Ajay Kumar, MD, PhD

Radiology
Accepting new patients
Sees patients age 18 and up
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Penn Medicine Provider

About me

  • Assistant Professor of Radiology at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania

My education and training

  • Medical School: Tashkent State Medical University
  • Residency: Safdarjang Hospital
  • Residency: All India Institute of Medical Sciences
  • Residency: Sinai-Grace Hospital
  • Residency: Detroit Medical Center
  • Fellowship: Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Spoken languages

English
English

Insurance accepted

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Penn Medicine hospital privileges

  • Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
  • Pennsylvania Hospital: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
  • Penn Presbyterian Medical Center: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
  • Penn Medicine Rittenhouse Long-Term Acute Care Hospital
  • Chester County Hospital: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
Dr. Kumar is a Penn Medicine physician.

Qualifications and experience

Treatments and conditions

Research

Publications

Archith Rajan, Nishanth Suri, Ajay Kumar, Stephen Bagley, Richard Phillips, Lisa Desiderio, Steven Brem, Laurie Loevner, Suyash Moha, Sanjeev Chawla Multiparametric Histogram Analysis for the Differentiation of IDH-mutant grade-4 Astrocytomas from IDH-wild-type Glioblastoma , ISMRM & ISMRT 2026 Annual Meeting: 2026


Archith Rajan, Ajay Kumar, Stephen Bagley, Richard Philips, Lisa Desiderio, Steven Brem, Laurie A. Loevner, Sanjeev Chawla Quantitative Histogram-Based MRI Biomarkers Distinguish IDH-Mutant from IDH-Wild-Type High-Grade Gliomas , American Society of Neuroradiology 2026 Annual Meeting: 2026


Ajay Kumar, A Luat, Michael E. Behen, Csaba Juhasz Towards Standardized Imaging in Sturge-Weber Syndrome: Development and Validation of a Multiparametric MRI Score Integrating Vascular and Parenchymal Characteristics , American Society of Neuroradiology 2026 Annual Meeting: 2026


Archith Rajan, Daniel Gewolb, Ajay Kumar, Laiz Laura de Godoy, Arati Desai, Zissimos Mourelatos, Steven Brem, Suyash Mohan, Sanjeev Chawla Multiparametric MRI Predicts DCVax-L Response in a Long-Term GBM Survivor , American Society of Neuroradiology 2026 Annual Meeting: 2026


Csaba Juhász, Aimee F Luat, Michael E Behen, Ajay Kumar Introduction of a Brain MRI Scoring System with Clinical Relevance for Sturge-Weber Syndrome , Acad Radiol, 33(7): 2026,3003-3010


Archith Rajan, Steven Brem, Daniel Gewolb, Ajay Kumar, Laiz Laura de Godoy, Arati Desai, MacLean P. Nasrallah, Timothy Lucas, Laurie A Loevner, Suyash Mohan, Sanjeev Chawla Quantitative, longitudinal measurements of response to immunotherapy for glioblastoma using multiparametric MRI in a long-term survivor treated with autologous tumor lysate-loaded dendritic cell vaccine: an illustrative case , J of Neurosurgery: 2026


Ajay Kumar, Sanjeev Vaishnavi, Christopher Brown, Maggie Tubiello, and Ilya M. Nasrallah Real-world associations among baseline measures of cerebral amyloid and clinical factors in Alzheimer’s Disease patients undergoing evaluation for anti-amyloid therapies , Radiological Society of North America 2026 Annual Meeting: 2026


Xavier Beltran-Urbano, Katie R Jobson, Ilya M Nasrallah, Ajay Kumar, Manuel Taso, Sandhitsu R Das, Christopher A Brown, Sipei Li, Long Xie, Corey T McMillan, Paul A Yushkevich, Dave A Wolk, Greg Zaharchuk, Sudipto Dolui, John A Detre SynthPET: A 3D Generative AI Approach For FDG-PET Image Synthesis from T1-Weighted MRI and ASL CBF in Alzheimer’s Disease , Alzheimer's & Dementia, ADJ-D-26-01337: 2026


Ajay Kumar, Laiz Godoy, Steven Brem, Stephen Bagley, Suyash Mohan, Sanjeev Chawla From Core to Corridor: Peritumoral MRI Metrics Differentiate True Progression from Treatment Effect in Glioblastoma , Radiological Society of North America 2025 Annual Meeting: 2025,Abstract#13686


Cecilia Jiang, Tara McWilliams, Melanie Berger, Emily S Lebow, Harper Hubbeling, Elizabeth Azar, James D Kolker, Suneel N Nagda, Goldie Kurtz, Jennifer Wei Zou, Ryan Scheuermann, Ajay Kumar, Michelle Alonso-Basanta Periventricular radionecrosis after conventionally fractionated radiation for low grade meningiomas , Radiat Oncol , 20(175): 2025,1-11


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