John Daniel Arena, MD

Neurosurgery
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Sees patients age 18 and up
Penn Neurosurgery Pennsylvania Hospital
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About me

  • Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania

My education and training

  • Medical School: University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
  • Residency: University of Pennsylvania Health System
  • Fellowship: Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania

Spoken languages

English
English

Insurance accepted

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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.
Dr. Arena is a Penn Medicine physician.

Qualifications and experience

Treatments and conditions

Research

Publications

Xu E, Karsalia R, Arena J, Gor A, Malhotra RD, Kost J, McClintock SD, Yoon J, Ozturk A, Judy B, Marcotte PJ, Schuster J, Malhotra NR Positive pre-procedure depression screening is associated with worse outcomes following single-level posterior-only lumbar fusion: A retrospective cohort analysis , Neurosurgery, 98(2): 2026,442-449


Karsalia R, Xu E, Malhotra RD, Gor A, Arena JD, Kost J, McClintock SD, Yoon J, Ozturk A, Judy B, Marcotte P, Shin J, Schuster J, Malhotra NR Markers of preoperative depression and anxiety as predictors of increased short-term healthcare utilization after lumbar fusion surgery , JNS: Spine, 44(1): 2025,118-125


Ghenbot Y, Turlip RW, Howard S, Arena JD, Ahmad HS, Petrov D, Ali Z, Schuster JM Osteotomy of a Congenital Paracondylar Process: 2-Dimmensional Operative Video , Operative Neurosurgery: 2025


Smith CJ, Howard SD, Arena JD, Ghenbot YG, Ali ZS, Petrov D, Kumar MA, Schuster JM A Prediction Model of Adenosine Diphosphate Inhibition Among Traumatic Brain Injury Patients , Brain Inj, 39(11): 2025,963-969


Arena JD, Stewart W, Kovacs GG, Lee EB, Robinson JL, Lee VMY, Trojanowski JQ, Schneider ALC, Smith DH, Johnson VE Traumatic brain injury or head impacts from contact sports are associated with tau astrogliopathy , Brain, 48(8): 2025,2671-2683


Golubovsky JL, Dagli MM, Gu B, Ghenbot Y, Arena JD, Welch W, Yoon J, Casper D, Arlet V, Ozturk AK The Impact of durotomy on short-term morbidity and long-term outcomes in adult spinal deformity surgery: a multicenter propensity score-matched observational study , J Neurosurg Spine, 43(4): 2025,416-423


Turlip R, Ahmad HS, Ghenbot Y, Chauhan D, Dagli M, Bryan K, Arena JD, Wathen CA, MacAluso D, Ozturk AK, Ali Z, Petrov D, Malhotra N, Zager E, Marcotte P, Yoon JW Surgical Outcomes Following Endoscopic Decompression Demonstrate No Differences Between Obese and Non-Obese Patients , Global Spine Conference, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: 2025


Dagli M, Ahmad HS, Chauhan D, Turlip R, Bryan K, Wathen CA, Ghenbot Y, Arena JD, Golubovsky JL, Shin J, Ozturk AK, Welch WC, Yoon JW Development and Validation of an Extreme Gradient Boosting Model to Predict Reoperation Following Surgical Site Infection: An Analysis of 96,216 Patients Using the ACS NSQIP Database , Global Spine Conference, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: 2025


Turlip R, Ahmad HS, Ghenbot Y, Chauhan D, Dagli MM, Bryan K, Arena JD, Wathen CA, Macaluso D, Ozturk AK, Ali Z, Petrov D, Malhotra N, Zager E, Marcotte P, Yoon JW Endoscopic Lumbar Decompression in Obese vs. Non-Obese Patients: Comparable Outcomes Across BMI , International Meeting on Advanced Spine Techniques (IMAST), Glasgow, UK : 2025


Dagli M, Ahmad HS, Chauhan D, Turlip R, Bryan K, Wathen CA, Ghenbot Y, Arena JD, Golubovsky JL, Shin J, Ozturk AK, Welch WC, Yoon JW Optimization and Validation of a Novel AI Framework Using NLP with LLM Integration for Clinical Data Extraction and Postoperative Billing Automation: A Study of 68,260 Records , International Meeting on Advanced Spine Techniques (IMAST), Glasgow, UK : 2025