The Division of Pediatric Neurology is a center of clinical and academic excellence. Originally founded as a program within the Department of Pediatrics, the Division of Pediatric Neurology has been a part of the Department of Neurology since 1995, with most faculty members having joint or adjunct appointments with the Department of Pediatrics. Our mission includes meeting the health-care needs of infants, children and adolescents with neurological disorders, advancing knowledge through research in the clinical and basic neurosciences, and training the next generation of pediatric neurologists in our residency program.
The Division of Pediatric Neurology is based at Children's Hospital and Regional Medical Center (CHRMC) and provides both out-patient and in-patient consultation and management services for pediatric patients with a variety of neurologic, neuromuscular, and neurodevelopmental disorders. Infants, children, and adolescents with epilepsy, movement disorders, cerebral palsy, developmental delay, headache, and other disorders of the nervous system are evaluated by faculty pediatric neurologists who are certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. The Division of Pediatric Neurology operates regular clinics at CHRMC and also participates in outreach programs located at a variety of sites in Washington and Alaska. Faculty members also provide in-patient neurologic consultation for patients admitted to all units at CHRMC and to the Intensive Care Nursery at the University of Washington Medical Center. The Division of Pediatric Neurology admits children to CHRMC for the evaluation of complex neurologic disorders and administers an in-patient video-EEG telemetry unit where children are admitted for intensive monitoring of epilepsy and other paroxysmal disorders. The Division of Pediatric Neurology has epilepsy surgery, ketogenic diet and vagus nerve stimulator programs for the treatment of children with complex epileptic conditions.
Faculty members in the Division of Pediatric Neurology are engaged in a variety of laboratory-based and clinical research programs. These studies are designed to improve our understanding of both the normal function of the developing nervous system and the pathologic processes which underlie many of the disorders encountered by the faculty in their clinical work, and to improve therapies of children with epilepsy and other disabling neurologic disorders.
Clinical epilepsy research programs (Drs. Kuratani, Saneto, Simon, Shurtleff, Warner and Gospe)
A variety of research projects in the Divison focus on pediatric epilepsy and its treatment. Projects include the role of neurosteroids in the treatment of infantile spasms, the management of myoclonic epilepsies of childhood, clinical therapies of medically intractable epilepsy including the ketogenic diet and vagus nerve stimulator, and the long-term outcome of pediatric patients who have undergone epilepsy surgery. The Division of Pediatric Neurology also sponsors a patient registry for individuals with pyridoxine-dependent seizures who reside in the US and Canada.
Basic neuroscience research programs (Drs. Bamford, Ferri, Gospe, and Jansen)
Divisional faculty members are engaged in a variety of laboratory-based research studies. These investigations focus on neurodevelopmental mechanisms of brain motor control systems, pathogenesis of brain malformations, the expression of transcription factors during oligodendrocyte development and brain myelization, the development of stem cell therapies for the treatment of white matter disorders, the patch-clamp study of ion channel abnormalities in animal models of pediatric epilepsy, and the neurodevelopmental toxicity of second-hand tobacco smoke.
Sidney M. Gospe, Jr., MD, PhD Sarkowsky Endowed Chair, Professor of Neurology and Pediatrics and Division Head
Clinical interests: general pediatric neurology, neurotoxicology and epilepsy
Research: clinical and neurochemical aspects of pyridoxine-dependent seizures and the effects of fetal toxins on brain development
Research Profile (COS)
Faculty Web Page
E-mail: sgospe@u.washington.edu |
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John Kuratani, MD Associate Professor of Neurology (Adjunct Pediatrics) and EEG Lab Director
Clinical interest: epilepsy, including EEG, video telemetry and intraoperative corticography; Research: role of neurosteroids in infantile spasms.
Faculty Web Page
e-mail: john.kuratani@seattlechildrens.org |
Russell Saneto, DO, PhD, Associate Professor of Neurology (Adjunct Pediatrics)
Clinical interest: epilepsy, EEG-video telemetry, mitochondrial disorders; Research: detection and treatment of pediatric epilepsies caused by mitochondrial disease
Faculty Web Page
e-mail: russ.saneto@seattlechildrens.org |
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Heidi K. Blume, MD, MPH Acting Assistant Professor of Neurology
Clinical interests: pediatric headache, general pediatric neurology
Research interests: neuroepidemiology
Faculty Web Page
e-mail: hblume@u.washington.edu |
Nigel S. Bamford, MD, Assistant Professor of Neurology (Adjunct Pediatrics)
Clinical interests: brain malformations, neurocutaneous disorders, movement disorders and general pediatric neurology
Research: developmental neurobiology, cerebral dysgenesis, and functional development of brain motor control systems
Faculty Web Page
e-mail: bamford@u.washington.edu |
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Anthony A. Bouldin, MD, Clinical Assistant Professor of Neurology
Clinical interests: general pediatric neurology, neuromuscular disease, neurogenetics
Faculty Web Page
e-mail: tony.bouldin@seattlechildrens.org |
Raymond T. Ferri, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Neurology
Clinical interests: neurogenetics, metabolic disorders, disorders of white matter, general pediatric neurology
Research interests: transcription factors expression during oligodendrocyte development and myelin maintenance. Progenitor cell transplants for repair of white matter.
Faculty Web Page
e-mail: ferrir@u.washington.edu |
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Laura A. Jansen, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Neurology (Adjunct Pediatrics)
Clinical interests: general pediatric neurology, epilepsy
Research interests: abnormalities of ion channel function in pediatric epilepsy
Faculty web page link is pending
e-mail: laura.jansen@seattlechildrens.org |
Lauren L. Plawner, MD, Acting Assistant Professor of Neurology
Clinical interests: general pediatric neurology, congenital brain malformations
Research interests: neurology education, holoprosencephaly
Faculty web page pending
e-mail: lauren.plawner@seattlechildrens.org |
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Hillary Shurtleff, PhD, ABPP-CN, 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
Faculty web page pending
e-mail: hillary.shurtleff@seattlechildrens.org |
Ednea Simon, MD, Acting Assistant Professor of Neurology
Clinical interests: epilepsy, EEG-video telemetry, ketogenic diet
Research interests: neonatal epilepsy, infantile spasms
Faculty web page pending
e-mail: ednea@u.washington.edu |
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Molly Warner, PhD, ABPP-CN, Clinical Assistant Professor of Neurology
Clinical interests: epilepsy/neuropsychology of epilepsy, outcomes following epilepsy surgery
Research interests: neuropsychological aspects of epilepsy
Faculty web page pending
e-mail: molly.warner@seattlechildrens.org |
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