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Avani Prabhakar

Avani Prabhakar, MBBS, MPH

Hospice and Palliative Care

Johns Hopkins Affiliations:
  • Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Faculty

Languages

  • Gujarati
  • Hindi
  • English

14 Insurances Accepted

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Gender

Female

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

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

  1. The Johns Hopkins Hospital
    • 1800 Orleans Street, Baltimore, MD 21287

    Expertise

    Education

    Wayne State University School of Medicine

    Residency, Internal Medicine, 2010

    East Tennessee State Quillen College of Medicine

    Residency, 2008

    Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

    Graduate School, MPH, 2004

    Smt NHL Municipal Medical College

    Medical Education, MBBS, 2002

    Board Certifications

    Hospice and Palliative Medicine

    American Board of Internal Medicine, 2022

    Internal Medicine

    American Board of Internal Medicine, 2021

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