Dr. Laura Kirkpatrick, resident in pediatric neurology at Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, talks about how to counsel adolescents and their families about epilepsy and reproductive health.

Pediatric Neurologists’ Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health Care for Adolescent and Young Adult Women With Epilepsy and Intellectual Disability in the October 2021 issue of JCN.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/08830738211041824

A physician and parent talks anonymously about her experience with her daughter’s seizures.

An interview with Dr. Jennifer Bain, pediatric neurologist and assistant professor at Columbia University Irving Medical Center.

An interview with Dr. Felicia Gliksman, pediatric neurologist and director of the Concussion Center at Hackensack University Medical Center in New Jersey.

Dr. Hope O’Brien, headache specialist and Associate Editor for headache at JCN, talks about opening her own clinic for headache medicine – The Headache Center of Hope – in Cincinnati, Ohio.

https://www.hcohcincy.com/hope-obrien

Dr. Christy talks with Dr. Michael Msall, professor of pediatrics at the Pritzer School of Medicine at the University of Chicago and co-director of the Kennedy Research Center on Intellectual and Neurodevelopmental Disabilities. 

Dr. Amal Abu Libdeh, pediatric neurologist and movement disorders specialist at the University of Virginia, talks about the challenges that face international medical school graduates, what they bring to the table in pediatric neurology, and how we can help and support them.

Dr. Brenda Banwell, pediatric neurologist and neuroimmunologist and chief of neurology at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, talks about how pediatric neurologists can get involved with the AAN to advocate for their patients, find phenomenal mentors and further their own careers. https://www.aan.com/

Dr. Nina Schor, deputy director of the NINDS, talks about her career, her research, her poetry and her current work in equity and diversity. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0883073813483173