Clinical Activities | Education | Research
Clinical Activities
The Division of Neurology at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center serves the Tri-State community of the Greater Cincinnati area. We also offer second opinions for neurological disorders on patients elsewhere and we see an increasing number of patients from anywhere in the United States and abroad in our sub-specialty clinics. We have outpatient clinics at Cincinnati Children's main campus and at the satellite offices at Anderson, Eastgate, Fairfield, Mason, West Chester and Northern Kentucky. Speciality clinics include headache (515 new visits) movement disorders (419 new visits), neuromuscular disorders (137 new visits), neurometabolic disorders (37 new visits), new onset seizures (210 new visits), and tuberous sclerosis (67 new visits). We also have intractable epilepsy clinics and a stroke clinic and participate in the neuro-oncology program. All specialty clinics are integrated to clinical research programs. As a result, many patients are recruited into clinical trials and other clinical research activities. We continue with our goal to deliver optimal care to patients and their families. We have seen 3,664 new visits and 11,137 follow-up visits in our out-patient clinics.
The Clinical Neurophysiology Laboratory is part of the Division of Neurology. We offer EEG (3,803), EMG (110), evoked potentials (28) as well as in-patient EEG video monitoring services (508). The Surgical Epilepsy Program offers phase 1 and phase 2 studies in combination with the Neurosurgery Service.
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Education
The Neurology Residency in Pediatric Neurology offers three positions per year. We continue to offer the combined Pediatric/Pediatric Neurology training program. We also offer fellowships in Neurodevelopmental Disabilities, Neuromuscular Disease, Epilepsy, Clinical Neurophysiology and Neuropharmacology.
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Research
Dr. Glauser continues his studies of pharmacogenetics and pharmacogenomics of anti-epileptic drug metabolism and toxicity in children.
Drs. Byars and Schapiro continue their studies in language development in stroke patients and Down's syndrome patients respectively in collaboration with the Imaging Research Center at Cincinnati Children's.
Drs. Hershey, Glauser, Schapiro, Franz and Gilbert continue their involvement with blood genomics in children with a variety of neurological disorders.
Dr. Wong continues her clinical studies in spinal muscular atrophy and Duchenne's muscular dystrophy in collaboration with other investigators.
Dr. Franz continues his work on tuberous sclerosis and clinical trials of new treatment strategies.
Drs. Vorhees and Williams study developmental interactions of methamphetamine and stress in animal models.
Other clinical research projects are ongoing in the area of co-enzyme Q10, creatine metabolism, and transcranial magnetic stimulation in a variety of neurological disorders.
We are preparing to start magnetoencephalography studies after the purchase of our MEG machine.
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