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Aaron I. Rothstein, MD

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Assistant Professor of Neurology at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Dr. Rothstein is a Penn Medicine physician.

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Abnormal Reflexes
Alzheimer's Disease
Arm Weakness
Arteriovenous Malformations (AVM)
Ataxia
Bell's Palsy
Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo
Brain Aneurysm (Cerebral Aneurysm)
Brain Injury Rehabilitation
Carotid Artery Disease
Cerebellar Ataxia
Cerebellar Disease
Cervical Dystonia
Charcot Marie Tooth Disease (CMT)
CNS Vasculitis
Cognitive Impairment
Concussion
Cranial Nerve Injuries
Encephalopathies
Epilepsy
Facial Droop
Facial Pain
Guillain-Barré Syndrome (GBS)
Headache
Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension (Pseudotumor Cerebri)
Ischemic Stroke
Lacunar Stroke
Leg Weakness
Lip Droop
Lobar Atrophy of Brain
Medication Overuse Headache
Memory Loss
Movement Disorders
Multiple Sclerosis (MS)
Muscle Weakness
Myasthenia Gravis (MG)
Myelitis
Nerve Pain (Neuralgia)
Nerve Root Pain
Nervous System Disorders
Neuromuscular Disorders
Neuropathy
Nonruptured Cerebral Aneurysm
Orthostatic Hypotension
Paraplegia
Paresthesia
Parkinson's Disease
Peripheral Nerve Disorders
Peripheral Neuropathy
Periventricular Leukomalacia
Positional Vertigo
Primary Cerebellar Degeneration
Primary Progressive Aphasia
Quadriplegia
Radiculopathy
Sensory Impairment
Spinocerebellar Ataxia
Spinocerebellar Degeneration
Spinocerebellar Diseases
Stroke (Cerebrovascular Accident)
Subarachnoid Hemorrhage
Syncope
Tetraplegia
Tinnitus
Torticollis
Transient Ischemic Attack (Mini Stroke)
Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
Tremor
Trigeminal Neuralgia (Nerve Pain)
Trigeminal Neuralgia (Tic Douloureux)
Unsteady Gait
Vertigo

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Programs and Centers

Penn Medicine's programs and centers combine doctors from many disciplines to coordinate care from start to finish. Dr. Rothstein is part of these programs:

Penn Stroke Program

Board Certification

Neurology, 2019
Psych & Neurology/Vascular Neuro (AMA)

Education and Training

Medical School: Wake Forest University
Residency: NYU Langone Medical Center
Fellowship: Pennsylvania Hospital

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
Centivo Health Plan
Cigna
Cigna Medicare
Claim Watcher (Homestead/Index)
Clover Health Plan
Geisinger Health Plan
Geisinger Medicaid
Global Medical Management
HealthAmerica / HealthAssurance, a Coventry Plan
HealthPartners
HealthSmart
Highmark Blue Shield
Highmark Blue Shield Medicare
Highmark Wholecare
Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey
Humana / Medicare
Imagine Health 360
Independence Blue Cross (Keystone East)
Jefferson Health Plans (fka Health Partners Plans)

Keystone First
Keystone First Medicare
NJ Amerihealth
NJ Medicaid
NJ Medicare
NJ Qualcare
Oscar Health Plan of PA
Oxford Health Plan
PA Health and Wellness (Centene) Medicare
PA Medicaid
PA Medicare
Provider Partners Health Plan
Rail Road Medicare / Palmetto GBA
Tricare
UnitedHealthcare Community Plan
UnitedHealthcare Community Plan PA
UPMC Health Plan
US Family Health Plan
Veterans Choice Program

Selected Publications

Aaron Rothstein: Medical Promise Betrayed Wall Street Journal : 2025.

Sousa JA, Rodrigo-Gisbert M, Shu L, Luo A, Xiao H, Mahmoud NA, Shah A, Oliveira Santos AL, Moore M, Mandel DM, Heldner MR, Barata V, Bernardo-Castro S, Henninger N, Muppa J, Arnold M, Nehme A, Rothstein A, Khazaal O, Kaufmann JE, Engelter ST, Traenka C, Metanis I, Leker RR, Nolte CH, Ghannam M, Samaniego EA, AlMajali M, Poppe AY, Romoli M, Frontera JA, Zedde M, Kam W, Mac Grory B, Saleh Velez FG, Ranasinghe T, Siegler JE, Zubair AS, Marto JP, Klein P, Nguyen TN, Abdalkader M, Mantovani GP, Simpkins AN, Sen S, Elnazeir M, Yaghi S, Sargento-Freitas J, Requena M.: Emergent Carotid Stenting During Thrombectomy in Tandem Occlusions Secondary to Dissection: A STOP-CAD Secondary Study Stroke : 2025.

Ekaterina Bakradze, MD, Liqi Shu, MD, Shadi Yaghi, MD, Thanh Lam Tran, MD, Ross Crandall, MD, Evan Lester, MD, PhD, Daniel Mandel, MD, James Siegler, MD, Mary Penckofer, BA, Ava Liberman, MD, Thalia Field, MD, MHSc, Farhan Khan, MD, MS, Wayneho Kam, MD, Brian Mac Grory, MB BCH, BCH, Faddi Saleh Velez, MD, Nils Henninger, MD, PhD, Cheran Elangovan, MBBS, Balaji Krishnaiah, MD, Preet Gandhi, MD, Reza Bavarsad Shahripour, MD, Malik Ghannam, MB BCH, Mirjam Heldner, MD, Antonenko Katheryna, MD, Aaron Rothstein, MD, Issa Metanis, MD, Edgar Samaniego, MD, MS, Michele Romoli, MD, Zedde Marialuisa, MD, Thanh Nguyen, MD, Farid Khasiyev, MD, Ossama Khazaal, MD, Mohammad AlMajali, MD, Adeel Zubair, MD, Marwa Elnazeir, MD, Joao Pedro Marto, MD, MSc, Omair ul haq Lodhi, MD, Ahmad Nehme, MD, James Giles, MB ChB, PhD, and Setareh Salehi Omran, MD: Misdiagnosis in Cervical Artery Dissection: Analysis of STOP-CAD Study International Stroke Conference 2025 56 : 2025.

Richa Sharma, MD, MPH, James Siegler, MD, Anna Bowman, MD, PhD, Russell Van Coevering, MD, MBA, Lucia Chen, MD, Mary Penckofer, BA, Eesha Singh, MD, Deborah Kerrigan, MD, MA, Hassan Aboul-Nour, MD, Fadi Nahab, MD, Balaji Krishnaiah, MD, Shadi Yaghi, MD, Farid Khasiyev, MD, Christina Lineback, MD, Collin Culbertson, MD, Anvitha Sathya, BS, Sean Thompson, MD, Dinesh Jillella, MD, Jennifer Ro, MD, Yasmin Aziz, MD, Muhammad Alvi, MD, Franziska Herpich, MD, Mahan Shahrivari, MD, Cheran Elangovan, MBBS, Jieun Kang, MD, Alicia Zha, MD, Mudassir Farooqui, MD, MPH, Aaron Rothstein, MD, Farhan Khan, MD, Matthew Smith, MD, MA, Samantha Brown, BS, Monica Sarkar, MD, Ahmad Abu Qdais, MD, David Liebeskind, MD, Nandini Abburi, MD, Stefano Rozental, BA, Simona Nedelcu, MD, PhD, Thanh Nguyen, MD, Farman Ali, MD, Jesse Thon, MD, BS, Christoph Stretz, MD, Neeharika Thottempudi, MBBS, Setareh Salehi Omran, MD, and Adam de Havenon, MD: Recurrent Stroke in Patients with Cryptogenic Stroke and Left Ventricular Injury: The Cardiac Abnormalities in Stroke Prevention and Recurrence (CASPR) study International Stroke Conference 2025 56 : 2025.

Kelsey Eklund, MD, James Siegler, MD, Anna Bowman, MD PhD, Russell Van Coevering, MD, MBA, Lucia Chen, MD, Mary Penckofer, BA, Deborah Kerrigan, MD, MA, Hassan Aboul-Nour, MD, Fadi Nahab, MD, Shadi Yaghi, MD, Farid Khasiyev, MD, Christina Lineback, MD, Collin Culbertson, MD, Richa Sharma, MD, Anvitha Sathya, BS, Dinesh Jillella, MD, Yasmin Aziz, MD, Muhammad Alvi, MD, MBBS, Franziska Herpich, MD, Mahan Shahrivari, MD, Cheran Elangovan, MD, Alicia Zha, MD, Mudassir Farooqui, MD, MPH, Aaron Rothstein, MD, Farhan Khan, MD, James Brorson, MD, Samantha Brown, BS, Ahmad Abu Qdais, MD, David Liebeskind, MD, Simona Nedelcu, MD, Thanh Nguyen, MD, Jesse Thon, MD, BS, and Setareh Salehi Omran, MD: Recurrent stroke in patients with incident cryptogenic stroke and underlying malignancy: A secondary analysis of the CASPR study International Stroke Conference 2025 56 : 2025.

Mary Penckofer, BA, Eric Goldstein, MD, Murphy Kathleen, BSN, Matthew Smith, MD, MA, Anna Bowman, MD, PhD, Fadi Nahab, MD, Jean-Philippe Daniel, MD, Christoph Stretz, MD, Shani Peter, MD, Elizabeth Gaudio, MD, Quentin Thacker, MD, Ashley Nelson, DO, Anvitha Sathya, BS, Wayneho Kam, MD, Jieun Kang, MD, Jennifer Ro, MD, Sean Thompson, MD, Patrick Glover, BS, Siddharth Sehgal, MD, Romi Xi, MD, Monica Sarkar, MD, Emiliya Melkumova, MD, Nandini Abburi, MD, Aaron Rothstein, MD, Jesse Thon, MD, Neeharika Thottempudi, MD, Hassan Aboul-Nour, MBChB, Kelsey Eklund, BS, MD, Mudassir Farooqui, MD, MPH, Stefano Rozental, BA, Oana Dumitrascu, MD, Anjail Sharrief, MD, MPH, Deborah Kerrigan, MD, MA, Eyad Almallouhi, MD, Sami Al Kasab, MD, Krithika Peshwe, MBBS, Cindy Luan, MD, Charles Doolittle, MD, Christina Lineback, MD, Lester Leung, MD, Narendra Kala, MBBS, MD, Guillermo Linares, MD, Nicole Khezri, MD, Simona Nedelcu, MD, PhD, Shadi Yaghi, MD, Setareh Salehi Omran, MD, and James Siegler, MD: Impact of Insurance Status on Risk of Stroke Recurrence with Incident Cryptogenic Stroke: A secondary analysis of the CASPR study International Stroke Conference 2025 56 : 2025.

Lindgren E, Shu L, Simaan N, Krzywicka K, de Winter MA, Sánchez van Kammen M, Molad J, Klein P, Hallevi H, Barnea R, Heldner MR, Hiltunen S, de Sousa DA, Ferro JM, Arauz A, Putaala J, Arnold M, Nguyen TN, Stretz C, Tatlisumak T, Jood K, Yaghi S, Leker RR, Coutinho JM; DIAS research collaboration; Mansour M, Canhão P, Ekizoglu E, Rodrigues M, Silva EM, Garcia-Esperon C, Arnao V, Aladin S, Mendel R, Aridon P, Sezgin M, Alasheev A, Smolkin A, Guisado-Alonso D, Yesilot N, Barboza MA, Ghiasian M, Silvis SM, Fang T, Siegler JE, Wu T, Wilson D, Asad SD, Al Kasab S, Almallouhi E, Frontera J, Rothstein A, Bakradze E, Omran SS, Henninger N, Kuohn L, Zubair A, Sharma R, Kerrigan D, Aziz Y, Mistry E, Zuurbier SM.: Development and Validation of a Clinical Score to Predict Epilepsy After Cerebral Venous Thrombosis JAMA Neurol : 2024.

Aaron Rothstein interviews Carl Elliott: Carl Elliott on Whistleblowers Searching for Medicine's Soul: Spotify Podcast : 2024.

Aaron Rothstein interviews Charlotte Bismuth: Charlotte Bismuth on Prosecuting the Opioid Crisis Searching for Medicine's Soul: Spotify Podcast : 2024.

Aaron Rothstein: Origins of the Modern Euthanasia Movement National Affairs : 2024.

Academic Contact Information

3400 Spruce St
Philadelphia, PA 19147

American Academy of Neurology, National
American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, National
American Heart Association, National