Current Environment: Production

Medical Services

Specialties

Programs & Services

Languages

  • English
  • French
  • Italian

Education

Medical School

McGill University Faculty of Medicine

1985, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Internship

Pediatrics

Floating Hospital for Children at Tufts New England Medical Center

1986, Boston, MA

Residency

Pediatrics

Floating Hospital for Children at Tufts New England Medical Center

1988, Boston, MA

Fellowship

Child Neurology

Tufts New England Medical Center

1991, Boston, MA

Certifications

  • American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology (Child and Adolescent Neurology)

Publications

  1. Evaluating the effectiveness of medical therapy in infantile epileptic spasms syndrome due to surgically-remediable lesions. Epilepsia. 2025 May; 66(5):1433-1446. View Abstract

  2. Timing the clinical onset of epileptic spasms in infantile epileptic spasms syndrome: A tertiary health center's experience. Epilepsia. 2024 Apr; 65(4):984-994. View Abstract

  3. Influence of extent and age at corpus callosotomy on seizure outcomes. A single center experience. Epilepsia Open. 2023 Dec; 8(4):1596-1601. View Abstract

  4. Hospital readmissions in children with new-onset infantile epileptic spasms syndrome. Epilepsia Open. 2023 06; 8(2):444-455. View Abstract

  5. Interictal Connectivity Revealed by Granger Analysis of Stereoelectroencephalography: Association With Ictal Onset Zone, Resection, and Outcome. Neurosurgery. 2022 10 01; 91(4):583-589. View Abstract

  6. Infantile spasms: Assessing the diagnostic yield of an institutional guideline and the impact of etiology on long-term treatment response. Epilepsia. 2022 05; 63(5):1164-1176. View Abstract

  7. Sporadic and Periodic Interictal Discharges in Critically Ill Children: Seizure Associations and Time to Seizure Identification. J Clin Neurophysiol. 2023 Feb 01; 40(2):130-135. View Abstract

  8. Hippocampal Involvement With Vigabatrin-Related MRI Signal Abnormalities in Patients With Infantile Spasms: A Novel Finding. J Child Neurol. 2021 06; 36(7):575-582. View Abstract

  9. EEG features of brain injury during extracorporeal membrane oxygenation in children. Neurology. 2020 09 08; 95(10):e1372-e1380. View Abstract

  10. Mortality in infantile spasms: A hospital-based study. Epilepsia. 2020 04; 61(4):702-713. View Abstract

  11. Brain MRI abnormalities in patients with infantile spasms and Down syndrome. Epilepsy Behav. 2019 03; 92:57-60. View Abstract

  12. Epilepsy surgery near or in eloquent cortex in children-Practice patterns and recommendations for minimizing and reporting deficits. Epilepsia. 2018 08; 59(8):1484-1491. View Abstract

  13. Seizure clustering during presurgical electroencephalographic monitoring in children. Epilepsy Behav. 2018 03; 80:291-295. View Abstract

  14. Continuous EEG in Pediatric Critical Care: Yield and Efficiency of Seizure Detection. J Clin Neurophysiol. 2017 Sep; 34(5):421-426. View Abstract

  15. Genetics and genotype-phenotype correlations in early onset epileptic encephalopathy with burst suppression. Ann Neurol. 2017 Mar; 81(3):419-429. View Abstract

  16. Effectiveness of once-daily high-dose ACTH for infantile spasms. Epilepsy Behav. 2016 06; 59:4-8. View Abstract

  17. H-coil repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation for treatment of temporal lobe epilepsy: A case report. Epilepsy Behav Case Rep. 2016; 5:52-6. View Abstract

  18. Safety and retention rate of rufinamide in 300 patients: a single pediatric epilepsy center experience. Epilepsia. 2014 Aug; 55(8):1235-44. View Abstract

  19. The stability of spike counts in children with interictal epileptiform activity. Seizure. 2014 Jun; 23(6):454-6. View Abstract

  20. Diagnostic test utilization in evaluation for resective epilepsy surgery in children. Epilepsia. 2014 Apr; 55(4):507-18. View Abstract

  21. Clobazam: effect on frequency of seizures and safety profile in different subgroups of children with epilepsy. Pediatr Neurol. 2014 Jul; 51(1):60-6. View Abstract

  22. Outcomes of vagal nerve stimulation in a pediatric population: a single center experience. Seizure. 2014 Feb; 23(2):105-11. View Abstract

  23. Rufinamide for the treatment of epileptic spasms. Epilepsy Behav. 2011 Feb; 20(2):344-8. View Abstract

  24. Experience with rufinamide in a pediatric population: a single center's experience. Pediatr Neurol. 2010 Sep; 43(3):155-8. View Abstract

  25. Effects of dexmedetomidine sedation on the EEG in children. Paediatr Anaesth. 2009 Dec; 19(12):1175-83. View Abstract

  26. Factors predictive of seizures and neurologic outcome in perinatal depression. Pediatr Neurol. 2003 Jul; 29(1):18-25. View Abstract

  27. Do antiepileptic drugs differ in suppressing interictal epileptiform activity in children? Pediatr Neurol. 2001 Mar; 24(3):214-8. View Abstract

  28. Clinical correlations of occipital epileptiform discharges in children. Neurology. 1999 Jul 22; 53(2):265-9. View Abstract

  29. Acetazolamide and furosemide for posthemorrhagic hydrocephalus of the newborn. Pediatr Neurol. 1999 Mar; 20(3):185-91. View Abstract

  30. Tonic "seizures" in a patient with brainstem demyelination: MRI study of brain and spinal cord. Pediatr Neurol. 1994 Oct; 11(3):258-62. View Abstract

  31. Hemimegalencephaly: a longitudinal MR study. AJNR Am J Neuroradiol. 1994 Sep; 15(8):1479-82. View Abstract
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