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.
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.
Dr. Pollock is an independent physician who is not employed by Penn Medicine.
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