Ali Nabavizadeh, MD
Radiology
Accepting new patients
Sees patients age 18 and up
Penn Medicine Provider

About me

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

Education and training

  • Medical School: Shiraz University of Medical Sciences
  • Fellowship: Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
  • Fellowship: 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.
  • 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

My research

Ivanidze J, Vu KV, Fu R, Brandmaier A, Szidonya L, Choudhary G, Starkey J, Wang TJ, Sisti M, McKhann LG, Puri S, Konner M, Roytman M, Lin E, Kuhn A, Osborne JR, Stieg PE, Beal K, Ramakrishna RR, Singh G, Lignelli-Dipple A, Doubrovin M, Vo AH, Welch M, Iwamoto F, Haggiagi A, Donovan L, Diaz M, Gill B, Liechty B, Pisapia DJ, Walker J, Magge RS, Wood M, Corzo VM, Sanusi OR, Raslan A, Dogan A, Bowden S, Nehmeh SA, Nickerson J, Mallak N, Ruiz A, Ambady P, Nabavizadeh A, Barajas RF Jr. Clinical Utility of [F18]-Fluciclovine PET/MRI for Differentiating True Progression from Treatment-Related Changes in Patients with Glioblastoma , AJNR Am J Neuroradiol : 2025


Nabavizadeh A, Narsinh K, Kaufmann TJ, Liu H, Pouliopoulos AN, Prada F, Agarwal V, Ellingson BM, Sanvito F, Everson RG, Meng Y, Gandhi D, Chang SM, Wen PY, Ahluwalia MS, Sul N, Hadley L, Leblang S, Shah BR, Arvanitis CD, Burns TC, Moosa S, Woodworth GF. Focused Ultrasound in Brain Tumors: Mechanisms, Imaging Guidance, and Emerging Clinical Applications , AJNR Am J Neuroradiol : 2025


Jung G, Liang Z, Jain P, Deutsch HM, Li F, Rathi KS, Sun Z, Chen X, Straka J, Kazerooni AF, Sun Y, Koptyra MP, Sanchez-Maldonado S, Familiar A, Waanders AJ, Nabavizadeh A, Huang X, Resnick AC, Song Y. Role of repulsive guidance signaling and GPR180 in pediatric low-grade glioma infiltration , NPJ Precis Oncol , 9(1): 2025,344


Yu B, Kline C, Hoare O, Jung J, Knowles T, Ranavaya A, Minturn J, Banerjee A, Leary S, Crotty E, Abdelbaki M, Whipple N, Goldman S, Margol A, Bhatia A, Dababo N, George E, Nabavizadeh A, Pampaloni MH, Inagaki A, Collins S, Chuntova P, Barcova M, Patel TS, Phillips J, Prados M, Molinaro A, Gupta N, Raffel C, Cole K, Kasahara N, Diaz AA, Mueller S. Measles oncolytic virus as an immunotherapy for recurrent/refractory pediatric medulloblastoma and atypical teratoid rhabdoid tumor: results from PNOC005 , Clin Cancer Res , 31(16): 2025,3463-3475


Bagley SJ, Desai AS, Fraietta JA, Silverbush D, Chafamo D, Freeburg NF, Gopikrishna GK, Rech AJ, Nabavizadeh A, Bagley LJ, Park J, Jarocha D, Martins R, Sarmiento N, Maloney E, Lledo L, Stein C, Marshall A, Leskowitz RM, Jadlowsky JK, Mackey S, Christensen S, Oner BS, Plesa G, Brennan A, Gonzalez V, Chen F, Barrett D, Colbourn R, Nasrallah MP, Mourelatos Z, Hwang WT, Alanio C, Siegel DL, June CH, Hexner EO, Binder ZA, O'Rourke DM. Intracerebroventricular bivalent CAR T cells targeting EGFR epitope 806 and IL-13Rα2 in recurrent glioblastoma: a phase 1 dose finding study , Nature Medicine, 31(8): 2025,2778-2787


Climent Pardo JC, Zapaishchykova A, Boyd A, Tak D, Zielke J, Mahootiha M, Ye Z, Vajapeyam S, Jones J, Smith C, Familiar AM, Nabavizadeh A, Bandopadhayay P, Mueller S, Aerts HJWL, Haas-Kogan DA, Michor F, Ligon KL, Poussaint TY, Faghihroohi S, Kann BH. Deep learning volumetrics reveal distinct clinical trajectories for pediatric low-grade gliomas under surveillance: A multicenter study , Neurooncol Adv, 7(1): 2025,vdaf145


Familiar AM, Khalili N, Khalili N, Schuman C, Grove E, Viswanathan K, Seidlitz J, Alexander-Bloch A, Zapaishchykova A, Kann BH, Vossough A, Storm PB, Resnick AC, Kazerooni AF, Nabavizadeh A. Empowering Data Sharing in Neuroscience: A Deep Learning Deidentification Method for Pediatric Brain MRIs , AJNR Am J Neuroradiol, 46(5): 2025,964-972


Divyanshu Tak, Biniam A. Garomsa, Anna Zapaishchykova, Zezhong Ye, Sridhar Vajapeyam, Maryam Mahootiha, Juan Carlos Climent Pardo, Ceilidh Smith, Ariana M. Familiar, Tafadzwa Chaunzwa, Kevin X. Liu, Sanjay Prabhu, Pratiti Bandopadhayay, Ali Nabavizadeh, Sabine Mueller, Hugo J. W. L. Aerts, Daphne Haas-Kogan, Tina Y. Poussaint, Benjamin H. Kann. Longitudinal Risk Prediction for Pediatric Glioma with Temporal Deep Learning , NEJM AI, 2(5): 2025


Till JE, Seewald NJ, Yazdani Z, Wang Z, Ballinger D, Samberg H, Dandu S, Macia C, Yin M, Abdalla A, Prior T, Shah S, Patel T, McCoy E, Mansour M, Wills CA, Bochenek V, Serrano J, Snuderl M, Phillips RE, O'Rourke DM, Amankulor NM, Nabavizadeh A, Desai AS, Gollomp K, Binder ZA, Zhou W, Bagley SJ, Carpenter EL. Corticosteroid-dependent association between prognostic peripheral blood cell-free DNA levels and neutrophil-mediated NETosis in patients with glioblastoma , Clin Cancer Res , 31(7): 2025,1292-1304


Kraya A, Rathi K, Jin R, Kesherwani V, Resnick AC, Storm PB, Nabavizadeh A. Evaluating the Potential of PSMA Targeting in CNS Tumors: Insights from Large-Scale Transcriptome Profiling , Cancers, 6(17 (7)): 2025


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