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Craig Adam Press, MD, PhD

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Associate Professor of Clinical Neurology
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Medical Director Neuroscience Unit, CHOP/Neuroscience Center
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Physician, Lancaster General Hospital (LGH)
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Physician, Hospital of University of Pennsylvania (HUP)
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Physician, Pennsylvania Hospital (PAH)
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Physician, Chester County Hospital
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Physician, Virtua Hospital
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Physician, Princeton Healthcare System (PHCS)
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Interim Section Head Neurocritical Care Consults, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
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Department: Neurology
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21 c MD, PhD 28 (Medicine, Molecular Biology) c
4e Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, 2010.
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Description of Clinical Expertise

7c Pediatric Neurocritical Care, Pediatric Neurohospitalist Medicine, Pediatric Epilepsy and Critical Care EEG.
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Description of Research Expertise

d4 Pediatric Neurocritical Care, Pediatric Epilepsy, Critical Care EEG, Quantitative EEG, Pediatric Neurohospitalist Medicine, Post-Cardiac Arrest Outcomes, Utilizing Big Data for Pediatric Neurology
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Selected Publications

187 Mazzio, Emma, Mistry, Rakesh D., Rosenthal, Scott, Ser, Eileen, Jewell, Jerry, Martin, Jan, Messer, Ricka, Straley, Megan, Leonard, Jan, Press, Craig A.: Neuroimaging for Pediatric Non-First-Time Seizures in the Emergency Department. Neurology: Clinical Practice 12(3): 10.1212/CPJ.0000000000001165, Jun 2022.

10f Ackley E, Press CA, Tchou M, Parker S, Dominguez S, Gaensbauer J, Messacar K.: AKI In Suspected Meningitis/Encephalitis May Be “Avoidable Kidney Injury” Hosp. Pediatr 11(8): e167-e169, Aug 2021.

d5 Press C, Milbrandt J.: Nmnat delays axonal degeneration caused by mitochondrial and oxidative stress. J. Neurosci 28(19): 4861-71, May 2008.

d9 Press C, Milbrandt J.: The purine nucleosides adenosine and guanosine delay axonal degeneration in vitro. J Neurochem 109(2): 595-602, Apr 2009.

25b Messacar, Kevin, Spence-Davizon, Emily, Osborne, Christina, Press, Craig, Schreiner, Teri L, Martin, Jan, Messer, Ricka, Maloney, John, Burakoff, Alexis, Barnes, Meghan, Rogers, Shannon, Lopez, Adriana S Routh, Janell Gerber, Susan I Oberste, M Steven, Nix, W Allan,Abzug, Mark J, Tyler, Kenneth L Herlihy, Rachel Dominguez, Samuel R: Clinical characteristics of enterovirus A71 neurological disease during an outbreak in children in Colorado, USA, in 2018: an observational cohort study. Lancet Infect Dis 20(2): 230-9, Feb 2020.

163 Press CA, Kirschen M, LaRovere K, Risen S, Guilliams KP, Chung M, Griffith J, Erklauer J, Peariso K, Ducharme-Crevier L, Shah SS, Hall M, Wainwright MS: Variation in Treatment and Outcomes of Children With Acute Disseminated Encephalomyelitis. Hosp Pediatr. 10(2): 159-65, Feb 2020.

23c O'Brien, N. F., Reuter-Rice, K., Wainwright, M. S., Kaplan, S. L., Appavu, B., Erklauer, J. C., Ghosh, S., Kirschen, M., Kozak, B., Lidsky, K., Lovett, M. E., Mehollin-Ray, A. R., Miles, D. K., Press, C. A., Simon, D. W., Tasker, R. C., LaRovere, K. L.: Practice Recommendations for Transcranial Doppler Ultrasonography in Critically Ill Children in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit: A Multidisciplinary Expert Consensus Statement. J Pediatr Intensive Care 10(2): 133-142, Jun 2021.

21c Koh, S., Wirrell, E., Vezzani, A., Nabbout, R., Muscal, E., Kaliakatsos, M., Wickstrom, R., Riviello, J. J., Brunklaus, A., Payne, E., Valentin, A., Wells, E., Carpenter, J. L., Lee, K., Lai, Y. C., Eschbach, K., Press, C. A., Gorman, M., Stredny, C. M., Roche, W., Mangum, T.: Proposal to optimize evaluation and treatment of Febrile infection-related epilepsy syndrome (FIRES): A Report from FIRES workshop. Epilepsia Open 6(1): 62-72, Jan 2021.

216 Keene, Jennifer C., Morgan, Lindsey A., Abend, Nicholas S., Bates, Sara V., Bauer Huang, Sarah L., Chang, Taeun, Chu, Catherine J., Glass, Hannah C., Massey, Shavonne L., Ostrander, Betsy, Pardo, Andrea C., Press, Craig A., Soul, Janet S., Shellhaas, Renée A., Thomas, Cameron, Natarajan, Niranjana: Treatment of Neonatal Seizures: Comparison of Treatment Pathways From 11 Neonatal Intensive Care Units. Pediatric Neurology 128: 67-74, Mar 2021.

14d Francoeur, C., Weiss, M. J., Macdonald, J. M., Press, C., Greer, D. M., Berg, R. A., Topjian, A. A., Morrison, W., Kirschen, M. P.: Variability in Pediatric Brain Death Determination Protocols in the United States. Neurology 97(3): e310-e319, Jul 2021.

11e Press, C. A., Lindsay, A., Stence, N. V., Fenton, L. Z., Bernard, T. J., Mirsky, D. M.: Cavernous Sinus Thrombosis in Children: Imaging Characteristics and Clinical Outcomes. Stroke 46(9): 2657-60, Sept 2015.

21f Williams, C. N., Hall, T. A., Francoeur, C., Kurz, J., Rasmussen, L., Hartman, M. E., O'Meara A, I., Ferguson, N. M., Fink, E. L., Walker, T., Drury, K., Carpenter, J. L., Erklauer, J., Press, C., Wainwright, M. S., Lovett, M., Dapul, H., Murphy, S., Risen, S., Guerriero, R. M., Woodruff, A., Guilliams, K. P.: Continuing Care For Critically Ill Children Beyond Hospital Discharge: Current State of Follow-up. Hosp Pediatr 12(4): 359-393, Apr 2022.

1ab Benedetti, G. M., Morgan, L. A., Sansevere, A. J., Harrar, D. B., Guerriero, R. M., Wainwright, M. S., LaRovere, K. L., Kielian, A., Ganesan, S. L., Press, C. A., Pediatric Quantitative, E. E. G. Strategic Taskforce: The Spectrum of Quantitative EEG Utilization Across North America: A Cross-Sectional Survey. Pediatr Neurol 141: 1-8, Jan 2023.

153 Caffarelli M, Karukonda V, Aghaeeaval M, McQuillen PS, Numis AL, Mackay MT, Press CA, Wintermark M, Fox CK, Amorim E; SIPS Investigators.: A quantitative EEG index for the recognition of arterial ischemic stroke in children. Clin Neurophysiol 156: 113-124, Dec 2023.

229 Mazzio EL, Topjian AA, Reeder RW, Sutton RM, Morgan RW, Berg RA, Nadkarni VM, Wolfe HA, Graham K, Naim MY, Friess SH, Abend NS, Press CA; ICU-RESUS Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health; Human Development Collaborative Pediatric Critical Care Research Network Investigator Groups.: Association of EEG characteristics with outcomes following pediatric ICU cardiac arrest: A secondary analysis of the ICU-RESUScitation trial. Resuscitation 201: 110271, Jun 2024.

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