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- Nerve pain
- Neurological disorder
- Peripheral neuropathy
- Stroke
- Transient ischemic attack
- Traumatic brain injury
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Michael L. McGarvey, MD
Neurology
Accepting new patients
Sees patients age 18 and up
Penn Neuroscience Center - Neurology
Penn Medicine Provider
About me
- Director, Intra-Operative Monitoring
- Associate Professor of Neurology at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
My education and training
- Medical School: Georgetown University School of Medicine
- Residency: Pennsylvania Hospital
- Residency: University of Pennsylvania Health System
- Fellowship: University of Pennsylvania Health System
Spoken languages
English
English
Reviews
143 reviews
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Insurance accepted
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- 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
- Psychiatry & Neurology, Vascular Neurology
- Neurology, 2000
- American Academy of Neurology, National
- American Clinical Neurophysiology Society, National
- American Heart Association, National
- American Medical Association, National
- American Neurologic Association, National
- American Society of Neurophysiologic Monitoring, National
- American Stroke Association, National
- Pennsylvania Medical Society, Local
- Philadelphia College of Physicians, Local
- Philadelphia Neurologic Society, Local
- Penn Stroke Program
Treatments and conditions
Research
Publications
Addanki RND, Golish S, Thomas S, McGarvey ML, Anetakis KM, Lee BB, Balzer JR, Thirumala PD. Evaluating the Diagnostic Benefit of Adding Somatosensory Evoked Potentials to Transcranial Motor-Evoked Potentials Compared to Either Modality Alone in Intramedullary Spinal Cord Tumor Resection: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis , World Neurosurg, 6(202): 2025
Bakillah E, Moneme A, Brown D, Sharpe J, McGarvey ML, Kelz RR. The influence of primary language on postoperative stroke outcomes. , Am J Surg, 234: 2024,150-155
Jain B, Rahim FO, Thirumala PD, McGarvey ML, Balzer J, Nogueira RG, van der Goes DN, de Havenon A, Sultan I, Ney J. Cost-benefit analysis of intraoperative neuromonitoring for cardiac surgery , J Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis., 33(3): 2024
Messé SR, Kasner SE, Cucchiara BL, McGarvey ML, Cummings S, Acker MA, Desai N, Atluri P, Wang GJ, Jackson BM, Weimer J. 7;12(3):e028819. doi: 10.1161/JAHA.122.028819. Epub 2023 Jan 31. PMID: 36718858; PMCID: PMC9973644. Derivation and Validation of an Algorithm to Detect Stroke Using Arm Accelerometry Data. , J Am Heart Assoc., 7(12): 2023
Cummings S, Kasner SE, Mullen M, Olsen A, McGarvey M, Weimer J, Jackson B, Desai N, Acker M, Messé SR. Delays in the Identification and Assessment of in-Hospital Stroke Patients. , J Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis., 31(4): 2022,1-7
Henderson F Jr, Parker D, Vijayakumari AA, Elliott M, Lucas T, McGarvey ML, Karpf L, Desiderio L, Harsch J, Levy S, Maloney-Wilensky E, Wolf RL, Hodges WB, Brem S, Verma R. Enhanced Fiber Tractography Using Edema Correction: Application and Evaluation in High-Grade Gliomas. 2021 Apr 29:nyab129. doi: 10.1093/neuros/nyab129. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 33913502. , Neurosurgery, 0(0): 2021,1-11
Foley, AR. Menezes, MP. Pandraud, A. Gonzalez, MA. Al-Odaib, A. Abrams, AJ. Sugano, K. Yonezawa, A. Manzur, AY. Burns, J. Hughes, I. McCullagh, BG. Jungbluth, H. Lim, MJ. Lin, JP. Megarbane, A. Urtizberea, JA. Shah, AH. Antony, J. Webster, R. Broomfield, A. Ng, J. Mathew, AA. O'Byrne, JJ. Forman, E. Scoto, M. Prasad, M. O'Brien, K. Olpin, S. Oppenheim, M. Hargreaves, I. Land, JM. Wang, MX. Carpenter, K. Horvath, R. Straub, V. Lek, M. Gold, W. Farrell, MO. Brandner, S. Phadke, R. Matsubara, K. McGarvey, ML. Scherer, SS. Baxter, PS. King, MD. Clayton, P. Rahman, S. Reilly, MM. Ouvrier, RA. Christodoulou, J. Zuchner, S. Muntoni, F. Houlden, H. Treatable childhood neuronopathy caused by mutations in riboflavin transporter RFVT2 , Brain, 137: 2014,44-56
Messe, SR. McGarvey, ML. Bavaria, JE. Pochettino, A. Szeto, WY. Cheung, AT. Leitner, E. Miller, SW. Kasner, SE. A Pilot Study of Darbepoetin Alfa for Prophylactic Neuroprotection in Aortic Surgery , Neurocrit Care: 2012
Ullery BW, McGarvey M, Cheung AT, et al. Vascular distribution of stroke and its relationship to perioperative mortality and neurologic outcome after thoracic endovascular aortic repair. , Journal of vascular surgery , 56: 2012,1510-7
Becker DA, McGarvey ML, Rojvirat C, Bavaria JE, Messe SR. Predictors of Outcome in Patients with Spinal Cord Ischemia after Open Aortic Repair. , Neurocritical care : 2012