Pediatric Neurology Residency Program Faculty



Professor of Neurology and Pediatrics, Head Division of Pediatric Neurology, Herman and Faye Sarkowsky Endowed Chair in Child Neurology

Clinical Interests: General pediatric neurology, Pediatric neuromuscular disease
Research Interests: Pyridoxine dependent seizures, Neurotoxicology

Email: sgospe@u.washington.edu
Professor of Neurology and Pediatrics

Clinical Interests: Pediatric Epilepsy.
Research Interests: Use of functional MRI and MR spectroscopy in the evaluation of children for epilepsy surgery.

Email: ejn4@u.washington.edu

Associate Professor Emeritus of Neurology and Pediatrics

Clinical Interests: General pediatric neurology, Pediatric neuro oncology
Research Interests: MR spectroscopy

Email: milstein@u.washington.edu
Associate Professor of Neurology, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Pediatrics

Clinical Interests: General child neurology, Neuronal and cerebellar dysgenesis, Drug addiction and withdrawal
Research Interests: Molecular and genetic basis of cerebellar and cortical dysgenesis, Synaptic function and regulation of corticostriatal projections, Aberrant cortical and striatal function in Huntingtons disease and psychostimulant withdrawal

Email: bamford@u.washington.edu

Associate Professor of Neurology, Adjunct Associate Professor of Pediatrics

Clinical Interests: Epilepsy, EEG, Video telemetry, Intraoperative corticography
Research Interests: Role of neurosteroids in infantile spasms

Email: john.kuratani@seattlechildrens.org
Associate Professor of Neurology, Adjunct Associate Professor of Pediatrics

Clinical Interests: Pediatric epilepsy, Epilepsy surgery, Mitochondrial disease, Neurometabolic disease
Research Interests: Mitochondrial disease and epilepsy, Mitochondrial disease, Epilepsy surgery outcomes, Infantile spasms, Ketogenic diet

Email: russ.saneto@seattlechildrens.org

Assistant Professor of Neurology

Clinical Interests: Pediatric Neurology
Research Interests: Neonatal Neurology, Epidemiology of childhood neurological disease

Email: hblume@u.washington.edu
Clinical Assistant Professor of Neurology

Clinical Interests: General pediatric neurology, Neuromuscular disease, Neurogenetics
Research Interests: Clinical Pediatric Neurogenetics

Email: tony.bouldin@seattlechildrens.org

Assistant Professor of Neurology

Clinical Interests: Neurometabolic and Neurogenetic Disorders, Inherited Disorders of White Matter, General Pediatric Neur
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

Email: ferrir@u.washington.edu
Assistant Professor of Neurology

Clinical Interests: General Pediatric Neurology, Epilepsy, Management of migraine headaches
Research Interests: Investigation of abnormalities in ion channel function in brain specimens from children treated surgically for intractable seizures

Email: laura.jansen@seattlechildrens.org

Acting Assistant Professor of Neurology

Clinical Interests: General pediatric neurology, Congenital brain malformations
Research Interests: Neurology education, Holoprosencephaly

Email: lauren.plawner@seattlechildrens.org
Clinical Assistant Professor of Neurology

Clinical Interests: Epilepsy/neuropsychology of epilepsy, Outcomes following epilepsy surgery, Neuropsychological aspects of mitochondrial disorders
Research Interests: Neuropsychological aspects of epilepsy

Email: hillary.shurtleff@seattlechildrens.org

Acting Assistant Professor of Neurology

Clinical Interests: Epilepsy, EEG video telemetry, Ketogenic diet
Research Interests: Neonatal epilepsy, Infantile spasms

Email: ednea@u.washington.edu
Clinical Assistant Professor of Neurology

Clinical Interests: Epilepsy/neuropsychology of epilepsy, Outcomes following epilepsy surgery
Research Interests: Neuropsychological aspects of epilepsy

Email: molly.warner@seattlechildrens.org

Acting Instructor of Neurology

Clinical Interests: Pediatric neuromuscular disease
Research Interests:

Email: rr22@u.washington.edu