Overview
Dr. Sun is an expert in both pediatric neurology and cerebrovascular neurology, with a special interest in pediatric and young adult stroke. She focuses on both acute care of stroke as well as longitudinal management of an array of neurologic conditions that affect children and young adults. Dr. Sun’s research focuses broadly on pediatric and young adult stroke, with emphasis on discovering the causes, treatments, and prevention of stroke in the young. More specifically, Dr. Sun is investigating novel monitoring and stroke prevention techniques in children with moyamoya disease, which is a rare disease that places affected children and young adults at high risk of stroke. The goal of Dr. Sun's research is to improve outcomes and quality of life of individuals affected by stroke and moyamoya disease. In addition to her clinical and research interests, Dr. Sun is the associate program director of the Child Neurology residency program at Johns Hopkins. After completing medical school at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Dr. Sun completed her pediatrics and neurology residency training at Johns Hopkins, and subsequently she completed a fellowship in Vascular Neurology/Stroke.
Dr. Sun is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Epilepsy in Children. Her top areas of expertise are Moyamoya Disease, Stroke, Stiff Person Syndrome, Thrombectomy, and Cerebral Artery Bypass Surgery.
Her clinical research consists of co-authoring 77 peer reviewed articles. MediFind looks at clinical research from the past 15 years. In particular, she has co-authored 3 articles in the study of Epilepsy in Children.
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Locations
Floor 5, Baltimore, MD 21287
10753 Falls Road, Pavilion II STE 115, Lutherville, MD 21093
Additional Areas of Focus
Dr. Sun has provided the following conditions as areas of focus. Please note that we may not have enough data to validate their experience in some of these conditions.
Clinical Research
Clinical research consists of overseeing clinical studies of patients undergoing new treatments and therapies, and publishing articles in peer reviewed medical journals. Providers who actively participate in clinical research are generally at the forefront of the fields and aware of the most up-to-date advances in treatments for their patients.
CHOP Specialty Care, Lancaster
Nicholas Abend is a Pediatric Neurologist in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Dr. Abend is rated as an Elite provider by MediFind in the treatment of Epilepsy in Children. His top areas of expertise are Status Epilepticus, Seizures, Epilepsy in Children, and Epilepsy.
Johns Hopkins Outpatient Center
Catherine Chu is the director of the Division of Pediatric Neurology and the John M. Freeman Pediatric Epilepsy Center in the Johns Hopkins Department of Neurology, as well as the vice president of child neurology at the Kennedy Krieger Institute. As a child neurologist, epileptologist and clinical neurophysiologist, Dr. Chu cares for children diagnosed with epilepsy and disorders of the nervous system (neurophysiology). She specializes in electroencephalogram (also known as EEG) analysis, seizure localization, surgical planning and neuromodulation for adult and pediatric patients with difficult to control epilepsy. She is nationally and internationally recognized for her work identifying causes of and treatment options for cognitive dysfunction and seizures in epilepsy and neurodevelopmental disorders. Dr. Chu’s team specializes in identifying and developing tools to detect and understand brain rhythms that support complex cognitive functions throughout development, including how these rhythms are disrupted by seizures and neurodevelopmental disorders. Dr. Chu earned her medical degree and a master’s degree in social anthropology from Harvard University. She completed an internship in pediatrics at Massachusetts General Hospital, and then a residency in neurology and child neurology at Massachusetts General and Brigham and Women’s Hospital. After completing two fellowships at Massachusetts General, one in epilepsy and another in clinical neurophysiology, Dr. Chu earned a master’s degree in medical science, focused on clinical investigation, from Harvard Medical School. Dr. Chu is rated as an Elite provider by MediFind in the treatment of Epilepsy in Children. Her top areas of expertise are Benign Rolandic Epilepsy, Epilepsy in Children, Seizures, and Epilepsy.
CHOP Specialty Care, Lancaster
Shavonne Massey is a Pediatric Neurologist in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Dr. Massey is rated as a Distinguished provider by MediFind in the treatment of Epilepsy in Children. Her top areas of expertise are Epilepsy in Children, Seizures, Absence Seizure, and Generalized Tonic-Clonic Seizure.
Areas of Expertise
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- Distinguished
- Moyamoya DiseaseDr. Sun isDistinguished. Learn about Moyamoya Disease.
- StrokeDr. Sun isDistinguished. Learn about Stroke.
- Advanced
- Stiff Person SyndromeDr. Sun isAdvanced. Learn about Stiff Person Syndrome.
- ThrombectomyDr. Sun isAdvanced. Learn about Thrombectomy.
- Experienced
- Absence SeizureDr. Sun isExperienced. Learn about Absence Seizure.
- Alternating Hemiplegia of Childhood
- Anti-NMDA Receptor EncephalitisDr. Sun isExperienced. Learn about Anti-NMDA Receptor Encephalitis.
- Cerebral Artery Bypass SurgeryDr. Sun isExperienced. Learn about Cerebral Artery Bypass Surgery.
- Down SyndromeDr. Sun isExperienced. Learn about Down Syndrome.
- Drug Induced DyskinesiaDr. Sun isExperienced. Learn about Drug Induced Dyskinesia.