Analyzing 2,589 child neurology telehealth encounters necessitated by the COVID-19 pandemic
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- Received April 30, 2020
- Accepted in final form May 22, 2020
- First Published June 9, 2020.
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Author Disclosures
- Salvatore C. Rametta, MD,
- Sara E. Fridinger, MD,
- Alexander K. Gonzalez, MS, MBA,
- Julie Xian,
- Peter D. Galer, MS,
- Michael Kaufman, MS,
- Marisa S. Prelack, MD,
- Uzma Sharif, MD,
- Mark P. Fitzgerald, MD, PhD,
- Susan E. Melamed, CRNP,
- Marissa P. Malcolm, MBA,
- Sudha Kilaru Kessler, MD, MSCE,
- Donna J. Stephenson, MD,
- Brenda L. Banwell, MD,
- Nicholas S. Abend, MD, MSCE and
- Ingo Helbig, MD
- Salvatore C. Rametta, MD,
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- Michael Kaufman, MS,
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- Mark P. Fitzgerald, MD, PhD,
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- Susan E. Melamed, CRNP,
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- Marissa P. Malcolm, MBA,
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1) Atheneum
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- Sudha Kilaru Kessler, MD, MSCE,
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(1) Epilepsy Study Consortium, consultant and board member
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(1) UCB Pharma, (2) Greenwich Biosciences
(1) State of PA Department of Health and Human Services RFA67-39, co-investigator, 2016-2019, (2) Food And Drug Administration, R01 FD006029, co-investigator, 2017-2020.
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- Donna J. Stephenson, MD,
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Archives of Disease in Childhood, Editor for Neurology, 2016-2019
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- Brenda L. Banwell, MD,
Scientific Advisory Board, Biogen-IDEC, Sanofi, Eli Lilly, Novartis, UCB, Roche.
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I serve on the Editorial Board for Neurology. I receive no financial remuneration.
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I have served as a consultant to Novartis, Roche and UCB.
I have spoken at an event supported by the Consortium of MS Centers, the Corpus, and Medscape
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Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada Multiple Sclerosis Scientific Research Foundation National Multiple Sclerosis Society
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- Nicholas S. Abend, MD, MSCE and
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Epilepsia, Editorial Board Member, 2013-2019 Seizure, Editorial Board Member, 2012-present Journal of Clinical Neurophysiology, Editorial Board Member 2020- present
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Pediatric Neurocritical Care, Demos.
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NIH (NINDS), K02 2016-2020 PCORI 2018-2020
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Legal consulting for plaintiff and defense. Exact cases/firms are confidential. All unrelated to this topic.
- Ingo Helbig, MD
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Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
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- From the Division of Neurology (S.C.R., S.E.F., A.K.G., J.X., P.D.G., M.K., M.S.P., U.S., M.P.F., S.E.M., M.P.M., S.K.K., D.J.S.., B.L.B., N.S.A., I.H.), Department of Biomedical and Health Informatics (A.K.G., J.X., P.D.G., M.K., I.H.), and The Epilepsy NeuroGenetics Initiative (A.K.G., J.X., P.D.G., M.K., M.P.F., S.K.K., N.S.A., I.H.), Children's Hospital of Philadelphia; and Departments of Neurology and Pediatrics (S.C.R., S.E.F., M.S.P., M.P.F., S.K.K., N.S.A., I.H.), Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Informatics (N.S.A.), and Department of Anesthesia & Critical Care (N.S.A.), University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia.
- Correspondence
Dr. Helbig helbigi{at}email.chop.edu
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