Seema Anandalwar, MD
Trauma Surgery
Accepting new patients
Sees patients age 18 and up
Penn Traumatology, Surgical Critical Care and Emergency Surgery Perelman
Penn Medicine Provider
About me
- Assistant Professor of Surgery at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
My 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
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
- Centivo EPO
- Cigna Healthcare EPO
- Cigna Healthcare HMO
- Cigna Healthcare POS
- Cigna Healthcare PPO
- Claim Watcher (Homestead/ INDECs) Open Access
- Clover Health Choice
- Clover Health Choice Value PPO
- Clover Health Classic HMO
- Clover Health Value
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.
Qualifications and experience
- Surgery, Surgical Critical Care
- Surgery, 2022
- AAST, Local
- EAST, Local
- SCCM, Local
Treatments and conditions
Research
Publications
Vahe S Panossian, Yasmin Arda, Wardah Rafaqat, Andrea M Gochi, Mira Ghneim, Seema Anandalwar, Dias Argandykov, Cynthia Susai, Nathan Alcasid, Geoffrey A Anderson, Alexander J Ordoobadi, Erik J Teicher, David P Blake, Brendin R Beaulieu-Jones, Sabrina E Sanchez, Christopher A Guidry, Pedro Teixeira, Jonathan Meizoso, Brianna L Collie, Sarah McWilliam, Patrick McGonagill, Nicole Nitschke, Colete Galet, Lillian Nefcy, Jeffrey L Johnson, Michael P DeWane, Joseph Cuschieri, Amber Himmler, Jennifer Rickard, Jonathan Gipson, April E Mendoza Empiric Antifungal Therapy Is Not Associated with Improved Infectious Outcomes in Penetrating Upper Gastrointestinal Injuries: A Subgroup Analysis of the Surgical Infection Society Multi-Center Observational Study , Surg Infect, 27(4): 2026,304-310
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