Ali Nabavizadeh, MD

Radiology
Accepting new patients
Sees patients age 18 and up
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Penn Medicine Provider

About me

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

My education and training

  • Medical School: Shiraz University of Medical Sciences
  • Residency: Sea Mar Olympia Medical Clinic
  • Fellowship: Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
  • Fellowship: University of Pennsylvania Health System

Spoken languages

English
English

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.
  • 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. Nabavizadeh is a Penn Medicine physician.

Qualifications and experience

Treatments and Conditions

Research

Publications

Laslo D, Wolleb J, Monzon M, Kottke R, Sirin S, Müller T, Suhami D, Vogt F, Bhatia A, Gandhi DB, Kazerooni AF, Familiar AM, Nguyen T, Jiang Z, Parida A, Gerber NU, Stücklin AG, Nabavizadeh A, Nazarian J, Linguraru MG, Rauschecker AM, Müller S, Jutzeler C, Brüningk S. Generative AI for spatial tumor growth on MRI: a proof-of-principle study in pediatric diffuse midline glioma , BMC Med : 2026


Zapaishchykova A, Zielke J, Tak D, Climent Pardo JC, Mojahed-Yazdi R, Soto-Rivera CL, Liu KX, Saraf A, Ye Z, Wang W, Chen YH, Vajapeyam S, Mak RH, Mueller S, Nabavizadeh A, Wilson RL, Dieli-Conwright CM, Ligon KL, Haas-Kogan DA, Aerts HJWL, Poussaint TY, Benitez V, Chi SN, Kann BH. Artificial intelligence analysis of temporalis muscle thickness for monitoring sarcopenia and clinical outcomes in individuals with paediatric brain tumours: a retrospective cohort study , Lancet Digit Health : 2026


Cordell EC, Mansour M, Pantel AR, Schubert E, Nabavizadeh A, Mohan S, Maloney E, Prior T, Angeloni N, Blessing C, Frangos S, Coghlan L, Wileyto EP, O'Rourke DM, Brem S, Desai AS, Bagley SJ. A phase 2 study of niraparib concomitant with tumor treating fields in patients with recurrent grade 4 glioma , Neurooncol Adv : 2026


Maoz SL, Lee M, Fischer JL, Choby G, Hwang PH, Wang EW, Kuan EC, Adappa ND, Geltzeiler M, Getz AE, Humphreys IM, Le CH, Pinheiro-Neto CD, Chan EP, Roozdar P, Abuzeid WM, Chang EH, Jafari A, Kingdom TT, Kohanski MA, Lee JK, Lazor JW, Nabavizadeh A, Nayak JV, Palmer JN, Patel ZM, Resnick AC, Smith TL, Snyderman CH, St. John MA, Storm PB, Suh JD, Wang MB, Sim MS, Beswick DM. Minimal Clinically Important Difference of the Sinonasal Outcome Test in Sinonasal Malignancy , Annals of Otology, Rhinology & Laryngology.: 2026,34894261428393


Li EJ, Kraya A, Costa-Pinheiro P, Scheuermann J, Young AJ, Schubert E, Aboian M, Doot R, Ware JB, Pantel AR, Binder ZA, Storm PB, Resnick AC, Amankulor NM, O'Rourke DM, Desai A, Nasrallah MP, Brem S, Bagley SJ, Mankoff D, Nabavizadeh A Metabolic imaging and molecular signatures reveal metabolic phenotypes in recurrent glioblastoma , Journal of Nuclear Medicine: 2026,jnumed.125.271476


Tak D, Garomsa BA, Chaunzwa TL, Zapaishchykova A, Climent Pardo JC, Ye Z, Zielke J, Ravipati Y, Vajapeyam S, Mahootiha M, Smith C, Familiar AM, Liu KX, Prabhu S, Bandopadhayay P, Nabavizadeh A, Mueller S, Aerts HJ, Huang RY, Poussaint TY, Kann BH. A generalizable foundation model for analysis of human brain MRI , Nature Neuroscience: 2026


Kotecha R, Chiang V, Tom MC, Parent E, Nabavizadeh A, Zane E, Peddi S, Sulman EP, Siegel BA, Huang J, Brem S, Ware M, Kesari S, Pope W, Holmes R, Chau A, Teoh EJ, Chao ST, Aboian M 18F-Fluciclovine Positron Emission Tomography for Detection of Recurrent Brain Metastases after Radiotherapy: Image Interpretation Criteria, Diagnostic Performance, and Safety from the Phase 2b PURSUE Study , International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology, Physics: 2026,S0360-3016(26)00431-1


Chrysochoou D, Gandhi DB, Adib S, Familiar AM, Vunnava B, Varshochi S, Khalili N, Khalili N, Ware JB, Tu W, Jain P, Anderson H, Haldar S, Storm PB, Franson A, Prados M, Kline C, Mueller S, Resnick A, Vossough A, Davatzikos C, Nabavizadeh A, Kazerooni AF. AI-powered segmentation and prognosis with missing MRI in pediatric brain tumors , NPJ Precis Oncol , 10(1): 2026,63


Bagheri S, Familiar AM, Adib Moradi S, Fathi Kazerooni A, Vossough A, Nabavizadeh A Quantitative Impact of T1 Subtraction Maps on Enhancing Component Delineation and Measured Volumes in Minimally Enhancing Pediatric Brain Tumors , AJNR Am J Neuroradiol.: 2026


Fathi Kazerooni A, Jiang Z, Gandhi D, Khalili N, Liu X, Tu W, Ware JB, Familiar AM, Vunnava B, Zapaishchykova A, McAllister AS, Sanchez-Montano M, Sheth N, Nandolia KK, Lai HA, Pavaine J, Prabhu SP, Haldar D, Varshochi S, Bagheri S, Anderson H, Haldar S, Khalili N, Gottipati A, Shaikh IS, Castellino E, Mangoli A, Gohil H, Maleki N, Low J, Hummel T, Packer R, Franson A, Storm PB, Bakas S, Calabrese E, Aboian M, de Blank P, Kann BH, Rood B, Resnick AC, Nabavizadeh A, Vossough A, Linguraru MG Multi-Institutional Annotated Multiparametric MRI Dataset of Pediatric High-Grade Gliomas , Radiology: Artificial Intelligence: 2026


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