Medical Director, CHLA Comprehensive Epilepsy Program.
“The Comprehensive Pediatric Epilepsy Program at CHLA is part of the University of California Epilepsy Care Consortium. This unique consortium brings together diverse Epilepsy Programs- Pediatric and Adult, from across southern California. Members of the Consortium have a shared vision of equitable access to high quality epilepsy care to persons with epilepsy, access to research and to optimize patient outcomes. This unique consortium of academic and community epilepsy programs provides seamless resource sharing and integration of care for individuals with epilepsy across several institutions. The consortium makes it possible for all persons with epilepsy across age and socioeconomic spectra access clinical expertise and research programs, thereby receiving the highest level of epilepsy care possible while staying close to home.”
Director Bio:
Dr. Sucheta M. Joshi, MD, MS, FAES, FCNS is the Medical Director of the CHLA Comprehensive Epilepsy Program. She completed training at University of California San Francisco, Stanford University and University of Michigan School of Public Health. Her clinical interests involve difficult to treat pediatric epilepsy, EEG and EEG monitoring. Her clinical and scholarly interests also include improving access to epilepsy care for children in medically underserved areas using innovative methods for epilepsy care such as telehealth, and transition of adolescents with epilepsy to adult care. Dr. Joshi serves on the Executive Board of the Pediatric Epilepsy Research Consortium, an organization to foster multicenter research in Pediatric Epilepsy. She has served on the Executive Committee of the Child Neurology Society, AAP Section on Neurology, and as faculty for the AAP, American Epilepsy Society, Child Neurology Society and the International Child Neurology Association. She has mentored medical students, residents, fellows and social workers on research projects, lectures regularly on epilepsy related topics at national and international meetings, published several peer-reviewed manuscripts, book chapters and is a reviewer for scientific journals.