Pediatric Neurology
Shavonne Lakisha Massey, MD
Independent provider
Accepting new patients
Sees newborns through age 14
CHOP Specialty Care, Lancaster

About me

  • Assistant Professor of Neurology at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Education and training

  • Medical School: University of Maryland School of Medicine
  • Residency: Saint Christopher's Hospital for Children
  • Residency: New York University - Bellevue Hospital
  • Fellowship: Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Insurance accepted

My 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.
  • Penn Presbyterian Medical Center: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
  • Lancaster General Hospital
  • Chester County Hospital: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
Dr. Massey is an independent physician who is not employed by Penn Medicine Lancaster General Health.

Qualifications and experience

Treatments and Conditions

My research

Shellhaas RA, Franck LS, Pilon B, Wusthoff CJ, Massey SL, Chu CJ, Soul JS, Lemmon ME, Numis AL, Sturza JS, Thomas C, Benedetti GM, Rau SMD, Anwar T, Berl MM, McCulloch CE, Glass HC. Sleep Disorders Five Years After Acute Provoked Neonatal Seizures , Journal of Pediatrics, 278: 2025


Zerafati-Jahromi G, Oxman E, Hoang HD, Charng WL, Kotla T, Yuan W, Ishibashi K, Sebaoui S, Luedtke K, Winrow B, Ganetzky RD, Ruiz A, Manso-Basúz C, Spataro N, Kannu P, Athey T, Peroutka C, Barnes C, Sidlow R, Anadiotis G, Magnussen K, Valenzuela I, Moles-Fernandez A, Berger S, Grant CL, Vilain E, Arnadottir GA, Sulem P, Sulem TS, Stefansson K, Massey S, Ginn N, Poduri A, D'Gama AM, Valentine R, Trowbridge SK, Murali CN, Franciskovich R, Tran Y, Webb BD, Keppler-Noreuil KM, Hall AL, McGivern B, Monaghan KG, Guillen Sacoto MJ, Baldridge D, Silverman GA, Dahiya S, Turner TN, Schedl T, Corbin JG, Pak SC, Zohn IE, Gurnett CA. Sequence Variants in HECTD1 Result in a Variable Neurodevelopmental Disorder , American Journal of Human Genetics, 112(3): 2025,537-553


Peng GS, Halsey K, Wusthoff CJ, Chu CJ, Massey SL, Lemmon ME, Thomas C, Numis AL, Benedetti GM, Sturza J, Rogers EE, Franck LS, McCulloch CE, Soul JS, Shellhaas RA, Bonifacio SL, Glass HC. Preferred Parental Language and Neurodevelopmental Outcomes Among Infants With Acute Provoked Neonatal Seizures in the United States , Pediatric Neurology, 164: 2025,115-121


Massey SL, Sandoval Karamian AG, Fitzgerald MP, Fung FW, Abramson A, Salmon MK, Parikh D, Abend NS. Development of a Model to Predict Electroencephalographic Seizures in Neonates with Hypoxic Ischemic Encephalopathy Treated with Therapeutic Hypothermia , Epilepsia, 66(2): 2025,518-530


Mattes AM, Shellhaas RA, Glass HC, Sturza J, Rau S, Lemmon M, Rogers EE, Numis A, Soul JS, Berl M, Wusthoff CJ, Chu CJ, Massey SL, Thomas C, Franck LS, McCulloch CE, Benedetti GM, Means J, Means K, Anwar T, Gidley Larson JC. Neonatal Seizures and Associated Neurobehavioral Profiles in Preschool Age Children , Pediatric Neurology, 163: 2025,76-81


Wusthoff CJ, Numis AL, Pressler RM, Chu CJ, Massey S, Clancy RR, Nguyen S, Hahn CD, Scher MS, Pilon B, King DT 3rd, Wong HN, Tsuchida TN, Riviello JJ, Shellhaas RA. The American Clinical Neurophysiology Society Guideline on Indications for Continuous Electroencephalography Monitoring in Neonates , Journal of Clinical Neurophysiology, 42(1): 2025,1-11


Field NK, Franck LS, Shellhaas RA, Glass HC, Young KA, Dhar S, Hamlett A, Pilon B, Means K, Soul JS, Massey SL, Wusthoff CJ, Chu CJ, Thomas C, Rogers E, Berl MM, Benedetti GM, Anwar T, Lemmon ME; Neonatal Seizure Registry. Life After Neonatal Seizures: Characterizing the Longitudinal Parent Experience , Pediatric Neurology, 161: 2024,76-83


Sandoval Karamian AG, DiGiovine MP, Massey SL Neonatal Seizures , Pediatrics in Review, 45(7): 2024,381-393


Fitts W, Massey SL, McKee JK, Prelack MS An Introduction to Epilepsy Care , Current Problems in Pediatric and Adolescent Health Care, 54(7): 2024


Yuan I, Georgostathi G, Zhang B, Hodges A, Kurth CD, Kirschen MP, Huh JW, Topjian AA, Lang SS, Richter A, Abend NS, Massey SL Quantitative Electroencephalogram in Term Neonates Under Different Sleep States. , Journal of Clinical Monitoring and Computing, 38(3): 2024,591-602


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