Daniel Cristancho, MD, MBE

He/Him
Neurology
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Penn Medicine Provider

About me

  • Medical Director, Pennsylvania Hospital Primary Stroke Center
  • Associate Program Director, Neurohospitalist Fellowship
  • Assistant Professor of Clinical Neurology

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
Español
Spanish

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.
  • 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
  • Princeton Medical Center: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
  • Chester County Hospital: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
  • Doylestown Hospital: On the medical staff, but does not have privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
Dr. Cristancho is a Penn Medicine physician.

Qualifications and experience

Treatments and Conditions

Research

Publications

Xu D, Cristancho D, Price R Expanding the Inpatient General Neurology Consultation Service: An Initiative to Improve Care Delivery , American Academy of Neurology Annual Meeting 2025: 2025

Hoey C, Stein LA, Schmitt C, Kumar M, Cucchiara B, Neuhaus-Booth E, Mealey R, Cristancho D Back to the Basics: Improving ICH Severity Score Compliance. , International Stroke Conference 2024: 2024

Stein LA, Pomeroy J, Spahr M, Scavicchio, K, Rothstein A, Tambe U, Blum C, Cristancho D, Yellareddigari M, Owens K, Sellers M, Hoey C What's Your Time Worth?: Improving Efficiency in Tracking Core Measures Compliance in Real Time , International Stroke Conference 2024: 2024

Stein LA, Pomeroy J, Spahr M, Scavicchio, K, Rothstein A, Tambe U, Blum C, Cristancho D, Yellareddigari M, Owens K, Sellers M, Hoey C Stroke Tracking: Improving Core Measure Compliance Tracking & Efficiency , International Stroke Conference 2024: 2024

D. Cristancho, L. Stein, C. Hoey, M. Sellers Streamlining Acute In-Hospital Stroke Evaluation by Transitioning to an Electronic Medical Record Order-Based Alerting Process , 11th Annual Neurohospitalist Society Meeting: 2023

Khazaal O, Cox M, Grodinsky E, Dawood J, Cristancho D, Atsina KB, Ji JB, Neuhaus Booth E, Ramchand P, Pukenas BA, Kung D, Hurst R, Choudhri O, Burkhardt JK, Kasner SE, and Favilla CG Highly Visible Wall Timer to Reduce Endovascular Treatment Time for Stroke , Stroke: Vascular and Interventional Neurology, 2(6): 2022

Favilla CG, Ford AF, Khazaal O, Cristancho D, Grodinsky E, Dawod J, Kasner SE Reliability of Past Medical History in a Single Hospital Participating in Get With The Guidelines-Stroke Registry , Journal of the American Heart Association, 11(13): 2022

Khazaal O, Rothstein A, Husain MR, Broderick M, Cristancho D, Reyes-Esteves S, Khan F, Favilla CG, Messé SR, Mullen MT Dual-Antiplatelet Therapy May Not Be Associated With an Increased Risk of In-hospital Bleeding in Patients With Moderate or Severe Ischemic Stroke , Frontiers in Neurology: 2021

Daniel Cristancho, Raymond S. Price. 4 - Low Back Pain , Decision-Making in Adult Neurology: 2021,8-9, e2

Siegler JE, Olsen A, Rosenberg J, Cristancho D, Pulst-Korenberg J, Raab L, Woo JH, Messé SR. Mismatch between automated CTP and ASPECTS score in patients with anterior large vessel occlusion. , Clin Neurol Neurosurg., 194: 2020,105797