Penn Medicine Provider
Cardiology
Vikram Palanivel, MD, PhD
4.9
(109)
Accepting new patients
Sees patients age 18 and up
Penn Heart and Vascular Center

About me

  • Director, Inpatient Cardiology Consult Service, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
  • Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine (Cardiovascular Medicine)

Education and training

  • Medical School: University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
  • Residency: NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center
  • Fellowship: Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania

What my patients think about me

Average Rating
4.9

109 reviews

Comments are submitted by patients and reflect their views and opinions. The comments are not endorsed by and do not necessarily reflect the views of Penn Medicine.

May 2025
5.0
5.0
awesome in every aspect
May 2025
1.0
1.0
the dr was very rude and didn't help me at all with what i was telling him that's wrong
May 2025
5.0
5.0
i trust him
May 2025
5.0
5.0
good explanations

Insurance accepted

My Locations

Penn Medicine hospital privileges

  • Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
Dr. Palanivel is a Penn Medicine physician.

Qualifications and experience

Treatments and Conditions

My research

Corrado Cancedda; Merrian Brooks; Oathokwa Nkomazana; Moses Keetile; Doreen Ramogola-Masire; Billy Tsiima; Andrew Steenhoff; Robert Gross; Surbhi Grover; Ebbing Lautenbach; Malebogo Kebabonye; Keneilwe Motlhatlhedi; Kagiso Ndlovu; Glen Gaulton; Frances Barg; Tonya Arscott Mills; Boago Didimalang; Paul Mather; Vikram Palanivel; Peter Vuylsteke; Dipesalema Joel; Jonathan Strysko; Meredith Hickson; Yehoda Martei; Tlotlo Ralefala; Victoria Williams; Susan Coffin; Elizabeth Lowenthal; Chawangwa Modongo; Sandra Maripe; Giacomo Paganotti; Bonolo Kangongo; Abass Noor; Wallace T Miller Jr; Kumarasen Cooper; Michelle Johnson; Timothy Dillingham; Maikutlo Kebaetse Finding the Balance between Academic Productivity and Impact: Evaluation of the Botswana - University of Pennsylvania Partnership over a Five-Year Timeframe , The Lancet Global Health: 2024,36 pages


Menachem JN, Birati EY, Zamani P, Owens AT, Atluri P, Bermudez CA, Drajpuch D, Fuller S, Kim YY, Mascio CE, Palanivel V, Rame JE, Wald J, Acker MA, Mazurek JA. Pulmonary Hypertension: Barrier of Just a Bump in the Road in Transplanting Adults with Congenital Heart Disease. , Congenit Heart Dis, 13(4): 2018,492-498


Tulshian, P., Zubairi, H., Villegas, S., Palanivel, V.R., Nelson, B.D., Ouma, K., Burke, T.F. An Assessment of Facility-Based Care of Diabetes, Hypertension, and Heart Failure across Western Kenya , East African Medical Journal , 95(10): 2018,2014-2022


Manlandro CM, Palanivel VR, Schorr EB, Mihatov N, Antony AA, Rosenwald AG. Mon2 is a Negative Regulator of the Monomeric G Protein, Arl1. , FEMS Yeast Res, 12(6): 2012,637-50


Chang JT, Ciocca ML, Kinjyo I, Palanivel VR, McClurkin CE, Dejong CS, Mooney EC, Kim JS, Steinel NC, Oliaro J, Yin CC, Florea BI, Overkleeft HS, Berg LJ, Russell SM, Koretzky GA, Jordan MS, Reiner SL. “Asymmetric Proteasome Segregation as a Mechanism for Unequal Partitioning of the Transcription Factor T-bet during T Lymphocyte Division.” , Immunity , 34(4): 2011,492-504


Chang JT, Palanivel VR, Kinjyo I, Schambach F, Intlekofer AM, Banerjee A, Longworth SA, Vinup KE, Mrass P, Oliaro J, Killeen N, Orange JS, Russell SM, Weninger W, Reiner SL. Asymmetric T Lymphocyte Division in the Initiation of Adaptive Immune Responses. , Science, 315(5819): 2007,1687-91


Intlekofer AM, Takemoto N, Wherry EJ, Longworth SA, Northrup JT, Palanivel VR, Mullen AC, Gasink CR, Kaech SM, Miller JD, Gapin L, Ryan K, Russ AP, Lindsten T, Orange JS, Goldrath AW, Ahmed R, Reiner SL. “Effector and memory CD8+ T cell fate coupled by T-bet and eomesodermin.” , Nature Immunology , 6(12): 2005,1236-44


Munson AM, Haydon DH, Love SL, Fell GL, Palanivel VR, Rosenwald AG. Yeast ARL1 encodes a regulator of K+ influx , J Cell Sci, 117(pt 11): 2004,2309-20


Munson AM, Love SL, Shu J, Palanivel VR, Rosenwald AG. “ARL1 participates with ATC1/LIC4 to regulate responses of yeast cells to ions.” , Biochem Biophys Res Commun , 315(3): 2004,617-23


Rosenwald AG, Rhodes MA, Van Valkenburgh H, Palanivel V, Chapman G, Boman A, Zhang CJ, Kahn RA. ARL1 and membrane traffic in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. , Yeast, 19(12): 2002,1039-56