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Shlomo Shinnar is affiliated with the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the United States and has contributed extensively to the field of medicine, particularly within pediatrics, nephrology, and psychiatry and mental health. Their research primarily spans the subfields of pediatrics, perinatology, child health, nephrology, speech and hearing, and cellular and molecular neuroscience.

The primary focus of Shlomo Shinnar's work includes epilepsy research and treatment, dialysis and renal disease management, pharmacological effects and toxicity studies, neonatal and fetal brain pathology, adolescent and pediatric healthcare, childhood cancer survivors' quality of life, and anesthesia and neurotoxicity research.

Shinnar has published notable papers including:

  • Efficacy of levetiracetam, fosphenytoin, and valproate for established status epilepticus by age group (ESETT): a double-blind, responsive-adaptive, randomised controlled trial, 2020, The Lancet
  • Patterns of benzodiazepine underdosing in the Established Status Epilepticus Treatment Trial, 2021, Epilepsia
  • Developmental trajectories of EEG aperiodic and periodic components in children 2-44 months of age, 2024, Nature Communications
  • Factors Associated With Hospitalization in Children and Adolescents With SARS-CoV-2 Infection, 2021, Clinical Pediatrics
  • A longitudinal examination of parent-reported emotional-behavioral functioning of children with mild to moderate chronic kidney disease, 2020, Pediatric Nephrology

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Shinnar include:

  • Bradley A. Warady
  • Susan L. Furth
  • Arlene C. Gerson
  • Marc B. Lande
  • Stephen R. Hooper

Shlomo Shinnar's work has been published most frequently in the following venues:

  • Pediatric Nephrology
  • UNC Libraries
  • Epilepsia
  • American Journal of Kidney Diseases
  • Neurology

The scope of Shinnar's research has a broad impact on clinical approaches to pediatric and adolescent healthcare issues, integrating insights across neurology, nephrology, and related mental health fields.

Best Publications

  • Epileptic seizures and epilepsy : Definitions proposed by the international league against epilepsy (ILAE) and the international bureau for epilepsy (IBE)

    Ettore Beghi;Anne Berg;Arturo Carpio;Lars Forsgren

  • A Definition and Classification of Status epilepticus--Report of the ILAE Task Force on Classification of Status Epilepticus

    Eugen Trinka;Hannah Cock;Dale Hesdorffer;Andrea O. Rossetti

  • Evidence-Based Guideline: Treatment of Convulsive Status Epilepticus in Children and Adults: Report of the Guideline Committee of the American Epilepsy Society

    Tracy Glauser;Shlomo Shinnar;David Gloss;Brian Alldredge

  • Long-term prognosis of seizures with onset in childhood.

    Matti Sillanpää;Merja Jalava;Olli Kaleva;Shlomo Shinnar

  • Ethosuximide, Valproic Acid, and Lamotrigine in Childhood Absence Epilepsy

    Tracy A. Glauser;Tracy A. Glauser;Avital Cnaan;Shlomo Shinnar;Deborah G. Hirtz

  • The risk of seizure recurrence following a first unprovoked seizure: A quantitative review

    Anne T. Berg;Shlomo Shinnar

  • Optimal clinical management of children receiving the ketogenic diet: Recommendations of the International Ketogenic Diet Study Group

    Eric H. Kossoff;Beth A. Zupec-Kania;Per E. Amark;Karen R. Ballaban-Gil

  • Low morbidity and mortality of status epilepticus in children

    Joseph Maytal;Shlomo Shinnar;Solomon L. Moshé;Luis A. Alvarez

  • Infantile spasms: A U.S. consensus report

    John M. Pellock;Richard Hrachovy;Shlomo Shinnar;Tallie Z. Baram

  • A multicenter study of the efficacy of the ketogenic diet

    Eileen P. G. Vining;John M. Freeman;Karen Ballaban-Gil;Carol S. Camfield

  • Early development of intractable epilepsy in children: a prospective study.

    Anne T. Berg;S. Shinnar;S. R. Levy;F. M. Testa

  • Defining the spectrum of international practice in pediatric epilepsy surgery patients

    A. Simon Harvey;A. Simon Harvey;J. Helen Cross;Shlomo Shinnar;Gary W. Mathern

  • Practice parameter: Evaluating a first nonfebrile seizure in children Report of the Quality Standards Subcommittee of the American Academy of Neurology, the Child Neurology Society, and the American Epilepsy Society

    D. Hirtz;S. Ashwal;A. Berg;David Bettis

  • Complex Febrile Seizures

    Anne T. Berg;Shlomo Shinnar;Shlomo Shinnar

  • Practice Parameter: Medical Treatment of Infantile Spasms Report of the American Academy of Neurology and the Child Neurology Society

    M. T. Mackay;S. K. Weiss;T. Adams-Webber;S. Ashwal

  • The Risk of Seizure Recurrence After a First Unprovoked Afebrile Seizure in Childhood: An Extended Follow-up

    Shlomo Shinnar;Shlomo Shinnar;Anne T. Berg;Solomon L. Moshe;Christine O'Dell

  • Frequency of gastrointestinal symptoms in children with autistic spectrum disorders and association with family history of autoimmune disease.

    Maria Valicenti-McDermott;Kathryn McVicar;Isabelle Rapin;Barry K. Wershil

  • How long does it take for partial epilepsy to become intractable

    A. T. Berg;J. Langfitt;S. Shinnar;B. G. Vickrey

  • Relapse following discontinuation of antiepileptic drugs: A meta‐analysis

    Anne T. Berg;Shlomo Shinnar

  • Long-term mortality in childhood-onset epilepsy.

    Matti Sillanpää;Shlomo Shinnar

Frequent Co-Authors

Anne T. Berg
Anne T. Berg Northwestern University
Solomon L. Moshé
Solomon L. Moshé Albert Einstein College of Medicine
John M. Pellock
John M. Pellock Virginia Commonwealth University
Dale C. Hesdorffer
Dale C. Hesdorffer Columbia University
Douglas R. Nordli
Douglas R. Nordli University of Chicago
Michael R. Sperling
Michael R. Sperling Thomas Jefferson University
John T. Langfitt
John T. Langfitt University of Rochester
Carl W. Bazil
Carl W. Bazil Columbia University
Matti Sillanpää
Matti Sillanpää Turku University Hospital
Susan S. Spencer
Susan S. Spencer Yale University

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