Sean M. Lew, MD

Mardak Vanderburg Chair in Neurosurgery, Professor & Chief of Pediatric Neurosurgery; Co-Director, Epilepsy Surgery Program, Children’s Wisconsin; Director, Residency Program

Locations

Neurosciences - Children's Wisconsin
9000 W. Wisconsin Ave.
Milwaukee, WI 53226

Neenah Clinic - Children's Wisconsin
130 Second Street
Neenah, WI 54956

Contact Information

(414) 266-6435

Education

Fellowship, Pediatric Neurosurgery, Beth Israel Medical Center-Hyman-Newman Institute for Neurology & Neurosurgery, New York, NY, 2003-2004
Residency, Neurological Surgery, University of Vermont–Burlington, 1996-2002
Internship, Surgery, University of Vermont–Burlington, 1995-1996
MD, Oregon Health Sciences University School of Medicine, Portland, 1995

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Biography

Dr. Lew has subspecialty training in pediatric neurosurgery and is board certified in both neurosurgery and pediatric neurosurgery. He has particular interest and experience in the surgical treatment of pediatric epilepsy, pediatric brain tumors, moyamoya disease and craniocervical anomalies.

He is active in clinical research with an emphasis on pediatric epilepsy, pediatric cervical spine surgery, general pediatric neurosurgery, surgical techniques and outcomes. He has authored numerous peer-reviewed publications and his research has been presented nationally on numerous occasions.

Board Certification

Neurological Surgery
Pediatric Neurological Surgery

Surgical Services

Epilepsy surgery
Pediatric brain tumors
Craniocervical abnormalities
Stereotactic laser ablation for tumor or epilepsy
Moyamoya disease revascularization surgery
General pediatric neurosurgery

Conditions Treated

Abnormalities of the Craniocervical Junction and Cervical Spine
Brain Trauma
Brain Tumors
Spine and Spinal Cord Tumors
Spine Trauma
Vascular Diseases
Pediatric Epilepsy (surgical treatment)

Clinical Programs

Locations

Children’s Wisconsin-Milwaukee Campus
Children’s Wisconsin-Neenah/Fox Valley

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Honors and Awards

Best Doctors in America, 2007-present

Research Interests

Pediatric epilepsy
Pediatric cervical spine surgery
General pediatric neurosurgery
Surgical techniques and outcomes

Chiari Malformation Type 1 and Syringomyelia in a Patient With Prior Surgically-Treated Sagittal Synostosis Effectively Treated With Posterior Cranial Vault Distraction Osteogenesis.

(Feller CN, Jensen JN, Lew SM.) J Craniofac Surg. 2021 Jan 05;Publish Ahead of Print PMID: 33405455 01/07/2021
Vacuum-assisted elevation of pediatric ping-pong skull fractures: a case series and technical note.

(Arocho-Quinones EV, Lew SM, Foy AB.) J Neurosurg Pediatr. 2020 Dec 25:1-10 PMID: 33361480 12/29/2020
Multiple hippocampal transections for refractory pediatric mesial temporal lobe epilepsy: seizure and neuropsychological outcomes.

(Marashly A, Koop J, Loman M, Kim I, Maheshwari M, Lew SM.) J Neurosurg Pediatr. 2020 Jun 26:1-10 PMID: 32590352 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85092215565 06/27/2020
Low risk of clinically important central nervous system dysraphism in a cohort study of 69 patients with isolated aplasia cutis congenita of the head.

(Kuemmet TJ, Miller JJ, Michalik D, Lew SM, Maheshwari M, Humphrey SR.) Pediatr Dermatol. 2020 May;37(3):455-460 PMID: 32053222 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85079465106 02/14/2020
Magnetic resonance-guided stereotactic laser ablation therapy for the treatment of pediatric brain tumors: a multiinstitutional retrospective study.

(Arocho-Quinones EV, Lew SM, Handler MH, Tovar-Spinoza Z, Smyth M, Bollo R, Donahue D, Perry MS, Levy ML, Gonda D, Mangano FT, Storm PB, Price AV, Couture DE, Oluigbo C, Duhaime AC, Barnett GH, Muh CR, Sather MD, Fallah A, Wang AC, Bhatia S, Patel K, Tarima S, Graber S, Huckins S, Hafez DM, Rumalla K, Bailey L, Shandley S, Roach A, Alexander E, Jenkins W, Tsering D, Price G, Meola A, Evanoff W, Thompson EM, Brandmeir N, Pediatric Stereotactic Laser Ablation Workgroup.) J Neurosurg Pediatr. 2020 Mar 27:1-9 PMID: 32217793 PMCID: PMC7885863 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85087970947 03/29/2020
Intracranial Extraskeletal Mesenchymal Chondrosarcoma: Case Report and Review of the Literature of Reported Cases in Adults and Children.

(Shabani S, Kaushal M, Kaufman B, Knipstein J, Lawlor MW, Lew S, Foy A.) World Neurosurg. 2019 Sep;129:302-310 PMID: 31158544 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85068562842 06/04/2019
Improvement of Hypothalamic Hamartoma-Related Psychiatric Disorder After Stereotactic Laser Ablation: Case Report and Review of Literature.

(Arocho-Quinones EV, Koop J, Lew SM.) World Neurosurg. 2019 Feb;122:680-683 PMID: 30481631 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85059237124 11/28/2018
Examining the Utility of Resective Epilepsy Surgery in Children With Electrical Status Epilepticus in Sleep: Long Term Clinical and Electrophysiological Outcomes.

(Marashly A, Koop J, Loman M, Lee YW, Lew SM.) Front Neurol. 2019;10:1397 PMID: 32010050 PMCID: PMC6974623 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85078806901 02/06/2020
Stereotactic laser ablation for nonlesional cingulate epilepsy: case report.

(Marashly A, Loman MM, Lew SM.) J Neurosurg Pediatr. 2018 Nov 01;22(5):481-488 PMID: 30074447 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85056752149 08/04/2018
Spheno-Orbital Aneurysmal Bone Cyst in a 10-Month-Old Infant.

(Arocho-Quinones EV, Self S, Suchi M, Zwagerman NT, Lew SM.) World Neurosurg. 2018 Sep;117:371-376 PMID: 30157596 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85050132264 08/31/2018
Complications following pediatric cranioplasty after decompressive craniectomy: a multicenter retrospective study.

(Rocque BG, Agee BS, Thompson EM, Piedra M, Baird LC, Selden NR, Greene S, Deibert CP, Hankinson TC, Lew SM, Iskandar BJ, Bragg TM, Frim D, Grant G, Gupta N, Auguste KI, Nikas DC, Vassilyadi M, Muh CR, Wetjen NM, Lam SK.) J Neurosurg Pediatr. 2018 09;22(3):225-232 PMID: 29882736 06/09/2018
Growth and alignment of the pediatric subaxial cervical spine following rigid instrumentation and fusion: a multicenter study of the Pediatric Craniocervical Society.

(Goldstein HE, Neira JA, Banu M, Aldana PR, Braga BP, Brockmeyer DL, DiLuna ML, Fulkerson DH, Hankinson TC, Jea AH, Lew SM, Limbrick DD, Martin J, Pahys JM, Rodriguez LF, Rozzelle CJ, Tuite GF, Wetjen NM, Anderson RCE.) J Neurosurg Pediatr. 2018 07;22(1):81-88 PMID: 29676682 04/21/2018

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