Karuna Shekdar, MD
Radiology
Independent provider
Accepting new patients
Sees patients age 18 and up
About me
- Associate Professor of Clinical Radiology
My education and training
- Medical School: Seth G. S. Medical College
- Residency: University of Mumbia (formerly Bombay)
- Residency: Bai Jerbai Wadia Hospital for Children
- Fellowship: Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
- Fellowship: University of Pennsylvania Health System
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
- 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
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.
- Chester County Hospital: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
Qualifications and experience
- Neuroradiology
- Diagnostic Radiology, 2009
- American Society of Emergency Radiology (ASER), National
- American Society of Functional Neuroradiology (ASFNR), National
- American Society of Head & Neck Radiology (ASHNR), National
- American Society of Neuroradiology (ASNR), National
- American Society of Pediatric Neuroradiology (ASPNR), International
- American Society of Spine Radiology (ASSR), National
- Eastern Neuroradiology Society (ENRS), National
- Indian Radiological and Imaging Association (IRIA), International
- Radiological Society of North America (RSNA), International
- Society of Pediatric Radiology (SPR), National
Treatments and conditions
Research
Publications
Dayno, A. N., Crowley, J., Bamba, V., Bhoj, E. J. K., Shekdar, K., & McCormack, S. E. Neonatal Hypopituitarism , NeoReviews, 27(4): 2026,e211-e221
Belfer, S. J., Beslow, L. A., Vaz, A., Shekdar, K., Pollock, A., Mehta, S., Resendiz, K., Raffini, L., Cahill, A. M., Catapano, J., & Kundishora, A. J. Delayed Bilateral Internal Carotid Artery Occlusion in a Pediatric Patient Following Traumatic Injury: Insights on Management and Interventional Approach , Journal of child neurology: 2025
Han, N. A., Halverson, M. R., Chang, A. E., Tolley, P. D., Teixeira, S. R., Shekdar, K. V., Swanson, J. W., Bartlett, S. P., Schwartz, E. S., & Taylor, J. A. Incidental cranial suture closure in pediatric patients: a rigorous evaluation of suture closure timing in the era of high-resolution CT , Child's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery, 41(1): 2025,362
Neeman, B., Sudhakar, S., Biswas, A., Rosenblum, J., Sidpra, J., D'Arco, F., Löbel, U., Gómez-Chiari, M., Serrano, M., Bolasell, M., Reddy, K., Ben-Sira, L., Zakzouk, R., Al-Hashem, A., Mirsky, D. M., Patel, R., Radhakrishnan, R., Shekdar, K., Whitehead, M. T., & Mankad, K. Sotos Syndrome: Deep Neuroimaging Phenotyping Reveals a High Prevalence of Malformations of Cortical Development , AJNR. American journal of neuroradiology, 45(10): 2024,1570-1577
Foust, A. M., Johnstone, L., Krishnasarma, R., Martin, D. C., Vaughn, J., Shekdar, K., Snyder, E., Todd, T., Pruthi, S., & Sarma, A. Nontraumatic Pediatric Head and Neck Emergencies: Resource for On-Call Radiologists , Radiographics: a review publication of the Radiological Society of North America, Inc., 44(10): 2024,e240027
Simsek, O.; Moon, J.; Spagnolo, K.; Clifford, S.; Ferreira Alves, C.A.P.; Santi, M.; Shekdar, K Spectrum of Neuroimaging Features of Histiocytosis Syndromes in Children , Neurographics, 1: 2024,38-47
Gubbiotti, M. A., Madsen, P. J., Tucker, A. M., Abdullaev, Z., Aldape, K., Shekdar, K., Yang, A., Minturn, J. E., Santi, M., & Viaene, A. N. ZFTA-fused supratentorial ependymoma with a novel fusion partner, DUX4 , Journal of neuropathology and experimental neurology, 82(7): 2023,668-671
Simsek, O; Moon, J; Spagnolo, K; Clifford, S; Alves, C; Santi-Vicini, M, Karuna, S Spectrum of Neuroimaging Features of Histiocytosis Syndromes in Children , Neurographics: 2023
McCormack, S. E., Wang, Z., Wade, K. L., Dedio, A., Cilenti, N., Crowley, J., Plessow, F., Bamba, V., Roizen, J. D., Jiang, Y., Stylli, J., Ramakrishnan, A., Platt, M. L., Shekdar, K., Fisher, M. J., Vetter, V. L., Hocking, M., Xiao, R., & Lawson, E. A. A Pilot Randomized Clinical Trial of Intranasal Oxytocin to Promote Weight Loss in Individuals With Hypothalamic Obesity , Journal of the Endocrine Society, 7(5): 2023,bvad037
Alves, C. A. P. F., Clifford, S. M., McKeown Ruggiero, S., Helbig, I., Chadehumbe, M., & Shekdar, K. Teaching NeuroImage: Selectively Bright Inferior Cerebellum in Christianson Syndrome , Neurology, 10.1212/WNL.0000000000201234: 2022