Avantika Singh, MD

Assistant Professor

Locations

Children's Wisconsin

Education

Clinical Fellow, Epilepsy, Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 2021–2022
Resident Physician, Pediatric Neurology, Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 2018–2021
Resident Physician, Pediatrics, Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, 2016–2018
Post-doctoral Clinical Research Fellow, Neonatal Neurology, Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 2014-2016
Bachelor of Medicine & Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS), Vardhman Mahavir Medical College & Safdarjung Hospital, New Delhi, India, 2014

Research Areas of Interest

Channelopathies
Drug Resistant Epilepsy
Epilepsies, Myoclonic
Epilepsies, Partial
Epilepsy
Epilepsy, Absence
Epilepsy, Benign Neonatal
Epilepsy, Generalized
Epilepsy, Rolandic
Epileptic Syndromes
Genetic Testing
Hypoxia-Ischemia, Brain

Clinical Expertise

Anticonvulsants
Drug Resistant Epilepsy
Seizures
Spasms, Infantile

Timing the clinical onset of epileptic spasms in infantile epileptic spasms syndrome: A tertiary health center's experience.

(Hadjinicolaou A, Briscoe Abath C, Singh A, Donatelli S, Salussolia CL, Cohen AL, He J, Gupta N, Merchant S, Zhang B, Olson H, Yuskaitis CJ, Libenson MH, Harini C.) Epilepsia. 2024 Apr;65(4):984-994 PMID: 38317356 PMCID: PMC11018499 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85184170051 02/06/2024
Initial combination versus early sequential standard therapies for Infantile Epileptic Spasms Syndrome-Feedback from stakeholders.

(Ramani PK, Briscoe Abath C, Donatelli S, Hadjinicolaou A, Vega Toro S, Acevedo K, Astorga KR, Parbhoo K, Singh A, Catenaccio E, Jain P, Sahu JK, Samanta D, Harini C.) Epilepsia Open. 2024 Apr;9(2):819-822 PMID: 38217384 PMCID: PMC10984285 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85182209367 01/13/2024
Practical Approach to Electroencephalography 2nd Edition, chapter on epilepsy surgery

(.) . 03/26/2024
Delays to care in infantile epileptic spasms syndrome: Racial and ethnic inequities.

(Abath CB, Gupta N, Hadjinicolaou A, Donatelli S, Singh A, Merchant S, Ryan ME, Soby M, Ryan C, Nelson AK, Maldonado Pacheco JE, Zhang B, Williams DN, Yuskaitis CJ, Harini C.) Epilepsia. 2024 Jan;65(1):107-114 PMID: 37953072 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85178962518 11/13/2023
Hospital readmissions in children with new-onset infantile epileptic spasms syndrome.

(Harini C, Yuskaitis CJ, Singh A, McHugh T, Liu S, DeLeo M, Gupta N, Marti C, Zhang B, Libenson MH, Berry JG.) Epilepsia Open. 2023 Jun;8(2):444-455 PMID: 36790214 PMCID: PMC10235577 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85151994726 02/16/2023
Variability in neurosurgical management and associated comorbidities and complications among preterm patients with posthemorrhagic hydrocephalus in the United States.

(Cabacungan E, Adams S, Best B, Foy AB, Singh A, Cohen SS.) J Neurosurg Pediatr. 2023 Mar 10:1-8 PMID: 36905669 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85164475559 03/12/2023
Atonic-BECTS: An unusual presentation of self-limited epilepsy in childhood

(Sampat V, Singh A, Patel H.) Annals of the Child Neurology Society. 10/26/2023
Treatment-Resistant Epilepsy and Tuberous Sclerosis Complex: Treatment, Maintenance, and Future Directions.

(Singh A, Hadjinicolaou A, Peters JM, Salussolia CL.) Neuropsychiatr Dis Treat. 2023;19:733-748 PMID: 37041855 PMCID: PMC10083014 04/13/2023
A Pilot Randomized, Controlled, Double-Blind Trial of Bumetanide to Treat Neonatal Seizures.

(Soul JS, Bergin AM, Stopp C, Hayes B, Singh A, Fortuno CR, O'Reilly D, Krishnamoorthy K, Jensen FE, Rofeberg V, Dong M, Vinks AA, Wypij D, Staley KJ, Boston Bumetanide Trial Group.) Ann Neurol. 2021 Feb;89(2):327-340 PMID: 33201535 PMCID: PMC8122513 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85097006616 11/18/2020
Asymptomatic Transmission During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic and Implications for Public Health Strategies.

(Huff HV, Singh A.) Clin Infect Dis. 2020 Dec 17;71(10):2752-2756 PMID: 32463076 PMCID: PMC7314132 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85100021976 05/29/2020
Pharmacotherapy for Pediatric Convulsive Status Epilepticus.

(Singh A, Stredny CM, Loddenkemper T.) CNS Drugs. 2020 Jan;34(1):47-63 PMID: 31879852 PMCID: PMC6982635 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85077384955 12/28/2019
Road to USMLE Step 2 CS

(Singh H, Deshwal H, Sinha A, Singh A, Agarwal K, Lobo J.) . 01/12/2016