Fernando A. Escobar, MD

Radiology

Independent provider

Accepting new patients

Sees patients age 18 and up

Call 800-789-7366

About me

Associate Professor of Clinical Radiology

My education and training

Medical School: Pontificia Universidad Javeriana
Residency: Pontificia Universidad Javeriana
Fellowship: Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC

Spoken languages

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.

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.
Chester County Hospital: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.

Dr. Escobar is an independent physician who is not employed by Penn Medicine.

Qualifications and experience

Treatments and conditions

Research

Publications

Abhay Srinivasan, Christopher L Smith, Mudit Gupta, Pablo Laje, Katsuhide Maeda, Fernando Escobar, Yoav Dori, Ganesh Krishnamurthy Lymphatic Interventions and Treatment: Current Techniques and Applications in Pediatric and Adult Patients , Seminars in Roentgenology, 62: 2026

Sean Schoeman, Marian Gaballah, Fikadu Worede, Abhay Srinivasan, Kevin Meyers, Amy Kogon, Alexander Fairman, Seth Vatsky, Fernando Escobar, Dayna Mazza, Ganesh Krishnamurthy, Stephanie Cajigas-Loyola, Anne Marie Cahill Cutting Balloon Angioplasty for Resistant Pediatric Renal Artery stenosis: A Single Institutional Experience , Journal of vascular and interventional radiology, 37(5): 2026

Dori, Y., Pinto, E., Biroc, L., Gillespie, M. J., Callahan, R., Tang, J., O'Byrne, M. L., Ford, B., Vaiyani, D., DeWitt, A. G., Merrill, D., Shinde, D., Favilla, E., Shustak, R., Escobar, F. A., Krishnamurthy, G., Srinivasan, A., Rome, J. J., & Smith, C. L. Percutaneous Thoracic Duct Externalization and Autotransfusion in Patients With Lymphatic Failure Due to Elevated Central Venous Pressure , Circulation: Cardiovascular interventions, 18(10): 2025,871-878

Stephanie El Omeiri, Karen I. Ramirez-Suarez, Joseph Stern, Hansel J. Otero, Yoav Dori, David M. Biko, Jordan B. Rapp, Fernando Escobar, Aaron Dewitt, Ganesh Krishnamurthy, Abhay Srinivasan, Christopher L. Smith Imaging of central lymphatics in children with Both Trisomy 21 and congenital heart disease , Clinical Imaging, 127: 2025

Schoeman, S., Escobar, F., Kreiger, P., MacFarland, S., Mattei, P., Rungsiprakarn, P., Srinivasan, A., & Acord, M Image-guided Biopsy for the Diagnosis and Molecular Profiling of Hepatoblastoma , Pediatric Blood and Cancer: 2025

Ramirez-Suarez, K. I., Tierradentro-Garcia, L. O., Stern, J. A., Dori, Y., Escobar, F. A., Otero, H. J., Rapp, J. B., Smith, C. L., Krishnamurthy, G., & Biko, D. M State-of-the-art imaging for lymphatic evaluation in children , Pediatric radiology, 53(7): 2023,1380–1390

Bedoya, M. A., Raffini, L., Durand, R., Acord, M. R., Srinivasan, A., Krishnamurthy, G., Vatsky, S., Escobar, F., & Cahill, A. M Implantable venous access devices in children with severe hemophilia: a tertiary pediatric institutional experience , Pediatric radiology, 50(8): 2020,1148-1155

Gokli, A., Pinto, E., Escobar, F. A., Krishnamurthy, G., Smith, C. L., & Biko, D. M. Contrast Enhanced Ultrasound: Use in the Management of Lymphorrhea in Generalized Lymphatic Anomaly , Journal of vascular and interventional radiology: JVIR, 31(9): 2020,1511-1513

Biko DM, Dori Y, Savoca M, Krishnamurthy G, Smith CL, Laje P, Rome JJ, Escobar F Pediatric pulmonary lymphatic flow Disorders: Diagnosis and management , Paediatric respiratory reviews, 36: 2020,2-7

Barrera CA, Victoria T, Escobar FA, Krishnamurthy G, Smith CL, Moldenhauer JS, Biko DM Imaging of Fetal Lymphangiectasia: Prenatal and postnatal imaging findings , Pediatric radiology, 50(13): 2020,1872-1880