Palliative Medicine. Advances in Psychiatry and Behavioral Health, 2022. 2(1): p. 231-239.
- Prabhakar, A. and T.J. Smith, Total Pain #417. Journal of Palliative Medicine, 2021. 24(7): p. 1100-1101.
- Sakulsaengprapha, V. and A. Prabhakar, Annals Graphic Medicine - A Box of Chocolates. Annals of Internal Medicine, 2022. 175(2): p. W19.
Locations
- The Johns Hopkins Hospital
- 1800 Orleans Street, Baltimore, MD 21287
- phone: 410-955-5000
- fax: 410-955-5001
Expertise
Education
Wayne State University School of Medicine
Residency, Internal Medicine, 2010East Tennessee State Quillen College of Medicine
Residency, 2008Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Graduate School, MPH, 2004Smt NHL Municipal Medical College
Medical Education, MBBS, 2002Board Certifications
Hospice and Palliative Medicine
American Board of Internal Medicine, 2022Internal Medicine
American Board of Internal Medicine, 2021Insurance
- Aetna
- CareFirst
- Cigna
- First Health
- Geisinger Health Plan
- HealthSmart/Accel
- Humana
- Johns Hopkins Health Plans
- MultiPlan
- Pennsylvania's Preferred Health Networks (PPHN)
- Point Comfort Underwriters
- Private Healthcare Systems (PHCS)
- UnitedHealthcare
- Veteran Affairs Community Care Network (Optum-VACCN)