- Department
- 150 Year Anniversary
- Timeline
- Frances Elizabeth Jensen, Chair
Listen to Frances E. Jensen talk about challenges: Check out full video here: Jensen Interviews: full and snippets
Frances Elizabeth Jensen, Chair, 2012 — present
Dr. Jensen is Professor of Neurology and Chair of Neurology at the Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, and Co-Director of Penn Translational Neuroscience Center.
She was formerly Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School, Director of
Translational Neuroscience and senior neurologist at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Boston Children’s Hospital. After receiving her AB from Smith College and MD from Cornell Medical College, she obtained her neurology residency training at the Harvard Longwood Neurology Residency Program. Her research focuses on mechanisms of epilepsy, and the interaction of epilepsy with other disorders such as autism and dementia, to elucidate new therapies for clinical trials development. She has authored over 150 manuscripts on subjects related to her research and has been continuously funded by NIH since 1987 and was the recipient of a NIH Director’s Pioneer Award in 2007 and a NIH-NINDS Javits Award in 2020. Dr. Jensen was elected as a member of the National Academy of Medicine in 2015 and the recipient of the Smith College Medal in 2020. Dr. Jensen has trained numerous clinical and basic research fellows who now hold independent faculty positions nationally and internationally. Dr. Jensen served as President of the American Neurological Association (2021-2023) and President of the American Epilepsy Society in 2012. She has served on multiple leadership boards including Society for Neuroscience and NIH. Dr. Jensen is a Trustee of the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia and is involved in community outreach for brain research and education. In addition, Dr. Jensen is an advocate for awareness of the adolescent brain development, its unique strengths and vulnerabilities, as well as their impact on medical, social, and educational issues unique to teenagers and young adults, and author of the book “The Teenage Brain", released by Harper Collins in 2015/16, translated and published in over 25 languages worldwide.
Departmental Structure and Our Team
Faculty and Administrative Leaders of Neurology
Chair of Neurology Department - Frances E. Jensen, MD, FACP
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Vice Chairs: Clinical Affairs: Scott Kasner, MD Education: Amy Pruitt, MD Research: Jay Gottfried, MD, PhD Inclusion/Diversity: Roy Hamilton, MD Operations: Josh Levine, MD Quality/Improvement: Monisha Kumar, MD Faculty Development/Affairs: Dennis Kolson, MD, PhD Finance: Grant Liu, MD Development: Matt Stern, MD
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Division Chiefs (click on each to visit their division pages)
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Penn/CHOP Integrated Neurology Programs
Penn176 Faculty |
CHOP79 Faculty |
Clinical: Outpatient - >90K per year 3 central inpatient sites >2000 discharges 7 off-site inpatient sites 6+ satellite locations and affiliates Research: >$55M/yr in external research funding 65% federal ~220 clinical trials
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Clinical: 1 central and 9 satellite outpatient sites >37,000 outpatient 3 inpatient sites >11,000 inpatient days Research ~10M/yr in external research funding 70 clinical trials
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Penn Neurology Clinical Programs and Services
Visit our Clinical Services and Programs site for detailed information on how we treat patients with basic and complex neurological disorders or visit: Neurology - Penn Medicine
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An Overview of Penn Medicine's Department of Neurology
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Translational Centers of Excellences - Neurology Centers and Programs |
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Alice Chen-Plotkin, MD
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Steve Scherer, MD
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Penn Center for Neuroaesthetics Anjan Chatterjee, MD, PhD
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Center for Neuroinflammation and Experimental Therapeutics Amit Bar-Or, MD
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Neuronal mechanisms for auditory learning Maria Geffen, MD
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Traumatic Brain Injury Clinical Research Initiative Ramon Diaz-Arrastia, MD, PhD
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Kathryn Davis, MD
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John A. Detre, MD |
Eric Lancaster, MD, PhD
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Center for Neuroengineering & Therapeutics Brian Litt, M.D
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Penn Center for Neuro-Cardio Protection (PCNC) Steven Messé, MD
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Neuroepidemiology, Neurological Outcomes & Disparities Research Nabila Dahodwala, MD, MS, Allison W. Willis, MD, MS |
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Roy Hamilton, MD |
Lauren Elman, MD and Colin Quinn, MD
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Programs - Awards, DEI, Wellness, Professionalism, History – one paragraph of our programs
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Locations
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Philanthropic Overview
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Major Discoveries and Events at Penn during this time
- School issues university wide action plan for diversity an excellence 2012
- Dr. Ali Jadbabaie, professor of electrical and systems engineering in Penn's School of Engineering and Applied Science, is the recipient of a 2012 Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) Award. His project, "Evolution of Cultural Norms and Dynamics of Socio-Political Change," will include collaborations with researchers at Cornell, MIT, Stanford and Georgia Tech. Funding for the project is $7.5 million over five years.
- Anita Allen appointed vice provost for Faculty in 2013 by Provost Vincent Price
- Vice Dean for Diversity and Inclusion at PSOM: Eve J. Higginbotham August 2013 – first Vice Dean for DEI.
Penn medicine performs 1,000th lung transplant 2016
Grand Opening of Perry World House: September 2016
Major Translational Research and Clinical Advances during this era
Departmental and Translational Centers of Excellence in Translational Neuroscience and date of inception (will soon link to each summary and page of these TCE's)
- Comprehensive Stroke Center – 2013 (Kasner)
- Parkinson’s Disease Center of Excellence - 2013 (Stern/Siderowf)
- Neuroengineering – 2013 (Litt)
- Auto-immune Neurology – 2013- (Lancaster/Dalmau)
- ALS Center of Excellence – 2014 (McCluskey/Elman, Quinn)
- Neuro-outcomes/population health – 2014 (Willis)
- Huntington’s Disease Center of Excellence (Gonzalez-Alegre/Lasker)
- Clinical Traumatic Brain Injury Center – 2016 (Diaz Arrastia)
- Center for Neuroinflammation – 2017 (Bar-Or)
- MIND initiative/Precision Neuroscience – 2018 (Chen-Plotkin)
- Neuro-Cardiac Protection Program – 2018 (Messe)
- Neurogene therapy Center – 2019 (Gonzalez Alegre/Scherer)
- Center for Cognitive Neurology- 2020 (Detre)
- Brain Stim Center – 2020 (Hamilton)
Major Accomplishments of Jensen Era:
- Stroke – reversal of stroke with TPA/altepase, then thrombectomy up to 24 hours after stroke
- Epilepsy – >10 new antiepileptic drugs, implementation of laser ablation, development and implantation of closed loop stimulators
- Multiple Sclerosis - Immunotherapies for progressive MS- Ocrevus, and second generation
- Movement Disorders – new biomarkers, disease modifiers, DBS, focused ultrasound
- Cognitive Neurology – biomarkers (PET, blood) to predict dementia, aducanamab Rx
- Neuromuscular – Gene therapy – Spinraza/Zolgensma – now neuropathy, ALS, dementia
- Neuro-ophthalmology – Optical coherance tomography to assess retinal disease
- General Neurology – autoimmune panels, telemedicine, CGRP inhibitors for migraine
- Neurocritical Care – State of-the-art neuroinformatics/AI
People of this era
- Roy Hamilton (first black full tenured professor in Neurology at Penn)
Neurology Firsts of this Era
2013 Grant Liu elected the first Director of the Consortium of Pediatric Neuro-ophthalmologists
2015 Anjan Chatterjee First Neuroaesthestic Center
2020 First Successful treatment with Baricitinib of the of The Aicardi–Goutières syndrome, a genetic interferonopathy that is associated with severe disability and death