Sarah Abdulla, MD

Interventional Radiology
Accepting new patients
Sees patients age 18 and up
Penn Interventional Radiology Pennsylvania Hospital
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About me

  • Section Chief, Interventional Radiology, Pennsylvania Hospital
  • Associate Professor of Clinical Radiology

My education and training

  • Medical School: University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
  • Residency: Pennsylvania Hospital
  • Residency: UPMC Presbyterian
  • Fellowship: NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell 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. Abdulla is a Penn Medicine physician.

Qualifications and experience

Treatments and Conditions

Research

Publications

Uchechukwu Uzomah Sarah Abdulla Linda White Nunes AMSER Case of the Month November 2023: 27 y.o. male w/spastic tetraplegia presenting with worsening spasticity , Online - November 2023 Alliance of Medical Student Educators in Radiology: 2023

Cobb RM, Liss N, Gibbons M, Lu X, Cohen G, Yu D, Lee S, Abdulla S. Retrospective comparison of noninvasive evaluation of liver fibrosis and portal hypertension utilizing ultrasound shear wave elastography and FibroTest technologies with liver biopsy. , Society of Interventional Radiology Annual Meeting: 2021

S Abdulla and S Yilmaz. Ultrasound guided diagnosis and treatment of a diffuse venous malformation. , Ultrasound Quarterly, 32(4): 2016,387-390

S Abdulla, S Tadros, JE Squires, and JH Squires. Canal of Nuck hernia: A Case Series. , International Pediatric Radiology Meeting & Exhibition Chicago, IL: 2016

S Abdulla, H Amr, O Almusa. Unraveling the causes of small bowel pathology on CT. , Educational Exhibit, American Roentgen Ray Society. San Diego, CA: 2014

Abdulla S, Salavati A, Saboury B, Basu S, Torigian DA, Alavi A. Quantitative assessment of global lung inflammation following radiation therapy using FDG PET/CT: a pilot study. , Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging, 41(2): 2014,350-6

S Abdulla and J Sumkin Disparities in breast cancer outcomes & higher mortality rates in African American women. , Health Disparities Conference: UPMC. Pittsburgh, PA: 2013

Decman V, Laidlaw BJ, DiMenna LJ, Abdulla S, Mozdzonkwska K, Erikson J, Ertl HC, and Wherry EJ Cell-intrinsic defects in the proliferative response of anti-viral memory CD8 T cells in aged mice upon secondary infection. , J Immunol, 1(184): 2010,5151-9

DiMenna L, Latimer B, Parzych E, Haut LH, Topfer K, Abdulla S, Yu H, Manson B, Giles-Davis W, Zhou D, Lasaro MO, and Ertl HC Augmentation of primary influenza A virus specific CD8+ T cell responses in aged mice through blockade of an immunoinhibitory pathway. , J Immunol, 15(184): 2010,5475-84

Tatsis N, Lasaro MO, Lin SW, Xiang ZQ, Zhou D, Dimenna L, Li H, Bian A, Abdulla S, Li Y, Giles-Davis W, Engram J, Ratcliffe SJ, Silvestri G, Ertl HC, Betts MR Adenovirus vector-induced immune responses in nonhuman primates: responses to prime boost regimens. , J Immunol, 15(182): 2009,6587-99