- Stroke
- Transient ischemic attack
Alice Ford, MD, PhD
About me
- Assistant Professor of Clinical Neurology
My education and training
- Medical School: University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
- Residency: Pennsylvania Hospital
- Residency: Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
- Fellowship: Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Spoken languages
Insurance accepted
- 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)
- Americhealth Caritas of PA VIP - LGH Only
- Amerihealth Caritas (Transplant patients only)
- Amerihealth Caritas of PA - LGH Only
- Capital Blue Cross/Capital Advantage Insurance Company
- Centivo EPO
- Cigna Healthcare EPO
- Cigna Healthcare HMO
- Cigna Healthcare POS
- Cigna Healthcare PPO
- Claim Watcher (Homestead/ INDECs) Open Access
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.
- Lancaster General Hospital
- Chester County Hospital: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
- Doylestown Hospital: On the medical staff, but does not have privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
Qualifications and experience
- Psychiatry & Neurology, Vascular Neurology
- Neurology, 2022
- Penn Stroke Program
Treatments and conditions
Research
Publications
Fischer D, Reyes-Esteves S, Law C, Ford A, Schwab P, Abella BS, Schneider ALC, Kumar MA Implementation of a specialized neuroprognostication consultation program and associated provider attitudes: A survey-based study , Resuscitation Plus, 23: 2025,100932
Aikio M, Odeh HM, Wobst HJ, Lee BL, Chan U, Mauna JC, Mack KL, Class B, Ollerhead TA, Ford AF, Barbieri EM, Cupo RR, Drake LE, Smalley JL, Lin Y, Lam S, Thomas R, Castello N, Baral A, Beyer JN, Najar MA, Dunlop J, Gitler AD, Javaherian A, Kaye JA, Burslem GM, Brown DG, Donnelly CJ, Finkbeiner S, Moss SJ, Brandon NJ, Shorter J Opposing roles of p38α-mediated phosphorylation and PRMT1-mediated arginine methylation in driving TDP-43 proteinopathy , Cell Reports, 44(3): 2025,115205
Yang DL, Thomas R, Ford AF, Cucchiara BL, George DK, Song JW Vessel wall imaging in the diagnosis of antiphospholipid syndrome presenting as Moyamoya syndrome—A case report , Neuroradiol J, 38(2): 2024,243-246
Favilla CG, Ford AF, Khazaal O, Cristancho D, Grodinsky E, Dawod J, Kasner SE Reliability of past medical history in a single hospital participating in Get With the Guidelines- Stroke registry. , J Am Heart Assoc. , 5(11): 2022,e025308
Kim HJ, Mohassel P, Donkervoort S, Guo L, O’Donovan K, Coughlin M, Lornage X, Foulds N, Hammans SR, Foley AR, Fare CM, Ford AF, Ogasawara M, Sato A, Iida A, Munot P, Ambegaonkar G, Phadke R, O’Donovan DG, Buchert R, Grimmel M, Topf A, Zaharieva IT, Brady L, Hu Y, Lloyd TE, Klein A, Steinlin M, Kuster A, Mercier S, Marcorelles P, Pereon Y, Fleurence E, Manzur A, Ennis S, Upstill-Goddard R, Bello L, Bertolin C, Pegoraro E, Salviati L, French CE, Shatillo A, Raymond FL, Haack T, Quijano-Roy S, Bohm J, Nelson I, Stojkovic T, Evangelista T, Straub V, Romero NB, Laporte J, Muntoni F, Nishino I, Tarnopolsky MA, Shorter J, Bonnemann CG, Taylor JP Heterozygous frameshift variants in hnRNPA2B1 cause early-onset oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy. , Nature Communications, 13(1): 2022,2306
Beijer D, Kim HJ, Guo L, O’Donovan K, Mademan I, Deconinck T, Van Schil K, Fare CM, Drake LE, Ford AF, Kochanski A, Kabzinska D, Dubuisson N, Van den Bergh P, Voermans NC, Lemmers RJLF, van der Maarel SM, Bonner D, Sampson JB, Wheeler MT, Mehrabyan A, Palmer S, De Jonghe P, Shorter J, Taylor JP, Baets J Characterization of HNRNPA1 mutations defines diversity in pathogenic mechanisms and clinical presentation. , JCI Insight, 6(14): 2021 ,e148363
Ford AF, George DK A 34-year-old woman with numbness, weakness, and vision loss. Healio, Ace the Case , https://cme.healio.com/neurology/ace-the-case/20210610/a-34-year-old-woman-withnumbness-weakness-and-vision-loss/overview: 2021
Harrison AF, Shorter J RNA-binding proteins with prion-like domains in health and disease. , Biochemical Journal, 474(8): 2017,1417-1438
Ford AF, Shorter J Fleeting amyloid-like forms of Rim4 ensure meiotic fidelity. , Cell, 163(2): 2015,275-276
Kim HJ, Kim NC, Wang YD, Scarborough EA, Moore J, Diaz Z, MacLea KS, Freibaum B, Li S, Molliex A, Kanagaraj AP, Carter R, Boylan KB, Wojtas AM, Rademakers R, Pinkus JL, Greenberg SA, Trojanowski JQ, Traynor BJ, Smith BN, Topp S, Gkazi AS, Miller J, Shaw CE, Kottlors M, Kirschner J, Pestronk A, Li YR, Ford AF, Gitler AD, Benatar M, King OD, Kimonis VE, Ross ED, Weihl CC, Shorter J, Taylor JP Mutations in prion-like domains in hnRNPA2B1 and hnRNPA1 cause multisystem proteinopathy and ALS. , Nature., 495(7442): 2013,467-73