Jillian McKee, MD, PhD
Areas of expertise: Epilepsy Neurogenetics, SYNGAP1- related neurodevelopmental disorder
Locations: Main Building, Buerger Center for Advanced Pediatric Care
About Jillian McKee, MD, PhD
Titles
ENGIN Neurogeneticists and Epileptologists Provider
Certifications
Child Neurology – American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology
Awards and Honors
2022-2024, Omics Maximizing Grant recipient Identifying disease trajectories in pediatric epilepsy through integration of multi-omics data
2021, Zeritsky Clinical Research Award, University of Pennsylvania, Department of Neurology
2021, American Epilepsy Society, Fellow
2020, Pellock Fellowship, Child Neurology Society
2018-2021, Zeritsky Clinical Research Award
2007-2016, Pritzker scholarship, University of Chicago, Prtizker School of Medicine
2007, Dr. Kathleen Terroux Prize in Physiology
Leadership and Memberships
Memberships in Professional Organizations
2021-present, American Epilepsy Society
2020-present, Child Neurology Society
2018-present, American Academy of Neurology
2004-present, Golden Key International Honor Society
2014-present, American College of Physicians
Research Interests
Applying machine learning techniques to electronic medical data to delineate novel disease trajectories and develop seizure prediction models to guide the care of neonates and children with epilepsy. Additional research interests include SYNGAP1-related neurodevelopmental disorder and data-driven approaches to identifying candidates for epilepsy surgery.
Education & training
Graduate Degree
PhD - University of Chicago, Committee on Computational Neuroscience, Chicago, IL
Medical Degree
MD - University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine, Chicago, IL
Residency
Pediatrics - Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
Child Neurology - Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
Fellowship
Pediatric Epilepsy - Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, PA
Epilepsy Neurogenetics - Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, PA
Publications
Publications
2022
Galer PD, Parthasarathy S, Xian J, McKee JL Ganesan S, Lewis-Smith D, Kaufman MC, Ruggiero SM, Cohen SR, Haag S, Gonzalez AK, Wilmarth O, Ellis CA, Litt B, Helbig I. (2022) Clinical signatures of childhood epilepsies preceding genetic diagnoses: A retrospective study of electronic medical records in 32,000 individuals. Under Review at Brain.
Clatot J, Parthasarathy S, Cohen S, McKee JL, Massey S, Somarowthu A, Goldberg EM, Helbig I. (2022) The SCN1A Philadelphia variant – a gain-of-function mutation causing an early-onset epileptic encephalopathy. bioRxiv. 2022.06.29.498154
McKee JL, Kaufman MC, Gonzalez AK, Fitzgerald MP, Massey SL, Fung F, Kessler SK, Witzman S, Abend NS, Helbig I. (2022) Seizure prediction in 1117 neonates leveraging EMR-embedded standardized EEG reporting. medRxiv. 2022.06.03.22275975.
Kaufman MC, Xian J, Galer PD, Parthasarathy S, Gonzalez AK, McKee JL, Prelack MS, Fitzgerald MP, Helbig I, CHOP Neuroscience Center - Telemedicine Research Group. (2022) Child neurology telemedicine: Analyzing 14 820 patient encounters during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. Dev Med Child Neurol. 00:1-10.
2021
Tucker A, Kaul A, McKee JL, et al. (2021) Surgical treatment of upper extremity segmental myoclonus in an adolescent with chiari malformation and cervicothoracic syrinx. Pediatric Neurosurgery. 56(4):1-6.
2020
*Kulick-Soper CV, *McKee JL, Wolf RL, et al. (2020) Pearls & Oy-sters: Bilateral globus pallidus lesions in a patient with COVID-19. Neurology. 95(10):454-457. *Co-first authors.
2015
Lim S, McKee JL, Woloszyn L, Amit Y, Freedman DJ, Sheinberg D, Brunel N. (2015) Inferring learning rules from distribution of firing rates in cortical neurons. Nature Neuroscience. 18: 1804-1810.
2014
McKee JL. (2014) A comparison of inferior temporal, perirhinal and prefrontal cortices in visual recognition and learning. Graduate Dissertation. Committee on Computational Neuroscience, The Division of the Biological Sciences & the Pritzker School of Medicine, The University of Chicago.
McKee JL, Riesenhuber M, Miller EK, Freedman DJ. (2014) Task dependence of visual and category representations in prefrontal and inferior temporal cortices. J Neurosci. 34(48): 16065–75.
2008
Beraneck M, McKee JL, Aleisa M, and Cullen KE. (2008) Asymmetric recovery in cerebellar– deficient mice following unilateral labyrinthectomy. J Neurophysiol. 100: 945–958.