- Brain cancer
- Brain metastases
- Brain tumor
- Central nervous system (CNS) cancer
- Glioblastoma
Arati Desai, MD
About me
- Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine (Hematology-Oncology)
- Associate Professor of Neurosurgery
My education and training
- Medical School: University of Kentucky College of Medicine
- Residency: University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
- Fellowship: University of California San Francisco
- Fellowship: Johns Hopkins Hospital
Spoken languages
Reviews
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
- 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
Locations
Penn Medicine hospital privileges
- Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
- Penn Presbyterian Medical Center: On the medical staff, but does not have privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
Qualifications and experience
- Internal Medicine, Hospice and Palliative Medicine
- Medical Oncology, 2008
- Internal Medicine, 2004
- American Society of Clinical Oncology, International
- Society for Neuro-Oncology, International
- Penn Brain and Spinal Cord Tumors Program
- Penn Brain Tumor Center
Treatments and conditions
Research
Publications
Pai EL, Nazarian MN, Kenyon AL, Abdullaev Z, Arisi M, Johnson ES, Surrey LF, Quezado M, Schwartz LE, Dumoff KL, Cooper K, Aldape K, Kenyon L, Nasrallah MP, Desai AS. Longitudinal neuropathologic and molecular characterization of a retroperitoneal ependymoma , J Neuropathol Exp Neurol, 85: 2026,913-917
Linkowski L, Messing I, Berger M, Hollawell C, Friedes C, Alexander D, Wang X, Desai AS, Phillips RE, O'Rourke DM, Amankulor NM, Jackson C, Hubbeling H, Kurtz G, Bagley SJ, Bradley JD, Mohan S, Alonso-Basanta M, Lebow ES. Hypofractionated Proton Reirradiation for Recurrent Glioblastoma: Clinical and Dosimetric Outcomes from a Large Single Institution Series , Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys: 2026
Li EJ, Kraya A, Costa-Pinheiro P, Scheuermann J, Young AJ, Schubert E, Aboian M, Doot R, Ware JB, Pantel AR, Binder ZA, Storm PB, Resnick AC, Amankulor NM, O'Rourke DM, Desai A, Nasrallah MP, Brem S, Bagley SJ, Mankoff D, Nabavizadeh A. Metabolic Imaging and Molecular Signatures Reveal Metabolic Phenotypes in Recurrent Glioblastoma , J Nucl Med, 67: 2026,849-856
Ellingson BM, Cloughesy TF, Ye X, Teraishi A, Raymond C, Oshima S, Sanvito F, Wen PY, Walbert T, Campian JL, Nabors LB, Ozer BH, Desai A, Omuro A, Desideri S, Danda N, Grossman SA, Bindra RS, Schiff D. Tumor Growth Rate (TGR) Analysis Predicts Survival in a Multicenter Phase II Study of the PARP Inhibitor Pamiparib (BGB-290) with Temozolomide in Recurrent IDH-Mutant Gliomas (ABTC-1801) , AJNR Am J Neuroradiol: 2026
Zhou DJ, Jaskir M, Gal J, Fonkeu Y, Davatzikos C, Nasrallah MP, Garcia J, Xing R, Bagley SJ, Desai A, Phillips RE, Tobochnik S, Ellis CA, Gugger JJ, Sinha N, Stein JM, Davis KA. Spatial and Volumetric Characteristics of Glioblastoma: Associations With Clinical Presentation and Survival , Ann Clin Transl Neurol: 2026
Akbari H, Mohan S, Liu F, Jiang C, Fathi Kazerooni A, Berger M, Rathore S, Bilello M, Sako C, Garcia J, Brem S, Bakas S, Mamourian E, Pepin A, James P, Dorsey J, Singh A, Parker D, Verma R, Cao Q, Bagley SJ, Desai A, O'Rourke DM, Shinohara RT, Nasrallah MP, Teo BK, Kurtz G, Shukla G, Alonso-Basanta M, Lustig RA, Davatzikos C. Personalized machine learning-guided radiation dose escalation in newly diagnosed glioblastoma: prospective pilot study , Nat Commun, 17: 2026,6413
Cordell EC, Mansour M, Pantel AR, Schubert E, Nabavizadeh A, Mohan S, Maloney E, Prior T, Angeloni N, Blessing C, Frangos S, Coghlan L, Wileyto EP, O'Rourke DM, Brem S, Desai AS, Bagley SJ. A phase 2 study of niraparib concomitant with tumor treating fields in patients with recurrent grade 4 glioma , Neurooncol Adv, 8: 2026,vdag076
Friedes C, Berger M, Linkowski L, Hollawell C, Hubbeling H, Alexander D, Kurtz G, Lustig RA, Dorsey JF, Desai AS, Phillips RE, Brem S, Davatzikos C, Nasrallah M, O'Rourke DM, Jackson C, Amankulor NM, Alonso-Basanta M, Mohan S, Bagley SJ, Lebow ES. Clinical, molecular, and immunologic determinants of survival in WHO-defined IDH-wildtype glioblastoma treated with radiotherapy: a large real-world cohort study , J Neurooncol, 177: 2026,125
Schiff D, Ye X, Li J, Ellingson BM, Wen PY, Walbert T, Campian J, Nabors LB, Ozer BH, Desai A, Omuro A, Desideri S, Danda N, Grossman S, Bindra RS. Phase I/II and window-of-opportunity study of pamiparib and metronomic temozolomide for recurrent isocitrate dehydrogenase mutant gliomas , Neuro Oncol, 28: 2026,485-494
Lim M, Ye X, Piotrowski AF, Desai A, Ahluwalia MS, Walbert T, Lesser G, Ellingson BM, Peereboom DM, Fisher JD, Desideri S, Jackson C, Pant A, Jain A, Verma R, Oberlton B, Piyadasa H, Bettegowda C, Engle L, Taube J, Bendall SC, Choi J, Drappatz J, Lieberman FS, Kleinberg LR, Pardoll DM, Nabors LB, Wen PY, Grossman SA. Anti-LAG-3 with or without anti-PD-1 in recurrent glioblastoma: a phase 1 trial , Nat Med: 2026