Jonathan E. Bennett, MD

Anesthesiology

Primary Office

Nemours Children's Hospital, Delaware Nemours Children's Hospital, Delaware 1600 Rockland Road Wilmington, DE 19803 Appointment: (800) 416-4441

Education & Training

Fellowship

  • General Academic Pediatrics - Washington University School of Medicine, 1999
  • Pediatric Emergency Medicine - St. Louis Childrens Hospital, 1998

Internship Residency

  • Pediatrics - New York Presbyterian Hospital, 1995

Medical/Dental School

  • MD - New York University, 1992

Board Certifications

  • American Board of Pediatrics/Pediatric Emergency Medicine

Awards & Recognition

  • 2014 Best Doctors in America
  • 2013 Best Doctors in America
  • 2011 Best Doctors in America

Insurance Accepted

  • Aetna Better Health PA Kids HMO
  • Aetna HMO
  • Aetna PPO/POS/EPO
  • Amerihealth Caritas Delaware
  • Cigna Lifesource Transplant
  • Cigna/Great West HMO EPO POS
  • Cigna/Great West PPO
  • Delaware First Health
  • Delaware Medicaid/Diamond State
  • Delaware Medicare
  • Devon Health Services
  • Fidelis Care NJ Medicaid HMO
  • First Health/Affordable PPO
  • Geisinger Health Plan Commercial
  • Global Medical Managment DE/PA
  • Health Partners Medicaid/Kidz Partner HMO
  • Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield of Delaware
  • Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield of Pennsylvania
  • Highmark Medicaid Health Options
  • Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey
  • Independance Blue Cross/Amerihealth/Keystone Health Plan
  • Insurance Administrators of America
  • INTEGRA Administrative Group (ClaimsBridge)
  • Keystone First Medicaid HMO
  • Lifetrac Transplant
  • Maryland Medicaid
  • Multiplan PPO
  • National Transplant (Humana)
  • New Jersey Medicaid
  • Pennsylvania Medicaid
  • Plan Vista/NPPN PPO
  • Preferred Healthcare PPO
  • Qualcare HMO/POS/PPO
  • Star Healthcare Network
  • Three Rivers Provider Network
  • Tricare/Humana Military Health Services
  • United Healthcare of the Mid-Atlantic
  • UPMC MCAID/CHIP PA DE
  • US Family Health Plan
  • Wellpoint Maryland Medcaid

  • Grant, D. S., Neville, D. N., Levas, M., Balamuth, F., Garro, A. C., Bennett, J. E., & for Pedi Lyme Net. (2022). Validation of septic knee monoarthritis prediction rule in a Lyme disease endemic area. Pediatric Emergency Care, 38(2), E881-E885. doi:10.1097/PEC.0000000000002455

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  • Glaser, N. S., Stoner, M. J., Garro, A., Baird, S., Myers, S. R., Rewers, A., & Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network (PECARN) DKA FLUID Study Group. (2021). Serum sodium concentration and mental status in children with diabetic ketoacidosis. Pediatrics, 148(3). doi:10.1542/peds.2021-050243

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  • Rewers, A., Kuppermann, N., Stoner, M. J., Garro, A., Bennett, J. E., Quayle, K. S., & Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network (PECARN) FLUID Study Group. (2021). Effects of Fluid Rehydration Strategy on Correction of Acidosis and Electrolyte Abnormalities in Children With Diabetic Ketoacidosis. Diabetes care, 44(9), 2061-2068. doi:10.2337/dc20-3113

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  • Radtke, F. A., Ramadoss, N., Garro, A., Bennett, J. E., Levas, M. N., Robinson, W. H., & for Pedi Lyme Net. (2021). Serologic Response to Borrelia Antigens Varies with Clinical Phenotype in Children and Young Adults with Lyme Disease. Journal of clinical microbiology, 59(11), e0134421. doi:10.1128/JCM.01344-21

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  • Garro, A., Avery, R. A., Cohn, K. A., Neville, D. N., Balamuth, F., Levas, M. N., & Nigrovic, L. E. (2021). Validation of the Rule of 7's for Identifying Children at Low-risk for Lyme Meningitis. Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal, 306-309. doi:10.1097/INF.0000000000003003

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  • Neville, D. N., Alexander, M. E., Bennett, J. E., Balamuth, F., Garro, A., Levas, M. N., & for Pedi Lyme Net. (2021). Electrocardiogram as a Lyme Disease Screening Test. Journal of Pediatrics, 238, 228-232.e1. doi:10.1016/j.jpeds.2021.07.010

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  • Lantos, P. M., Balamuth, F., Neville, D., Garro, A. C., Levas, M. N., Bennett, J., & Nigrovic, L. E. (2021). Two-Tier Lyme Disease Serology in Children with Previous Lyme Disease. Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases, 21(11), 839-842. doi:10.1089/vbz.2021.0030

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  • Myers, S. R., Glaser, N. S., Trainor, J. L., Nigrovic, L. E., Garro, A., Tzimenatos, L., & Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network (PECARN) DKA FLUID Study Group. (2020). Frequency and risk factors of acute kidney injury during diabetic ketoacidosis in children and association with neurocognitive outcomes. JAMA Network Open, 3(12). doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.25481

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  • Nigrovic, L. E., Neville, D. N., Balamuth, F., Levas, M. N., Bennett, J. E., Kharbanda, A. B., & Garro, A. C. (2020). Pediatric lyme disease biobank, United States, 2015-2020. Emerging Infectious Diseases, 26(12), 3099-3101. doi:10.3201/EID2612.200920

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  • Madsen, J. R., Boyle, T. P., Neuman, M. I., Park, E.-H., Tamber, M. S., Hickey, R. W., & Hameed, M. Q. (2020). Diagnostic accuracy of non-invasive thermal evaluation of ventriculoperitoneal shunt flow in shunt malfunction: A prospective, multi-site, operator-blinded study. Neurosurgery, 87(5), 939-948. doi:10.1093/neuros/nyaa128

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  • Nigrovic, L. E., Lewander, D. P., Balamuth, F., Neville, D. N., Levas, M. N., Bennett, J. E., & Garro, A. (2020). The Lyme Disease Polymerase Chain Reaction Test Has Low Sensitivity. Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases, 20(4), 310-313. doi:10.1089/vbz.2019.2547

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  • Maulden, A. B., Garro, A. C., Balamuth, F., Levas, M. N., Bennett, J. E., Neville, D. N., & Pedi Lyme Net. (2020). Two-tier lyme disease serology test results can vary according to the specific first-tier test used. Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society, 9(2), 128-133. doi:10.1093/JPIDS/PIY133

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  • Carden, M. A., Brousseau, D. C., Ahmad, F. A., Bennett, J., Bhatt, S., Bogie, A., & on behalf of the Sickle Cell Disease Arginine Study Group and the Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network (PECARN). (2019). Normal saline bolus use in pediatric emergency departments is associated with poorer pain control in children with sickle cell anemia and vaso-occlusive pain. American Journal of Hematology, 94(6), 689-696. doi:10.1002/ajh.25471

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  • Rogers, A. J., Kuppermann, N., Anders, J., Roosevelt, G., Hoyle, J. D., Jr, Ruddy, R. M., & the Febrile Infant Working Group of the Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network (PECARN). (2019). Practice Variation in the Evaluation and Disposition of Febrile Infants <=60 Days of Age. Journal of Emergency Medicine, 56(6), 583-591. doi:10.1016/j.jemermed.2019.03.003

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  • Nigrovic, L. E., Lipsett, S. C., Molins, C. R., Wormser, G. P., Bennett, J. E., Garro, A. C., & Branda, J. A. (2019). Higher C6 enzyme immunoassay index values correlate with a diagnosis of noncutaneous Lyme disease. Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease, 94(2), 160-164. doi:10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2018.12.001

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  • Garro, A., Bennett, J., Balamuth, F., Levas, M. N., Neville, D., Branda, J. C., & Nigrovic, L. E. (2019). Positive 2-Tiered Lyme Disease Serology is Uncommon in Asymptomatic Children Living in Endemic Areas of the United States. Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal, 38(5), E105-E107. doi:10.1097/INF.0000000000002157

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  • Nigrovic, L. E., Neville, D. N., Balamuth, F., Bennett, J. E., Levas, M. N., Garro, A. C., & for Pedi Lyme Net. (2019). A minority of children diagnosed with Lyme disease recall a preceding tick bite. Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases, 10(3), 694-696. doi:10.1016/j.ttbdis.2019.02.015

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  • Kuppermann, N., Dayan, P. S., Levine, D. A., Vitale, M., Tzimenatos, L., Tunik, M. G., & Mahajan, P. (2019). A Clinical Prediction Rule to Identify Febrile Infants 60 Days and Younger at Low Risk for Serious Bacterial Infections. JAMA Pediatrics, 173(4), 342-351. doi:10.1001/jamapediatrics.2018.5501

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  • Mahajan, P., Browne, L. R., Levine, D. A., Cohen, D. M., Gattu, R., Linakis, J. G., & Febrile Infant Working Group of the Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network (PECARN). (2018). Risk of Bacterial Coinfections in Febrile Infants 60 Days Old and Younger with Documented Viral Infections. Journal of Pediatrics, 203, 86-91.e2. doi:10.1016/j.jpeds.2018.07.073

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  • Kharbanda, A. B., Christensen, E. W., Dudley, N. C., Bajaj, L., Stevenson, Macias, C. G., & for the Pediatric Emergency Medicine Collaborative Research Committee of the American Academy of Pediatrics. (2018). Economic Analysis of Diagnostic Imaging in Pediatric Patients With Suspected Appendicitis. Academic Emergency Medicine, 25(7), 785-794. doi:10.1111/acem.13387

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  • Goldberg, L. R., Kernie, C. G., Lillis, K., Bennett, J., Conners, G., Macias, C. G., & Dayan, P. S. (2018). Early Recurrence of First Unprovoked Seizures in Children. Academic Emergency Medicine, 25(3), 275-282. doi:10.1111/acem.13341

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  • Kharbanda, A. B., Monuteaux, M. C., Bachur, R. G., Dudley, N. C., Bajaj, L., Stevenson, & Pediatric Emergency Medicine Collaborative Research Committee of the American Academy of Pediatrics. (2017). A Clinical Score to Predict Appendicitis in Older Male Children. Academic Pediatrics, 17(3), 261-266. doi:10.1016/j.acap.2016.11.014

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  • Stevenson, Dayan, P. S., Dudley, N. C., Bajaj, L., Macias, C. G., Bachur, R. G., & Kharbanda, A. B. (2017). Time from emergency department evaluation to operation and appendiceal perforation. Pediatrics, 139(6). doi:10.1542/peds.2016-0742

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  • Nigrovic, L. E., Mahajan, P. V., Blumberg, S. M., Browne, L. R., Linakis, J. G., Ruddy, R. M., & Kuppermann, N. (2017). The yale observation scale score and the risk of serious bacterial infections in febrile infants. Pediatrics, 140(1). doi:10.1542/peds.2017-0695

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  • Cruz, A. T., Mahajan, P., Bonsu, B. K., Bennett, J. E., Levine, D. A., Alpern, E. R., & Febrile Infant Working Group of the Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network. (2017). Accuracy of complete blood cell counts to identify febrile infants 60 days or younger with invasive bacterial infections. JAMA Pediatrics, 171(11). doi:10.1001/jamapediatrics.2017.2927

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  • Nigrovic, L. E., Bennett, J. E., Balamuth, F., Levas, M. N., Chenard, R. L., Maulden, A. B., & Garro, A. C. (2017). Accuracy of clinician suspicion of lyme disease in the emergency department. Pediatrics, 140(6). doi:10.1542/peds.2017-1975

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  • Mahajan, P., Kuppermann, N., Mejias, A., Suarez, N., Chaussabel, D., Casper, T. C., & Ramilo, O. (2016). Association of RNA biosignatures with bacterial infections in febrile infants aged 60 days or younger. JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association, 316(8), 846-857. doi:10.1001/jama.2016.9207

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  • Bachur, R. G., Dayan, P. S., Dudley, N. C., Bajaj, L., Stevenson, Macias, C. G., & Kharbanda, A. B. (2016). The Influence of Age on the Diagnostic Performance of White Blood Cell Count and Absolute Neutrophil Count in Suspected Pediatric Appendicitis. Academic Emergency Medicine, 23(11), 1235-1242. doi:10.1111/acem.13018

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  • Dayan, P. S., Lillis, K., Bennett, J., Conners, G., Bailey, P., Callahan, J., & Kuppermann, N. (2015). Prevalence of and risk factors for intracranial abnormalities in unprovoked seizures. Pediatrics, 136(2), e351-e360. doi:10.1542/peds.2014-3550

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