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Deepshikha Ashana

Assistant Professor of Medicine
Medicine, Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine
Box 102352, Durham, NC 27710
115 Hanes House, 315 Trent Drive, Durham, NC 27710

Selected Grants


Improving needs among older adults: the ICUconnect 2 primary palliative care RCT

ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2024 - 2029

Racial disparities in shared decision making for patients with acute respiratory failure

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2022 - 2027

Towards a trauma-informed intensive care unit

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Inc. · 2023 - 2026

Racial Disparities in Emotion-Handling in the ICU

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by American Thoracic Society · 2022 - 2023

Traumatic Life Events Among Family Members of ICU Patients

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Palliative Care Research Center · 2021 - 2022

Trauma, conflict, and racial disparities in the intensive care unit

FellowshipPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by American Thoracic Society · 2020 - 2022

Fellowships, Gifts, and Supported Research


Fellowship in Health Equality · July 2020 - July 2021 Awarded by: American Thoracic Society