Denise Jiali Xu, MD
Neurology
Accepting new patients
Sees patients age 18 and up
Penn Medicine Provider
About me
- Assistant Professor of Clinical Neurology
My education and training
- Medical School: University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
- Residency: Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
- Residency: 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)
- 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
- 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.
- Chester County Hospital: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
- Princeton Medical Center: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
Qualifications and experience
- Neurology, 2022
- 2025 American Academy of Neurology Annual Meeting, International
- American Academy of Neurology, International
- The Neurohospitalist Society, International
Treatments and conditions
Research
Publications
Ellis CA, Liu PZ, Napole A, Denison L, Shaik NF, Venezia GA, Ljungberg L, Karamardian MA, Peachey C, Buckley M, Bae CJ, Stein L, Xu DJ Promoting Sleep for Neurology Inpatients: The Value of Routine Overnight Vital Signs , Neurology Clinical Practice, 15(4): 2025,e200492
Rock M, Shipley SC, Little JN, Berger J, Xu DJ Clinical Reasoning: A 60-Year-Old Man with Rapidly Progressive Left Hemibody Weakness and Vision Loss , Neurology, 105(2): 2025,e213869
Xu D, Cristancho D, Price R Expanding the Inpatient General Neurology Consultation Service: An Initiative to Improve Care Delivery , American Academy of Neurology, San Diego, CA: 2025
Liu P, Napole A, Denison L, Shaik N, Venezia G, Ljungberg L, Karamardian M, Peachey C, Buckley M, Bae C, Stein L, Xu D, Ellis C Are Routine Overnight Vitals Necessary for Neurology Inpatients? , American Academy of Neurology, San Diego, CA: 2025
Little J, Shipley S, Rock M, Berger JR, Xu DJ Paraneoplastic Tumefactive Demyelination with Anti-LUZP4 Antibody Associated with Metastatic Seminoma: A Case Report , American Academy of Neurology, San Diego, CA: 2025
Shaik NF, Denison L, Venezia GMA, Ljungberg L, Lebrón-Cruz A, Resnick D, Peachey C, Ziemba C, Buckley M, Karamardian M, Liu PZ, Napole A, Hong J, Zeng R, Yu C, Chan A, Bae C, Stein L, Ellis CA, Xu DJ Improving sleep on the inpatient general, non-stroke neurology service: a quasi-experimental interventional trial , Journal of Hospital Medicine: 2025
Eisinger RS, Jones FJ, Pai EL, Xu D, Berger JR, Prasad S Ideomotor Apraxia and 'Milky Way' Sign in Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalopathy , Neurology, 103(10): 2024,e209938
Karamardian M, Stein L, Resnick D, Chambers C, Peachey C, Malinovitch A, Rosin R, Bae C, Buckley M, Xu DJ Restoring Sleep for Neurology Inpatients , American Academy of Neurology, Denver, CO: 2024
Lebron-Cruz A, Liu P, Venezia G, Ljungberg L, Peachey C, Buckley M, Karamardian M, Xu DJ, Bae C, Stein L, Ellis C Characterizing Inpatient Sleep on the Neurology Service , American Academy of Neurology, Denver, CO: 2024
Douglas AG, Xu DJ, Shah MP Approach to Myelopathy and Myelitis , Neurologic Clinics, 40(1): 2022,133-156