- Alzheimer disease
- Dementia with lewy bodies
- Memory disorder
- Memory loss
- Alzheimer's infusion therapy
David A. Wolk, MD
Neurology
Accepting new patients
Sees patients age 65 and up
Penn Memory Center
Penn Medicine Provider
About me
- Division Chair, Cognitive Disorders
- Co-Director, Penn Memory Center
- Professor of Neurology
My education and training
- Johns Hopkins UniversityMedical School
- University of Pennsylvania Health SystemResidency
- Massachusetts General Hospital/Brigham and Women’s HospitalFellowship
Spoken languages
English
English
Reviews
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)
- 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
- Devoted Health Choice Giveback Pennsylvania (PPO)
- Devoted Health Choice Pennsylvania (PPO)
- Devoted Health Choice Plus Pennsylvania (PPO)
- Devoted Health Core Pennsylvania (HMO)
- Devoted Health Dual Plus Pennsylvania (HMO D-SNP)
- Devoted Health Giveback Pennsylvania (HMO)
Locations
Penn Medicine hospital privileges
- Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
- Penn Presbyterian Medical Center: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
- Pennsylvania Hospital: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
Dr. Wolk is a Penn Medicine physician.
Qualifications and experience
- Neurology, 2003
- Alzheimer's Association International Conference Scientific Program Committee, International
- Alzheimer's Association International Society to Advance Alzheimer's Research and Treatment (ISTAART), International
- American Academy of Neurology, International
- Cognitive Neuroscience Society, International
- Institute on Aging, Grant Reviewer, Local
- International Society to Advance Alzheimer's Research and Treatment, International
- Memory Disorders Research Society, International
- NIA Alzheimer's Disease Center Program, National
- National Alzheimer's Coordinating Center Steering Committee, Chair, National
- National Institute of Aging AGCD Study Section (Career Development for Clinicians / Health Professionals), National
- Neuroimaging Professional Interest Area, Alzheimer's Association International Society to Advance Alzheimer's Research and Treatment, International
- Society for Behavioral and Cognitive Neurology, International
- University of Pennsylvania Institute on Aging, Local
- Memory and cognitive disorders care
- Movement disorders care
- Recognized annually in Philadelphia Magazine's Top Docs issue from 2018 through 2021
Treatments and conditions
Research
Publications
Wolk DA, Dickerson BC Fractionating verbal episodic memory in Alzheimer's disease. , NeuroImage, 54(2): 2010,1530-9
Wolk DA, Dickerson BC Apolipoprotein E (APOE) genotype has dissociable effects on memory and attentional-executive network function in Alzheimer's disease. , Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 107(22): 2010,10256-61
Wolk DA, Dunfee KL, Dickerson BC, Aizenstein HJ, Dekosky ST A medial temporal lobe division of labor: Insights from memory in aging and early Alzheimer disease. , Hippocampus, 21(5): 2010,461-6
Wolk DA, Price JC, Saxton JA, Snitz BE, James JA, Lopez OL, Aizenstein HJ, Cohen AD, Weissfeld LA, Mathis CA, Klunk WE, DeKosky ST Amyloid imaging in mild cognitive impairment subtypes. , Annals of Neurology, 65(5): 2009,557-68
Dickerson BC, Wolk DA MRI cortical thickness biomarker predicts AD-like CSF and cognitive decline in normal adults. , Neurology, 78(2): 2011,84-90
Pluta J, Yushkevich P, Das S, Wolk D In vivo Analysis of Hippocampal Subfield Atrophy in Mild Cognitive Impairment via Semi-Automatic Segmentation of T2-Weighted MRI. , Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, 31(1): 2012,85-99
Wolk DA, Price JC, Madeira C, Saxton JA, Snitz BE, Lopez OL, Mathis CA, Klunk WE, Dekosky ST Amyloid imaging in dementias with atypical presentation. , Alzheimer's & Dementia, 8(5): 2012,389-98
Wolk DA, Mancuso L, Kliot D, Arnold SE, Dickerson BC Familiarity-based memory as an early cognitive marker of preclinical and prodromal AD. , Neuropsychologia, 51(6): 2013,1094-102