I am honored and excited to lead the division of Pediatric Neurology at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, Emory University School of Medicine. Our division is rapidly growing to become one of the largest in the country. We have more than 20 faculty and 15 APPs taking care of very demanding clinical services at two hospital locations, Children’s Healthcare at Egleston and Children’s Healthcare at Scottish Rite. The Pediatric Neurology division thrives on giving excellent and efficient clinical service, offering robust training and education, and building clinical and basic research supported by external funding.
We excel in giving the best neurology care to our children through several sub specialty neurology programs, offering comprehensive neurology care for all children, from headache to neuroimmunology to epilepsy surgery. We partner with other divisions to provide the best care for children. We work very closely with our colleagues from Aflac Cancer Center to provide the best care for children with brain tumors. Additionally, we team up with Marcus Autism Center to innovate new diagnostic tools for children with autism. In our comprehensive multidisciplinary clinic, our neuromuscular team has great collaboration with Pulmonology and Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. Our Level 4 NAEC-accredited epilepsy center works very closely with neurosurgery, neuroradiology, and neuropsychology and is very well supported by social workers, genetic counselors, nurses and EEG technologists to provide comprehensive support to the most complex patients with epilepsy.
We are proud to create the next generation of Child Neurologists and Pediatric Epileptologists through our very strong neurology residency and pediatric epilepsy fellowship programs. Through a partnership with a strong adult neurology program at Emory University, they are exposed to the best clinical training thorough one of the busiest clinical services with a wide variety of pathologies. Additionally, residents and fellows receive a variety of didactic lectures given by highly experienced faculty, from both pediatric and adult neurology.
Finally, our division is a growing place for clinical and basic research. Our faculty and programs have been involved in multi-center trials and research. Having a very strong neurosciences program at Emory and Georgia Tech bioengineering is a great gift to create the next cure for epilepsy or Duchene or rare neurological condition. We are proud to partner with these two great institutions in our research efforts.
The future is very bright for Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta’s Division of Pediatric Neurology.