Selected Publications

Dawn Deike, DO; Pamela McDonnell, MD, FAES; Coralee Del Valle Mojica, MD, MPH; Monica Lu, MD; Kate E Wallis, MD, MPH; Cassie Kline, MD, MAS; Stephanie Menko, MD; Priscilla Ortiz, PhD; Gabriela Jenicek, Katie McPeak, MD: “Providing Language Access Training at CHOP to the Department of Pediatrics" CHOP Health Equity Week April 2025.

Varnet M, Armstong D, Goodspeed, K, Lusk L, and Mcdonnell, P.: “Prevalence of Behavior Concerns in SLC6A1 Neurodevelopmental Disorder: Thinking Beyond Seizure Management in Developmental Epileptic Encephalopathies” American Academy of Neurology, San Diego, CA April 2025.

Scala M, Bradley CA, Howe JL, Trost B, Salazar NB, Shum C, Reuter MS, MacDonald JR, Ko SY, Frankland PW, Granger L, Anadiotis G, Pullano V, Brusco A, Keller R, Parisotto S, Pedro HF, Lusk L, McDonnell PP, Helbig I, Mullegama SV; Undiagnosed Diseases Network; Douine ED, Russell BE, Nelson SF, Zara F, Scherer SW.: Genetic variants in DDX53 contribute to autism spectrum disorder associated with the Xp22.11 locus. Am J Hum Genet January 2025.

McDonnell, PP; Ortiz, Y; Abend, NS; Kaufman, MC; Xian, J; Gonzalez, AK; Molisani, S; Helbig, I.: "A simple intervention improves access to telemedicine for Spanish-speaking families in an outpatient pediatric epilepsy clinic." Journal of Child Neurology 2025 Notes: accepted.

Michael E. Baumgartner, PhD, Elias Atallah, MD, Kathleen Galligan, PA-C, Pamela McDonnell, MD, and Benjamin C. Kennedy, MD: Endoscopic trans-ventricular "inside-out" corpus callosotomy: illustrative case. Journal of Neurosurgery: Case Lessons 8(9): 24160, August 2024.

J. Hart, MD; M. Blackstone, MD; V. Scheid, MD; T. Kaur, MD; S. Haas, MD; P. Mcdonnell, MD: L. Fried, MD; J. Burns, MD; K. Murphy, D: Emergency Department and Inpatient Clinical Pathway for Evaluation/Treatment of Children with Febrile Seizures Without Neurologic Disease. Clinical Pathways July 2024 Notes: https://www.chop.edu/clinical-pathway/febrile-seizures-without-known-seizure-disorder-emergency-and-inpatient-clinical-pathway.

Maimuna S. Paul, Sydney L. Michener, Hongling Pan, Hiuling Chan, Jessica M. Pfliger, Jill A. Rosenfeld, Vanesa C. Lerma, Alyssa Tran, Megan A. Longley, Richard A. Lewis, Monika Weisz-Hubshman, Mir Reza Bekheirnia, Nasim Bekheirnia, Lauren Massingham, Michael Zeck, Matias Wagner, Hartmut Engels, Kirsten Cremer, Elisabeth Mangold, Sophia Peters, Jessica Trautmann, Jessica L. Mester, Maria J. Guillen Sacoto,Richard Person, Pamela P. McDonnell, Stacey R. Cohen, Laina Lusk, Ana S.A. Cohen,Jean-Baptiste Le Pichon, Tomi Pastinen, Dihong Zhou, Kendra Engleman, Caroline Racine, Laurence Faivre, Sebastien Moutton, Anne-Sophie Denomme-Pichon, Hyun Yong Koh, Annapurna Poduri, Jeffrey Bolton, Cordula Knopp, Dong Sun Julia Suh, Andrea Maier, Mehran Beiraghi Toosi, Ehsan Ghayoor Karimiani, Reza Maroofian, Gerald Bradley Schaefer, Vijayalakshmi Ramakumaran, Pradeep Vasudevan, Chitra Prasad, Matthew Osmond, Sarah Schuhmann, Georgia Vasileiou, Sophie Russ-Hall, Ingrid E. Scheffer, Gemma L. Carvill, Heather Mefford, Undiagnosed Diseases Network, Carlos A. Bacino, Brendan H. Lee, and Hsiao-Tuan Chao : A syndromic neurodevelopmental disorder caused by rare variants in PPFIA3. The American Journal of Human Genetics 111(1): 96-118, January 2024.

Bianca C. Kapoor-Heaphy, Pamela Pojomovsky McDonnell, Yessenia Ortiz, Sara Molisani, Mark Ramos, Michael C. Kaufman, Mark Fitzgerald, Alexander K. Gonzalez, Nicholas S. Abend, and Ingo Helbig.: Building upon a single intervention in a Spanish-speaking population to enhance access to telemedicine in pediatric epilepsy. American Epilepsy Society, Orlando, FL December 2023 Notes: Oral Presentation.

Christina L. Szperka MD, MSCE, Stephanie Witzman BA, Svetlana Ostapenko MS, John T. Farrar MD, MSCE, PhD, Jesse Yenchih Hsu PhD, Carrie P. Malavolta MSN, MBE, Janille D. Bunney CCRP, Erin M. Bange MD, MSCE, Carlyn Patterson Gentile MD, PhD, Gerardo Velasquez BS, Blanca Marquez de Prado PhD, Mahgenn Cosico BS, Meyeon Lee MD, Pamela Pojomovsky McDonnell MD, Marisa S. Prelack MD, Madeline Chadehumbe MD, Donna J. Stephenson MD, Elizabeth Kichula MD, Scott C. Tomaine DO, Andrew D. Hershey MD PhD.: Patient headache questionnaires can improve headache diagnosis and treatment in children. Headache: The Journal of Head and Face Pain 63(10): 1359-1371, December 2023.

Molisani, Sara; Parikh, Darshana; DiGiovine, Marissa; Dlugos, Dennis; Fitzgerald, Mark; Fried, Lawrence; Helbig, Ingo; Kessler, Sudha; McDonnell, Pamela; Melamed, Susan; Prelack, Marisa; Sharif, Uzma; Tefft, Sarah; Tencer, Jaclyn; Witzman, Stephanie; Shaw, Kathy; Abend, Nicholas: A quality improvement initiative to improve folic acid supplementation counseling for adolescent females with epilepsy. Epilepsia 64(10): 2818-2826, October 2023.