Denise J Xu, MD
Assistant Professor of Clinical Neurology
Assistant Program Director, Neurology Residency, University of Pennsylvania
Director for the Neurology Sub-I, University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine
Penn PORTAL Clinician Leader, University of Pennsylvania
Department: Neurology
Contact information
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
3400 Spruce Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
3400 Spruce Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Education:
BA (Bachelor of Arts in Neurobiology, Magna Cum Laude, Citation in Mandarin Chinese)
Harvard College, Cambridge, MA, 2011.
MD (Medical Doctor, Certificate in Medical Education)
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, 2018.
BA (Bachelor of Arts in Neurobiology, Magna Cum Laude, Citation in Mandarin Chinese)
Harvard College, Cambridge, MA, 2011.
MD (Medical Doctor, Certificate in Medical Education)
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, 2018.
Post-Graduate Training
Preliminary Year, Internal Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, 2018-2019.
Neurology Residency, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 2019-2022.
Neurohospitalist Fellowship, University of California, San Francisco, CA, 2022-2023.
Permanent linkPreliminary Year, Internal Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, 2018-2019.
Neurology Residency, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 2019-2022.
Neurohospitalist Fellowship, University of California, San Francisco, CA, 2022-2023.
Description of Other Expertise
Undergraduate medical education, graduate medical education, quality improvementSelected Publications
Karamardian M, Stein L, Resnick D, Chambers C, Peachey C, Malinovitch A, Rosin R, Bae C, Buckley M, Xu DJ: “Restoring Sleep for Neurology Inpatients” American Academy of Neurology, Denver, CO April 2024 Notes: Platform presentation and accepted abstract.Lebron-Cruz A, Liu P, Venezia G, Ljungberg L, Peachey C, Buckley M, Karamardian M, Xu DJ, Bae C, Stein L, Ellis C: "Characterizing Inpatient Sleep on the Neurology Service" American Academy of Neurology, Denver, CO April 2024 Notes: Poster and accepted abstract.
Douglas AG, Xu DJ, Shah MP: "Approach to Myelopathy and Myelitis" Neurologic Clinics 40(1): 133-156, February 2022.
Xu DJ, Murphy K, Balu R, Rosenberg J: "Clinical Reasoning: A man with rapidly progressive weakness and respiratory failure" Neurology 91(7): e686-e691, August 2018.
Perrone C, Xu DJ, Ganguly T, Kurowski D, Mullen M, and Pruitt A: "A case of CNS Lyme disease presenting with multiple cranial neuropathies and mimicking a B cell lymphoma" American Academy of Neurology, Boston, MA April 2017 Notes: Poster and accepted abstract.
Oakes BL, Xia DF, Rowland EF, Xu DJ, Ankoudinova I, Borchardt JS, Zhang L, Li P, Miller JC, Rebar EJ, Noyes MB.: "Multi-reporter Selection for the Design of Active and More Specific Zinc-finger Nucleases for Genome Editing" Nature Communications 7: 10194, January 2016.
Persikov AV, Wetzel JL, Rowland EF, Oakes BL, Xu DJ, Singh M, Noyes MB: "Systematic Survey of the Cys2His2 Zinc Finger DNA-binding Landscape" Nucleic Acids Research 43(3): 1965-84, February 2015.
Persikov AV, Wetzel JL, Rowland EF, Oakes BL, Xu DJ, Singh M, Noyes MB: "A systematic survey of the Cys2His2 zinc finger DNA-binding landscape" Nucleic Acids Research 43(3): 1965-84, February 2015.
Xu DJ, Noyes MB: "Understanding DNA-binding specificity by bacteria hybrid selection" Briefings in Functional Genomics 14(1): 3-16, January 2015.
Goggin-Callahan D, Baker J, Bennett R, Clark M, Hersey E, Riccardi F, Torbattejad M, Xu DJ: "New York's Medicare Marketplace: Examining New York's Medicare Advantage Plan Landscape in Light of Payment Reform" Care Management Journal 14(3): 187-196, 2013.