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Jennifer Mary Avallone, DO

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Medical Director, King of Prussia Hospital Neurology, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (Division of Neurology)
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69 New York College of Osteopathic Medicine of the New York Institute of Technology, 2007.
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24 d5 Post-Baccalaureate Intramural Research Award Fellowship Program, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID), NIH, Section on Bacterial Toxins and Therapeutic Section, 2001-2002.
24 56 Neuroscience Fellow, Academic Medicine Fellowship, NYCOM, 2005-2006.
24 4d Pediatrics Residency, New Jersey Medical School, 2007-2009.
24 53 Child Neurology Residency, Boston Children's Hospital, 2009-2012.
24 82 Clinical Neurophysiology Fellowship, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center/Boston Children's Hospital, 2012-2013.
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28 71 American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology with Special Qualification in Child Neurology, 2013.
28 5e American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology - Clinical Neurophysiology, 2015.
28 4e American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology - Epilepsy, 2016.
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Description of Clinical Expertise

45 Emergency Department Clinical Pathway for Management
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Description of Other Expertise

4e Emergency Department, Inpatient and PICU Clinical Pathway for
50 Diagnosis and Treatment of Infants < 1 yr with Suspected Infant Botulism
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Selected Publications

fb Cuffel, K, Schweiger, C, Avallone, J.: Myoclonic Seizures in a Coronavirus (COVID-19) Positive Infant. 13th International Epilepsy Colloquium May 2021 Notes: Poster Presentation.

94 Avallone J and Bhatt, A.: Spinal Cord Infarctions in Children: A Case Series. Child Neurology 76 Society/International Child Neurology Association Meeting October 2020 Notes: Poster Presentation.

8f Kasischke, K, Morgan, B, Cuffel, K, Avallone, J, and Geller, T.: Neonatal Neonatal Bilirubin 5c Encephalopathy as a Complication of Skin, Eye and Mouth Disease (SEM). Child Neurology 76 Society/International Child Neurology Association Meeting October 2020 Notes: Poster Presentation.

90 Kossoff, EH, Turner, Z, Adams, J, Bessone, SK, Avallone J, McDonald, TJW, Diaz-Arias, L, Barron, BJ, 69 Vizthum, D, Cervenka, MC: Ketogenic diet therapy provision in the COVID-19 pandemic: Dual-center 79 experience and recommendations. Epilepsy and Behavior Page: 111, October 2020 Notes: Case Report

d8 Avallone, J.: The New Normal: Making Telehealth Work for You. https://www.epilepsyadvocate.com/blog/new-normal-making-telehealth-work-you 2020.

f2 Avallone, J: Eyes On Epilepsy: What Parents Need to Know Tampa Bay Parenting. https://www.tampabayparenting.com/article/eyes-on-epilepsy-what-parents-need-to-know/ 2020.

96 Sansevere AJ, Avallone J, Strauss LD, Patel AA, Pinto A, Ramachandran M, Fernandez IS, Bergin AM, Kimia A, 100 Pearl PL, Loddenkemper T.: Diagnostic and Therapeutic Management of a First Unprovoked Seizure in Children and Adolescents With a Focus on the Revised Diagnostic Criteria for Epilepsy. J Child Neurol 32(8): 774-788, May 2017.

94 Blackmon K, Bluvstein J, MacAllister WS, Avallone J, Misajon J, Hedlund J, Goldberg R, Bojko A, Mitra N, 73 Giridharan R, Sultan R, Keller, S, Devinsky, O.: Treatment Resistant Epilepsy in Autism Spectrum Disorder: 5c Increased Risk for Females. Autism Res 9(2): 311-320, February 2016.

99 Avallone J, Misajon J, Iyer S, Devinsky O.: Interictal and Ictal Video EEG Findings in Patients with ` 8b Epilepsy and Autism Spectrum Disorders. American Epilepsy Society meeting December 2014 Notes: Poster Presentation.

95 Olson H, Shen Y, Avallone J, Sheidley BR, Pinsky R, Bergin AM, Berry GT, Duffy FH, Eksioglu Y, Harris DJ, 60 Hisama FM, Ho E, Irons M, Jacobsen CM, James P, Kothare S, Khwaja O, Lipton J, Loddenkemper T, 6c Markowitz J, Maski K, Megerian JT, Neilan E, Raffalli PC, Robbins M, Roberts A, Roe E, Rollins C, Sahin M, 64 Sarco D, Schonwald A, Smith SE, Soul J, Stoler JM, Takeoka M, Tan WH, Torres AR, Tsai P, Urion DK, 73 Weissman L, Wolff R, Wu BL, Miller DT, Poduri A: Copy number variation plays an important role in clinical 47 epilepsy. Ann Neurol 75(6): 943-958, June 2014.

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