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Sean Lew, MD

Sean M. Lew, MD, FAANS

Mardak/Vandenberg Family Chair of Pediatric Neurosurgery, Children’s Wisconsin; Professor, Department of Neurosurgery, 91㽶; Director, Epilepsy Surgery, Froedtert & the 91㽶

Locations

  • Neurosciences - Children's Wisconsin
    9000 W. Wisconsin Ave.
    Milwaukee, WI 53226

    Neenah Clinic - Children's Wisconsin
    130 Second St.
    Neenah, WI 54956

Contact Information

Education

Fellowship, Pediatric Neurosurgery, Beth Israel Medical Center-Hyman-Newman Institute for Neurology & Neurosurgery, New York, NY, 2003-2004
Residency, Neurological Surgery, University of Vermont–Burlington, 1996-2002
Internship, Surgery, University of Vermont–Burlington, 1995-1996
MD, Oregon Health Sciences University School of Medicine, Portland, 1995

Biography

Dr. Lew has subspecialty training in pediatric neurosurgery and is board certified in both neurosurgery and pediatric neurosurgery. He has particular interest and experience in the surgical treatment of pediatric epilepsy, pediatric brain tumors, moyamoya disease and craniocervical anomalies.

He is active in clinical research with an emphasis on pediatric epilepsy, pediatric cervical spine surgery, general pediatric neurosurgery, surgical techniques and outcomes. He has authored numerous peer-reviewed publications and his research has been presented nationally on numerous occasions.

Board Certification

  • Neurological Surgery
  • Pediatric Neurological Surgery

Surgical Services

  • Epilepsy surgery
  • Pediatric brain tumors
  • Craniocervical abnormalities
  • Stereotactic laser ablation for tumor or epilepsy
  • Moyamoya disease revascularization surgery
  • General pediatric neurosurgery

Conditions Treated

  • Abnormalities of the Craniocervical Junction and Cervical Spine
  • Brain Trauma
  • Brain Tumors
  • Spine and Spinal Cord Tumors
  • Spine Trauma
  • Vascular Diseases
  • Pediatric Epilepsy (surgical treatment)

Clinical Programs

Locations

  • Children’s Wisconsin-Milwaukee Campus
  • Children’s Wisconsin-Neenah/Fox Valley

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Honors and Awards

Best Doctors in America, 2007-present

Research Interests

  • Pediatric epilepsy
  • Pediatric cervical spine surgery
  • General pediatric neurosurgery
  • Surgical techniques and outcomes

Publications

  • (Andrade Machado R, Narayan SL, Norton NB, Javarayee P, Kim I, Lew SM.) Epilepsy Behav. 2024 Oct;159:109967 PMID: 39068855 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85199561980 07/29/2024

  • (Raghavan M, Pilet J, Carlson C, Anderson CT, Mueller W, Lew S, Ustine C, Shah-Basak P, Youssofzadeh V, Beardsley SA.) Sci Rep. 2024 Jul 31;14(1):17736 PMID: 39085280 PMCID: PMC11291981 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85200293097 08/01/2024

  • (Baglivo FH, Campora N, Mininni CJ, Kochen S, Lew S.) Sci Rep. 2024 Mar 04;14(1):5355 PMID: 38438478 PMCID: PMC10912751 03/05/2024

  • (Reecher HM, Koop JI, Awad AJ, Kim I, Foy AB, Kaufman BA, Meier NA, Lew SM.) J Neurosurg Pediatr. 2024 Mar 01;33(3):214-222 PMID: 38100760 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85186741486 12/15/2023

  • (Andrade-Machado R, Javarayee P, Koop JI, Farias-Moeller R, Kim I, Lew SM.) Seizure. 2023 Jul;109:1-4 PMID: 37172443 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85159093338 05/13/2023

  • (Arocho-Quinones EV, Lew SM, Handler MH, Tovar-Spinoza Z, Smyth MD, Bollo RJ, Donahue D, Perry MS, Levy M, Gonda D, Mangano FT, Kennedy BC, Storm PB, Price AV, Couture DE, Oluigbo C, Duhaime AC, Barnett GH, Muh CR, Sather MD, Fallah A, Wang AC, Bhatia S, Eastwood D, Tarima S, Graber S, Huckins S, Hafez D, Rumalla K, Bailey L, Shandley S, Roach A, Alexander E, Jenkins W, Tsering D, Price G, Meola A, Evanoff W, Thompson EM, Brandmeir N, Pediatric Stereotactic Laser Ablation Workgroup.) J Neurosurg Pediatr. 2023 Mar 03:1-14 PMID: 36883640 PMCID: PMC10193482 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85164495860 03/09/2023

  • (Li Y, Yang D, Bergman R, Jha S, Casden M, Smith JT, Vitale M, Heffernan M, Abdullah ASA, Ahn E, Akbarnia B, Akoto H, Albanese S, Anari J, Anderson J, Anderson R, Andras L, Bauer J, Bellaire L, Betz R, Birch C, Blakemore L, Boachie-Adjei O, Bonfield C, Bouton D, Brassard F, Brockmeyer D, Brooks J, Bumpass D, Cahill P, Chemaly O, Cheung J, Cheung K, Cho R, Christman T, Colom Beauchamp E, Couture D, Crawford H, Crawford A, Dahl B, Demirkiran G, Devito D, Diab M, Sebaie HE, El-Hawary R, Emans J, Erickson M, Fabregas J, Farley F, Farrington D, Fedorak G, Fitzgerald R, Floccari L, Flynn J, Gabos P, Gardner A, Garg S, Gerow F, Glotzbecker M, Gomez J, Gonda D, Guillaume T, Gupta P, Halvorson K, Hammerberg K, Hardesty C, Hedequist D, Heffernan M, Heflin J, Helenius I, Herrera J, Hogue G, Holt J, Howard J, Hresko MT, Hwang S, Ihnow S, Ilharreborde B, Illingworth K, Jain V, Jea A, Johnson M, Johnston C, Jones M, Karlen J, Karlin L, Katz D, Kawakami N, Kelly B, Kelly D, Knapp R, Koljonen P, Kwan K, Labelle H, Lark R, Larson AN, Lavelle W, Lenke L, Lew S, Li Y.) Spine Deformity. September 2023;11(5):1157-1167 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85158938410 09/01/2023

  • (Heyer JH, Anari JB, Baldwin KD, Mitchell SL, Luhmann SJ, Sturm PF, Flynn JM, Cahill PJ, Pediatric Spine Study Group.) J Bone Joint Surg Am. 2022 Dec 21;104(24):2186-2194 PMID: 36367763 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85144934376 11/12/2022

  • (Best BJ, Kim I, Lew SM.) J Neurosurg Case Lessons. 2022 Dec 19;4(25) PMID: 36536524 PMCID: PMC9764374 12/21/2022

  • (Cowley N, Maheshwari M, Lerner DG, Lew S, Lal D, Knezevich M, Lingongo M, Gourlay D.) J Surg Res. 2022 Nov;279:193-199 PMID: 35779449 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85138457644 07/03/2022

  • (Siegel L, Yan H, Warsi N, Wong S, Suresh H, Weil AG, Ragheb J, Wang S, Rozzelle C, Albert GW, Raskin J, Abel T, Hauptman J, Schrader DV, Bollo R, Smyth MD, Lew SM, Lopresti M, Kizek DJ, Weiner HL, Fallah A, Widjaja E, Ibrahim GM.) BMJ Open. 2022 Apr 08;12(4):e055886 PMID: 35396292 PMCID: PMC8995963 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85127913634 04/10/2022

  • (Mishreky A, Parent S, Miyanji F, Smit K, Murphy J, Bowker R, Al Khatib N, El-Hawary R, Abdullah ASA, Ahn E, Akbarnia B, Akoto H, Albanese S, Anari J, Anderson J, Anderson R, Andras L, Bauer J, Bellaire L, Betz R, Birch C, Blakemore L, Boachie-Adjei O, Bonfield C, Bouton D, Brassard F, Brockmeyer D, Brooks J, Bumpass D, Cahill P, Chemaly O, Cheung J, Cheung K, Cho R, Christman T, Beauchamp EC, Couture D, Crawford H, Crawford A, Dahl B, Demirkiran G, Devito D, Diab M, Sebaie H, El-Hawary R, Emans J, Erickson M, Fabregas J, Farley F, Farrington D, Fedorak G, Fitzgerald R, Fletcher N, Floccari L, Flynn J, Gabos P, Gardner A, Garg S, Gerow F, Glotzbecker M, Gomez J, Gonda D, Guillaume T, Gupta P, Halvorson K, Hammerberg K, Hardesty C, Hedequist D, Heffernan M, Heflin J, Helenius I, Herrera J, Hogue G, Holt J, Howard J, Hresko MT, Hwang S, Ihnow S, Ilharreborde B, Illingworth K, Jain V, Jea A, Johnson M, Johnston C, Jones M, Karlen J, Karlin L, Katz D, Kawakami N, Kelly B, Kelly D, Knapp R, Koljonen P, Kwan K, Labelle H, Lark R, Noelle Larson A, Lavelle W, Lenke L, Lew S.) Spine Deformity. May 2022;10(3):563-571 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85122878584 05/01/2022