Medical College of Wisconsin
CTSICores SearchResearch InformaticsREDCap

CURRICULUM VITAE

Avantika Singh MBBS
Assistant Professor
Department of Neurology
Division of Pediatric Neurology

OFFICE ADDRESS:
Children’s Wisconsin - Milwaukee Hospital
8915 W Connell Court
Milwaukee, WI 53226

EDUCATION:
08/01/2008 - 03/31/2014 MBBS, Vardhman Mahavir Medical College and Safdarjung Hospital, New Delhi, India

POSTGRADUATE TRAINING AND FELLOWSHIP APPOINTMENTS:
07/01/2014 - 06/30/2016 Post-doctoral Clinical Research Fellow, Neonatal Neurology Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
07/01/2016 - 06/30/2018 Resident Physician, Pediatric Neurology, Children's Hospital Wisconsin, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
07/01/2018 - 06/30/2021 Resident Physician, Pediatric Neurology, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
07/2021 - 06/2022 Division of Epilepsy Clinical Neurophysiology, Epilepsy fellow

FACULTY APPOINTMENTS:
07/2022 - Present Assistant Professor, The Medical College of Wisconsin, WI, Division of Child Neurology Department of Neurology, Milwaukee

HOSPITAL STAFF PRIVILEGES:
Children's Hospital, Milwaukee
St. Vincent
Thedacare
Children's Hospital, Fox Valley

SPECIALTY BOARDS AND CERTIFICATION:
Board Certified
Issue DateExpiration
ABPN Child Neurology
09/2021
03/2023
Epilepsy
10/2022
03/2023
   
Licensure
Number Issue DateExpiration
Wisconsin License
68300-20
11/09/2017
10/31/2023
    

AWARDS AND HONORS:
08/2011 - Present To assess the factors associated with low birth weight Won Gold Medal
01/2012 - Present Can we predict & prevent low birth weight Won Gold Medal in E-poster category
09/2012 - Present Oral Presentation, How to predict & prevent low birth weight Won Gold Metal
04/2013 - Present Won first place in oral session on Pediatrics.

MEMBERSHIPS IN HONORARY AND PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES:
02/2006 - 02/2007 President Students' Council 2006-07 (Biria Vidya Niketan (BVN))
01/2011 - 08/2011 Joint Organizing Secretary (MEDSICON 2011)
01/2011 - 08/2012 Organizing Committee Member (KARMIC 2012)
08/2011 - 08/2012 Joint Organizing Secretary MEDSION 2012 (New Delhi)
12/2011 - 08/2012 State Chairperson IMSA
01/2012 - 07/2014 Founder, I-MediSTAR ® and its bodies (I-MediServe (I-MediQuest))
01/2012 - 04/2012 Organizing Secretary, Innovation in Medical Science, Technology & Research (I-MediSTAR) Workshop (New Delhi)
08/2012 - 04/2013 National Joint Secretary (IMSA)
08/2012 - 08/2013 Organizing Secretary (Medical Student's International Conference (MEDSICON 2013) New Delhi)
04/2013 - 05/2014 Officer of External Affairs (Indian Medical Students Association (IMSA))
08/2013 - 07/2014 Student Editorial Board Coordinator (Journal of Young Medical Researchers (JYMR))
06/2015 - 07/2016 Member, Public Affairs Committee (BCH-PDA (Post-Doctoral Association of Boston Children's Hospital))
06/2017 - 07/2018 Committee member (Education and Quality Improvement Program (EQuIP) at Children's Hospital of Wisconsin)
09/2018 - 06/2022 Member, Housestaff Council for Patient Safety and Quality Improvement (HCPSQI) (subcommittee of the Graduate Medical Education Committee at Boston Children's Hospital.)
07/2019 - 06/2022 Neuroanatomy Instructor (Harvard Medical School)
2020 - Present American Academy of Neurology
2021 - Present Child Neurology Society
2021 - Present American Epilepsy Society
2021 - Present American Clinical Neurophysiology Society

LOCAL/REGIONAL APPOINTED LEADERSHIP AND COMMITTEE POSITIONS:
NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL ELECTED/APPOINTED LEADERSHIP AND COMMITTEE POSITIONS:

PEER REVIEWED WORKSHOPS/PRESENTATIONS:
National
Neurology Society Platform Presentation (Cincinnati, 2022)
Avantika Singh, Tauen Chang Outstanding Junior Member Post Graduate Award, Child
 

MEDICAL COLLEGE TEACHING ACTIVITIES:
Resident and Fellow Education
01/2023 - Present Lecture on Neonatal Seizures for Neonatology Fellows
 

MCW STUDENTS, FACULTY, RESIDENTS AND CLINICAL/RESEARCH FELLOWS MENTORED:
Medical Students
Hope Reecher, MCW, 01/2023 - Present Capacity (Research/teaching/clinical/mentor
 
Residents
Isabella Eilee, MCW, 02/2022 - Present Capacity (Research/teaching/clinical mentor)
Varun Sampat, MCW, 01/2023 - Present Capacity (Research/teaching/clinical/ mentor)
Jennifer Meylor, MCW, 01/2023 - Present Capacity (Research/teaching/clinical mentor)
 

EXTRAMURAL STUDENTS, FACULTY, RESIDENTS, AND CLINICAL/RESEARCH FELLOWS MENTORED:
Residents
Fellows
 

PROGRAMMATIC DEVELOPMENTS:
 
 
Clinical Programs
1 - Present Mark Libenson, Avantika Singh, Aris Hadjinicolaou. Practical approach to Electroencephalography, 2nd edition, 2023. Chapter on Epilepsy Surgery
1 - Present Erwin Cabacungan, Samuel Adams, Benjamin Best, Andrew B. Foy, Avantika Singh, Susan S. Cohen. Variability in neurosurgical management and associated comorbidities and complications among preterm patie
1 - Present Avantika Singh, Sabrina Merchant, Christina Briscoe Abath, Aristides Hadjinicolaou, Alexandra Santana Almansa, Catherine Salussolia, Nishtha Gupta, Christopher Yuskaitis, Jeffrey Bolton, Chellamani Ha
2 - Present Chellamani Harini, Christopher J. Yuskaitis, Avantika Singh, Trevor McHugh, Shanshan Liu, Michelle DeLeo, Nishta Gupta, Candice Marti, Bo Zhang, Mark Libenson, Jay Berry. Hospital readmissions in chil
2 - Present Christina Briscoe Abath, Avantika Singh, Aristides Hadjinicolaou, Stephanie Donatelli, Christopher Yuskaitis, Chellamani Harini. Racial Inequities for Infantile Spasms: Delineating Disparities in Pres
2 - Present Harpreet Singh; Associate Authors: Himanshu Deshwal, Ankur Sinha, Avantika Singh, Krishna Agarwal, John Lobo. Road to USMLE Step 2 CS. December 2016. ISBN-10: 1506901522.
3 - Present Aristides Hadjinicolaou, Christina Briscoe Abath, Avantika Singh, Stephanie Donatelli, Jie He, Bo Zhang, Heather Olson, Mark Libenson, Christopher Yuskaitis, Chellamani Harini. Challenges of Determina
3 - Present Janet Soul, Ann Bergin, Christian Stopp, Breda Hayes, Avantika Singh, Carmen Fortuno, Deirdre O'Reilly, Kalpathy Krishnamoorthy, Frances Jensen, Min Dong, Alexander Vinks, David Wyjip, Kevin Staley. A
3 - Present Krishna Adit Agarwal, Avantika Singh. Review of Surgery for Students. September 2014. ISBN-10: 8184451679, ISBN-13: 8184451672
4 - Present Hanalise Huff*, Avantika Singh* (*co-First authors). Asymptomatic Transmission During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic and Implications for Public Health Strategies. Clin Infect Dis 2020 Dec 17;7
4 - Present Sara Trowbridge, Lois Condie, Avantika Singh, Jessica Landers, Valerie Rofeberg, David Wypij. Long-term developmental and seizure outcomes in neonates with acute perinatal brain injury. [abstract] 202
5 - Present Avantika Singh, Ann Pinto, Masanori Takeoka. Mortality in Children with Sturge Weber Syndrome. Poster to by presented in American Epilepsy Society meeting, in Dec. 2019.
6 - Present Avantika Singh, Diane Shao, Sara Trowbridge, Jamie Eskuri, Fialkow, Alexandra, Kiran Maski.A Quality Improvement project to increase rate of education about 'Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy' in ou
6 - 2022 present Infantile Spasm
6 - Present Avantika Singh, Coral M. Stredny, Tobias Loddenkemper. Pharmacotherapy for Pediatric Convulsive Status Epilepticus. CNS Drugs. Dec 2019. Doi: 10.1007/s40263-019-00690-8
7 - Present Avantika Singh, Krishna Agarwal. Congenital Constriction Ring Syndrome. Journal of Young Medical Researchers July 2014;1. Doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.7869/jymr.25
7 - Present Avantika Singh, Donald Basel. Surfactant Protein C Deficiency: Case Report and Review of Literature. Poster presented at: Best Practices in Pediatrics and Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Wisconsin Dell
8 - Present Janet Soul, Avantika Singh, Breda Hayes, Carmen Fortuno, Christian Stopp, Deirdre O'Reilly, Alexander Vinks, & Kevin Staley. Bumetanide Pharmacokinetics and Safety in Newborns with Seizures. Poster
8 - Present Avantika Singh, Sugandha Arya, Harish Chellani, K. C. Aggarwal, R. M. Pandey. Prediction Model for low Birth Weight and its Validation. The Indian Journal of Pediatrics. Aug 16 2013. Doi.1007/s12098-
9 - Present Avantika Singh, Sugandha Arya Harish Chellani. Prediction model for low birth weight. Indian Jurnal of Medical Specialties 2013;4(1):MEDICON 2013 Abstracts: 148.
10 - Present Avantika Singh, Sugandha Arya, Harish Chellani, K C Aggarwal. Can we predict and prevent low birth weight? -Factor associated with low birth weight neonates delivered at a tertiary care hospital. Abst
06/2022 - Present DREAM Neonatal Neurology Follow up Program
08/2022 - Present Early Life Epilepsy Program
01/2023 - Present Neonatal Seizures Guidelines
BOOKS, CHAPTERS & REVIEWS
REFEREED JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS/ORIGINAL PAPERS
ABSTRACTS
 
 


BIBLIOGRAPHY
Refereed Journal Publications/Original Papers
1. Singh A, Arya S, Chellani H, Aggarwal KC, Pandey RM. Prediction model for low birth weight and its validation. Indian J Pediatr. 2014 Jan;81(1):24-8.
2. Huff HV, Singh A. Asymptomatic Transmission During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic and Implications for Public Health Strategies. Clin Infect Dis. 2020 Dec 17;71(10):2752-2756. PMCID: PMC7314132
3. Singh A, Stredny CM, Loddenkemper T. Pharmacotherapy for Pediatric Convulsive Status Epilepticus. CNS Drugs. 2020 Jan;34(1):47-63. PMCID: PMC6982635
4. 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. A Pilot Randomized, Controlled, Double-Blind Trial of Bumetanide to Treat Neonatal Seizures. Ann Neurol. 2021 Feb;89(2):327-340. PMCID: PMC8122513
5. Harini C, Yuskaitis CJ, Singh A, McHugh T, Liu S, DeLeo M, Gupta N, Marti C, Zhang B, Libenson MH, Berry JG. Hospital readmissions in children with new-onset infantile epileptic spasms syndrome. Epilepsia Open. 2023 Jun;8(2):444-455. PMCID: PMC10235577
6. Erwin Cabacungan Samuel Adams Benjamin Best Andrew B. Foy Avantika Singh Susan S. Cohen. Variability in neurosurgical management and associated comorbidities and complications among preterm patients with posthemorrhagic hydrocephalus in the United States J Neurosurg Pediatr. .
7. Cabacungan E, Adams S, Best B, Foy AB, Singh A, Cohen SS. Variability in neurosurgical management and associated comorbidities and complications among preterm patients with posthemorrhagic hydrocephalus in the United States. J Neurosurg Pediatr. 2023 Mar 10:1-8.
8. Singh A, Hadjinicolaou A, Peters JM, Salussolia CL. Treatment-Resistant Epilepsy and Tuberous Sclerosis Complex: Treatment, Maintenance, and Future Directions. Neuropsychiatr Dis Treat. 2023;19:733-748. PMCID: PMC10083014
9. Varun Sampat, Avantika Singh, Hema Patel. Atonic-BECTS: An unusual presentation of self-limited epilepsy in childhood Annals of the Child Neurology Society. .
10. Sampat, Varun Singh, Avantika Patel, Hema. Atonic-BECTS: An unusual presentation of self-limited epilepsy in childhood Annals of the Child Neurology Society. .
11. 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. Delays to care in infantile epileptic spasms syndrome: Racial and ethnic inequities. Epilepsia. 2024 Jan;65(1):107-114.
12. 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. Initial combination versus early sequential standard therapies for Infantile Epileptic Spasms Syndrome-Feedback from stakeholders. Epilepsia Open. 2024 Apr;9(2):819-822. PMCID: PMC10984285
13. Hadjinicolaou A Briscoe Abath C Singh A Donatelli S Salussolia Catherine Cohen AL He J Gupta N Merchant S Zhang B Olson H Yuskatis C Libenson M Harini C. Timing the clinical onset of epileptic spasms in infantile epileptic spasms syndrome: a tertiary health center’s experience Epilepsia. .
14. 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. Timing the clinical onset of epileptic spasms in infantile epileptic spasms syndrome: A tertiary health center's experience. Epilepsia. 2024 Apr;65(4):984-994. PMCID: PMC11018499
 
Books, Chapters, and Reviews
1. Krishna Adit Agarwal, Avantika Singh. Review of Surgery for Students . .
2. Harpreet Singh; Associate Authors: Himanshu Deshwal, Ankur Sinha, Avantika Singh, Krishna Agarwal, John Lobo. Road to USMLE Step 2 CS . .