David James Tischfield, MD, PhD
Radiology
Accepting new patients
Sees patients age 18 and up
Penn Medicine Provider
About me
- Assistant Professor of Radiology at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
My education and training
- Medical School: University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
- Residency: Pennsylvania Hospital
- Residency: University of Pennsylvania Health System
- Fellowship: University of Pennsylvania Health System
Spoken languages
English
English
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
- Amerihealth of NJ Core
- Amerihealth of NJ Enhanced
- Amerihealth of NJ HMO
- Amerihealth of NJ Local Value
- Amerihealth of NJ POS
- Amerihealth of NJ PPO
- Amerihealth of NJ Regional Preferred
- Amerihealth of NJ Secure
- Amerihealth of NJ Ultimate (PPO)
- 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.
- Chester County Hospital: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
Qualifications and experience
- Nuclear Medicine
- Diagnostic Radiology, 2024
- American Medical Association, National
- Association of University Radiologists, National
- Radiological Society of North America, National
- Society of Interventional Oncology, National
- Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, National
- World Molecular Imaging Society, International
Treatments and conditions
Research
Publications
Bukola Adebesin, BS, David Tischfield, MD, PhD, Alexander Zavriyev BS, Molly Sheehan, PhD, Ariful Islam BS, MA, Vera Shattuck, Daniel Ackerman, PhD, Steve Kadlecek, PhD, Terence Gade, MD, PhD. Hyperpolarized 1-13C-Pyruvate Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy Distinguishes Hepatocellular Carcinoma Genetic Subgroups In Vivo , International Society for Magnetic Resonance Annual Meeting, Honolulu, Hawaii: 2025
Choi K, Henderson NT, Feierman ER, Louzon S, Galanaugh J, Davatolhagh F, Bhandaru I, Tischfield DJ, Anderson SA, Korb E, Fuccillo MV Control of striatal circuit development by the chromatin regulator Zswim6 , Sci Adv, 11(3): 2025,eadq6663
Luis Octavio Tierradentro-Garcia, MD; Katerina Lee, MD; Sophia R. O’Brien, MD, MSEd; David Tischfield, MD, PhD; Austin Patel, MD, MSTR; Karthik Sundaram, MD, PhD PSMA PET/CT Radiotracer Uptake in the Prostate: It’s Not Always Cancer , SNNMI Northeast Regional Meeting, Newport, RI: 2024
Weinfurtner, K., Tischfield, D. J., McClung, G., Crainic, J., Gordan, J., Jiao, J., Furth, E. E., Li, W., Supan, E. T., Nadolski, G. J., Hunt, S. J., Kaplan, D. E., Gade, T. P. F. Human GM-CSF/IL-3 enhance tumor immune infiltration in humanized HCC patient-derived xenografts , Journal of Hepatology Reports, 7(3): 2025
Tischfield D, Adebesin B, Noji M, Zavriyev A, Supan E, Islam A, Li J, Kadlecek S, Ackerman D, Gade T Hyperpolarized Metabolic Imaging of BCAT1 Activity: A Novel In Vivo Biomarker of the Master Cell Growth Regulator mTOR , World Molecular Imaging Conference, Prague, Czech Republic: 2023
Xiang DH, Snyder A, Capua JD, Galla N, Tischfield DJ, Lewis T, Somani S, Sucher A, Ahmed M, Daye D. Mentorship in Interventional Radiology: Addressing Obstacles to Pursuing Research and Innovation Among IR Trainees , Acad Radiol, 29(8): 2022,1275-1281
Tischfield DJ, Gurevich A, Johnson O, Gatmaytan I, Nadolski GJ, Soulen MC, Kaplan DE, Furth E, Hunt SJ, Gade TPF Transarterial Embolization Modulates the Immune Response within Target and Nontarget Hepatocellular Carcinomas in a Rat Model , Radiology, 303(1): 2022,215-225
Hong CX, Meer E, Cioban M, Tischfield DJ, Hassani DB, Harvie HS Position and orientation of vaginal pessaries in situ on magnetic resonance imaging , Int Urogynecol J, 33(2): 2022,369-376
Tischfield DJ, Gurevich A, Johnson O, Gatmaytan I, Nadolski GJ, Soulen MC, Kaplan DE, Furth E, Hunt SJ, Gade TPF Transarterial embolization modulates the immune response within target and non-target hepatocellular carcinomas in a translational rat model. , Pennsylvania Radiological Society Annual Meeting, Valley Forge, PA: 2021
Fitzgerald M, Sotuyo N, Tischfield DJ, Anderson SA Generation of cerebral cortical GABAergic interneurons from pluripotent stem cells , Stem Cells, 38(11): 2020,1375-1386