Penn Medicine Provider
Neurosurgery
Casey H. Halpern, MD
5.0
(302)
Accepting new patients
Sees patients age 18 and up
Penn Neurology Pennsylvania Hospital
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About me

  • Division Head, Functional and Stereotactic Neurosurgery
  • Associate Professor of Neurosurgery

Education and training

  • Medical School: University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
  • Residency: Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania

What my patients think about me

Average Rating
5.0

302 reviews

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May 2025
5.0
5.0
quick and efficient.
April 2025
5.0
5.0
excellent manner
April 2025
5.0
5.0
the best
April 2025
5.0
5.0
dr halpern is special. i am a physician and a surgeon. he is special

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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.
Dr. Halpern is a Penn Medicine physician. In New Jersey, providers are affiliated with Penn Medicine through Clinical Health Care Associates of New Jersey or Princeton Healthcare Affiliated Physicians, PC.

Qualifications and experience

My research

Saluja S, Qiu L, Wang AR, Campos G, Selheimer R, McNab JA, Haber SN, Barbosa DAN, Halpern CH Diffusion MRI tractography guides investigation of the zona incerta: a novel target for deep brain stimulation. , Biol Psychiatry, 96(6): 2024,445-454


Kellogg MA, Ernst LD, Spencer DC, Datta P, Klein E, Bhati MT, Shivacharan RS, Nho YH, Barbosa DAN, Halpern CH, Raslan A Dual Treatment of Refractory Focal Epilepsy and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder With Intracranial Responsive Neurostimulation , Neurol Clin Pract , 14(4): 2024,e200318


Qiu L, Chang A, Ma R, Strong TV, Okun MS, Foote KD, Wexler A, Gunduz A, Miller JL, Halpern CH Neuromodulation for the treatment of Prader-Willi syndrome - A systematic review , Neurotherapeutics, 21(3): 2024,e00339


Nho YH, Rolle CE, Topalovic U, Shivacharan RS, Cunningham TN, Hiller S, Batista D, Feng A, Espil FM, Kratter IH, Bhati MT, Kellogg M, Raslan AM, Williams NR, Garnett J, Pesaran B, Oathes DJ, Suthana N, Barbosa DAN, Halpern CH Responsive deep brain stimulation guided by ventral striatal electrophysiology of obsession durably ameliorates compulsion , Neuron, 113(1): 2024,73-83


Younghoon Nho, Liming Qiu, Robert S. Seilheimer, Altona Tufanoglu, Bryan Wilent, David W. Oslin, Katherine W. Scangos, Anna-Rose Childress, Casey H. Halpern Deep brain stimulation of the nucleus accumbens reduces cue-hyperreactivity electrophysiological marker associated with opioid craving , SfN2024 Poster Presented by Younghoon Nho: 2024


Min Jae Kim, Liming Qiu1, Gustavo Campos1, Maya Alexis1, Daniel A.N. Barbosa, 1, 2, Iahn Cajigas, 1 Casey H. Halpern1, 3 Characterizing Differential Tremor “Sweetspots” and Side Effect “Sourspots” following Thalamic High-Intensity Focused Ultrasound through Probabilistic Lesion Mapping , ASSFN poster presented by Min Jae Kim: 2024


Younghoon Nho, Liming Qiu1, Gustavo Campos1, Rob Seilheimer2, Camarin Rolle3, Lily Brown2, Desmond Oathes2, Bijan Pesaran1, Katherine Scangos1, Daniel Barbosa1, Casey H. Halpern 1 An intracranial EEG biomarker derived from provocation tasks is modulated by stimulation of the ventral striatum to alleviate OCD-related distress , BRAIN Poster presented by Younghoon Nho: 2024


Liming Qiu, Y Nho1, R Seilheimer2, A Tufanoglu2, DW Oslin2, 3, KW Scangos1, AR Childress2, CH Halpern1, 4 Personalized Evocation of Cue-hyperreactivity May Optimize Deep Brain Stimulation for Opioid Use Disorder , ASSFN Poster presented by Liming Qiu: 2024


Andrew Chang, Jakob Michiels2, Daniel A.N. Barbosa1, 3, Gustavo Campos1, Ashley Koluda2, Younghoon Nho1, Liming Qiu1, Robert L. Seilheimer4, Wonkyung Choi2, Romain Duprat4, Aaron D. Boes5, 6, 7, Nicholas T. Trapp7, Hiroyuki Oya8, Desmond J. Oathes4, Roy H. Hamilton9, Flavia Vitale2, 9, 10, 11, 12, Casey H. Halpern1, 13 Safety of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation in Patients with Deep Brain Electrodes: Gel Phantom Brain Testing , ASSFN Poster presented by Andrew Chang: 2024


Wonkyung Choi, Younghoon Nho2, W. Bryan Wilent2, Nida Firdous2, Andrew Chang2, Gustavo Campos2, David Bakalov1, Liming Qiu2, Robert Seilheimer3, Isaac Jonathan Pomeraniec2, Marie Kerr2, Disha Joshi2, Anastassia Amaro5, Matthew R. Hayes3, 7, Iahn Cajigas2, Bijan Pesaran2, Kelly C. Allison3, Joshua I Gold6, Thomas A. Wadden3, Casey H. Halpern2, 4 Action of Glucagon-like Peptide-1 (GLP-1)/Gastric Inhibitory Polypeptide (GIP)-Receptor Dual-Agonism on Food Preoccupations Involves Low Frequency Oscillations within the Human Nucleus Accumbens , ASSFN poster presented by Wonkyung Choi: 2024