Shilpee Sinha, M.D.

Bio

Dr. Shilpee Sinha is a Palliative Care Physician at Indiana University Health and an Associate Professor of Medicine with the Indiana University School of Medicine. She has close to 20 years of experience in the field of Palliative Care. She is the past Service Line Leader for the Indiana University Health Palliative Care Services at the Adult Academic Health Center. She graduated with honors from Armed Forces Medical College, India and completed her Residency in Internal Medicine at Overlook Hospital, a UMDNJ affiliated program in New Jersey. After completing a Fellowship in Hospice and Palliative care at Beth Israel Medical Center Manhattan, Albert Einstein College of Medicine she joined the IU System in 2006.

Dr. Sinha started working as a Hospitalist, providing primary palliative care and additionally served as an Associate Medical Director for the Ruth Lilly Hospice. Dr. Sinha transitioned to the Palliative Care department in 2011 when it was formally established. During her years in service, she has been an integral part of the effort to build the IUH Palliative Care footprint and establish benchmarks in accordance with national programs, developed a strategic growth plan to expand the outreach and footprint of the service line dramatically to its current strength. The program has grown from a small service on the inpatient side to what now covers the two large academic center hospitals, the smaller suburban hospitals, 12 + embedded specialty ambulatory clinics, a home-based team and a novel virtual hub-based team that provides consultations to critical access hospitals across the state as well as to patients in their home to serve over  4000 patients in 2022 and continue to grow in volume and number of lives touched .

Dr. Sinha is a recipient of the IU school of medicines ASPIRE scholarship from 2017-2018. She is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians and Fellow of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine. She has received the Indiana University Health Physicians Gold Award for service through the pandemic. She has  also personally been nominated by the Department of Medicine and awarded the Alpha Omega Alpha award an honor signifying a lasting commitment to professionalism, leadership, scholarship, research, and community service. Under her leadership her team received the IUH President’s Values award 2 times, once in 2016 and then again for their dedicated service through the pandemic in 2020 (the single highest Values Award throughout the system). She received the Indiana University Health Physicians John F. Fitzgerald Award for Leadership in 2022