- Dementia with lewy bodies
- Memory loss
- Alzheimer's infusion therapy
Holly Elser, MD
Neurology
Accepting new patients
Sees patients age 18 and up
Penn Neuroscience Center - Neurology
Penn Medicine Provider
About me
- Assistant Professor of Neurology at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
My education and training
- Stanford University School of MedicineMedical School
- University of Pennsylvania Health SystemResidency
- Hospital of the University of PennsylvaniaResidency
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)
- 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. Elser is a Penn Medicine provider.
Qualifications and experience
- Neurology, 2025
- Alzheiemer's Association, International
- American Academy of Neurology, National
- American Heart Association, National
- American Neurologic Association, National
- International Society for Environmental Epidemiology, International
- Society for Epidemiologic Research, National
- Memory and cognitive disorders care
- Movement disorders care
All conditions and treatments
Research
Publications
Friedman SR, Reynolds M, McKay CC, Sánjez-Pájaro A, Aguirre AR, Perlman DC, Elser H, Cerdá M, Matthay EC Socioenvironmental disasters and the dialectics of overdose mortality , Int J Drug POlicy: 2026
Collin LJ, Elser HC, Farkas DK, Henderson VW Horváth-Puhó E, Sørensen H Effect of pre-existing dementia on cancer-specific and all-cause mortality in patients with cancer in Denmark: a population-based cohort study , BMC Neurol: 2026
Yang D, Elser HC, Willis AW Environmental Risk in Parkinson Disease—Bring the Noise , JAMA Neurol, 83(9): 2026
Hunzinger KJ, D'Alonzo BA, Thompson A, Law CA, Nguyen MT, Marini S, Izzy S, Elser H, Alonso A, Johansen M, Schneider ALC Associations of Traumatic Brain Injury with Incident Cardiovascular Disease: Results from the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) Study , Am J Prev Cardiol, 30: 2026
Sørensen HT, Sørensen TT, Elser H, Horváth-Puhó E Occurrence and Mortality of Stiff Person Syndrome in Denmark , Neuroepidemiology, 8: 2026
Pederson AL, Farkas DK, Fuglsang CH, Henderson VW, Al-Mashhadi SK, Elser H, Sørensen HT Risk of Cancer in Patients With First-Time Seizure , JAMA Neurol, 83(6): 2026
Elser H, Graff-Radford J Tilting at Treadmills—Pitfalls and Potential of Dementia Prevention Trials , JAMA Neurol, 83(5): 2026
Thomas R, Law CA, Casey JA, Mosley T, Gottesman RF, Diaz-Arrastia R, Elser H, Schneider ALC Hospital Readmission After Traumatic Brain Injury Hospitalization in Community-Dwelling Older Adults , Ann Clin Transl Neurol, 13(5): 2026
Elser H, Goslinga J Air Pollution and Motor Neuron Disease—Particulate-ly Risky , JAMA Neurol, 83(3): 2026
Elser H, Kiang V. M., Humphreys K, Zhang J High-risk emergency department visits and risk of all-cause mortality, suicide, and fatal overdose among US military veterans , American Journal of Epidemiology, 195(1): 2026,102-108