Ali G. Hamedani, MD, MHS
he/his
Neurology
Accepting new patients
Sees patients age 18 and up
Penn Neuroscience Center - Neurology
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About me

  • Assistant Professor of Neurology at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
  • Assistant Professor of Epidemiology in Biostatistics and Epidemiology
  • Assistant Professor of Neurology in Ophthalmology

Education and training

  • Medical School: University of Maryland School of Medicine
  • Residency: Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania

What my patients think about me

Average Rating

186 reviews

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October 2025
don't get answers
October 2025
felt dismissed . not heard regarding symptoms.
October 2025
dr hamedani was the dr that diagnosed me after years of trying to find out what was wrong with me and all it took was diagnostic testing when other drs were diagnosing me with things, i did not have such as pseudo seizures, multi complex, partial epilepsy, and the test were all coming back negative
October 2025
already referred dr.hamedani to my friend who saw him

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My Locations

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.
Dr. Hamedani is a Penn Medicine physician.

Qualifications and experience

Treatments and Conditions

My research

Xu AL, Li M, Gupta AS, Morton SM, Hamedani AG Visual scanning and falls in older adults: the Mexico Health and Aging Study , Journal of the American Geriatrics Society: 2025

Yu HN, He j, Hamedani AG, Ying GS Ophthalmic Conditions in Patients with Multiple Sclerosis , Multiple Sclerosis and Related Disorders: 2025

Pham K, Salowe R, Di Rosa R, Hamedani AG, Ying GS, O’Brien JM The association between glaucoma and dementia in a national cohort of All of Us participants , Ophthalmology: 2025

Lin Y, Amokrane N, Worley S, Moore L, Rosen A, Crespo L, Trace K, Ashizawa T, Billnitzer A, Perlman S, Bushara K, Geschwind MD, Dietiker C, Gomez CM, Padmanaban M, Opal P, Akhtar R, Paulson H, Srinivasan S, Ferng A, Ferrari F, Onyike CU, Fishman A, Ying S, Paul A, Schmahmann JD, Stephen CM, Gupta A, Lin CC, Subramony SH, Burns M, Wilmot G, Duquette D, Zesiewicz T, Davis MT, Hamedani AG, Vizcarra Pasapera JA, Pulst S, Primeaux S, Öz G, Shakkottai V, Rosenthal LS, Kuo SH on behalf of CRC-SCA Consortium The Natural History Study and Biomarker Collection of the Clinical Research Consortium for the Study of Cerebellar Ataxia (CRC-SCA) , Cerebellum, 24(5): 2025,134

Hamedani AG, Thibault DP, Rascovsky K, Willis AW, Langa KM Comparing retrospective informant assessments to prospectively collected cognitive measures in the Health and Retirement Study , Alzheimer's & Dementia: Diagnosis, Assessment & Disease Monitoring, 17(3): 2025,e70138

Lawton C, Mendoza M, Hamedani AG, Wolfe GI, Suh J, Kupersmith M, Barnett-Tapia C Evaluation of Measures for Ocular Manifestations in Myasthenia Gravis , Myasthenia Gravis Foundation of America: 2025

Li M, Thibault D, Hamedani AG Accounting for discordance between self-reported and performance-based measures of vision in population-based aging research , Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology: 2025

Peppel L, Lai R, Opal P, Schmahmann JD, Gomez CM, Paulson H, Zesiewicz TA, Perlman S, Wilmot G, Ying SH, Onyike CU, Bushara KO, Geschwind MD, Figueroa KP, Pulst SM, Subramony SH, Duquette A, Ashizawa T, Hamedani AG, Davis MY, Srinivasan SR, Burns MR, Moore L, Shakkottai VG, Rosenthal LS, Kuo SH, Lin CR Suicidal Ideation in Spinocerebellar Ataxia , Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences: 2025

Xu A, Li M, Hamedani AG Visual scanning and falls in older adults: the Mexico Health and Aging Study , American Geriatrics Society: 2025

Huang A, Hamedani AG Visual impairment, age-related eye disease, and sleep dysfunction in older adults , American Academy of Neurology: 2025