HUP/PPMC is ranked #10 in the nation, in the publication’s prestigious annual “Honor Roll” recognition for excellence in multiple specialties. Penn Medicine’s hospitals are all recognized as among the best regionally.
Penn Rittenhouse in center city Philadelphia is the academic and clinical home base for Penn PM&R encompassing the Penn Institute for Rehabilitation Medicine or PIRM, our 58 bed acute hospital level inpatient rehabilitation program including specialty programs in brain injury and spinal cord injury. The Penn PM&R outpatient clinical practice also is centered here and includes programs in interventional spine (Adrian Popescu, MD), spasticity management (Kelly Heath, MD), concussion (Jeremy Charles, MD), musculoskeletal medicine (Mark Wenneker, DO and Franklin Caldera, DO), electrodiagnosis (Timothy Dillingham, MD, MS), and limb deficiency (David Lenrow, MD).
Penn University City is Penn Medicine’s outpatient center that is strategically located geographically between the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and the Penn-Presbyterian/Level 1 Trauma Center within the University City Science Center. Somnang Pang, DO and Bradley Tucker, MD practice at this outpatient site within the Penn Musculoskeletal Center as a collaborative program under Penn’s Department of Orthopaedic Surgery. Dr. Pang also provides physiatric consultation for the Level 1 Trauma Center.
Penn Sports Medicine at Weighman Hall/ Franklin Field on the Penn campus is a clinical practice site for Kate Temme, MD, CAQSM who is spearheading the Penn Center for the Female Athlete in collaboration with Penn’s Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, and Department of Family Medicine and Community Health. Dr. Temme also provides medical coverage for several of Penn’s women’s undergraduate athletic teams including basketball, and track and field.
Penn Medicine at Radnor is the major practice site for John Vasudevan, MD who is a subspecialist in musculoskeletal and sports medicine, and electrodiagnosis, and who performs interventional spinal procedures. Dr. Vasudevan also practices at Penn Sports Medicine at Weightman Hall/Franklin Field.
Penn Medicine at Valley Forge is the major practice site for Alexis Tingan, MD, CAQSM who is a subspecialist
in sports medicine.
Several of these physiatrists hold part time staff positions at the Corporal Michael J. Crescenz Veterans Affairs Medical Center under the leadership of Keith M. Robinson, MD, Chief of Rehabilitation, including Dr. Popescu (Interventional Spine), Dr. Wenneker (Musculoskeletal Medicine), Dr. Heath (Neurological Rehabilitation), Randel Swanson, DO, PhD (Neurological Rehabilitation), Dr. Vasudevan (Electrodiagnosis), Dr. Tucker (Amputation), Yejia Zhang, MD, PhD (Durable Medical Equipment) and Dr. Pang (Acupuncture).