Acting Assistant Professor Neurology

Office Phone: 206-616-7471
Clinic Phone: 206-987-3744

Research Profile (COS)

EDUCATION
- M.D., Ph.D. from the Medical College of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, 1995
- Residency in Pediatrics and Child Neurology at Rhode Island Hospital, 1995-2000
- Fellowship in Developmental and Metabolic Neurology at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland

CERTIFICATION
- American Board of Pediatrics
- American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology

CLINICAL INTERESTS
- Neurometabolic and Neurogenetic Disorders
- Inherited Disorders of White Matter
- General Pediatric Neurology

CLINICAL PRACTICE
- Pediatric Neurology at the Children’s Hospital & Regional Medical Center in Seattle, WA

RESEARCH INTERESTS
- Progenitor and stem cell differentiation in the central nervous system, and the signal pathways regulating oligodendrocyte development
- Transcription factor regulation of myelin maintenance in the central nervous system