Bringing CNS Members Together to Make Children’s Lives Better
Nancy McNamara, MD
Assistant Clinical Professor, Co-Director of Pediatric Epilepsy Surgery Program
University of Michigan, Michigan Medicine
Ann Arbor, MI
Erin Fedak Romanowski, DO
Assistant Clinical Professor, Co-Director of Pediatric Epilepsy Surgery Program
University of Michigan, Michigan Medicine
Ann Arbor, MI
Nancy McNamara, MD is co-director of the pediatric epilepsy surgery program at the University of Michigan, Michigan Medicine. She will provide a course introduction/overview by way of an initial case presentation.
Sarah Kelley, MD is a pediatric epileptologist and associate professor at Johns Hopkins University. She is the medical director of the epilepsy monitoring unit and well known as a thoughtful and engaging speaker. Her clinical and research interests include treatment of children with refractory epilepsy and children with electrical status epilepticus of sleep. She will review the history of pediatric epilepsy surgery in children and the importance of early intervention in children with intractable epilepsy.
Ajay Gupta, MD is the head of the section of Pediatric Epilepsy in the Epilepsy Center/Neurological Institute. He is Professor at The Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University. He is an expert in the field of childhood and adolescent epilepsy with emphasis on epilepsy surgery evaluation, management of complex childhood epilepsies, and neurocutaneous disorders such as Tuberous Sclerosis Complex and Sturge-Weber syndrome. In his talk, he will review focal drivers for what appear to be generalized epilepsy syndromes and specifically those that may be amenable to surgical resection.
Erin Fedak Romanowski, DO is co-director of the pediatric epilepsy surgery program at the University of Michigan, Michigan Medicine. She will review latest surgical techniques and neuromodulation, as well as outcomes and risks.
M Scott Perry, MD is a pediatric epileptologist, medical director of the neurology program, co-director of the Jane and John Justin Neurosciences Center, and director of the Genetic Epilepsy Clinic at Cook Children’s Medical Center. He is also the PI for the Pediatric Epilepsy Surgery Database project, a multicenter collaboration of the Pediatric Epilepsy Research Consortium Epilepsy Surgery subgroup. He will discuss trends from nearly 1000 children currently enrolled in this project, while highlighting areas of needed research to close treatment gaps through collaboration