Matthew B. Palmer, MD, PhD
Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Accepting new patients
Sees patients age 18 and up
Penn Pathology and Laboratory Medicine HUP
Penn Medicine Provider
About me
- Associate Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
My education and training
- Medical School: Emory University
- Residency: Yale University School of Medicine
- Fellowship: Yale University School of Medicine
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.
- Pennsylvania Hospital: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
- Penn Presbyterian Medical Center: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
Qualifications and experience
- Pathology - Anatomic and Clinical Pathology, 2012
- American Society of Nephrology, National
- Cure Glomerulonephropathy Network (CureGN), International
- Nephrotic Syndrome Study Network (NEPTUNE), International
- Renal Pathology Society, National
- Transformative Research in Diabetic Nephropathy (TRIDENT), National
Treatments and conditions
Research
Publications
Mohandes S, Fakhreddine M, Sheng H, Al Dulaimee M, Mottl A, Scialla J, Almaani S, Luciano R, Isakova T, Bansal S, Argyropoulos C, Avasare R, Singh M, Campbell KN, Townsend R, Coppock G, Palmer M, Susztak K; TRIDENT Consortium. Percutaneous Native Kidney Biopsy Complications in Diabetic Patients in the TRIDENT Cohort , Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology: 2026
Bhoj VG, Kaminski M, Zhao H, Jackson K, Wang W, Liu C, Montgomery RA, Ali N, Mangiola M, Spitzer TR, Safa K, Pattanayak V, Taj R, Chiu J, Bui TM, Sonnenberg EM, Markmann JF, Milone MC, June CH, Siegel DL, Fraietta JA, Gonzalez V, Locci M, Palmer M, Monos D, Hwang WT, Sledge T, Bridges ND, Goldstein JS, Odim J, Sweet SC, Besharatian BD, Hussain SM, Brown NK, Kamoun M, Garfall AL, Naji A. Kidney Transplantation in Two Highly Sensitized Candidates after CAR T-Cell Therapy. , New England Journal of Medicine, 394(21): 2026,2117-2125
Dumoulin B, Levinsohn J, Klötzer KA, Li C, Mao L, Ha E, Mohandes S, Nguyen T, Paruzzo L, Hirohama D, Fang V, Bhoj VG, Parhiz H, Andrade-Silva M, Abedini A, Bergeson A, Traum D, May MJ, Kaestner KH, Ruella M, McAllister FE, Hakimi AA, Li M, Palmer M, Wherry EJ, Hunter CA, Cancro MP; TRIDENT consortium; Susztak K. Spatial atlas of diabetic kidney disease reveals a B cell-rich subgroup. , Nature, 653(8116): 2026,1158-1169
Kim H, Golla M, Gullipalli D, Halle W, Miwa T, Palmer M, Song WC. Treatment of atypical hemolytic uremic syndrome and C3 glomerulopathy in mice by hepatic expression of factor D , Blood Advances, 10(6): 2026,2024-2037
Cohen IJ, Bochi-Layec AC, Lemoine J, Jenks S, Bayat P, Kim KH, Zhao H, Ugwuanyi O, Stella F, Ghilardi G, Gabrielli G, McCuaig S, Iatrou A, Vlachonikola E, Karipidou M, Bouziani E, Espie D, Ramasubramanian R, Agathangelidis A, Bhosale A, Paruzzo L, Medico G, Kolar B, Bugrovsky R, Guruprasad P, Wang LP, Harris J, Arons E, Zhang Y, Pajarillo R, Kreiger PA, Day CP, Sahinalp SC, Wu CH, Santi A, Fulmer B, Cases M, Palmer MB, Porazzi P, Wherry EJ, Kreitman RJ, Tiacci E, Apostolidis SA, Behrens EM, Bhoj V, Sanz I, Inghirami G, Schuster SJ, Ghia P, Stamatopoulos K, Ruella M. Chimeric antigen receptor T cells against the IGHV4-34 B cell receptor specifically eliminate neoplastic and autoimmune B cells. , Science Translational Medicine, 18(835): 2026
Pandit K, Coudray N, Quiros AC, Surapaneni A, Upadhyay D, Vanguri RS, Hirohama D, Mohandes S, Schlosser P, Thiessen-Philbrook H, Wen Y, Parikh CR, Rhee EP, Waikar SS, Schmidt I, Rosenberg AZ, Palmer MB, Susztak K, Grams ME, Tsirigos A; TRIDENT Study Investigators Unbiased self supervised learning of kidney histology reveals phenotypic and prognostic insights , Scientific Reports, 15(1): 2025,35131
Dhanunjay Mukhi, Lakshmi Prasanna Kolligundla, Tomohito Doke, Magaiver Andrade- Silva, Hongbo Liu, Matthew Palmer, Katalin Susztak The actin and microtubule network regulator WHAMM is identified as a key kidney disease risk gene. , Cell Reports, 44(4): 2025
Aguila T, Madan R, Palmer MB, Derk CT Zebra Bodies in Kidney Biopsy: Drug-Induced Phospholipidosis in a Patient With Systemic Lupus Erythematosus. , Journal of Rheumatology: 2025
Liu H, Abedini A, Ha E, Ma Z, Sheng X, Dumoulin B, Qiu C, Aranyi T, Li S, Dittrich N, Chen HC, Tao R, Tarng DC, Hsieh FJ, Chen SA, Yang SF, Lee MY, Kwok PY, Wu JY, Chen CH, Khan A, Limdi NA, Wei WQ, Walunas TL, Karlson EW, Kenny EE, Luo Y, Kottyan L, Connolly JJ, Jarvik GP, Weng C, Shang N, Cole JB, Mercader JM, Mandla R, Majarian TD, Florez JC, Haas ME, Lotta LA; Regeneron Genetics Center‡; GHS-RGC DiscovEHR Collaboration§; Drivas TG; Penn Medicine BioBank¶; Vy HMT, Nadkarni GN, Wiley LK, Wilson MP, Gignoux CR, Rasheed H, Thomas LF, Åsvold BO, Brumpton BM, Hallan SI, Hveem K, Zheng J, Hellwege JN, Zawistowski M, Zöllner S, Franceschini N, Hu H, Zhou J, Kiryluk K, Ritchie MD, Palmer M, Edwards TL, Voight BF, Hung AM, Susztak K Kidney multiome-based genetic scorecard reveals convergent coding and regulatory variants. , Science, 387(6734): 2025,4753
Sato S, Miwa T, Gullipalli D, Golla M, Mohammadyari E, Zhou L, Palmer M, Song WC. Improved therapeutic efficacy of a bifunctional anti-C5 mAb-FH SCR1-5 fusion protein over anti-C5 mAb in an accelerated mouse model of C3 glomerulopathy. , Immunohorizons, 9(3): 2025