France W. Fung, MD

About France W. Fung, MD

Titles

Attending Physician

Associate Professor of Neurology, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania

Certifications

Child Neurology – American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology

Epilepsy – American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology

Leadership and Memberships

Memberships in Professional Organizations

2016-present, American Epilepsy Society
2016-present, American Clinical Neurophysiology Society
2015-present, American Academy of Neurology
2012-present, American Academy of Neurology
2010-present, Child Neurology Society

Editorial and Academic Positions

Editorial Positions

2018-present, Reviewer, Journal of Child Neurology

Education & training

Graduate Degree

MSc in Neuroscience - University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada

Medical Degree

MD - Tulane University, New Orleans, LA

Residency

Child Neurology - Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA (Chief Resident)
Pediatrics - Tulane University Medical Center

Fellowship

Clinical Neurophysiology and Epilepsy - Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA

Team affiliations

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Publications

Selected Publications

2025

Electrographic Seizure Characteristics and Electrographic Status Epilepticus Prediction. Fung FW, Parikh DS, Donnelly M, Xiao R, Topjian AA, Abend NS. J Clin Neurophysiol. 2025 Jan 1;42(1):64-72.  

2024

Optimizing EEG monitoring in critically ill children at risk for electroencephalographic seizures. Coleman K, Fung FW, Topjian A, Abend NS, Xiao R. Seizure. 2024 Apr;117:244-252. 

Periodic Discharges in Critically Ill Children: Predictors and Outcome. Fung FW, Parikh DS, Massey SL, Fitzgerald MP, Vala L, Donnelly M, Jacobwitz M, Kessler SK, Xiao R, Topjian AA, Abend NS. J Clin Neurophysiol. 2024 May 1;41(4):297-304. 

2021

Electrographic Seizures and Outcome in Critically Ill Children. Fung FW, Wang Z, Parikh DS, Jacobwitz M, Vala L, Donnelly M, Topjian AA, Xiao R, Abend NS. Neurology. 2021 May 31;96(22):e2749-e2760. 

2020

EEG monitoring duration to identify electroencephalographic seizures in critically ill children. Fung FW, Fan J, Vala L, Jacobwitz M, Parikh DS, Donnelly M, Topjian AA, Xiao R, Abend NS. Neurology. 2020 Sep 15;95(11):e1599-e1608.  

PubMed

Publications

2018

Abend NS, Wiebe DJ, Xiao R, Massey SL, Fitzgerald M, Fung F, Topjian AA. EEG Factors After Pediatric Cardiac Arrest. J Clin Neurophysiol. 2018 May;35(3):251-255.

Fung FW, Libenson MH, Bolton J, Pearl PL, Kapur K, Marti C, Paris A, Bergin AM, Harini C. Seizure clustering during presurgical electroencephalographic monitoring in children. Epilepsy Behav. 2018 Mar;80:291-295.

2017

Abend NS, Massey SL, Fitzgerald M, Fung F, Atkin NJ, Xiao R, Topjian AA. Interrater Agreement of EEG Interpretation After Pediatric Cardiac Arrest Using Standardized Critical Care EEG Terminology. J Clin Neurophysiol. 2017 Nov;34(6):534-541.

2009

Block Gregory J, Ohkouchi Shinya, Fung France, Frenkel Joshua, Gregory Carl, Pochampally Radhika, DiMattia Gabriel, Sullivan Deborah E, Prockop Darwin J: Multipotent stromal cells are activated to reduce apoptosis in part by upregulation and secretion of stanniocalcin-1. Stem cells (Dayton, Ohio) 27(3): 670-681, Mar 2009.

2006

Aitken Karen J, Block Gregory, Lorenzo Armando, Herz Daniel, Sabha Nesrin, Dessouki Omar, Fung France, Szybowska Marta, Craig Laura, Bägli Darius J: Mechanotransduction of extracellular signal-regulated kinases 1 and 2 mitogen-activated protein kinase activity in smooth muscle is dependent on the extracellular matrix and regulated by matrix metalloproteinases. The American journal of pathology 169(2): 459-70, Aug 2006.

2005

Carson Christine, Saleh Maya, Fung France W, Nicholson Donald W, Roskams A Jane: Axonal dynactin p150Glued transports caspase-8 to drive retrograde olfactory receptor neuron apoptosis. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 25(26): 6092-104, Jun 2005.

Lectures by Invitation
2018

Fung F. "Epilepsy in the Adolescent Population", American Epilepsy Society, Internet/National. May 2018.

Patient experience rating

(based on 42 submissions)
  • Clear Explanation
    4.4 of 5
  • Showed Concern
    4.3 of 5
  • Would recommend
    4.2 of 5
  • Discussion of Proposed Treatment
    4.4 of 5
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