Joseph Sullivan, MD


  1. Sullivan J, Wirrell E, Knupp KG, Chen D, Flamini R, Zafar M, Ventola P, Avendaño J, Wang F, Parkerson KA, Ticho B. Adaptive functioning and neurodevelopment in patients with Dravet syndrome: 12-month interim analysis of the BUTTERFLY observational study. Epilepsy & behavior : E&B 2024. PMID: 38219604


  2. Kim Bishop, Peter Isquith, Kelly Knupp, Joseph Sullivan, Rima Nabbout, Antonio Gil-Nagel, Ingrid Scheffer, Stéphane Auvin, J Helen Cross, Renzo Guerrini, Robert Roth, Gerard Gioia, Amélie Lothe, Shikha Polega. Fenfluramine Treatment Is Associated With Improvement in Everyday Executive Function in Adults With Lennox-Gastaut Syndrome: Post-Hoc Analysis of Dose Effects From a Phase 3 Trial Rationale (P11-1.001). Neurology 2023. PMID:


  3. Kelly G. Knupp, Ingrid E. Scheffer, Berten Ceulemans, Joseph Sullivan, Katherine C. Nickels, Lieven Lagae, Renzo Guerrini, Sameer M. Zuberi, Rima Nabbout, Kate Riney, Shikha Polega, Amélie Lothe, Ronald Davis, Antonio Gil-Nagel. Impact of Fenfluramine on Drop Seizure Frequency in Adults or Dose-Capped Patients With Lennox-Gastaut Syndrome: Comparative Analysis of Clinical Trial Data (S44.002). Neurology 2023. PMID:



  4. Sullivan J, Wirrell E, Knupp KG, Chen D, Zafar M, Flamini R, Stutely J, Brathwaite C, Ventola P, Avenda?o J, Parkerson KA, Wyant N, Ticho B. Interim results of adaptive functioning and neurodevelopment in BUTTERFLY - An observational study of children and adolescents with Dravet syndrome. Epilepsy & behavior : E&B 2022. PMID: 36332561



  5. Knupp KG, Scheffer IE, Ceulemans B, Sullivan JE, Nickels KC, Lagae L, Guerrini R, Zuberi SM, Nabbout R, Riney K, Shore S, Agarwal A, Lock M, Farfel GM, Galer BS, Gammaitoni AR, Davis R, Gil-Nagel A. Efficacy and Safety of Fenfluramine for the Treatment of Seizures Associated With Lennox-Gastaut Syndrome: A Randomized Clinical Trial. 2022. PMID: 35499850


  6. Kim Bishop, Peter Isquith, Gerard Giola, Kelly Knupp, Joseph Sullivan, Rima Nabbout, Gail Farfel, Bradley Galer, Arnold Gammaitoni. Fenfluramine Improves Everyday Executive Functioning in Patients With Lennox-Gastaut Syndrome: Analysis of Phase 3 Data (P12-8.004). Neurology 2022. PMID:


  7. Kelly Knupp, Ingrid Scheffer, Berten Ceulemans, Joseph Sullivan, Katherine Nickels, Lieven Lagae, Renzo Guerrini, Sameer M. Zuberi, Rima Nabbout, Kate Riney, Svetlana Shore, Anupam Agarwal, Michael Lock, Gail Farfel, Bradley Galer, Arnold Gammaitoni, Ronald Davis, Antonio Gil-Nagel. Interim Analysis of Long-Term Safety and Efficacy of FINTEPLA (fenfluramine) in Patients with Lennox-Gastaut Syndrome (S13.010). Neurology 2022. PMID:


  8. K. I. Bishop, P. K. Isquith, G. A. Gioia, K. G. Knupp, I. E. Scheffer, J. Sullivan, R. Nabbout, G. Farfel, B. S. Galer, S. Shore, J. Grünert, A. R. Gammaitoni. Fenfluramine Treatment Improves Everyday Executive Functioning in Patients with Lennox-Gastaut Syndrome: Analysis from a Phase 3 Clinical Trial. 2021. PMID:


  9. T. Polster, A. Gammaitoni, J. Sullivan, S. Perry, E. Wirrell, G. Farfel, B. Galer, R. Nabbout. What Magnitude of Reduction Is a “Clinically Meaningful” Change in Seizure Frequency? Analysis of Long-Term Fenfluramine Phase 3 Dravet Syndrome Data. 2021. PMID:


  10. Chiang S, Moss R, Meskis MA, Vogel-Farley V, Sullivan JE, Patel AD, Rao VR. Impact of intellectual and developmental disability on quality-of-life priorities in adults with epilepsy. Epilepsy & behavior : E&B 2021. PMID: 34509036


  11. Danielle M. Andrade, Anne T. Berg, Veronica Hood, Kelly G. Knupp, Sookyong Koh, Linda Laux, Mary Anne Meskis, Ian Miller, M. Scott Perry, Ingrid E. Scheffer, Joseph Sullivan, Nicole Villas, Elaine Wirrell. Dravet syndrome: a quick transition guide for the adult neurologist. Epilepsy research 2021. PMID:





  12. Joseph Sullivan, Stéphane Auvin, Milka Pringsheim, Kelly Knupp, Elaine Wirrell, Gail Farfel, Bradley Galer, Glenn Morrison, Michael Lock, Arnold Gammaitoni, Elizabeth Thiele. Long-Term (2-Year) Safety and Efficacy of Adjunctive ZX008 (Fenfluramine Hydrochloride Oral Solution) for Dravet Syndrome: Interim Results of an Ongoing Open-Label Extension Study (4684). Neurology 2020. PMID:



  13. Gonzalez-Giraldo E, Sullivan JE. Advances in the Treatment of Drug-Resistant Pediatric Epilepsy. Seminars in neurology 2020. PMID: 32185791


  14. Berg AT, Wusthoff C, Shellhaas RA, Loddenkemper T, Grinspan ZM, Saneto RP, Knupp KG, Patel A, Sullivan JE, Kossoff EH, Chu CJ, Massey S, Valencia I, Keator C, Wirrell EC, Coryell J, Millichap JJ, Gaillard WD. Immediate outcomes in early life epilepsy: A contemporary account. Epilepsy & behavior : E&B 2019. PMID: 31181428


  15. Vlaskamp DRM, Bassett AS, Sullivan JE, Robblee J, Sadleir LG, Scheffer IE, Andrade DM. Schizophrenia is a later-onset feature of PCDH19 Girls Clustering Epilepsy. Epilepsia 2019. PMID: 30828795



  16. Coryell J, Gaillard WD, Shellhaas RA, Grinspan ZM, Wirrell EC, Knupp KG, Wusthoff CJ, Keator C, Sullivan JE, Loddenkemper T, Patel A, Chu CJ, Massey S, Novotny EJ, Saneto RP, Berg AT. Neuroimaging of Early Life Epilepsy. Pediatrics 2018. PMID: 30089657


  17. Grinspan ZM, Shellhaas RA, Coryell J, Sullivan JE, Wirrell EC, Mytinger JR, Gaillard WD, Kossoff EH, Valencia I, Knupp KG, Wusthoff C, Keator C, Ryan N, Loddenkemper T, Chu CJ, Novotny EJ, Millichap J, Berg AT. Comparative Effectiveness of Levetiracetam vs Phenobarbital for Infantile Epilepsy. JAMA pediatrics 2018. PMID: 29435578


  18. Singhal NS, Numis AL, Lee MB, Chang EF, Sullivan JE, Auguste KI, Rao VR. Responsive neurostimulation for treatment of pediatric drug-resistant epilepsy. Epilepsy & behavior case reports 2018. PMID: 30013930


  19. Berg AT, Chakravorty S, Koh S, Grinspan ZM, Shellhaas RA, Saneto RP, Wirrell EC, Coryell J, Chu CJ, Mytinger JR, Gaillard WD, Valencia I, Knupp KG, Loddenkemper T, Sullivan JE, Poduri A, Millichap JJ, Keator C, Wusthoff C, Ryan N, Dobyns WB, Hegde M. Why West? Comparisons of clinical, genetic and molecular features of infants with and without spasms. PloS one 2018. PMID: 29518120


  20. Myers CT, Stong N, Mountier EI, Helbig KL, Freytag S, Sullivan JE, Ben Zeev B, Nissenkorn A, Tzadok M, Heimer G, Shinde DN, Rezazadeh A, Regan BM, Oliver KL, Ernst ME, Lippa NC, Mulhern MS, Ren Z, Poduri A, Andrade DM, Bird LM, Bahlo M, Berkovic SF, Lowenstein DH, Scheffer IE, Sadleir LG, Goldstein DB, Mefford HC, Heinzen EL. De Novo Mutations in PPP3CA Cause Severe Neurodevelopmental Disease with Seizures. American journal of human genetics 2017. PMID: 28942967


  21. Berg AT, Coryell J, Saneto RP, Grinspan ZM, Alexander JJ, Kekis M, Sullivan JE, Wirrell EC, Shellhaas RA, Mytinger JR, Gaillard WD, Kossoff EH, Valencia I, Knupp KG, Wusthoff C, Keator C, Dobyns WB, Ryan N, Loddenkemper T, Chu CJ, Novotny EJ, Koh S. Early-Life Epilepsies and the Emerging Role of Genetic Testing. JAMA pediatrics 2017. PMID: 28759667


  22. Shellhaas RA, Berg AT, Grinspan ZM, Wusthoff CJ, Millichap JJ, Loddenkemper T, Coryell J, Saneto RP, Chu CJ, Joshi SM, Sullivan JE, Knupp KG, Kossoff EH, Keator C, Wirrell EC, Mytinger JR, Valencia I, Massey S, Gaillard WD. Initial Treatment for Nonsyndromic Early-Life Epilepsy: An Unexpected Consensus. Pediatric neurology 2017. PMID: 28807611


  23. Jaakko Lappalainen, Michael Chez, Joseph Sullivan, Jozef Gecz, Nicola Specchio, Albena Patroneva. A multicenter, open-label trial of ganaxolone in children with PCDH19 epilepsy (P5.236). Neurology 2017. PMID:


  24. Nilika Shah Singhal, Chellamani Harini, Joseph Sullivan. 68 Epileptic Spasms and Myoclonic Seizures. Swaiman\u0027s Pediatric Neurology 2017. PMID:


  25. Rothman SM, Glass HC, Chang T, Sullivan JE, Bonifacio SL, Shellhaas RA. Risk factors for EEG seizures in neonates treated with hypothermia: a multicenter cohort study. Neurology 2014. PMID: 25367061


  26. Englot DJ, Han SJ, Rolston JD, Ivan ME, Kuperman RA, Chang EF, Gupta N, Sullivan JE, Auguste KI. Epilepsy surgery failure in children: a quantitative and qualitative analysis. Journal of neurosurgery. Pediatrics 2014. PMID: 25127098



  27. Numis AL, Angriman M, Sullivan JE, Lewis AJ, Striano P, Nabbout R, Cilio MR. KCNQ2 encephalopathy: delineation of the electroclinical phenotype and treatment response. Neurology 2013. PMID: 24371303




  28. Ortiz-González XR, Poduri A, Roberts CM, Sullivan JE, Marsh ED, Porter BE. Focal cortical dysplasia is more common in boys than in girls. Epilepsy & behavior : E&B 2013. PMID: 23416281



  29. Glass HC, Hong KJ, Rogers EE, Jeremy RJ, Bonifacio SL, Sullivan JE, Barkovich AJ, Ferriero DM. Risk factors for epilepsy in children with neonatal encephalopathy. Pediatric research 2011. PMID: 21796017


  30. Glass HC, Nash KB, Bonifacio SL, Barkovich AJ, Ferriero DM, Sullivan JE, Cilio MR. Seizures and magnetic resonance imaging-detected brain injury in newborns cooled for hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy. The Journal of pediatrics 2011. PMID: 21839470


  31. Chang EF, Wang DD, Barkovich AJ, Tihan T, Auguste KI, Sullivan JE, Garcia PA, Barbaro NM. Predictors of seizure freedom after surgery for malformations of cortical development. Annals of neurology 2011. PMID: 21761443


  32. Chang EF, Christie C, Sullivan JE, Garcia PA, Tihan T, Gupta N, Berger MS, Barbaro NM. Seizure control outcomes after resection of dysembryoplastic neuroepithelial tumor in 50 patients. Journal of neurosurgery. Pediatrics 2010. PMID: 20043747


  33. Glass HC, Sullivan JE. Neonatal seizures. Current treatment options in neurology 2009. PMID: 19891904


  34. Sullivan JE, Corcoran-Donnelly M, Dlugos DJ. Challenges in pediatric video-EEG monitoring. American journal of electroneurodiagnostic technology 2007. PMID: 17679580


  35. Akira Nishisaki, Joseph Sullivan, Bernhard Steger, Carey R Bayer, Dennis Dlugos, Richard Lin, Rebecca Ichord, Mark A Helfaer, Vinay Nadkarni. RETROSPECTIVE ANALYSIS OF THE PROGNOSTIC VALUE OF ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY PATTERNS OBTAINED IN PEDIATRIC IN-HOSPITAL CARDIAC ARREST SURVIVORS OVER THREE YEARS. Pediatric Critical Care Medicine 2007. PMID:


  36. Akira Nishisaki, Joseph Sullivan, Bernhard Steger, Carey R Bayer, Dennis Dlugos, Richard Lin, Rebecca Ichord, Mark A Helfaer, Vinay Nadkarni. RETROSPECTIVE ANALYSIS OF THE PROGNOSTIC VALUE OF ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY PATTERNS OBTAINED IN PEDIATRIC IN-HOSPITAL CARDIAC ARREST SURVIVORS OVER THREE YEARS. Pediatric Critical Care Medicine 2007. PMID:


  37. Akira Nishisaki, Joseph Sullivan, Bernhard Steger, Carey R Bayer, Dennis Dlugos, Richard Lin, Rebecca Ichord, Mark A Helfaer, Vinay Nadkarni. RETROSPECTIVE ANALYSIS OF THE PROGNOSTIC VALUE OF ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY PATTERNS OBTAINED IN PEDIATRIC IN-HOSPITAL CARDIAC ARREST SURVIVORS OVER THREE YEARS. Pediatric Critical Care Medicine 2007. PMID:


  38. Akira Nishisaki, Joseph Sullivan, Bernhard Steger, Carey R Bayer, Dennis Dlugos, Richard Lin, Rebecca Ichord, Mark A Helfaer, Vinay Nadkarni. RETROSPECTIVE ANALYSIS OF THE PROGNOSTIC VALUE OF ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY PATTERNS OBTAINED IN PEDIATRIC IN-HOSPITAL CARDIAC ARREST SURVIVORS OVER THREE YEARS. Pediatric Critical Care Medicine 2007. PMID:


  39. Akira Nishisaki, Joseph Sullivan, Bernhard Steger, Carey R Bayer, Dennis Dlugos, Richard Lin, Rebecca Ichord, Mark A Helfaer, Vinay Nadkarni. Retrospective analysis of the prognostic value of electroencephalography patterns obtained in pediatric in-hospital cardiac arrest survivors over three years. Pediatric Critical Care Medicine 2007. PMID:


  40. Akira Nishisaki, Joseph Sullivan, Bernhard Steger, Carey R. Bayer, Dennis Dlugos, Richard Lin, Rebecca Ichord, Mark A. Helfaer, Vinay Nadkarni. Retrospective analysis of the prognostic value of electroencephalography patterns obtained in pediatric in-hospital cardiac arrest survivors during three years*. Pediatric Critical Care Medicine 2006. PMID:


  41. Akira Nishisaki, Joseph Sullivan, Bernhard Steger, Carey Bayer, Rebecca Ichord, Mark A Helfaer, Vinay Nadkarni. HYPOCAPNEA IMMEDIATELY AFTER ROSC IS ASSOCIATED WITH GOOD NEUROLOGIC OUTCOME IN PEDIATRIC IN-HOSPITAL CARDIAC ARREST. Pediatric Critical Care Medicine 2006. PMID:


  42. Akira Nishisaki, Carey Roth Bayer, Troy Dominguez, Richard Lin, Mark A Helfaer, Vinay Nadkarni, Joseph E Sullivan, Rebecca Ichord, Bernhard Steger. ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY(EEG) HAS PROGNOSTIC VALUE FOR NEUROLOGIC OUTCOME IN CHILDREN SURVIVING > 24 HOURS AFTER IN-HOSPITAL CARDIAC ARREST(CA). Critical care medicine 2005. PMID:



  43. Akira Nishisaki, Joseph Sullivan, Bernhard Stegher, Rebecca Ichord, Mark A Helfaer, Vinay Nadkarni, Naoki Shimizu, Katsuyuki Miyasaka. A TALE OF TWO CITIES: TIMING OF BRAIN IMAGING AND NEUROPHYSIOLOGIC ASSESSMENTS FOLLOWING IN-HOSPITAL PEDIATRIC CARDIAC ARREST. Critical care medicine 2004. PMID:


  44. Sullivan JE, Dlugos DJ. Idiopathic Generalized Epilepsy. Current treatment options in neurology 2004. PMID: 15043806