Mersedeh Rohanizadegan, MD, MPH
Medical Genetics
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Mersedeh Rohanizadegan, MD, MPH

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Medical Genetics
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Penn Translational Medicine and Human Genetics
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About me

  • Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine (Translational Medicine and Human Genetics)

My education and training

  • Tehran UniversityMedical School
  • Jacobi Medical CenterResidency
  • Boston Children's HospitalFellowship

Spoken languages

English
English
Persian (Farsi)
Persian (Farsi)

Reviews

Average Rating

385 reviews

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Anonymous
August 2026
she answered my questions and gave me good advice.
Anonymous
August 2026
their expertise
Anonymous
August 2026
very great and thoughtful
Anonymous
August 2026
knowledgeable

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Locations

Penn Medicine hospital privileges

  • Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
Dr. Rohanizadegan is a Penn Medicine provider.

Qualifications and experience

Treatments and conditions

Research

Publications

Cameron Bell, Samantha Pipito , Ashika Mani , Arravinth Anantharajah , Taylor Apostolico , Angela G Arnold , Jacqueline Cappadocia , Dana Farengo Clark , Melissa Heller , Jessica M Long, Derek Mann, Emma McKennon , Joanna Mercado , Jacquelyn Powers , Anna Raper, Kelsey Spielman, Bryson W Katona , Kara Maxwell 2 , Katherine L Nathanson, Mersedeh Rohanizadegan, Payal D Shah, Angela Bradbury , Susan M Domchek , Rebecca Mueller, Jessica E Ebrahimzadeh Patient experiences with hereditary cancer genetic test result release in the setting of the 21st Century Cures Act final rule , Fam Cancer: 2026


David Y Zhang, Karl Keat, Shannon M Gray, Daniel J Rader, Mersedeh Rohanizadegan A genome-first approach to rare protein-altering variants in Lynch syndrome genes in the Penn Medicine Biobank , ASHG annual meeting 2026, Montreal, Canada: 2026


Gold JI, Elkaim Y, Asher S, Raper A, Condit C, Bogus Z, Elysee I, Hennessy L, Kennedy E, Chai T, Cohen S, Gehringer BN, Gray SM, Streater A, Toye E, Kripke C, Nathanson KL, Rohanizadegan M, Kallish S, Drivas TG Practice-Based Insights into Adult Genetics: High Diagnostic Yield, Demographic Determinants, and Patterns of Test Utilization in Over 7,000 Patients. , medRxiv [Preprint]: 2025


Grace G Snyder, Daniel Clay , Sara Karley , Samantha Pipito, Rebecca Mueller, Angela Bradbury, Kara Maxwell , Katherine L Nathanson , Mersedeh Rohanizadegan , Payal Shah, Susan M Domchek, Jessica M Long, Bryson W Katona Assessment of barriers to pancreatic cancer surveillance in high-risk individuals , Journal of Genetic Counseling, 34(5): 2025


Demarest K, Anantharajah A, Maxwell KN, Rohanizadegan M, Bradbury A, Nathanson KL, McCarthy AM, Domchek SM, Nayak A, Shah PD Pathogenic Germline Variants in Patients With Metaplastic Breast Cancer , JAMA Network Open, 8(2): 2025,e2460312


Kara K Landry , Michael J DeSarno, Lindsay Kipnis, Farid Barquet Ramos, Katelyn M Breen, Kaleigh Patton, Audrey Morrissette, Ryan M Buehler, Chinedu Ukaegbu, Mersedeh Rohanizadegan, Matthew B Yurgelun, Sapna Syngal, Huma Q Rana, Judy E Garber Prevalence and Distribution of Unexpected Actionable Germline Pathogenic Variants Identified on Broad-Based Multigene Panel Testing Among Patients With Cancer , JCO Precision Oncology, 8: 2024,e2400553


Bert Callewaert, Eva Vanbelleghem, Tim Van Damme, Aude Beyens, Sofie Symoens, Kathleen Claes, Julie De Backer, Ilse Meerschaut, Floris Vanommeslaeghe, Sighurd Delanghe, Jenneke Van den Ende, Tessi Beyltjens, Eleanor Scimone, Mark Lindsay, Lisa Schimmenti, Alicia Hinze, Emily Dunn, Natalia Gomez-Ospina, Isabelle Vandernoot, Thomas Delguste, Sandra Coppens, Valérie Cormier-Daire, Marco Tartaglia, Livia Garavelli, Joseph Shieh, Senol Demir, Esra Arslan Ateş, Martin Zenker, Mersedeh Rohanizadegan, Greysha Rivera-Cruz, Sofia Douzgou Houge, Myhre Syndrome Foundation, and Angela Lin Myhre syndrome in adulthood: clinical variability and emerging genotype-phenotype correlations , European Journal of Medical Genetics, 32(9): 2024,1086-1094


Spisak S, Tisza V, Nuzzo PV, Seo JH, Pataki B, Ribli D, Sztupinszki Z, Bell C, Rohanizadegan M, Stillman DR, Alaiwi SA, Bartels AB, Papp M, Shetty A, Abbasi F, Lin X, Lawrenson K, Gayther SA, Pomerantz M, Baca S, Solymosi N, Csabai I, Szallasi Z, Gusev A, Freedman ML. A biallelic multiple nucleotide length polymorphism explains functional causality at 5p15.33 prostate cancer risk locus , Nat Commun, 14(1): 2023,5118


Rohanizadegan M, Stokes S, Schneider KA, George S, Merriam P, Garber JE Landscape of germline pathogenic variants in cancer susceptibility genes in patients with sarcoma. , American College of Medical Genetics (ACMG) annual meeting, Hybrid: 2022


Rohanizadegan M, Kipnis L, Stokes S, Bychkovsky BL, Scheib RG, Rana HQ, Garber JE Casting a Wide Net: Finding actionable results in non-breast cancer genes on multi-gene panel testing in a breast cancer cohort. , American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) annual meeting, Virtual: 2021


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