At Children's Hospital paediatric neurologists assess children for cognitive, behavioral and developmental problems involving the central nervous system. They diagnose and treat children with diseases such as meningitis, encephalitis, hypoxic ischemic injury, falls, trauma, strokes and seizures. Diseases impacting the peripheral nerves and muscles also require their expertise.
The Paediatric Neurology Program has the support of other clinical services within CH including Paediatric Emergency and Paediatric Critical Care staff who will usually manage neurological emergencies without immediate involvement of the neurologists.
State-of-the-art paediatric neurology is delivered by a comprehensive multi-disciplinary team responsible for all neurology admissions, high risk infants, children with respiratory disease, orthopaedic conditions and feeding and swallowing problems from various causes including neurological disease. Paediatric neurologists at CH support several other paediatric programs including neurosurgery, cardiology, endocrinology, hematology/oncology, genetics, gastroenterology, nephrology, ophthalmology, transplantation and orthopaedics.
Paediatric neurology research has been focused on two major activities; the first is quantifying research to determine specific statistics related to childhood epilepsy and the second is the application of new techniques in the intensive care unit where researchers are monitoring the progression of brain recovery or deterioration in the unconscious infant and child. Research seeks to determine whether neuroresuscitative techniques are helpful.
The Team:
- Dr. Simon Levin, Associate Professor, Section Head of Paediatric Neurology
- Dr. Narayan Prasad, Associate Professor
- Dr. Craig Campbell, Assistant Professor, Associate Scientist, Child Health Research Institute
- Margo Devris Rizzo, CNS/NP
The Facts:
- Approximately 350,000 infants and children less than 18 years of age in Southwestern Ontario;
- 77% of children seen at CH are from outside the London/Middlesex region;
- Average 2,000 patients annually.
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