Wendy Gayle Mitchell
- Director of Pediatric Neurology, Childrens Hospital Los Angeles
- Professor of Clinical Neurology and Pediatrics, Keck School of Medicine and Childrens Hospital Los Angeles
- Member, USC Program in Neural, Informational and Behavioral Sciences
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Expertise Summary
Expert in cognitive and behavioral aspects of childhood epilepsy, clinical research in anticonvulsants, and rare immune-mediated syndrome, opsoclonus-myoclonus (or dancing eyes syndrome)
Expertise
- child neurology
- diagnosis and management of epilepsy, seizures and other paroxysmal events
- behavioral effects of epilepsy treatment
- psychosocial problems in children with epilepsy
- neuropsychological and neurophysio- logical functioning in children with hemophilia
- neurologic aspects of HIV infection in hemophiliac boys and young men
- neurologic and developmental effects of HIV infection in infants and children
- neurocysticercosis and acquired cerebral toxoplasmosis in children
- neurological and development effects of neuroblastoma in children
- migraine in children and adolescents
- attention-deficit and hyperactivity disorders
- health rights and disability-related issues
Additional Information
- Fellow, American Academy of Pediatrics
- Listed in latest edition of The Best Doctors in America: Pacific Region
- Professional Advisory Board Member, L.A. County Epilepsy Society
- Talks to community groups on health rights and disability-related issues