Penn Medicine Provider
Neurology
Alice Ford, MD, PhD
Accepting new patients
Sees patients age 18 and up
Penn Neuroscience Center - Neurology

About me

  • Assistant Professor of Clinical Neurology

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

Insurance accepted

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.
  • Princeton Medical Center: Has privileges to treat patients in the 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

My research

Favilla, C.G., Ford, A.F., Khazaal, O., Cristancho, D., Grodinsky, E., Dawod, J., Kasner, S.E. Reliability of past medical history in a single hospital participating in Get With the Guidelines- Stroke registry. , J Am Heart Assoc. , 5(11): 2022


Kim, H.J., Mohassel, P., Donkervoort, S., Guo, L., O’Donovan, K., Coughlin, M., Lornage, X., Foulds, N., Hammans, S.R., Foley, A.R., Fare, C.M., Ford, A.F., Ogasawara, M., Sato, A., Iida, A., Munot, P., Ambegaonkar, G., Phadke, R., O’Donovan, D.G., Buchert, R., Grimmel, M., Topf, A., Zaharieva, I.T., Brady, L., Hu, Y., Lloyd, T.E., 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, C.E., Shatillo, A., Raymond, F.L., Haack, T., Quijano-Roy, S., Bohm, J., Nelson, I., Stojkovic, T., Evangelista, T., Straub, V., Romero, N.B., Laporte, J., Muntoni, F., Nishino, I., Tarnopolsky, M.A., Shorter, J., Bonnemann, C.G., Taylor, J.P. Heterozygous frameshift variants in hnRNPA2B1 cause early-onset oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy. , Nature Communications, 13(1): 2022


Beijer, D., Kim, H.J., Guo, L., O’Donovan, K., Mademan, I., Deconinck, T., Van Schil, K., Fare, C.M., Drake, L.E., Ford, A.F., Kochanski, A., Kabzinska, D., Dubuisson, N., Van den Bergh, P., Voermans, N.C., Lemmers, R.J.L.F., van der Maarel, S.M., Bonner, D., Sampson, J.B., Wheeler, M.T., Mehrabyan, A., Palmer, S., De Jonghe, P., Shorter, J., Taylor, J.P., Baets, J. Characterization of HNRNPA1 mutations defines diversity in pathogenic mechanisms and clinical presentation. , JCI Insight, 6(14): 2021


Ford, A.F., George, D.K. 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, A.F., Shorter, J. RNA-binding proteins with prion-like domains in health and disease. , Biochemical Journal, 474(8): 2017,1417-1438


Ford, A.F., Shorter, J. Fleeting amyloid-like forms of Rim4 ensure meiotic fidelity. , Cell, 163(2): 2015,275-276


Kim, H.J., Kim, N.C., Wang, Y.D., Scarborough, E.A., Moore, J., Diaz, Z., MacLea, K.S., Freibaum, B., Li, S., Molliex, A., Kanagaraj, A.P., Carter, R., Boylan, K.B., Wojtas, A.M., Rademakers, R., Pinkus, J.L., Greenberg, S.A., Trojanowski, J.Q., Traynor, B.J., Smith, B.N., Topp, S., Gkazi, A.S., Miller, J., Shaw, C.E., Kottlors, M., Kirschner, J., Pestronk, A., Li, Y.R., Ford, A.F., Gitler, A.D., Benatar, M., King, O.D., Kimonis, V.E., Ross, E.D., Weihl, C.C., Shorter, J., Taylor, J.P. Mutations in prion-like domains in hnRNPA2B1 and hnRNPA1 cause multisystem proteinopathy and ALS. , Nature.: 2013


Ford, A.F., Schall, J.J. Relative clonal proportions over time in mixed-genotype infections of the lizard malaria parasite Plasmodium mexicanum , International Journal for Parasitology: 2011


Ford, A.F., Vardo-Zalik, A.M., Schall, J.J. Relative clonal density of malaria parasites in mixed-genotype infections: validation of a technique using microsatellite markers for Plasmodium falciparum and P. mexicanum. , Journal of Parasitology, 96: 2010


Vardo-Zalik, A.M., Ford, A.F., Schall, J.J. Detecting number of clones, and their relative abundance, of a malaria parasite (Plasmodium mexicanum) infecting its vertebrate host , Parasitology Research: 2009