David R. Lynch, MD, PhD

Neurology
Independent provider
Accepting new patients
Sees patients age 18 and up
Penn Neuroscience Center - Neurology

About me

  • Professor of Neurology
  • Professor of Neurology in Pediatrics

My education and training

  • Medical School: Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
  • Residency: University of Pennsylvania Health System
  • Fellowship: University of Pennsylvania Health System

Insurance accepted

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Locations

Penn Medicine hospital privileges

  • Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
Dr. Lynch is an independent physician who is not employed by Penn Medicine.

Qualifications and experience

Treatments and Conditions

Research

Publications

Ali SAH, Early J, Farmer JM, Gelbard S, Corben L, Rance G, Lynch DR. Listening in Spatialized Noise-Sentences (LiSN-S) as a Measure of Auditory Function in Friedreich Ataxia. , Cerebellum, 25(3): 2026,60


Gaetz W, Saleh MG, Birnbaum C, Bloy L, Roberts TPL, Lynch DR. Myo-inositol elevation as an in vivo marker of reactive gliosis in pediatric Friedreich ataxia: evidence from HERMES-edited MR spectroscopy , Neuroimage: Clinical, 50:: 2026,103983.


Morgan C. Devore, Christina Lam, Emily Xiao, Jeremy Devore, Kassandra R.C. McCain, Graham Wiley, Courtney C. Park, David R. Lynch, Sanjay I. Bidichandani FXN protomutations are the source of pathogenic expanded GAA alleles in Friedreich ataxia and explain its unequal population distribution , Human Mol Genet: 2026


Lin, K. Y., Bucha, A., McSweeney, K., Karaj, A., Tamaroff, J., Wade, K., O’Malley, S., Chung, N., Cilenti, N. A., Mesaros, C., Blair, I., Serai, S., Farmer, J., Bryant, K., Paridon, S. M., Putt, M., Zamani, P., Baur, J. A. Lynch, D. R., McCormack, S. E. Individualized exercise and NAD+ precursor supplementation in Friedreich’s Ataxia: a randomized controlled trial. , Lancet Neurol: 2026


Satoshi Miyashita, Anthony Zaki, Kaitlin Schlabach, Gabriel Kim, Juliane K. Vierecke, David Lynch, Carmela Tan, Eileen Hsich, Paulino Alvarez Advanced Heart Failure in Friedreich's Ataxia: A Story of Challenges, Opportunities, and Hope , JACC: Case Reports: 2026


Rummey C, Thomas-Black G, Garcia-Moreno H, Lynch DR, Abeti R, Arisoy H, Heslegrave A, Zetterberg H, Giunti P; European Friedreich's Ataxia Consortium for Translational Studies (EFACTS). Increase of Plasma Biomarkers in Friedreich's Ataxia: Potential Insights into Disease Pathology , Movement disorders, 409: 2025,1863-1873.


David R. Lynch, Angie Goldsberry, Christian Rummey, Jennifer Farmer, Sylvia Boesch, Martin B. Delatycki, Paola Giunti, J. Chad Hoyle, Caterina Mariotti, Katherine D. Mathews, Wolfgang Nachbauer, Susan Perlman, Sub H. Subramony, George Wilmot, Theresa Zesiewicz, Lisa Weissfeld & Colin Meyer Propensity-matched analysis comparing omaveloxolone treatment to Friedreich ataxia natural history data: a plain language summary , Future Neurology: 2025


Georgiou-Karistianis N, Corben LA, Lock EF, Bujalka H, Adanyeguh I, Corti M, Deelchand DK, Delatycki MB, Dogan I, Farmer J, França MC Jr, Gabay AS, Gaetz W, Harding IH, Joers J, Lax MA, Li J, Lynch DR, Mareci TH, Martinez ARM, Pandolfo M, Papoutsi M, Parker RG, Reetz K, Rezende TJR, Roberts TP, Romanzetti S, Rudko DA, Saha S, Schulz JB, Subramony SH, Supramaniam VG, Lenglet C, Henry PG. Neuroimaging biomarkers for Friedreich ataxia: a cross-sectional analysis of TRACK-FA , Ann Neurol, 98(2): 2025,386-397


Perlman S, Zhang S, Setyawan J, Yang H, Jiang A, Hua Q, Boudreau J, Khan S, Bajaj A, Lynch DR, Lawson R. The clinical burden of Friedreich ataxia in the United States: A retrospective claims database analysis , J Neurol Sci, 475: 2025,123594.


Shiraishi DH, Saha S, Adanyeguh IM, Cocozza S, Corben LA, Deistung A, Delatycki MB, Dogan I, Gaetz W, Georgiou-Karistianis N, Graf S, Grisoli M, Henry PG, Jarola GM, Joers JM, Langkammer C, Lenglet C, Li J, Lobo CC, Lock EF, Lynch DR, Mareci TH, Martinez ARM, Monti S, Nigri A, Pandolfo M, Reetz K, Roberts TP, Romanzetti S, Rudko DA, Scaravilli A, Schulz JB, Subramony SH, Timmann D, França MC Jr, Harding IH, Rezende TJR; TRACK-FA Neuroimaging Consortium. Automated Deep Learning-based Segmentation of the Dentate Nucleus Using Quantitative Susceptibility Mapping MRI , Radiol Artif Intell .: 2025,e240478.