Danielle Sandsmark, MD, PhD
Neurology
Accepting new patients
Sees patients age 18 and up
Penn Neurology University City
Penn Medicine Provider
About me
- Associate Professor of Neurology at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
My education and training
- Medical School: Washington University School of Medicine
- Residency: Barnes-Jewish Center for Outpatient Health
- Residency: University of Pennsylvania Health System
Spoken languages
English
English
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.
- Pennsylvania Hospital: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
- Penn Presbyterian Medical Center: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
Qualifications and experience
- Neurology, 2012
- American Academy of Neurology, National
- Brain Oxygen Optimization in Severe Traumatic Brain Injury, Clinical Standardization Steering Committee member, International
- Department of Veterans' Affairs, National
- International Initiative of Traumatic Brain Injury Research, International
- National Neurotrauma Society, National
- Neurocritical Care Society, National
- Post-Acute Sequelae of SARS-COV2 advisory committee, National
- Society of Critical Care Medicine, International
Treatments and conditions
Research
Publications
Flanigan, M, Zhou, J, Sandsmark, DK Traumatic Brain Injury , The Practice of Neurocritical Care : 2026
Jed A. Hartings, Laura B. Ngwenya, Jennifer Goldthwait, Danielle Sandsmark, Ediberto Amorim De Cerqueira Filho, Britta Lindquist, Jens P. Dreier, Brandon Foreman Feasibility Trial of Spreading Depolarization Monitoring to Guide Management of Severe Traumatic Brain Injury: Initial Results , American Academy of Neurology Annual Meeting : 2026
Self WH, Calfee CS, Brown SM, Moss M, Ware LB, Hyzy RC, Meyer NJ, Reilly JP, Harhay MO, Shashaty MG, Sandsmark DK, Auriemma CL, Jones TK, Prescott HC, Dickson RP, Nelson K, McSparron JI, Lagina M, Denstaedt SJ, Admon AJ, Patel BK, Wolfe KS, Hite RD, Hudock KM, Bastarache JA, Koyama T, Kerchberger VE, Ely EW, Jackson JC, Sinha P, Mudd PA, Kraft BD, Fremont RD, Singh R, Aggarwal NR, Jolley SE, Burnham EL, Mantelli RA, Janssen WJ, Moore CM, Douglas IS, Peterson R, Peltan ID, Barkauskas CE, Pratt EH, Harris ES, Scharfstein DO, Needham DM, Sahetya SK, Parker AM, Iwashyna TJ, Shenderov K, Matthay MA, Alipanah-Lechner N, Magee L, Shwartzman T, Lin C, Weingart MF, Langelier CR, Chao O, Hendrickson CM, Kornblith LZ, Chak S, Bardillon K, Rodriguez KH, Rogers AJ, Moore AR, Levitt JE, Vojnik R, Perez C, Lindsell CJ, Shotwell MS, Blette BS, Imhoff BW, Rice TW, Rhoads JP, Womack KN, Merkel AR, Ahmad LN, Zhao X, Grandon IE, Gong MN for the APS Consortium The ARDS, Pneumonia, and Sepsis (APS) Consortium: Rationale, Design, and Feasibility of a National Platform for Phenotyping Critical Illness Syndromes , Chest: 2026
Trevor McCutcheon, Justin Desprebiteres, Amber Erich, Kate Deppen, Stefanie Darnley, Danielle Sandsmark, Ramon Diaz-Arrastia, Vidyulata Kamath, Jeffrey Ware, Andrea L.C. Schneider, Alexa Walter Subjective and Objective Findings of Anosmia are Discordant and Persist for 6 months in Hospitalized Individuals with Traumatic Brain Injury , American Academy of Neurology Annual Meeting : 2026
Nuala J. Meyer Rogan Magee John P. Reilly Ali Kamal James C. Jackson E Wesley Ely Jillian Rhoads Matthew Shotwell Samuel M. Brown Carolyn S. Calfee Michael O. Harhay Robert Hyzy Marc Moss Lorraine B. Ware Wesley H. Self Michelle N. Gong Dale M. Neeham Sarah J. Beesley Mihir R. Atreya Kathleen A. Stringer Pratik Sinha Angela J. Rogers Joseph A. Hippensteel Danielle K. Sandsmark Plasma tau and neurofilament light chain, markers of neuronal injury, associate with delirium duration, survival, and subjective cognitive complaints in the ARDS, Pneumonia, and Sepsis Consortium , American Thoracic Society Annual Meeting : 2026
Weppner JL Gray J Kuehl D Sandsmark D Mirshahi N Diaz-Arrastia R Rascovsky K Peacock F Van Meter TE Differentiating Traumatic Brain Injury from Dementia in Older Adults Using BrainCheck: An Emergency Department Feasibility Study , Diagnostics: 2026
Moyer M Maloney-Wilensky E Tsang Y Boivin CC Kumar S Coghlan L Wu A Mendez J Hinkle J Murphy H Sandsmark DK The characterization of patient with external ventricular drains who participated in a nurse-initiated early mobilization program in the neurological intensive care unit , J Neurosci Nurse: 2026
Thomas R Sandsmark DK et al Associations of VEGF-A Levels with Traumatic Brain Injury Severity and Outcomes: A Transforming Research and Clinical Knowledge in Traumatic Brain Injury Study (TRACK-TBI) Study , Neurotrauma Reports: 2026
Sabrina Abbruzzese Ronit Patel Alexa E. Walter Cillian E. Lynch Danielle K. Sandsmark Douglas H. Smith Andrea L.C. Schneider Ramon Diaz-Arrastia Proteomic changes of neurodegenerative and inflammatory plasma biomarkers following traumatic brain injury , Neurotrauma Reports: 2026
De Boer, Christopher, Sandsmark, Danielle, Pascual, Jose Bedside neurologic monitoring , Principles of Adult Surgical Critical Care: 2025