Pediatric Epilepsy Fellowship
The Pediatric Epilepsy Fellowship is one track option of the ACGME-accredited Epilepsy Fellowship Program, housed in the UTHealth Houston McGovern Medical School Department of Neurology. The Epilepsy Fellowship provides the education and experience needed to serve as an Epileptologist in any academic, hospital or community-based practice. Child neurologists successfully completing the program will be eligible for certification by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology (ABPN) with qualification in Epilepsy and/or the American Board of Electrodiagnostic Medicine (ABEM).
Established in 2018, the Epilepsy Fellowship Program has successfully trained more than 25 pediatric and adult epilepsy fellows and continues to expand in diversity of faculty and hands-on opportunities. The pediatric faculty include five ABPN Epilepsy board-certified Pediatric Epileptologists who lead with practical teaching in clinical rotations; formal didactics, including the bi-annual UT Epilepsy EEG course; and innovative learning experiences in both inpatient and outpatient settings, all in a 13-block academic year.
Within the main associated teaching hospital, Memorial Hermann/Children’s Memorial Hermann, our trainees have access to a six-bed pediatric epilepsy monitoring unit, a seven-bed adult epilepsy monitoring unit, and the most advanced techniques for epilepsy diagnosis and treatment, including:
- Video-EEG monitoring
- 3 Tesla MRI and functional MRI
- magnetoencephalogram (MEG)
- PET scan
- SPECT scan
- WADA testing
- fMRI
- ECoG
- Neuropsychological testing
Patients have access to treatment options not limited to drug therapy but include focal cortical resection, hemispherectomy, corpus callosotomy, vagal nerve stimulator, responsive neurostimulation, deep brain stimulation, and ketogenic diet.
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