About Krish Krishnamoorthy, MD
I did my General Pediatric residency training at the Children's Hospital, Boston and Neurology training at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston. I am Board Certified in both Pediatrics and Pediatric Neurology with faculty appointments at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. My current activities include providing patient care, teaching and research in the field of clinical pediatric neurology. I have vast experience in the evaluation of the newborn babies with various neurological problems and their outcome. I also have special interest in the developmental problems of the infants and children. My current patient care activities includes supervising the resident physicians in the clinic(YAW 6B)and consulting patients privately in my office at WANG 708.
Departments, Centers, & Programs:
Clinical Interests:
- Developmental disorders of infants
- Epilepsy
- Follow up of neonatal ICU graduates
- Neurology
- Neuromuscular problems of infants and children
- Pediatric and Newborn Neurological problems
- Pediatric Neurology
- Seizure disorders
Treats:
- Pediatrics
Languages:
- Hindi, Tamil
Locations
Chelsea HealthCare Center
151 Everett Ave.
Chelsea, MA 02150
Phone: 617-884-8300
Mass General for Children: Pediatric Neurology
55 Fruit St.
Yawkey Center for Outpatient Care
Suite 6B
Boston, MA 02114
Phone: 617-724-6400
Medical Education
- MD, All India Institute of Medical Sciences
- MBBS, University of Madras - India
- Residency, Boston Children's Hospital
- Residency, Good Samaritan Hospital
- Residency, Massachusetts General Hospital
American Board Certifications
- Neurology with Special Qualifications in Child Neurology, American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology
- Pediatrics, American Board of Pediatrics
Accepted Insurance Plans
- Aetna
- Beech Street
- Blue Cross Blue Shield
- Blue Cross Blue Shield Medicare
- Cigna
- Commonwealth Care Alliance
- Coventry
- Fallon Health
- Harvard Pilgrim Health Care
- Humana
- Maine Community Health Options
- Mass General Brigham Health Plan
- MassHealth
- Medicaid ME
- Medicaid NH
- Medicaid RI
- Medicaid VT
- Medicare
- Medicare ACO
- Multiplan
- Senior Whole Health
- TriCare
- Tufts Health Plan
- United Health Care
- Wellpoint
- WellSense
- WellSense NH
Note: This provider may accept more insurance plans than shown; please call the practice to find out if your plan is accepted.
Research
In the field of neonatal neurology.
Publications
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Journal of Child Neurology 1998; 13: 537-540
Journal of Child Neurology 2000; 15:592-602
Pediatric Neurology 2001; 24:193-199
Curr Opin Neurol 2002; 15:139-144
Pediatr Neurol 2002; 26:274-281
Pediatrics 2005; 116:757-766
Journal of Child Neurology 2005; 829-31
J Child Neurol 2006; 21:801-805
Neuroimage 2006; 32:1041-1049
Epilepsia 2006, Epilepsia 2007; 48:89-95
Pediatr Res 2007; 61:546-551
Pediatric Neurology 2007; 37:317-323
Seminars in Perinatology 2007
Neuro-Ophthalmology 2009; 33:1:23-35
Epilepsy and Behavior 2010; 19:306-310
Journal of Child Neurology, 26:188-194, 2011 (On Line Published Aug. 19, 2010)
Clinical Pediatrics 2005; 44:437-442
Journal of Child Neurology 2005; 20:696-8
Neuromuscular Disorders 2006; 16:492-494
New England Journal of Medicine 2008; 358:1713-23
Pediatr Neurology 2008; 39:276-278
Journal Clinical Neuromuscular Disease 2010; 11:124-126
New England Journal of Medicine 2009; 361:2367-78
N Engl J Med 2010; 362:346-56