Victor Diekola Babatunde, MD
Radiology
Accepting new patients
Sees patients age 18 and up
Penn Medicine Provider
About me
- Assistant Professor of Clinical Radiology
My education and training
- Medical School: Harvard Medical School
- Residency: Pennsylvania Hospital
- Residency: University of Pennsylvania Health System
- Fellowship: Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
- Fellowship: University of Pennsylvania Health System
Spoken languages
English
English
Insurance accepted
Please contact the practice and/or the member services department of your insurance company for specific details before receiving services. Providers may participate in some, but not all, products offered by a health plan; providers may also accept plans at some practice locations but not others.
- Aetna Advantra Cares D-SNP
- Aetna Advantra Credit Value
- Aetna Advantra Eagle HMO
- Aetna Advantra Eagle POS
- Aetna Advantra Premier Plus PPO
- Aetna Advantra Value
- Aetna Advantra Value Plus
- Aetna APCN Plus (Multi-Tier)
- Aetna Better Health Kids (CHIP) - DH Only
- Aetna Flexible Five
- Aetna Freedom Core
- Aetna Gold
- Aetna HMO
- Aetna Philly Prime
- Aetna POS
- Aetna PPO APCN
- Aetna Premier
- Aetna Premier Plus
- Aetna Savings Plus
- Aetna Signature Administrators
- Aetna Student Health Plan PPO
- Aetna Upfront Advantage
- First Health HMO
- First Health POS
- First Health PPO
- Meritain - Aramark (Other)
- Meritain - Aramark (Pennsylvania Premier Medical Plan)
- Americhealth Caritas of PA VIP - LGH Only
- Amerihealth Caritas (Transplant patients only)
- Amerihealth Caritas of PA - LGH Only
- Amerihealth of NJ Core
- Amerihealth of NJ Enhanced
- Amerihealth of NJ HMO
- Amerihealth of NJ Local Value
- Amerihealth of NJ POS
- Amerihealth of NJ PPO
- Amerihealth of NJ Regional Preferred
- Amerihealth of NJ Secure
- Amerihealth of NJ Ultimate (PPO)
- Centivo EPO
- Cigna Healthcare EPO
- Cigna Healthcare HMO
- Cigna Healthcare POS
- Cigna Healthcare PPO
- Claim Watcher (Homestead/ INDECs) Open Access
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.
Qualifications and experience
- Diagnostic Radiology, 2023
- Nuclear Medicine
- American College of Radiology, National
- American Medical Association, National
- Radiological Society of North America, National
- Society of Abdominal Radiology, National
- Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, National
Treatments and conditions
Research
Publications
Rebecca E. Ward, MD, Nikita Dave, MD, Emily Ling-Lin Pai, MD, PhD, Robert Colbourn, MD, PhD, ‡ Amir Banihashemi, MD, Sunita D. Nasta, MD, and Victor D. Babatunde, MD Methotrexate-associated Peripheral Neuropathy on 18F-FDG PET/CT and MRI Masquerading as Neurolymphomatosis , Journal of Clinical Nuclear Medicine: 2025
Wallace T. Miller, Karen C. Patterson, Shweta Sood, James E. Schmitt, Arshad A. Wani, Robert Borden, Maya Galperin-Aisenberg, Mary K. Porteus, Michelle L. Hershman, Michael Hewitt, Jennifer Levy, Victor D. Babatunde, Tetiana Glushko, Timothy J. Niesen, Sergey Leshchinskiy, Karine Sahakyan, Keyur Desai, Jennifer A. Gillman, Sandeep Reddy, Michael Shriver, Nathaniel B. Linna, Abass M. Noor, Aysenur Buz, Matthew E. Biron, Scott Simpson A Validated Model for the Imaging Diagnosis of Cystic Lung Disease , Open Journal of Radiology, 13(1): 2023,42-57
Roberson JL, Krumeich LN, Darwich NF, Babatunde V, Laczko D, Albee A, Yang Z, Jack AE, Shlansky-Goldberg R, DeAgostino-Kelly M, Braslow BM. Fibroid expulsion: a unique presentation of mechanical small bowel obstruction 11 years after uterine artery embolization: a case report. , J Med Case Rep., 15(1): 2021,365
Kapoor N, Gaviola G, Wang A, Babatunde VD, Khorasani R. Quantifying and Characterizing Trainee Participation in a Major Academic Radiology Department. , Curr Probl Diagn Radiol, 48(5): 2019,436-440
Cox M, Curtis B, Patel M, Babatunde V, Flanders AE. Utility of sagittal MR imaging of the whole spine in cases of known or suspected single-level spinal infection: Overkill or good clinical practice? , Clin Imaging, 51: 2018,98-103
Lacson, Ronilda & Babatunde, Victor & Shinagare, Atul & Khorasani, Ramin. Factors Impacting the Use of Terminology to Convey Diagnostic Certainty in Radiology Reports. , The Open Medical Informatics Journal., 12: 2018,51-59
Nadelson AC, Babatunde VD, Yee EU, Patwardhan VR. Expanding the differential diagnosis for transaminitis in patients with anorexia nervosa. , J Gen Intern Med., 32(4): 2017,486-489
Babatunde VD, Menendez ME, Ring D. Does Illicit Drug Use Influence Inpatient Adverse Events, Death, Length of Stay, and Discharge After Orthopaedic Trauma? , J Surg Orthop Adv., 25(1): 2016,41-48
Thayanithy V, Babatunde V, Dickson EL, Wong P, Oh S, Ke X, Barlas A, Fujisawa S, Romin Y, Moreira AL, Downey RJ, Steer CJ, Subramanian S, Manova-Todorova K, Moore MAS, Lou E. Tumor exosomes induce tunneling nanotubes in lipid raft-enriched regions of human mesothelioma cells. , Exp Cell Res., 323(1): 2014,178-188