Shilpee Sinha, MBBS

Bio

Dr. Shilpee Sinha is a Palliative Care Physician with Indiana University Health Medical Group and Associate Professor of Medicine at the Indiana University School of Medicine. With nearly 20 years of experience in palliative medicine, she serves as Section Chief for Palliative Medicine within the Division of General Internal Medicine and Geriatrics. She previously served as Service Line Leader for the Adult Academic Health Center at IUHMG.

A graduate of Armed Forces Medical College in India, Dr. Sinha completed her Internal Medicine residency and served as a Chief Resident at Overlook Hospital/UMDNJ , and a Hospice and Palliative Medicine fellowship at Beth Israel Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine, NY. She joined IU Health in 2006 as a Hospitalist delivering primary palliative care and served as an Associate Medical Director for Ruth Lilly Hospice.

With the inception of the Palliative Care department in 2011, Dr. Sinha played a key leadership role in expanding IUH’s palliative care into inpatient, community, clinic, home, and innovative virtual models serving thousands of patients annually.

Dr. Sinha is a Fellow of the ACP and AAHPM. Her honors include the IUSoM ASPIRE Scholarship, the IUHP Gold Award, the Alpha Omega Alpha Award, the IUH President’s Values Award, and the John F. Fitzgerald Award for Leadership. Her passion is advancing care for patients with serious illness both at a specialty level and at a primary level.