H. Isaac Chen
H. Isaac Chen, MD
Office (215) 662-3487
3400 Civic Center Boulevard
Perelman Center for Advanced Medicine
Philadelphia, PA 19104
About
H. Isaac Chen
My primary interest as a neurosurgeon-scientist is the restoration of function after the brain has been damaged. From the clinical side, I work in the areas of neurotrauma, functional neurosurgery (i.e., deep brain stimulation and epilepsy surgery), and the resection of tumors in and around eloquent brain tissue. I am interested in clinical trials examining new methods for restoring brain function, mapping brain activity after injury, and bringing new technologies such as augemented reality into the operating room. I also run a translational laboratory focused on rebuilding the circuitry of the brain using a combination of techniques drawn from stem cell biology, neural tissue engineering, and neural interface technologies.
Primary Specialty
Neurosurgeon
Practice
H. Isaac Chen, MD
Gender
Male
Education
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Training
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Accepting New Patients
Insurances Accepted
Aetna, Amerihealth Caritas (Transplant patients only), Centivo, Cigna Healthcare, Claim Watcher (Homestead/Index), Clover Health, Geisinger Health Plan, Global Medical Management, HealthAmerica / HealthAssurance, a Coventry Plan, Highmark Blue Shield, Highmark Wholecare (fka Gateway Health), Horizon BC/BS of NJ, Humana Medicare, Humana Military (Tricare/Health Net Federal Services), Imagine Health (Imagine Health 360), Independence Blue Cross (IBC), Jefferson Health Plans/Health Partners, Jefferson Health Plans/Health Partners (Includes CHIP), Keystone First Health Plan, Medicaid - New Jersey, Medicaid - Pennsylvania, Medicare - Pennsylvania, Oscar Health Plan of PA, Oxford Health Plan, PA Health & Wellness, Preferred Health Care/Eliance, Provider Partners Health Plan, Qualcare, Rail Road Medicare/Palmetto GBA, UnitedHealthcare, UnitedHealthcare Community Plan of PA, UPMC Health Plan, US Family Health Plan, VA Insurance (Veteran's CCN)
Degrees
Medical Doctor
Admitting Hospitals
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Penn Presbyterian Medical Center, Pennsylvania Hospital
Services
anterior temporal lobectomy, awake craniotomy, biopsy of brain, biopsy of skull, brain cancer genomics, brain surgery, burr hole, cerebral decompression, cervical decompression, chiari decompression, corpus callosotomy, cortical mapping, craniectomy, craniotomy, csf shunt removal, deep brain stimulation, deep brain stimulation (asleep), deep brain stimulation (awake), deep brain stimulation for dystonia, electrocorticography, endoscopic third ventriculostomy, epilepsy surgery, epilepsy surgery evaluation, hemispherectomy, intraoperative mri, intraventricular endoscopy, lobectomy of brain, microneurosurgery, microsurgery, microvascular decompression, neuroablation, neuroendoscopy, parkinson's disease (pd) surgery, repair of brain, stereotactic brain biopsy, stereotactic eeg, subpial transection, topectomy, vagal nerve stimulator, vagal stimulation, ventricular shunt, ventriculo peritoneal shunt, ventriculostomy, visualase thermal laser ablation