Arati Desai, MD

Medical Oncology
Accepting new patients
Sees patients age 18 and up
Abramson Cancer Center Perelman 2nd Floor West
Penn Medicine Provider

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

English
English

Reviews

Average Rating

775 reviews

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Anonymous
August 2026
she is great
Anonymous
August 2026
dr. desai went into great detail regarding my previous treatment and the plan going forward.
Anonymous
August 2026
i've been with her going into 13 years and she knows what she is doing
Anonymous
August 2026
i have already give dr desai wonderful treatment and talks within my 9 years of seeing her to many people that have any kind of issues to seee her!

Insurance accepted

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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.
Dr. Desai is a Penn Medicine physician.

Qualifications and experience

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(8): 2026,913-917


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, 32(7): 2026,2449-2460.


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,S0360-3016(26)03919-2.


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(6): 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, 29: 2026,ajnr.A9438.


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, 5: 2026,10.1002/acn3.70420.


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(1): 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(1): 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(3): 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(2): 2026,485-494