Allison Kratka, MD

Assistant Professor

Dr. Kratka is a general cardiologist trained in echocardiography (ultrasound of the heart). Her research focuses on cardiac implantable electronic devices, remote monitoring of heart failure patients, heart failure readmissions and insurance coverage for invasive coronary angiography.

Education

07/2025 - Advanced Echocardiography Fellowship, University of California San Francisco

07/2024 - General Cardiology Fellowship, University of California San Francisco

07/2021 - Internal Medicine Residency, Brigham and Women's Hospital

MD, 05/2018 - , Duke University School of Medicine

Honors and Awards

Fellow of the Year Award, California ACC, 2023
Resident Mentor Award, Brigham and Women's Hospital, 2021

Publications

Longfellow GA, Choksi V, Ubel PA, Kratka A, Buchbinder M, Kirby C, Davis JK, Hawley ST, Sepucha K, Specht M, Lee C. Who's Deciding? A Study of Patient-Surgeon Discussions About Contralateral Prophylactic Mastectomy. The American surgeon 2025. PMID: 40971480
Kratka A, Rotering TL, Munson S, Raitt MH, Whooley MA, Dhruva S. Patient and Clinician Perspectives on Alert-Based Remote Monitoring-First Care for Cardiovascular Implantable Electronic Devices: Semistructured Interview Study Within the Veterans Health Administration. JMIR cardio 2025. PMID: 40184550
Fozouni L, Feseha S, Kratka A, Mallidi J. Nicardipine-Induced Acute Hypoxia in a Patient With Type B Aortic Dissection. JACC. Case reports 2024. PMID: 39691346
Kratka A, Rohrbach G, Puckett C, Rotering TL, Raitt MH, Whooley MA, Dhruva SS. Implementation of a Cardiovascular Implantable Electronic Device Heart Failure Prediction Tool-Guided Management Pathway. The American journal of cardiology 2024. PMID: 39395594
Kratka A, Redberg RF. Coronary In-Stent Restenosis Treated With Paclitaxel-Coated Balloon vs Uncoated Balloon. JAMA 2024. PMID: 38865118
Kratka A, Rotering TL, Raitt MH, Whooley MA, Dhruva SS. Informational letters or postcards to initiate remote monitoring among veterans with pacemakers and implantable cardioverter-defibrillators: A randomized, controlled trial. Pacing and clinical electrophysiology : PACE 2024. PMID: 38556540
Kratka A, Tedrow UB, Mitchell RN, Miller AL, Loscalzo J. A Stormy Heart. The New England journal of medicine 2023. PMID: 36599065
Kratka A, Yozamp N, Vaidya A, Marqusee E. A Periodic Problem. The New England journal of medicine 2021. PMID: 34320291
Kratka AK, Britton KA, Thompson RW, Wasfy JH. National Hospital Initiatives to Improve Performance on Heart Failure Readmission Metrics. Cardiovascular revascularization medicine : including molecular interventions 2020. PMID: 33339772
Kratka A, Ubel PA, Scherr K, Murray B, Eyal N, Kirby C, Katz MN, Holtzman L, Pollak K, Freedburg K, Blumenthal-Barby J. HIV Cure Research: Risks Patients Expressed Willingness to Accept. Ethics & human research 2019. PMID: 31743627
Murray BR, Kratka A, Scherr KA, Eyal N, Blumenthal-Barby J, Freedberg KA, Kuritzkes DR, Hammitt JK, Edifor R, Katz MN, Pollak KI, Zikmund-Fisher BJ, Halpern SD, Barks MC, Ubel PA. What risk of death would people take to be cured of HIV and why? A survey of people living with HIV. Journal of virus eradication 2019. PMID: 31191914
Kratka A, Wong CA, Herrmann R, Hong K, Karediya A, Yang I, Ubel PA. Finding Health Care Prices Online-How Difficult Is It to Be an Informed Health-Care Consumer? JAMA internal medicine 2018. PMID: 29204598
Armstrong SC, Puhl R, Skinner AC, Kratka A. Person-first language in pediatric obesity research. Pediatric obesity 2017. PMID: 28299909
Salloum RG, Abbyad CW, Kohler RE, Kratka AK, Oh L, Wood KA. Assessing preferences for a university-based smoking cessation program in Lebanon: a discrete choice experiment. Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco 2014. PMID: 25239962