Ali Haider Dhanaliwala, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Radiology at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Active Medical Staff - Radiologist - Abdominal Imaging, Pennsylvania Hospital
Active Medical Staff - Radiologist - Abdominal Imaging, Penn Presbyterian Medical Center
Active Medical Staff - Radiologist - Abdominal Imaging, Chester County Hospital
Assistant Director, Center for Practice Transformation
Attending Radiologist - Abdominal Imaging, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Program Director, Mixed Reality, Penn Image Guided Interventional Laboratory
Medical Director, CT center (previously Center for Advanced CT Imaging Services [CACTIS])
Department: Radiology
Contact information
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Department of Radiology
Division of Abdominal Imaging
3400 Spruce St, 1 Silverstein
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Department of Radiology
Division of Abdominal Imaging
3400 Spruce St, 1 Silverstein
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Publications
Education:
BS (Bioengineering )
University of Pennsylvania School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, 2007.
DPhil (Biomedical Engineering)
University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied Sciences,, 2015.
MD (Medicine )
University of Virginia School of Medicine, 2017.
Permanent linkBS (Bioengineering )
University of Pennsylvania School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, 2007.
DPhil (Biomedical Engineering)
University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied Sciences,, 2015.
MD (Medicine )
University of Virginia School of Medicine, 2017.
Description of Clinical Expertise
Ultrasound, Spectral CT, Sjogren'sDescription of Research Expertise
Medical extended reality (MXR), contrast enhanced ultrasound (CEUS), Spectral CT, Opportunistic screening, InformaticsSelected Publications
Dhanaliwala,Ali H., Egeth,Marc, Privitera,Mary Beth: Surgery is not a game: the importance of human centered design in medical extended reality device development. Frontiers in Virtual Reality 6, July 2025 Notes: DOI: 10.3389/frvir.2025.1580467.Ali H. Dhanaliwala, Tessa Cook: ED-Radiology Imaging Dashboard. Podcast, https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/9-ed-radiology-imaging-dashboard/id1778312670?i=1000690962346 February 2025.
Dhanaliwala AH, Deutsch AJ, Moon J, Lalevic D, Chambers C, Cook TS.: Development and Deployment of an Emergency Department Radiology Dashboard to Improve Communication and Transparency of Radiologic Imaging and Report Status. J Am Coll Radiol 22(2): 191-199, Feb 2025 Notes: doi: 10.1016/j.jacr.2024.11.024. Epub 2024 Nov 29.
Karp, John, Weber, Daniel, Sheng, Mike, Harrison, Neil, Gade, Terence, Williams, Noel, Dumon, Kristoffel, Dhanaliwala, Ali: Evaluating the benefit of immersive virtual reality in training radiology residents to manage contrast reactions. Proceedings Volume 13411, Medical Imaging 2025: Imaging Informatics; 1341116 (2025) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3046834. SPIE, 13411, 2025.
Samar Kayfan, Terence Gade, Ali Dhanaliwala: Bringing Augmented Reality to the Interventional Radiology Suite: Our Initial 40 Patient Experience. Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiological Society of Europe Annual Meeting 2025.
Patel,Shray A., Covell,Michael M., Patel,Saarang, Kandregula,Sandeep, Palepu,Sai Krishna, Gajjar,Avi A., Shekhtman,Oleg, Sioutas,Georgios S., Dhanaliwala,Ali, Gade,Terence, Burkhardt,Jan-Karl, Srinivasan,Visish M.: Advancing endovascular neurosurgery training with extended reality: opportunities and obstacles for the next decade. Frontiers in Surgery 11: 1440228, Aug 2024 Notes: doi: 10.3389/fsurg.2024.1440228.
S. Ghodsara, T. Cook, A. Dhanaliwala: Fine Tuning RadBERT to Predict Abdominal MR Protocols. Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM) Annual Meeting, Oral Talk June 2024.
John Karp, Daniel Weber, Mike Sheng, Neil Harrison, Kristoffel Dumon, Noel Williams, Terence Gade, Ali Dhanaliwala: Development of a Virtual Reality simulation for training residents in managing contrast reactions. Pendergrass Annual Symposium, Philadelphia, PA June 2024.
Wang SY, O'Brien SR, Dhanaliwala AH, Simpson SA, Scanlon MH, Nachiappan AC: Learn-and-Apply Approach to Teach Interpretation of CT Pulmonary Angiogram with Use of Pacsbin Cases for Assessment. Pendergrass Symposium, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA June 2024.
Kolpan KE, Vadala J, Dhanaliwala A, Chao T.: Utilizing augmented reality for reconstruction of fractured, fragmented and damaged craniofacial remains in forensic anthropology. Forensic Sci Int 357: 111995, Apr 2024 Notes: doi: 10.1016/j.forsciint.2024.111995. Epub 2024 Mar 18.