Alice Ford, MD, PhD

Neurology
Accepting new patients
Sees patients age 18 and up
Penn Neuroscience Center - Neurology
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Penn Medicine Provider

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

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.

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.
Dr. Ford is a Penn Medicine physician.

Qualifications and experience

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