Jennifer C. Keene, MD

Dr. Keene completed her medical degree at Cleveland Clinic after receiving an MBA in technology innovation and a masters in Neural engineering from Case Western Reserve University. She completed her Pediatric and Neurology residencies at Seattle Children's and her Neonatal Neurology fellowship at Washington University in St. Louis. She is board certified in Child Neurology. She is currently an Assistant professor in the division of Pediatric Neurology. Dr. Keene's interests lie in continuing to improve neuroprotective care and recovery for neonates and children in the intensive care unit. She specializes in the care of children throughout early-life including fetal counseling, care of neonates with seizures, strokes, brain malformations, brain bleeds and other neurologic issues, and care of children in the pediatric ICU. She focuses on helping children and families rehabilitate and reach their potential after early-life brain injuries. Her research focuses on improving understanding of early life brain monitoring and improving outcomes after NeuroICU care.

-Jennifer Keene, Guilia Benedetti, Stewart Tomko, Rejean Guerriero “Quantitative EEG in the neonatal intensive care unit: Current application and future promise” Annals of Child Neurology 2023

-Jennifer Keene, Maren Loe, Talie Fulton, Maire Keene, Michael Morrissey, Stuart Tomko, Zachary Vesoulis, John Zempel, Shinung Ching, Rejean Guerriero “A comparison of automatically extracted quantitative EEG features for seizure risk stratification in neonatal encephalopathy” Journal of Clinic Neurophysiology, 2023

-Jennifer Keene, Maren Lo, Marie Fulton, Maire Keene, Michael Morrissey, Stuart Tomko, Zachary Vesoulis, John Zempel, Shinung Ching, Rejean Guerriero “Macropediodic oscillations – A potential novel biomarker of outcome in neonatal encephalopathy” Journal of Clinic Neurophysiology, 2023

-Jennifer Keene, Brandon Woods, Mary King, Mark Wainwright, Lindsey Morgan “Optimized Benzodiazepine Treatment of Pediatric Status Epilepticus Through Emergency Medical Services Training”. Pediatric Neurology, 2022 Jan; 126:50-55. Doi:10.1016

-Jennifer Keene, Lindsey Morgan, Nicholas Abend, Sara Bates, Sarah Bauer Huang, Taeun Chang, Catherine Chu, Hannah Glass, Shavonne Massey, Betsy Ostrander, Andrea Pardo, Craig Press, Janet Soul, Renée Shellhaas, Cameron Thomas, Niranjana Natarajan “Treatment of neonatal seizures: Comparison of treatment pathways from 11 neonatal intensive care units”. Pediatric Neurology, Pediatric Neurology, Oct 11, 2021; S0887-8994(21)00222-8. doi: 10.1016

-Jennifer Keene, Mark Wainwright, Lindsey Morgan, Ulrike Mietzsch, Ndidi Musa, Nina Natarajan, “Efficacy and safety of first-line levetiracetam use in neonates in the cardiac intensive care unit”. Journal of Pediatric Pharmacology and Therapeutics (2022) 27(3):254-262