- Epilepsy
- Stroke related epilepsy
- Stroke related seizures
- Responsive neurostimulation system
- Vagus nerve stimulation
Genna Julia Waldman, MD
she/her/hers
Neurology
Accepting new patients
Sees patients age 16 and up
Penn Neuroscience Center - Neurology
Penn Medicine Provider
About me
- Medical Director, Epilepsy Monitoring Unit
- Assistant Professor of Clinical Neurology
My education and training
- Medical School: Rush Medical School
- Residency: NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center
- Fellowship: NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center
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
- Capital Blue Cross/Capital Advantage Insurance Company
- 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.
- Lancaster General Hospital: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
- Chester County Hospital: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
Qualifications and experience
- Psychiatry & Neurology, Epilepsy
- Neurology, 2019
- American Academy of Neurology, National
- American Epilepsy Society, National
- Penn Comprehensive Epilepsy Center
Treatments and conditions
Research
Publications
Nix KC, Ghosn NJ, Xie K, Ojemann W, Ellis CA, Waldman GJ, Cornblath E, Conrad E, Ma D, Litt B Optimizing Antiseizure Medication Taper in the Epilepsy Monitoring Unit , Neurology Clinical Practice, 16(3): 2026,e200606
Xu Z, Scheid BH, Conrad E, Davis KA, Ganguly T, Gelfand MA, Gugger JJ, Jiang X, LaRocque JJ, Ojemann WKS, Sinha SR, Waldman GJ, Wagenaar J, Sinha N, Litt B Annotating neurophysiologic data at scale with optimized human input , J Neural Eng, 22(4): 2025,046003
Fischer D, Abella BS, Bass GD, Charles J, Hampton S, Kulick-Soper CV, Mendlik MT, Mitchell OJ, Narva AM, Pino W, Sikandar ML, Sinha SR, Waldman GJ, Ware JB, Levine JM. The Recovery of Consciousness via Evidence-Based Medicine and Research (RECOVER) Program: A Paradigm for Advancing Neuroprognostication , Neurol Clin Pract, 14(6): 2024,e200351
Ostendorf A, Waldman GJ, Jehi L, Ilyas M, Naritoku D, Goldman AM Epilepsy Therapies Symposium | Do We Really "Outgrow" Seizures? , Epilepsy Currents: 2024
Zhou DJ, Woodson-Smith S, Emmert BE, Kornspun A, Larocque J, Kulick-Soper CV, Qiu MK, Ellis CA, Gugger JJ, Conrad EC, Waldman G, Ganguly T, Sinha SR, Davis KA, Stein JM, Liu GT, Gelfand M, Raghupathi R Clinical characteristics and surgical outcomes of epilepsy associated with temporal encephalocele: A systematic review , Epilepsy Behav, 158: 2024,109928
Kulick-Soper, C.V., Waldman, G. Epilepsy Management in Transgender and Gender Diverse People , Curr Treat Options Neurol , 25: 2023,419–427
Decker BM, Munger Clary H, Holmes MG, Al-Faraj AO, Esmaeili B, Waldman G, Becker DA, Johnson J, Voinescu PE, Gerard EE. ART/IVF committee of ECAM (Epilepsy in the Childbearing Ages through Menopause consortium) Letter regarding "Seizure control in women with epilepsy undergoing assisted reproductive technology" , Epilepsia, 65(4): 2023,1141-1144
Castano VG, Spotnitz M, Waldman GJ, Joiner EF, Choi H, Ostropolets A, Natarajan K, McKhann GM, Ottman R, Neugut AI, Hripcsak G, Youngerman BE Identification of patients with drug-resistant epilepsy in electronic medical record data using the Observational Medical Outcomes Partnership Common Data Model , Epilepsia, 63(11): 2022,2981-2993
Waldman, G. Benson, R Epilepsy Care in Transgender Patients , Curr Neurol Neurosci Rep , 22(8): 2022,451-458
Waldman G, Spotnitz M, Ostropolets A, Natarajan K, Castano V, Argenziano M, Ottman R, Choi H, Youngerman B. Patient Characteristics and Antiseizure Medication Pathways in Newly Diagnosed Epilepsy: Feasibility and Pilot Results Using the Common Data Model in a Single Center Electronic Medical Record Database. , American Epilepsy Society Annual Meeting.: 2021