France W. Fung, MD
About France W. Fung
Titles
Attending Physician
Assistant 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
Awards and Honors
2014, American Academy of Neurology Resident Scholarship to the Annual Meeting, American Academy of Neurology
2014-2014, Child Neurology Curriculum Development Award, Department of Child Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital
Leadership and Memberships
Memberships in Professional Organizations
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
Publications
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.