- Essential tremor
- Gait abnormality
- Movement disorder
- Parkinson's disease
- Tremor
Alice S. Chen-Plotkin, MD
Neurology
Accepting new patients
Sees patients age 18 and up
Penn Neurology Pennsylvania Hospital
Penn Medicine Provider
About me
- Director, MIND Initiative
- Parker Family Professor of Neurology
My education and training
- Medical School: Harvard University
- Residency: Mass General Brigham Healthcare Center - Chestnut Hill
- Residency: Massachusetts General Hospital
- Fellowship: Pennsylvania Hospital
Spoken languages
English
English
Insurance accepted
Please contact the practice and/or the member services department of your insurance company for specific details before receiving services. Providers may participate in some, but not all, products offered by a health plan; providers may also accept plans at some practice locations but not others.
- Aetna Advantra Cares D-SNP
- Aetna Advantra Credit Value
- Aetna Advantra Eagle HMO
- Aetna Advantra Eagle POS
- Aetna Advantra Premier Plus PPO
- Aetna Advantra Value
- Aetna Advantra Value Plus
- Aetna APCN Plus (Multi-Tier)
- Aetna Better Health Kids (CHIP) - DH Only
- Aetna Flexible Five
- Aetna Freedom Core
- Aetna Gold
- Aetna HMO
- Aetna Philly Prime
- Aetna POS
- Aetna PPO APCN
- Aetna Premier
- Aetna Premier Plus
- Aetna Savings Plus
- Aetna Signature Administrators
- Aetna Student Health Plan PPO
- Aetna Upfront Advantage
- First Health HMO
- First Health POS
- First Health PPO
- Meritain - Aramark (Other)
- Meritain - Aramark (Pennsylvania Premier Medical Plan)
- Centivo EPO
- Cigna Healthcare EPO
- Cigna Healthcare HMO
- Cigna Healthcare POS
- Cigna Healthcare PPO
- Claim Watcher (Homestead/ INDECs) Open Access
- Clover Health Choice
- Clover Health Choice Value PPO
- Clover Health Classic HMO
- Clover Health Value
- Devoted Health Choice Giveback Pennsylvania (PPO)
- Devoted Health Choice Pennsylvania (PPO)
- Devoted Health Choice Plus Pennsylvania (PPO)
- Devoted Health Core Pennsylvania (HMO)
- Devoted Health Dual Plus Pennsylvania (HMO D-SNP)
- Devoted Health Giveback Pennsylvania (HMO)
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.
Qualifications and experience
- Neurology, 2008
- American Academy of Neurology, National
- American Brain Foundation, National
- American Neurological Association, National
- Collaborative Center for X-linked Dystonia Parkinsonism (CCXDP), International
- Germantown Friends School, Local
- Israel Science Foundation, International
- Michael J. Fox Foundation, International
- National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke Board of Scientific Counselors, National
- National Institutes of Health BIOSEND, National
- National Institutes of Health Study Sections, National
- National Institutes of Neurological Disorders and Stroke Parkinson's Disease Biomarker Program, National
- National Institutes of Neurological Disorders and Stroke Parkinson's Disease Biomarker Program, Michael J. Fox Foundation joint Biospecimen Request Access Committee, International
- Novartis Neuroscience, International
- Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans, National
- Rhodes Scholarship, International
- Society for Neuroscience, International
- SPARK-NS, International
- Penn Movement Disorders Center
Treatments and conditions
Research
Publications
Diaz-Ortiz ME, Seo Y, Posavi M, Carceles Cordon M, Clark E, Jain N, Charan R, Gallagher MD, Unger TL, Amari N, Skrinak RT, Davila-Rivera R, Brody EM, Han N, Zack R, Van Deerlin VM, Tropea TF, Luk KC, Lee EB, Weintraub D, Chen-Plotkin AS. GPNMB confers risk for Parkinson's disease through interaction with α-synuclein , Science, 377: 2022,eabk0637
Shen J, Amari N, Zack R, Skrinak RT, Unger TL, Posavi M, Tropea TF, Xie SX, Van Deerlin VM, Dewey RB Jr, Weintraub D, Trojanowski JQ, Chen-Plotkin AS. Plasma MIA, CRP, and Albumin Predict Cognitive Decline in Parkinson's Disease , Ann Neurol, 92(2): 2022,255-269
Weintraub D, Posavi M, Fontanillas P, Tropea TF, Mamikonyan E, Suh E, Trojanowski JQ, Cannon P, Van Deerlin VM; 23andMe Research Team, Chen-Plotkin AS. Genetic prediction of impulse control disorders in Parkinson's disease , Ann Clin Transl Neurol, 9(7): 2022,936-949
Carceles-Cordon M, Weintraub D, Chen-Plotkin AS. Cognitive heterogeneity in Parkinson's disease: A mechanistic view , Neuron, 111: 2023,1531-1546