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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

Dr. Frances E. Jensen - in the Jensen/Talos Lab 

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

 

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

 

Division Chiefs (click on each to visit their division pages)

 

 

 

Site Chiefs

  • Site Chief: Pennsylvania Hospital: Ray Price, MD
  • Site Chief: Presbyterian Hospital: Sashank Prasad, MD
  • Site Chief: VA Hospital: Allison Willis, MD
  • Site Chief: CHOP Brenda Banwell, MD

 

Program Directors

  • Residency Training: Ray Price, MD; Geoff Aguirre, MD, PhD; Laura Stein, MD; Kelley Humbert, MD; Rohini Samudralwar, MD; Denise Xu, MD
  • Wellness: Jennifer Orthmann-Murphy, MD; Danielle Sandsmark, MD
  • IDARE: Roy Hamilton, MD
  • Clinical Informatics: David Do, MD
  • Clinical Operations: Dina Jacobs, MD
  • Awards: Branch Coslett, MD; Howard Hurtig, MD
  • Clinical Research: Michael Gelfand, MD, PhD

 

Administrative Leaders:

  • Chief Operating Officer: Michael Kalfin
  • Director of Finance: Ellen O’Neill
  • Director of Operations: Caitlin Smith
  • Director of Academic Affairs and Education: Natalie Marciano
  • Director of Nursing: Kristin McCabe, RN
  • Director of Grants Administration: Ellen Solvibile and Rachel DeAngelis
  • Director of Clinical Research Operations: Naseem Kerr

 

Penn/CHOP Integrated Neurology Programs

2024 Penn Pavilion and The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
2024 New Penn Pavilion and The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia buildings 

Penn

176 Faculty

 

CHOP

79 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

 

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

 

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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Overview of the present Penn Neurology Department Divisions, Volumes, Productivity, Stats, Education and TCE's

Translational Centers of Excellences - Neurology Centers and Programs

Precision Neuroscience/MIND                     

Alice Chen-Plotkin, MD

 

Neurogenetics                              

Steve Scherer, MD

 

Penn Center for Neuroaesthetics  

Anjan Chatterjee, MD, PhD

 

Center for Neuroinflammation and Experimental Therapeutics

Amit Bar-Or, MD

 

Neuronal mechanisms for auditory learning

Maria Geffen, MD

 

Traumatic Brain Injury Clinical Research Initiative

Ramon Diaz-Arrastia, MD, PhD

 

Penn Epilepsy Center

Kathryn Davis, MD

 

Brain Science Center 

John A. Detre, MD

Autoimmune Neurology                                 

Eric Lancaster, MD, PhD

 

Center for Neuroengineering & Therapeutics                         

Brian Litt, M.D

 

Penn Center for Neuro-Cardio Protection (PCNC)  

Steven Messé, MD

 

Neuroepidemiology, Neurological Outcomes & Disparities Research

Nabila Dahodwala, MD, MS, Allison W. Willis, MD, MS

Penn Memory Center

David Wolk, MD

Brain Stim Center

Roy Hamilton, MD

Penn Comprehensive ALS Center

Lauren Elman, MD and Colin Quinn, MD

 

 

RECOVER Program

David Fischer, MD

Other Neurology Departmental and Affiliated Centers to review the full list click here.

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Locations

 Penn Neurology Locations shown on this map, click on bolded sites below history summary overview:

                    
  • Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (beginning year – Present)
  • Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (beginning year – Present)
  • Pennsylvania Hospital (beginning year – Present)
  • Penn Presbyterian Hospital (beginning year – Present)
  • Philadelphia General Hospital (beginning year – ending year)
  • Philadelphia Infirmary for Nervous Diseases (beginning year – ending year)
  • Graduate Hospital (now Penn Medicine Rittenhouse) (beginning year – Present)
  • VA (beginning year – Present)
  • Penn Medicine University City (beginning year – Present)

 

  • Neurology External Affiliates:
  • Penn Medicine Valley Forge
  • Penn Medicine Radnor
  • Lancaster General
  • Penn Medicine Kennett Square
  • Penn Medicine Westtown
  • Penn Medicine West Chester
  • Chester County Hospital
  • Penn Medicine Woodbury Heights
  • Penn Medicine Cherry Hill
  • Penn Medicine Mount Laurel
  • Lawrenceville Neurology
  • Virtual Neurology
Neurology Locations, Affiliates Sites and the history of Neurology's expansion can be learned here - click on the
site summaries for an overview.

 

Philanthropic Overview

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FY23 Philanthropic Funds

 

NEUROLOGY SYNERGIES

 

 

Neurology Synergies 

 

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