Penn Medicine Provider
Trauma Surgery
Seema Anandalwar, MD
Accepting new patients
Sees patients age 18 and up
Penn Traumatology, Surgical Critical Care and Emergency Surgery Perelman
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About me

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

Education and training

  • Medical School: Rutgers New Jersey Medical School
  • Residency: Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
  • Fellowship: University of Maryland Medical Center
  • Fellowship: University of Maryland

Insurance accepted

My Locations

Penn Traumatology, Surgical Critical Care and Emergency Surgery University City

Penn Medicine hospital privileges

  • Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
  • Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania: On the medical staff, but does not have privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
  • Pennsylvania Hospital: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
  • Pennsylvania Hospital: On the medical staff, but does not have privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
  • Penn Presbyterian Medical Center: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
  • Penn Presbyterian Medical Center: On the medical staff, but does not have privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
  • Penn Medicine Rittenhouse Long-Term Acute Care Hospital
  • Lancaster General Hospital
  • Chester County Hospital: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
Dr. Anandalwar is a Penn Medicine physician.

Qualifications and experience

Treatments and Conditions

My research

Anandalwar SP, Deshwar A, Powell E, Scalea T, O'Conner J Trauma Pnuemonectomy: Has Survival Improved over Two Decades? , American Surgeon : 2025

Jason Zhao, Mathew Wilhide, Katherine Howard, Abigail Solon, Seema Anandalwar, Jaclyn Clark, Samantha Olafson Splenic rupture secondary to pancreatic malignancy invasion: A rare case , Trauma Case Reports, 14(54): 2024

Anandalwar SP, O'Meara L, Vesselinov R, Zhang A, Baum JN, Cooper A, Decker C, Schroeppel T, Cai J, Cullinane D, Catalano RD, Bugaev N, LeClair M, Feather C, McBride K, Sams V, Leung PS, Olafson S, Callahan DS, Posluszny J, Moradian S, Estroff J, Hochman B, Coleman N, Goldenberg-Sandau A, Nahmias J, Rosenbaum K, Pasley J, Boll L, Hustad L, Reynolds J, Truitt M, Ghneim M Warfarin, not direct oral anticoagulants or antiplatelet therapy, is associated with increased bleeding risk in emergency general surgery patients: Implications in this new era of novel anticoagulants: An EAST multicenter study , Journal of Trauma & Acute Care Surgery, 97(2): 2024,225-232

Anandalwar SP, Ghneim M Emergency general surgery in the era of direct oral anticoagulants: Is there an increased bleeding risk? An EAST Multicenter Trials Study , Quick Shots Presentation at the Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL: 2024

Anandalwar SP, Milliren C, Graham DA, Newland JG, He K, Hills-Dunlap JL, Kashtan MA, Rangel SJ Quantifying procedure-level prophylaxis misutilization in pediatric surgery: Implications for the prioritization of antimicrobial stewardship efforts , Annals of Surgery, 278(1): 2023,e158-e164

Anandalwar SP, Ghneim M Does the risk outweigh the benefit? Clot progression, recanalization & complications of anticoagulant therapy in acute pancreatitis with concomitant splachnic vein thrombosis , Oral Research Presentation at the Panamerican Congress of Trauma, Critical Care and Emergency Surgery, Florianopolis, Brazil: 2023

Kashtan MA, Graham DA, Melvin P, Hills-Dunlap JL, Anandalwar SP, Rangel SJ Ceftriaxone with Metronidazole versus Piperacillin/Tazobactam in the management of complicated appendicitis in children: Results from a multicenter pediatric NSQIP analysis , Journal of Pediatric Surgery, 57(10): 2022,365-372

Kashtan MA, Graham DA, Melvin P, Cameron DB, Anandalwar SP, Hills-Dunlap JL, Rangel SJ Ceftriaxone combined with Metronidazole is superior to Cefoxitin alone in the management of uncomplicated appendicitis in children: Results from a multicenter collaborative comparative effectiveness study , Annals of Surgery, 274(6): 2021,e995-e1000

Kashtan MA, Graham DA, Anandalwar SP, Hills-Dunlap JL, Rangel SJ Variability, outcomes and cost associated with the use of parenteral nutrition in children with complicated appendicitis: A hospital-level propensity matched analysis , Journal of Pediatric Surgery, 56(12): 2021,2299-2304

Anandalwar SP, Graham DA, Kashtan MA, Hills-Dunlap JL, Rangel SJ Influence of oral antibiotics following discharge on organ space infections in children with complicated appendicitis , Annals of Surgery, 273(4): 2021,821-825