Sean Lew, MD
 Titles
Program director, Neurosurgery Epilepsy, Children's Hospital of Wisconsin; assistant professor, Neurosurgery, Medical College of Wisconsin.
Division
Neurosurgery
Research center/program
Neuroscience research
Research interests
Neuropsychiatric diseases
Study interests
Neurosurgical techniques, pediatric brain tumors, pediatric epilepsy surgery, pediatric spine.
Education
Medical degree, Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland, 1995; residency, University of Vermont College of Medicine, Burlington, 2002; fellowship, Pediatric Neurosurgery, Beth Israel Medical Center-Hyman-Newman Institute of Neurology and Neurosurgery, New York City, 2004.
Certifications
American Board of Pediatric Neurological Surgery, 2007, 2008; National Board of Medical Examiners, 1998; Advanced Trauma Life Support, instructor.
Honors
Best Doctors in America, 2007, 2008.
Representative publications
- Lew SM, Morgan JN, Psaty E, Lefton DR, Allen JC, Abbott R. Cumulative Incidence of Radiation-induced Cavernomas in Long-term Survivors of Medulloblastoma. Journal of Neurosurgery (2 Suppl). 2006; 103-107.
- Lew, SM, Psaty EL, Abbott R. An Unusual Cause of Overdose Following Baclofen Pump Implantation. Neurosurgery. 2005; 56:624.
- Lew SM, Kaufman BA. Neural and Vertebral Column Embryogenesis. Surgery of the Pediatric Spine. Kim, Daniel; Betz, Randall; Huhn, Stephen; Newton, Peter (eds), Thieme Medical Publishers, New York, 2008.
- Miller ML, Kaufman BA, Lew SM. Modified Osteoplastic Orbitozygomatic Craniotomy in the Pediatric Population. Child Nervous System. (in press).
- Lew SM, Kothbauer KF. Tethered Cord Syndrome: An Updated Review. Pediatric Neurosurgery. 2007; 43:236-248.
Contact
Children's Research Institute
8701 Watertown Plank Road
MS C310
Wauwatosa, WI 53226
Phone: (414) 266-6435
Fax: (414) 955-0131
E-mail: slew@mcw.edu
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