- Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis (ADEM)
- Multiple sclerosis
- Optic neuritis
- Transverse myelitis
Christopher Perrone, MD
Neurology
Accepting new patients
Sees patients age 18 and up
Penn Neuroscience Center - Neurology
Penn Medicine Provider
About me
- Associate Clerkship Director
- Associate Professor of Clinical Neurology
My education and training
- University of Massachusetts at BostonMedical School
- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical CenterResidency
- University of Pennsylvania Health SystemResidency
Spoken languages
English
English
Reviews
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)
- 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
- Devoted Health Choice Giveback Pennsylvania (PPO)
- Devoted Health Choice Pennsylvania (PPO)
- Devoted Health Choice Plus Pennsylvania (PPO)
- Devoted Health Core Pennsylvania (HMO)
- Devoted Health Dual Plus Pennsylvania (HMO D-SNP)
- Devoted Health Giveback Pennsylvania (HMO)
Locations
Penn Medicine hospital privileges
- Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
- Penn Presbyterian Medical Center: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
- Pennsylvania Hospital: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
Dr. Perrone is a Penn Medicine physician.
Qualifications and experience
- Neurology, 2018
- Alpha Omega Alpha Honors Society, National
- American Academy of Neurology, National
- American Neurological Association, National
- INTONATE-MS (collaborative federated research consortium), International
- MS Recovery in COVID (MSReCOV) Collaborative, National
- Multiple sclerosis and neuroimmunology
Treatments and conditions
Research
Publications
Sy Hwang, Sunil Thomas, Heather Williams, Amit Bar-Or, Vishakha Sharma, Frederik Buijs, Christopher Perrone, Danielle Mowery Same Inputs, Different EDSS: Measuring Specification Drift in Clinical Scoring Pipelines , Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press: 2026
Baller E, Cooper E, Bakhtiar N, Bar-Or A, Brandstadter R, Gur R, Horwath E, Jacobs D, Perrone C, Pritschet L, Roalf D, Satterthwaite T, Shinohara R, Schindler M Age and Sex-Specific Patterns of Cognitive Performance During Midlife in People With Multiple Sclerosis , Biological Psychiatry, 99(10): 2026,S271-S272
Shah U, Hwang S, Sharma V, Morrison A, Naydovich L, Thomas S, Williams H, Schriver E, Batugo A, Tackenberg B, Buijs F, Bar-Or A, Mowery D, Perrone CM Defining PIRA with AI: MS disability assessment derived from a large language model , ACTRIMS: 2026
Hwang S, Thomas S, Williams H, Hutchinson T, Schriver E, Batugo A, Bar-Or A, Sharma V, Buijs F, Perrone C, Mowery D. Leveraging Large Language Models to Derive Multiple Sclerosis Progression Assessments from Clinical Notes: A Feasibility Study , Pac Symp Biocomput, 31: 2026,324-337
Hu C, Son J, McAlpine L, Walker EL, Dahl M, Song E, Ferreira Brito S, Kavak K, Onomichi K, Bar-Or A, Perrone C, Riley CS, Weinstock Guttman B, De Jager PL, Longbrake EE, Xia Z. Long COVID in people with multiple sclerosis and related disorders: a multicenter cross-sectional study , Ann Clin Transl Neurol., 12(12): 2025,2446-2459
Oh J, Smolders J, Buijs F, Federer-Gsponer J, Meyer zu Hörste G, Mamdani M, Perrone C, Mowery DL, Kühnel T, van Tulder K, Testa C, Elze MC, Pedotti R, Kaczmarek L, Sharma V, Tackenberg B, Bar-Or A, Wiendl H Integrating multicentre data to explore rwPIRMA: Results from the INTONATE-MS consortium , ECTRIMS: 2025
Cooper EC, Schindler MK, Bar-Or A, Brandstadter RB, Calkins ME, Gur R, Jacobs DA, Markowitz C, Moore T, Naydovich LR, Perrone CM, Ruparel K, Spangler BC, Troyan S, Shinohara RT, Satterthwaite TD, Baller EB Investigating mood and cognition in people with multiple sclerosis: A prospective cross-sectional study protocol , BMJ Open, 15(5): 2025
Baller EB, Luo AC, Schindler MK, Cooper EC, Pecsok MK, Cieslak MC, Martin ML, Bar-Or A, Elahi A, Perrone CM, Spangler BC, Satterthwaite TD, Shinohara RT Uncinate Fasciculus Lesion Burden and Anxiety in Multiple Sclerosis , JAMA Netw Open, 8(4): 2025
Martin ML, Robert-Fitzgerald T, Schindler MK, Perrone C, Schultz G, Lynch S, Mirkovic N, Thomas S, Elahi A, Reid D, Moore TM, Baller EB, Satterthwaite TD, Cieslak M, Covitz S, Adebimpe A, Manning A, Markowitz CE, Detre JA, Bar-Or A, Kakara M, Shinohara RT. Impact of insurance status on MRI phenotypes in MS , Mult Scler Relat Disord, 92(105919): 2024
Oh J, Smolders J, Buijs F, Meyer zu Hörste G, Perrone C, van den Brand J, Federer-Gsponer J, Pedotti R, Kaczmarek L, Sharma V, Heinzmann D, Tackenberg B, Bar-Or A, Wiendl H Defining PIRA and Lack of Disease Stability in the Real-World: Interim Results , European Committee for Treatment and Research in Multiple Sclerosis: 2024