Associate Professor of Neurology
Adjunct Associate Professor of Pediatrics

Office Phone: 206-987-2078

EDUCATION
- Ph.D. in Human Biochemical Genetics from the University of Texas Medical Branch, 1981
- Postdoctoral fellowship in developmental neurobiology at the University of California, Los Angeles, 1982-1986
- D.O. from Des Moines University, School of Osteopathy and Surgery, 1994
- Trained in Pediatrics at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, 1994-1997
- Neurology residency with emphasis in Child Neurology at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, 1997-2000
- Fellowship in pediatric epilepsy/clinical neurophysiology at the Cleveland Clinic

CERTIFICATION
- Pediatrics and Neurology, special emphasis in Child Neurology

CLINICAL INTERESTS
- Pediatric epilepsy
- Epilepsy surgery
- Mitochondrial disease
- Neurometabolic disease

CLINICAL PRACTICE
- Children's Hospital and Regional Medical Center, Seattle
- Bellevue Children's Hospital satellite clinic

RESEARCH INTERESTS
- Mitochondrial disease and epilepsy
- Mitochondrial disease
- Epilepsy surgery outcomes
- Infantile spasms
- Ketogenic diet