Denise Jiali Xu, MD
Neurology
Accepting new patients
Sees patients age 18 and up
Penn Neuroscience Center - Neurology
Make an appointmentCall 800-789-7366
Penn Medicine Provider

About me

  • Assistant Professor of Clinical Neurology

Education and training

  • Medical School: University of Pennsylvania Health System
  • Residency: Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
  • Residency: University of Pennsylvania Health System

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.
  • Chester County Hospital: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
  • Princeton Medical Center: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
Dr. Xu is a Penn Medicine physician.

Qualifications and experience

Treatments and Conditions

My research

Ellis CA, Liu PZ, Napole A, Denison L, Shaik NF, Venezia GA, Ljungberg L, Karamardian MA, Peachey C, Buckley M, Bae CJ, Stein L, Xu DJ Promoting Sleep for Neurology Inpatients: The Value of Routine Overnight Vital Signs , Neurology Clinical Practice, 15(4): 2025,e200492

Rock M, Shipley SC, Little JN, Berger J, Xu DJ Clinical Reasoning: A 60-Year-Old Man with Rapidly Progressive Left Hemibody Weakness and Vision Loss , Neurology, 105(2): 2025,e213869

Xu D, Cristancho D, Price R Expanding the Inpatient General Neurology Consultation Service: An Initiative to Improve Care Delivery , American Academy of Neurology, San Diego, CA: 2025

Liu P, Napole A, Denison L, Shaik N, Venezia G, Ljungberg L, Karamardian M, Peachey C, Buckley M, Bae C, Stein L, Xu D, Ellis C Are Routine Overnight Vitals Necessary for Neurology Inpatients? , American Academy of Neurology, San Diego, CA: 2025

Little J, Shipley S, Rock M, Berger JR, Xu DJ Paraneoplastic Tumefactive Demyelination with Anti-LUZP4 Antibody Associated with Metastatic Seminoma: A Case Report , American Academy of Neurology, San Diego, CA: 2025

Shaik NF, Denison L, Venezia GMA, Ljungberg L, Lebrón-Cruz A, Resnick D, Peachey C, Ziemba C, Buckley M, Karamardian M, Liu PZ, Napole A, Hong J, Zeng R, Yu C, Chan A, Bae C, Stein L, Ellis CA, Xu DJ Improving sleep on the inpatient general, non-stroke neurology service: a quasi-experimental interventional trial , Journal of Hospital Medicine: 2025

Eisinger RS, Jones FJ, Pai EL, Xu D, Berger JR, Prasad S Ideomotor Apraxia and 'Milky Way' Sign in Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalopathy , Neurology, 103(10): 2024,e209938

Karamardian M, Stein L, Resnick D, Chambers C, Peachey C, Malinovitch A, Rosin R, Bae C, Buckley M, Xu DJ Restoring Sleep for Neurology Inpatients , American Academy of Neurology, Denver, CO: 2024

Lebron-Cruz A, Liu P, Venezia G, Ljungberg L, Peachey C, Buckley M, Karamardian M, Xu DJ, Bae C, Stein L, Ellis C Characterizing Inpatient Sleep on the Neurology Service , American Academy of Neurology, Denver, CO: 2024

Douglas AG, Xu DJ, Shah MP Approach to Myelopathy and Myelitis , Neurologic Clinics, 40(1): 2022,133-156