Rachel Elizabeth Blue, MD

Neurosurgery
Accepting new patients
Sees patients age 18 and up
Penn Neuroscience Center - Neurosurgery
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About me

  • Assistant Professor of Clinical Neurosurgery

My education and training

  • Medical School: University of Minnesota Medical School
  • Residency: University of Pennsylvania Health System
  • Fellowship: University of Colorado Medical Center

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.
Dr. Blue is a Penn Medicine physician. In New Jersey, providers are affiliated with Penn Medicine through Clinical Health Care Associates of New Jersey or Princeton Healthcare Affiliated Physicians, PC.

Qualifications and experience

Treatments and conditions

Research

Publications

Blue R, Alvarez R, Hines B, Moseley R, Patel E, Witt AS, Zhou Y, Freeman L, Wang Y, Hosokawa P, Gubbels S, Youssef AS. Antiviral Prophylaxis for Delayed Facial Nerve Palsy Following Vestibular Schwannoma Resection: Single Institutional Series With Systematic Literature Review and Meta-Analyses of 7136 Patients , Neurosurgery: 2026


Blue R, Zhou Y, Gubbles S, Youssef AS. A 2-Staged Approach for Resection of Giant Dumbbell Shaped Facial Nerve Schwannoma With Facial Nerve Preservation , Oper Neurosurg: 2026


Barpujari A, Gandhi OH, Wei KL, Almasri S, Blue R, Vaughan KA, Flanders TM, Choudhri OA. Endoscopic Fenestration of Enlarging Symptomatic Thalamic Cysts: Twin Cases , World Neurosurg: 2026


Ajmera S, Blue R, Jabarkheel R, Srinivasan VM, Burkhardt JK. Treatment of a Giant Fusiform Vertebrobasilar Artery Aneurysm in a Hybrid OR: M2-P2 Bypass With Radial Artery Interposition Graft Bypass and Endovascular Coiling: 2-Dimensional Operative Video , Oper Neurosurg, 29: 2025,753-754


Jabarkheel R, Muhammad N, Blue R, Ajmera S, Davis P, Vaz A, Srinivasan VM, Burkhardt JK. In Situ M2 Bypass for Treatment of Fusiform Middle Cerebral Artery Bifurcation Aneurysm: Technical Case Instruction and Operative Video , Oper Neurosurg, 29: 2025,428-433


Soegaard Ballester JM, Ginzberg SP, Finn CB, Passman J, Miranda SP, Blue R, Stein J, Mahmoud NN, Kelz RR, Wachtel H. Should I See You Again Soon? Multispecialty Assessment of Impact and Burden of Preoperative History and Physical Update Visits , J Am Coll Surg, 239: 2024,114-124


Heman-Ackah SM, Blue R, Quimby AE, Abdallah H, Sweeney EM, Chauhan D, Hwa T, Brant J, Ruckenstein MJ, Bigelow DC, Jackson C, Zenonos G, Gardner P, Briggs SE, Cohen Y, Lee JYK. A multi-institutional machine learning algorithm for prognosticating facial nerve injury following microsurgical resection of vestibular schwannoma , Sci Rep, 14: 2024,12963


Albayar A, Spadola M, Blue R, Saylany A, Dagli MM, Santangelo G, Wathen C, Ghenbot Y, Macaluso D, Ali ZS, Ozturk AK, Welch WC Incidental Durotomy Repair in Lumbar Spine Surgery: Institutional Experience and Review of Literature , Global Spine J, 14(4): 2024,1316-1327


Ajmera S, Blue R, Lee JYK Endoscopic Microvascular Decompression , Adv Tech Stand Neurosurg, 52: 2024,245-252


Ajmera S, Blue R, Lee JYK Fluorophores in Endoscopic Neurosurgery , Adv Tech Stand Neurosurg , 52: 2024,21-28