Avrum N. Pollock, MD, FRCPC
Radiology
Independent provider
Accepting new patients
Sees patients age 18 and up
About me
- Professor of Clinical Radiology
My education and training
- Medical School: University of Manitoba
- Residency: University of Toronto Affiliated Hospitals
- Fellowship: Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC
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.
- 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.
- Pennsylvania Hospital: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
- Chester County Hospital: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
Qualifications and experience
- Diagnostic Radiology, 1993
- American College of Radiologists (ACR), National
- American Roentgen Ray Society (ARRS), National
- American Society of Neuroradiology (ASNR), National
- American Society of Pediatric Neuroradiology (ASPNR), National
- European Society of Radiology (ESR), International
- Pennsylvania Radiological Society, Local
- Philadelphia County Medical Society, Local
- Radiological Society of North American (RSNA), International
- Society for Pediatric Radiology (SPR), International
Treatments and conditions
Research
Publications
Wynn E Bastianelli, Jinhua Wu, Mian Umair Ahsan, Ava M Szepessy, Jeffery Schubert, Naomi J Balamuth, Joe Chan, Elizabeth H Denenberg, Minjie Luo, Avrum N Pollock, Pierre A Russo, Karleena Rybacki, Feng Xu, Yiming Zhong, Lea F Surrey, Kai Wang, Theodore W Laetsch, Marilyn M Li Molecular Characterization of a Complex PDGFRB Structural Variation in Infantile Myofibroma with Complete Response to Imatinib , JCO Precision Oncology, 10: 2026
Samuel J Belfer, Lauren A Beslow, Alexander Vaz, Karuna Shekdar, Avrum Pollock, Sanjiv Mehta, Karla Resendiz, Leslie Raffini, Anne Marie Cahill, Joshua Catapano, Adam J Kundishora Delayed Bilateral Internal Carotid Artery Occlusion in a Pediatric Patient Following Traumatic Injury: Insights on Management and Interventional Approach , Journal of Child Neurology: 2025
Feygin, T., Reis Teixeira, S., Shekdar, K., Pollock, A.N. Dynamic MRI in Fetal and Pediatric Assessment of the Velopharyngeal Apparatus: Clinical Experience at CHOP , American Society of Head & Neck Radiology (ASHNR) Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, NV: 2025
Flanders TM, Punchak MA, Oliver ER, Land SD, Flohr SJ, Reynolds TA, Schmidt KM, Ertz DD, Moldenhauer JS, Adzick NS, Heuer GG. The clinical significance of lack of hindbrain herniation in fetal myelomeningocele/myeloschisis patients , Journal of neurosurgery. Pediatrics: 2024
*Mian, A; Pollock, A; Korostyshevskaya, A; Feygin, T Prenatal diagnosis of PHACE syndrome , European Society of Paediatric Radiology (ESPR) Annual Meeting and Postgraduate Course, Seville, Spain: 2024
Goldman-Yassen, A; Shifrin, A; Pollock, A; Feygin T Will the real papilledema please come forward: differentiating concerning and congenital optic nerve disk elevation , International Pediatric Radiology (IPR) Conjoint Meeting and Exhibition, Rome, Italy: 2021
Feygin T, Goldman-Yassen AE, Licht DJ, Schmitt JE, Mian A, Vossough A, Castelo-Soccio L, Treat JR, Bhatia A, Pollock AN Neuroaxial Infantile Hemangiomas: Imaging Manifestations and Association with Hemangioma Syndromes , AJNR. American journal of neuroradiology, 42(8): 2021,1520-1527
Jurkiewicz, M. T., Vossough, A., & Pollock, A. N. An Important Pediatric Stroke Mimic: Hemiplegic Migraine , The Canadian journal of neurological sciences. Le journal canadien des sciences neurologiques, 47(2): 2020,235-236
Jurkiewicz1, MT; Rodriguez, P; Waldman, AT; Pollock, AN Olfactory Bulb Hyperplasia in Genetically Confirmed Infantile Alexander Disease , Journal of clinical and diagnostic research, 13(3): 2019,TD01
Teixeira S, Arruda E, Saade S, Jackson o, Pollock A, Feygin T Prenatal MRI Assessment of Swallowing and Pharyngeal Structures in Foetuses with Facial Clefts , European Congress of Radiology (ECR) Annual Meeting, Vienna, Austria: 2019