Nicholas Abend, MD
Pediatric Neurology
Independent provider
Accepting new patients
Sees newborns through age 18
CHOP Specialty Care, Lancaster
About me
- Professor of Neurology at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
My education and training
- Medical School: University of Chicago
- Residency: University of Chicago Medical Center
- Fellowship: Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Spoken languages
English
English
Insurance accepted
Please contact the practice and/or the member services department of your insurance company for specific details before receiving services. Providers may participate in some, but not all, products offered by a health plan; providers may also accept plans at some practice locations but not others.
- Aetna Advantra Cares D-SNP
- Aetna Advantra Credit Value
- Aetna Advantra Eagle HMO
- Aetna Advantra Eagle POS
- Aetna Advantra Premier Plus PPO
- Aetna Advantra Value
- Aetna Advantra Value Plus
- Aetna APCN Plus (Multi-Tier)
- Aetna Better Health Kids (CHIP) - DH Only
- Aetna Flexible Five
- Aetna Freedom Core
- Aetna Gold
- Aetna HMO
- Aetna Philly Prime
- Aetna POS
- Aetna PPO APCN
- Aetna Premier
- Aetna Premier Plus
- Aetna Savings Plus
- Aetna Signature Administrators
- Aetna Student Health Plan PPO
- Aetna Upfront Advantage
- First Health HMO
- First Health POS
- First Health PPO
- Meritain - Aramark (Other)
- Meritain - Aramark (Pennsylvania Premier Medical Plan)
- Capital Blue Cross/Capital Advantage Insurance Company
- Devoted Health Choice Giveback Pennsylvania (PPO)
- Devoted Health Choice Pennsylvania (PPO)
- Devoted Health Choice Plus Pennsylvania (PPO)
- Devoted Health Core Pennsylvania (HMO)
- Devoted Health Dual Plus Pennsylvania (HMO D-SNP)
- Devoted Health Giveback Pennsylvania (HMO)
- Geisinger Health Plan - all Gold products
- Geisinger Health Plan All Access HMO
- Geisinger Health Plan All Access PPO
- Geisinger Health Plan Extra HMO
- Geisinger Health Plan HMO
- Geisinger Health Plan POS
- Geisinger Health Plan PPO
- Highmark Blue Shield BlueCare Custom PPO
- Highmark Blue Shield Complete Blue PPO Choice Deluxe
- Highmark Blue Shield Complete Blue PPO Premier
- Highmark Blue Shield First Priority Life (FPLIC) - AffordaBlue PPO
- Highmark Blue Shield Freedom Blue PPO
- Highmark Blue Shield My Blue Access PPO
- Highmark Blue Shield My Direct Blue EPO
- Highmark Blue Shield PPO
- Highmark Wholecare (formerly Gateway Health) Assured Ruby HMO SNP
- Highmark Wholecare (formerly Gateway Health) Payor Access Agreement
- Highmark Wholecare (formerly) Gateway Health) Assured Diamond HMO SNP
Locations
Penn Medicine hospital privileges
- Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
- Pennsylvania Hospital: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
- Lancaster General Hospital: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
- Chester County Hospital: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
Qualifications and experience
- Psychiatry & Neurology, Neurology with Special Qualifications in Child Neurology
- Psychiatry & Neurology, Epilepsy
- American Academy of Neurology, National
- American Clinical Neurophysiology Society, National
- American Epilepsy Society, National
- American Neurological Association, National
- Child Neurology Society, National
- Critical Care EEG Monitoring Research Consortium (CCEMRC), International
- Epic Electronic Medical Record-Neurodiagnostics Subcommittee, National
- Epic Electronic Medical Record-Pediatric Neurology Steering Board, National
- International League Against Epilepsy, International
- National Professional Advisory Board, Epilepsy Foundation, National
- Pediatric Neurocritical Care Research Group, International
- Pediatric Neurohospitalist Group, National
Treatments and conditions
Research
Publications
Essaid L, Haque K, Shillingford A, Zimmerman L, Burnham A, Hampton L, Okunowo O, Gaynor JW, Abend NS, Naim MY, Gardner MM. Medical and Socioeconomic Risk Factors Associated with Lack of Neurodevelopmental Evaluation Following Neonatal Cardiac Surgery , Pediatric Cardiology, 47(1): 2026,257-265
Molisani SE, Kaufman MC, Tencer J, Fitzgerald M, Witzman S, Gonzalez A, Ramos M, DiGiovine M, Kessler SK, McDonnel PP, McKee J, Melamed S, Prelack M, Tefft S, Abend NS. Medication Barriers in Pediatric Patients with Epilepsy , Pediatric Neurology, 177: 2026,140-147
Mazzio E, Catenaccio E, Liu R, Vossough A, Abend NS, Alcamo A, Huh J, Chen SS, Berg RA, Topjian A, Press C, Kirschen MP. Association of EEG Response to Hypertonic Saline and Neurologic Outcomes in Pediatric Acute Brain Injury. , Neurocritical Care, 44(3): 2026,841-849
Marshall A, Kaufman MC, Murphy C, Molisani SE, Riisen AC, Scotti-Degnan CM, Witzman S, Gonzalez AK, Ramos MO, Szperka CL, Abend NS. Screening for Anxiety Symptoms with the GAD-2 versus GAD-7 in Children with Headache or Epilepsy , Pediatric Neurology, 178: 2026,7--14
Pojomovsky McDonnell P, Ortiz Y, Abend NS, Kaufman MC, Xian J, Gonzalez A, Molisani S, Helbig I. A simple intervention improves access to telemedicine for Spanish-speaking families in an outpatient pediatric neurology clinic , Journal of Child Neurology, 40(9): 2025,767-771
Nunes ML, Yozawitz EG, Wusthoff CJ, Shellhaas RA, Olivas-Peña E, Wilmshurst JM, Pressler RM, Triki CC, Hartmann H, Inder T, Boylan GB, Valente K, Moshe SL, Mizrahi EM, Abend NS. Defining Neonatal Status Epilepticus: A Scoping Review from the ILAE Neonatal Task Force , Epilepsia Open, 10(1): 2025,40-54
Ostendorf AP, Loddenkemper T, Morgan LA, Appavu B, Farias-Moeller R, Harrar D, Press C, Abend NS, Gaillard WD, Bai S, Eisner M, McHenry L, Kroshus E, Vannatta K, Goodkin HP. Treating seizures faster: The quality improvement in time to treat status epilepticus (QuITT-SE) multicenter randomized stepped-wedge clinical trial protocol , Contemporary Clinical Trials, 151: 2025,107831
Murphy C, Molisani SE, Riisen AC, Scotti-Degnan CM, Karvounides D, Witzman S, Kaufman MC, Gonzalez AK, Ramos, MO, Szperka CL, Abend NS. A Quality Improvement Initiative to Implement Anxiety Screening to Children and Teens with Headache and Epilepsy , Neurology in Clinical Practice, 15(3): 2025,e200458
Fung FW, Parikh DS, Walsh K, Fitzgerald MP, Massey SL, Topjian AA, Abend NS. Late-Onset Findings During Extended EEG Monitoring Are Rare in Critically Ill Children , Journal of Clinical Neurophysiology, 42(2): 2025,149-155
Kellier D, Anto M, Hal M, Nash K, Hutchinson M, Wells E, Moharir M, Abend NS, Messer R, Palaganas J, Piantino J, Marin J, Szperka C, Press C. Association of race and ethnicity with emergency room rate of migraine diagnosis, testing, and management in children with headache , Neurology, 104(5): 2025