Seema Anandalwar, MD
Trauma Surgery
Accepting new patients
Sees patients age 18 and up
Penn Traumatology, Surgical Critical Care and Emergency Surgery Perelman
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Penn Medicine Provider

About me

  • Assistant Professor of Surgery at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania

Education and training

  • Medical School: Rutgers New Jersey Medical School
  • Residency: Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
  • Fellowship: R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center
  • Fellowship: University of Maryland School of Medicine

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
  • Lancaster General Hospital
  • Chester County Hospital: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
Dr. Anandalwar is a Penn Medicine physician.

Qualifications and experience

Treatments and Conditions

My research

Gochi AM, Rafaqat W, Panossian V, Ghneim M, Anandalwar S, Argandykov D, Susai CJ, Alcasid NJ, Anderson GA, Ordoobadi AJ, Teicher EJ, Blake DP, Beaulieu-Jones BR, Sanchez SE, Guidry CA, Teixeira P, Meizoso J, Collie BL, McWilliam S, McGonagill P, Nitschke N, Kortlever T, Galet C, Nefcy LA, Johnson JL, DeWane MP, Cuschieri J, Himmler A, Rickard J, Gipson J, Mendoza AE Surgical Infection Society multi-center observational study: Empiric anti-fungal coverage after non-colonic gastrointestinal perforation , Surgical Infections (Larchmont), 26(8): 2025,618-626


Anandalwar SP, Deshwar A, Powell E, Scalea T, O'Conner J Trauma pnuemonectomy: Has survival improved over two decades? , American Surgeon, 91(8): 2025,1348-1354


Anandalwar S, Sifri Z, Hopkins MA, Whitley D, Harfouche M, Narayan M Evolution of global surgery: Lessons learned and a look towards the future , Trauma Surgery & Acute Care Open , 10(Suppl 3): 2025,e001541


Vasquez M, Abdullah S, Rehani C, Rozenberg K, Vesselinov R, Anandalwar S, Dong JF, Murthi S, Kozar R Ongoing endothelial cell dysfunction following hemorrhagic shock: Crystalloids are the culprit , Shock: 2025


Zhou J, Wilhide M, Howard K, Solom A, Anandalwar S, Clark J, Olafson S Splenic rupture secondary to pancreatic malignancy invasion: A rare case , Trauma Case Reports, 54: 2024,101108


Anandalwar SP, O'Meara L, Vesselinov R, Zhang A, Baum JN, Cooper A, Decker C, Schroeppel T, Cai J, Cullinane D, Catalano RD, Bugaev N, LeClair M, Feather C, McBride K, Sams V, Leung PS, Olafson S, Callahan DS, Posluszny J, Moradian S, Estroff J, Hochman B, Coleman N, Goldenberg-Sandau A, Nahmias J, Rosenbaum K, Pasley J, Boll L, Hustad L, Reynolds J, Truitt M, Ghneim M Warfarin, not direct oral anticoagulants or antiplatelet therapy, is associated with increased bleeding risk in emergency general surgery patients: Implications in this new era of novel anticoagulants: An EAST multicenter study , Journal of Trauma & Acute Care Surgery, 97(2): 2024,225-232


Anandalwar SP, Ghneim M Emergency general surgery in the era of direct oral anticoagulants: Is there an increased bleeding risk? An EAST Multicenter Trials Study , Quick Shots Presentation at the Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL: 2024


Anandalwar SP, Milliren C, Graham DA, Newland JG, He K, Hills-Dunlap JL, Kashtan MA, Rangel SJ Quantifying procedure-level prophylaxis misutilization in pediatric surgery: Implications for the prioritization of antimicrobial stewardship efforts , Annals of Surgery, 278(1): 2023,e158-e164


Anandalwar SP, Ghneim M Does the risk outweigh the benefit? Clot progression, recanalization & complications of anticoagulant therapy in acute pancreatitis with concomitant splachnic vein thrombosis , Oral Research Presentation at the Panamerican Congress of Trauma, Critical Care and Emergency Surgery, Florianopolis, Brazil: 2023


Kashtan MA, Graham DA, Melvin P, Hills-Dunlap JL, Anandalwar SP, Rangel SJ Ceftriaxone with Metronidazole versus Piperacillin/Tazobactam in the management of complicated appendicitis in children: Results from a multicenter pediatric NSQIP analysis , Journal of Pediatric Surgery, 57(10): 2022,365-372