- Epilepsy
- Stroke related epilepsy
- Stroke related seizures
- Responsive neurostimulation system
- Vagus nerve stimulation
Colin Ellis, MD
Neurology
Accepting new patients
Sees patients age 16 and up
Penn Neuroscience Center - Neurology
Penn Medicine Provider
About me
- Assistant Professor of Neurology at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
My education and training
- Medical School: University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
- Residency: University of Pennsylvania Health System
- Fellowship: University of Pennsylvania Health System
Spoken languages
English
English
Reviews
123 reviews
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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
- Capital Blue Cross/Capital Advantage Insurance Company
- Centivo EPO
- Cigna Healthcare EPO
- Cigna Healthcare HMO
- Cigna Healthcare POS
- Cigna Healthcare PPO
- Claim Watcher (Homestead/ INDECs) Open Access
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.
- Penn Presbyterian Medical Center: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
- Lancaster General Hospital: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
Qualifications and experience
- Psychiatry & Neurology, Epilepsy
- Neurology, 2016
- American Academy of Neurology, National
- American Epilepsy Society, National
- American Neurological Association, National
- American Society for Gene & Cell Therapy, National
- Epi25 Consortium, International
- Epilepsy Foundation and Rare Epilepsy Network Project ECHO, National
- International League Against Epilepsy (ILAE), International
- International League Against Epilepsy (ILAE) Consortium on Complex Epilepsies, International
- Penn Comprehensive Epilepsy Center
Treatments and conditions
Research
Publications
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
Chang E, Xie K, Zhou DJ, Korzun J, Conrad EC, Roth D, Litt B, Ellis CA. Automated epilepsy and seizure type phenotyping with pre-trained language models , medRxiv: 2026
Erfanian Omidvar M, Murrell JR, Prentice AJ, Helbig I, Lerche H, May P; Epi25 Collaborative. USP25 in genetic generalized epilepsy: a gene under scrutiny , Brain, 149: 2026,e16-e18
Nix KC, Ghosn NJ, Xie K, Ojemann W, Ellis CA, Waldman GJ, Cornblath E, Conrad E, Ma D, Litt B. Optimizing Antiseizure Medication Taper in the Epilepsy Monitoring Unit , Neurol Clin Pract: 2026
Chang E, Xie K, Ellis CA. Transformer Language Models for Neurology Research with Electronic Health Records: Current State of the Science , Semin Neurol: 2026
Shaik NF, Denison L, Venezia GMA, Ljungberg L, Lebrón-Cruz A, Resnick D, Peachey C, Ziemba C, Buckley M, Karamardian M, Liu PZ, Napole A, Hong J, Zeng R, Yu C, Chan A, Bae C, Stein L, Ellis CA, Xu DJ. Improving sleep on the inpatient general, non-stroke neurology service: A quasi-experimental interventional trial , J Hosp Med: 2026
Ellis CA, Copeland J, Velez I, Oliver KL, Shalaby H, Baldwin A, Armstrong C, Back A, Berlin B, Cohen S, Cuddapah VA, deCampo D, Dubbs H, Ginn N, Harrison AG, Lewin N, Lusk L, Marsh ED, Massey SL, McDonnell PP, McKee JL, Ortiz-Gonzalez X, Prentice AJ, Sullivan KR, Ruggiero SM, Fitzgerald MP, Goldberg EM, Helbig I. Genetic testing for familial epilepsies: Diagnostic yield and genetic findings , Epilepsia: 2026
Boada CM, Xie K, Fonkeu Y, Ganguly TM, Ellis CA. Disparities in epilepsy care: The role of provider decision-making , Epilepsy Behav: 2026
Cook JT, Prasad S, Ozudogru S, Ellis CA. Pearls & Oy-sters: Attacks of Hemiplegic Migraine and Encephalopathy in SLC4A4 Pathogenic Variants , Neurology, 105: 2025,e214231
Xie K, Korzun J, Zhou DJ, Chang E, Ghosn NJ, Lavelle S, Oganisian A, Acton EK, Gelfand MA, Roth D, Litt B, Ellis CA. Comparative effectiveness of anti-seizure medications in emulated trials using medical informatics , Brain, 148: 2025,4288-4298