Penn Medicine Provider
Radiology
Jae W. Song, MD
Accepting new patients
Sees patients age 18 and up

About me

  • Associate Professor of Radiology at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania

I am a  board certified diagnostic neuroradiologist with CAQ subspecialty certification in neuroradiology. My expertise is in the interpretation of brain, head and neck, and spine CT and MR imaging. I lead the Penn Vessel Wall MR Imaging Program and Song Cerebrovascular Lab

Education and training

  • Medical School: New York University School of Medicine
  • Residency: University of Michigan Medical Center
  • Residency: Hahnemann University Hospital
  • Residency: Yale-New Haven Hospital
  • Fellowship: Massachusetts General Hospital

Insurance accepted

My 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.
  • Penn Medicine Rittenhouse Long-Term Acute Care Hospital
  • Chester County Hospital: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
Dr. Song is a Penn Medicine physician.

Qualifications and experience

My research

Song JW#, Phi HQ, Koneru M, Cao Q, Rubin J, Sakai Y, Ibrahim L, Zhou SE, Woo JH, Kasner SE, Saba L, Cucchiara BL Prevalence of High-Risk CTA-Based Carotid Plaque-RADS Subtypes in Patients With Embolic Stroke of Undetermined Source , Stroke, 56(3): 2025


Kim J, Wang K, Sakai Y, Zhu Y, Hu AC, Phi HQ, Arnett N, Wang GJ, Cucchiara BL, Song JW#, Haehn D#. Automatic Segmentation of Calcified Plaque in Carotid Arteries. , Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI): 2025


Xiao J, Poblete RA, Lerner A, Nguyen PL, Song JW, Sanossian N, Wilcox AG, Song SS, Lyden PD, Saver JL, Wasserman BA, Fan Z MRI in the Evaluation of Cryptogenic Stroke and Embolic Stroke of Undetermined Source , Radiology, 311(1): 2024,e231934


Song JW#, Frame MY, Sellers RT, Klahn C, Fitzgerald K, Pomponio B, Schnall MD, Kasner SE, Loevner, LA. Implementation of a Clinical Vessel Wall MR Imaging Program at an Academic Medical Center , American Journal of Neuroradiology, 45(5): 2024,554-561


Saba L, Cau R, Murgia1 A, Nicolaides AN, Wintermark M, Castillo M, Staub D, Kakkos S, Yang Q, Paraskevas KI, Yuan C, Edjlali1 M, Sanfilippo R, Hendrikse J, Johansson E, Mossa-Basha M, Balu N, Dichgans M, Saloner D, Bos D, Jager RH, Naylor R, Faa G, Suri JS, Costello J, Auer DP, McNally S, Bonati LH, Nardi V, van der Lugt A, Griffin M, Wasserman BA, Kooi ME, Gillard J, Lanzino G, Mikhailidis DP, Mandell DM, Benson J, van Dam-Nolen D, Kopczak A, Song JW, Gupta A, Demarco JK, Chaturvedi S, Virmani R, Hatsukami T, Brown M, Moody AR, Libby P, Schindler A*, Saam T*. Carotid Plaque-RADS Classification, A Novel Stroke Risk Classification System , Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 17(1): 2023,62-75


Song JW*, Xiao J*, Cen SY, Liu X, Wu F, Schlick K, Li D, Yang Q, Song SS, Fan Z Sex-Differences in Intracranial Atherosclerosis in Hypertensive Patients with Acute Ischemic Stroke , Journal of the American Heart Association: 2022,e025579


Song JW#, Cao Q, Siegler JE, Thon JM, Woo JH, Cucchiara BL Sex-differences in Carotid Plaque Composition in Patients with Embolic Stroke of Undetermined Source , Journal of the American Heart Association, 10(9): 2021,e020143


Song JW#, Pavlou A, Xiao J, Kasner SE, Fan Z, Messé SR Vessel Wall MR Imaging Biomarkers of Symptomatic Intracranial Atherosclerosis: A Meta-Analysis , Stroke, 52(1): 2021,193-202


Song JW#, Pavlou A, Burke MP, Shou H, Atsina KB, Xiao J, Loevner LA, Mankoff D, Fan Z, Kasner SE. Imaging Endpoints of Intracranial Atherosclerosis using Vessel Wall MR Imaging: A Systematic Review , Neuroradiology, 63(6): 2021,847-856


Arnett N, Pavlou A, Burke MP, Cucchiara BL, Rhee RL, Song JW Vessel Wall MR Imaging of Central Nervous System Vasculitis: A Systematic Review , Neuroradiology, 64(1): 2022,43-58


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