Penn Medicine Provider
Radiology
Ajay Kumar, MD, PhD
Accepting new patients
Sees patients age 18 and up
Call 800-789-7366

About me

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

Education and training

  • Medical School: State Medical School
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  • Residency: All India Institute of Medical Sciences
  • Residency: Sinai-Grace Hospital
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  • Fellowship: Johns Hopkins Hospital

Insurance accepted

My 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.
  • Penn Medicine Rittenhouse Long-Term Acute Care Hospital
  • Chester County Hospital: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
Dr. Kumar is a Penn Medicine physician.

Qualifications and experience

My research

Joel M. Stein, Douglas Roberts-Wolfe, Daniel Zhou, Kathryn Davis, Jacob Dubroff, and Ajay Kumar FDG-PET-CT Can Help Detect and Characterize Temporal Lobe Encephaloceles in Adult Focal Epilepsy , American Epilepsy Society 2024 Annual Meeting: 2024,Poster 3.521

Juhász C, Luat AF, Behen ME, Gjolaj N, Jeong JW, Chugani HT, Kumar A Deep Venous Remodeling in Unilateral Sturge-Weber Syndrome: Robust Hemispheric Differences and Clinical Correlates , Pediatric neurology, 139: 2023,49-58

Juhász C, Luat A, Behen M, Gjolaj N, Jeong JW, Kumar A Deep cerebral venous remodeling in Sturge-Weber syndrome: Hemispheric differences and clinical correlates , Child Neurology Society (CNS) Annual Meeting, Boston, MA: 2022

Kumar A, Muzik O, Asano E, Sood S, Chugani HT A Single Tertiary Care Referral Center Experience of 270 C-11-PK11195 Brain Positron Emission Tomography Scans in 206 Pediatric and Adult Patients for Evaluation and Management of Neuroinflammation , American Society of Neuroradiology (ASNR) 60th Annual Meeting & The Foundation of the ASNR Symposium, New York City, NY: 2022

Kumar A, Shandal V, Juhász C, Chugani HT PET Imaging in Epilepsy , Encyclopedia of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, 3: 2022,62-74

Kumar A, Chalasani S, Luat A, Intikhab O, Malkawi I, Rangunwala J, Juhasz C Prospective Evaluation of the Effect of Vascular Compensatory Mechanisms on Neurocognitive Outcome in Children with Sturge-Weber Syndrome , American Roentgen Ray Society (ARRS) Annual Meeting (Virtual): 2021

Chugani HT, Kumar A Response to Letter by Yue and Yang , Journal of child neurology, 36(2): 2021,161

Chugani HT, Kumar A Neuroinflammation in Children With Infantile Spasms: A Prospective Study Before and After Treatment With Acthar Gel (Repository Corticotropin Injection) , Journal of child neurology, 35(12): 2020,808-812

Kumar A, Asano E, Luat A, Sood S, Muzik O, Juhasz C, Chugani D, Chugani H Evaluation of Neuroinflammation in Children with Infantile Spasms Using C-11-PK11195 Brain PET Before and After Adrenocorticotropic Hormone Treatment and mRNA Expression in Surgical Brain Tissue , Radiological Society of North America Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL: 2019

Kumar A, Muzik O Pharmacological Activation of Human Brown Adipose Tissue is Less Effective than Cold Exposure , Radiological Society of North America Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL: 2019