- Essential tremor
- Gait abnormality
- Movement disorder
- Parkinson's disease
- Tremor
Thomas Francis Tropea, DO
About me
- Adjunct Assistant Professor of Neurology
My education and training
- Medical School: University of New England
- Residency: NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center
Spoken languages
Reviews
194 reviews
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Locations
Penn Medicine hospital privileges
- Pennsylvania Hospital: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
Qualifications and experience
- Neurology, 2015
- American Academy of Neurology, National
- American Neurological Association, National
- Bial, International
- ClinGen Gene Curation Expert Panel (GCEP) for Parkinson's Disease, International
- Congressionally Mandated Medical Research Programs, National
- Congressionally Mandated Medical Research Programs, National
- International Parkinson and Movement Disorder Society, International
- Parkinson Study Group, National
- Penn Movement Disorders Center
Treatments and conditions
Research
Publications
Jang Y, Oh S, Hall AJ, Zhang Z, Tropea TF, Chen-Plotkin A, Rosenthal LS, Dawson TM, Na CH, Pantelyat AY. Biomarker discovery in progressive supranuclear palsy from human cerebrospinal fluid , Clin Proteomics, 21: 2024,56
Cook L, Verbrugge J, Schwantes-An TH, Schulze J, Foroud T, Hall A, Marder KS, Mata IF, Mencacci NE, Nance MA, Schwarzschild MA, Simuni T, Bressman S, Wills AM, Fernandez HH, Litvan I, Lyons KE, Shill HA, Singer C, Tropea TF, Arroyave NV, Carbonell J, Vicioso RC, Katus L, Quinn JF, Hodges PD, Meng Y, Strom SP, Blauwendraat C, Lohmann K, Casaceli C, Rao SC, Galvelis KG, Naito A, Beck JC, Alcalay RN. Parkinson's disease variant detection and disclosure: PD GENEration, a North American study , Brain, 147: 2024,2668-2679
Brody EM, Seo Y, Suh E, Amari N, Hartstone WG, Skrinak RT, Zhang H, Diaz-Ortiz ME, Weintraub D, Tropea TF, Van Deerlin VM, Chen-Plotkin AS. GPNMB Biomarker Levels in GBA1 Carriers with Lewy Body Disorders , Mov Disord, 39(6): 2024,1065-1070
Nance M, Phillips O, Tropea TF. Hope vs. Hype II: It is time to offer pre-symptomatic genetic testing for GBA and LRRK2 variants , Parkinsonism Relat Disord: 2024
James JG, Wechsler LR, Blum CA, Bae CJ, Tropea TF. Provider Impressions of Inpatient Teleneurology Consultation , Neurol Clin Pract, 14(3): 2024,e200296
Cousins KAQ, Phillips JS, Das SR, O'Brien K, Tropea TF, Chen-Plotkin A, Shaw LM, Nasrallah IM, Mechanic-Hamilton D, McMillan CT, Irwin DJ, Lee EB, Wolk DA. Pathologic and cognitive correlates of plasma biomarkers in neurodegenerative disease , Alzheimers Dement, 20(6): 2024,3889-3905
Tropea TF, Hartstone W, Amari N, Baum D, Rick J, Suh E, Zhang H, Paul RA, Han N, Zack R, Brody EM, Albuja I, James J, Spindler M, Deik A, Aamodt WW, Dahodwala N, Hamedani A, Lasker A, Hurtig H, Stern M, Weintraub D, Vaswani P, Willis AW, Siderowf A, Xie SX, Van Deerlin V, Chen-Plotkin AS. Genetic and phenotypic characterization of Parkinson's disease at the clinic-wide level , NPJ Parkinsons Dis, 10: 2024,97
Kannarkat GT, Zack R, Skrinak RT, Morley JF, Davila-Rivera R, Arezoumandan S, Dorfmann K, Luk K, Wolk DA, Weintraub D, Tropea TF, Lee EB, Xie SX, Chandrasekaran G, Lee VM, Irwin D, Akhtar RS, Chen-Plotkin AS. α-Synuclein Conformations in Plasma Distinguish Parkinson's Disease from Dementia with Lewy Bodies , bioRxiv: 2024
Arezoumandan S, Cousins KAQ, Ohm DT, Lowe M, Chen M, Gee J, Phillips JS, McMillan CT, Luk KC, Deik A, Spindler MA, Tropea TF, Weintraub D, Wolk DA, Grossman M, Lee V, Chen-Plotkin AS, Lee EB, Irwin DJ. Tau maturation in the clinicopathological spectrum of Lewy body and Alzheimer's disease , Ann Clin Transl Neurol, 11(3): 2024,673-685
Baldwin A, Copeland J, Azage M, Dratch L, Johnson K, Paul RA, Amado DA, Baer M, Deik A, Elman LB, Guo M, Hamedani AG, Irwin DJ, Lasker A, Orthmann-Murphy J, Quinn CC, Tropea TF, Scherer SS, Shinohara RT, Hamilton RH, Ellis CA. Disparities in Genetic Testing for Neurologic Disorders , Neurology, 102: 2024,e209161