Daniel J. Rader, MD
Cardiology, Medical Genetics
Accepting new patients
Sees patients age 18 and up
Penn Heart and Vascular Center
Penn Medicine Provider
About me
- Chief, Division of Translational Medicine and Human Genetics
- Chair, Department of Genetics
- Associate Director, Institute for Translational Medicine and Therapeutics
- Seymour Gray Professor of Molecular Medicine
- Professor of Medicine in Genetics
- Professor of Medicine in Pediatrics
- Professor of Medicine in Systems Pharmacology and Translational Therapeutics (Experimental Therapeutics)
My education and training
- Medical School: Medical College of Pennsylvania
- Residency: Yale-New Haven Hospital
Spoken languages
English
English
Reviews
89 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
- 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.
- Penn Presbyterian Medical Center: On the medical staff, but does not have privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
Qualifications and experience
- Internal Medicine, 1987
- American Heart Association, National
- National Committee for Quality Assurance, National
- National Institutes of Health, National
- Penn Preventive Cardiovascular Program
- Recognized annually in Philadelphia Magazine's Top Docs issue from 2004 through 2025
Treatments and conditions
Research
Publications
Liu H, Abedini A, Ha E, Ma Z, Sheng X, Dumoulin B, Qiu C, Aranyi T, Li S, Dittrich N, Chen HC, Tao R, Tarng DC, Hsieh FJ, Chen SA, Yang SF, Lee MY, Kwok PY, Wu JY, Chen CH, Khan A, Limdi NA, Wei WQ, Walunas TL, Karlson EW, Kenny EE, Luo Y, Kottyan L, Connolly JJ, Jarvik GP, Weng C, Shang N, Cole JB, Mercader JM, Mandla R, Majarian TD, Florez JC, Haas ME, Lotta LA; Regeneron Genetics Center‡; GHS-RGC DiscovEHR Collaboration§; Drivas TG; Penn Medicine BioBank¶; Vy HMT, Nadkarni GN, Wiley LK, Wilson MP, Gignoux CR, Rasheed H, Thomas LF, Åsvold BO, Brumpton BM, Hallan SI, Hveem K, Zheng J, Hellwege JN, Zawistowski M, Zöllner S, Franceschini N, Hu H, Zhou J, Kiryluk K, Ritchie MD, Palmer M, Edwards TL, Voight BF, Hung AM, Susztak K; Regeneron Genetics Center; GHS-RGC DiscovEHR Collaboration; Penn Medicine BioBank. Kidney multiome-based genetic scorecard reveals convergent coding and regulatory variants , Science, 387: 2025,eadp4753
Borja NA, Tinker RJ, Bivona SA, Smith CA, Locker TK, Fernandes S; Undiagnosed Diseases Network; Phillips JA 3rd, Stoler J, Taylor H, Zuchner S, Tekin M. Advancing Equity in Rare Disease Research: Insights From the Undiagnosed Disease Network , Am J Med Genet A, 197(2): 2025,e63904
Fan Z, Chirinos J, Yang X, Shu J, Li Y, O'Brien JM, Witschey W, Rader DJ, Gur R, Zhao B. The landscape of plasma proteomic links to human organ imaging , medRxiv: 2025
Borja NA, Zafeer MF, Bivona S, Peart L, Gultekin SH; Undiagnosed Diseases Network; Bademci G, Tekin M; Undiagnosed Diseases Network NIH. KIF21A-associated peripheral neuropathy defined by impaired binding with TUBB3 , J Med Genet, 62: 2025,117-122
Tian L, Jaeger BC, Scialla JJ, Budoff MJ, Mehta RC, Jaar BG, Saab G, Dobre MA, Reilly MP, Rader DJ, Townsend RR, Lash JP, Greenland P, Isakova T, Bundy JD; CRIC Study Investigators. Progression of Coronary Artery Calcification and Risk of Clinical Events in CKD: The Chronic Renal Insufficiency Cohort Study , Am J Kidney Dis, 85(1): 2025,67-77
Powers J, Wachtel H, Trujillo E, Desai H, Hausler R, Conway L, Wubbenhorst B; Penn Medicine BioBank; Regeneron Genetics Center; Domchek SM, Nathanson KL, Maxwell KN. Multi-ethnic heterozygote frequencies of cancer susceptibility genes to inform counseling of reproductive risk , Genet Med, 27(1): 2025,101246
Weng LC, Rämö JT, Jurgens SJ, Khurshid S, Chaffin M, Hall AW, Morrill VN, Wang X, Nauffal V, Sun YV, Beer D, Lee S, Nadkarni GN, Duong T, Wang B, Czuba T, Austin TR, Yoneda ZT, Friedman DJ, Clayton A, Hyman MC, Judy RL, Skanes AC, Orland KM, Treu TM, Oetjens MT, Alonso A, Soliman EZ, Lin H, Lunetta KL, van der Pals J, Issa TZ, Nafissi NA, May HT, Leong-Sit P, Roselli C, Choi SH; FinnGen; Million Veteran Program; Regeneron Genetics Center; Khan HR, Knight S, Karlsson Linnér R, Bezzina CR, Ripatti S, Heckbert SR, Gaziano JM, Loos RJF, Psaty BM, Smith JG, Benjamin EJ, Arking DE, Rader DJ, Shah SH, Roden DM, Damrauer SM, Eckhardt LL, Roberts JD, Cutler MJ, Shoemaker MB, Haggerty CM, Cho K, Palotie A, Wilson PWF, Ellinor PT, Lubitz SA. The impact of common and rare genetic variants on bradyarrhythmia development , Nat Genet, 57(1): 2025,53-64
Fitzsimmons L; Undiagnosed Diseases Network; Beaulieu-Jones B, Kobren SN. Enriched phenotypes in rare variant carriers suggest pathogenic mechanisms in rare disease patients , BioData Min, 18: 2025,6
Abramowitz SA, Boulier K, Keat K, Cardone KM, Shivakumar M, DePaolo J, Judy R, Bermudez F, Mimouni N, Neylan C, Kim D, Rader DJ, Ritchie MD, Voight BF, Pasaniuc B, Levin MG, Damrauer SM; Penn Medicine BioBank. Evaluating Performance and Agreement of Coronary Heart Disease Polygenic Risk Scores , JAMA, 333: 2025,60-70
Kember RL, Verma SS, Verma A, Xiao B, Lucas A, Kripke CM, Judy R, Chen J, Damrauer SM, Rader DJ, Ritchie MD. Polygenic risk scores for cardiometabolic traits demonstrate importance of ancestry for predictive precision medicine , Pac Symp Biocomput, 30: 2025,748-765