Epilepsy Center: Patients and Families
Helpful Resources
- A Parent's Guide to Pediatric Epilepsy Surgery
- FAQs About Surgery (PDF)
- Grids and Strips Surgery (PDF)
- Hemispherectomy Surgery (PDF)
- Resection Surgery (PDF)
- Understanding Epilepsy (PDF)
The Comprehensive Epilepsy Center offers a multidisciplinary approach to epilepsy care for children with seizures and seizure disorders. The first Pediatric Epilepsy Program in the country to be certified through The Joint Commission Disease-Specific Care program, recognizing excellence in Epilepsy Care. These specialists work together to meet the full range of epilepsy care needs including:
Care and education after a first seizure
Second opinions for complicated epilepsy
Epilepsy surgical evaluations
Resective surgical procedures
Ketogenic diet therapy
Vagal nerve stimulation
Access to latest treatments and experimental trials
Treatment with antiepileptic medications (current and investigational)
Stereotactic radiosurgery (with Gamma Knife
