Olivia Kim-McManus, M.D.

Bio

Olivia Kim-McManus, M.D., is a board-certified child neurologist and physician-scientist funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM). She specializes in the care of infants, children and adolescents with neurological disorders, particularly epilepsy and medically refractory epilepsy.

She has extensive expertise in epilepsy, clinical trials, clinical neurophysiology and epilepsy surgery, including invasive intracranial EEG monitoring and intraoperative electrocorticography. Dr. Kim-McManus serves as an associate professor in the UC San Diego Department of Neurosciences and the ACGME pediatric epilepsy fellowship director.

Dr. Kim-McManus primarily cares for patients at Rady Children’s Hospital–San Diego and directs the Rady Precision Therapeutics Neuro-Interventional Program. Her work focuses on the development and delivery of novel genetic therapies for rare epilepsies and neurodegenerative disorders, intracranial EEG monitoring and advanced epilepsy surgery.

She earned her bachelor’s degree in neurosciences from Columbia University and her medical degree from The George Washington University School of Medicine/Children's National Medical Center. She completed residencies in pediatrics and neurology at USC Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, followed by fellowships in epilepsy and clinical neurophysiology at the University of California, Irvine.

Dr. Kim-McManus is triple board certified in neurology with special qualification in child neurology, epilepsy and clinical neurophysiology.

Publications

The development of aperiodic neural activity in the human brain.
Cross ZR, Gray SM, Dede AJO, Rivera YM, Yin Q, Vahidi P, Rau EMB, Cyr C, Holubecki AM, Asano E, Lin JJ, Kim McManus O, Sattar S, Saez I, Girgis F, King-Stephens D, Weber PB, Laxer KD, Schuele SU, Rosenow JM, Wu JY, Lam SK, Raskin JS, Chang EF, Shaikhouni A, Brunner P, Roland JL, Braga RM, Knight RT, Ofen N, Johnson EL

Episodic memory involves transient and sparse connectivity aligned to both internal and external events.
Dede AJO, Cross ZR, Gray SM, Kelly JP, Yin Q, Vahidi P, Asano E, Schuele SU, Rosenow JM, Wu JY, Lam SK, Raskin JS, Lin JJ, Kim McManus O, Sattar S, Shaikhouni A, King-Stephens D, Weber PB, Laxer KD, Brunner P, Roland JL, Saez I, Girgis F, Knight RT, Ofen N, Johnson EL

Brain dynamics of mental manipulation.
Quiroga-Martinez DR, He T, Fernández-Rubio G, Bonetti L, Blenkmann AO, Endestad T, Solbakk AK, Meling TR, Fabricius M, Kim-McManus O, Willie JT, Brunner P, Dastjerdi M, Lin JJ, Knight RT

Vigabatrin Versus Adrenocorticotropic Hormone After High-Dose Prednisolone Failure for the Treatment of Epileptic Spasms.
Layton A, Sattar S, Rho JM, Yang JH, Gold J, Zimbric M, Bui J, Sahagian M, Kim-McManus O, Frederick A, Guido-Estrada N, Jindal A, Wiegand S, Dove K, Sweat M, Nespeca M, Montenegro MA

HPDL Variant Type Correlates With Clinical Disease Onset and Severity.
Lee EH, Kim-Mcmanus O, Yang JH, Haas R, Zaki MS, Abdel-Salam GMH, Nakamura Y, Abdel-Hamind MS, Ebrahimi-Fakhari D, Alecu JE, Brunetti-Pierri N, Srinivasan VM, Gowda VK, Gross S, Alanay Y, Najarzadeh Totbati P, Yadavilli M, Friedman L, Ojeda NM, Gleeson JG

Laser Interstitial Thermal Therapy for the Treatment of Mesial Temporal Lobe Epilepsy in Children.
Trivedi AM, Montenegro MA, Gonda D, Kim-McManus O, Rismanchi N, Frederick A, Guido-Estrada N, Jindal A, Sattar S

Serendipity Can Rule the Day: Remarkable Efficacy of a Mushroom Extract Powder in Childhood Treatment-Resistant Epilepsy.
Kim-McManus O, Boylan S, Nespeca M

Circuit dynamics of approach-avoidance conflict in humans.
Staveland BR, Oberschulte J, Berger B, Minarik T, Kim-McManus O, Willie JT, Brunner P, Dastjerdi M, Lin JJ, Hsu M, Knight RT

Reinstatement and transformation of memory traces for recognition.
Rau EMB, Fellner MC, Heinen R, Zhang H, Yin Q, Vahidi P, Kobelt M, Asano E, Kim-McManus O, Sattar S, Lin JJ, Auguste KI, Chang EF, King-Stephens D, Weber PB, Laxer KD, Knight RT, Johnson EL, Ofen N, Axmacher N

A framework for N-of-1 trials of individualized gene-targeted therapies for genetic diseases.
Kim-McManus O, Gleeson JG, Mignon L, Smith Fine A, Yan W, Nolen N, Demarest S, Berry-Kravis E, Finkel R, Leonard S, Finlayson S, Augustine E, Lyon GJ, Schule R, Yu T

A way forward for diagnosis of patients with extremely rare genetic mutations.
Crooke ST, Kim-McManus OS, Dalby K

A mixed-methods pilot study of a psychoeducational group programme for nurse managers during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Sawyer AT, McManus K, Bailey AK

The effect of a performing arts intervention on caregivers of people with mild to moderately severe dementia.
McManus K, Tao H, Jennelle PJ, Wheeler JC, Anderson GA

A thematic analysis of the effects of compassion rounds on clinicians and the families of NICU patients.
McManus K, Robinson PS

Rocktape provides no benefit over sham taping in people with knee osteoarthritis who are completing an exercise program: a randomised trial.
McManus KL, Kimmel LA, Holland AE

Understanding patient experiences in a motivational interviewing intervention to improve whole-person lifestyle among individuals with hypertension or type 2 diabetes: a qualitative focus group study.
Sawyer AT, McManus K

Coupling between slow waves and sharp-wave ripples engages distributed neural activity during sleep in humans.
Skelin I, Zhang H, Zheng J, Ma S, Mander BA, Kim McManus O, Vadera S, Knight RT, McNaughton BL, Lin JJ

Evaluation of NICU Healthcare Providers' Experience of Patient Ethics and Communication Excellence (PEACE) Rounds.
McManus K, Robinson P

Strength and stability of EEG functional connectivity predict treatment response in infants with epileptic spasms.
Shrey DW, Kim McManus O, Rajaraman R, Ombao H, Hussain SA, Lopour BA

The effect of 96-hour formalin fixation on the immunohistochemical evaluation of estrogen receptor, progesterone receptor, and HER2 expression in invasive breast carcinoma.
Yildiz-Aktas IZ, Dabbs DJ, Cooper KL, Chivukula M, McManus K, Bhargava R

Insulin-like growth factor receptor-1 (IGF-1R) expression in normal breast, proliferative breast lesions, and breast carcinoma.
Bhargava R, Beriwal S, McManus K, Dabbs DJ

Carcinomas of Distal Fallopian Tube and Their Association with Tubal Intraepithelial Carcinoma: Do They Share a Common "Precursor" Lesion? Loss of Heterozygosity and Immunohistochemical Analysis Using PAX 2, WT-1, and P53 Markers.
Chivukula M, Niemeier LA, Edwards R, Nikiforova M, Mantha G, McManus K, Carter G

Identification of the most sensitive and robust immunohistochemical markers in different categories of ovarian sex cord-stromal tumors.
Zhao C, Vinh TN, McManus K, Dabbs D, Barner R, Vang R

CK5 is more sensitive than CK5/6 in identifying the "basal-like" phenotype of breast carcinoma.
Bhargava R, Beriwal S, McManus K, Dabbs DJ

SF-1 is a diagnostically useful immunohistochemical marker and comparable to other sex cord-stromal tumor markers for the differential diagnosis of ovarian sertoli cell tumor.
Zhao C, Barner R, Vinh TN, McManus K, Dabbs D, Vang R

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