New center brings tertiary neurological care to children

November 4, 2010 Karen Pabillon

 

 

The Pediatric Epilepsy and Pediatric Neurology services at Swedish Medical Center have combined to create the new Swedish Pediatric Neuroscience Center. As part of the Swedish Neuroscience Institute (SNI), comprehensive neurological care for newborns, infants, children and adoles­cents is now located at the Swedish First Hill campus in Seattle. Marcio Sotero de Menezes, M.D., has been appointed direc­tor of the new center.

The center has a high patient volume for the medical and surgical treatment of seizure disorders, including complex epi­lepsy syndromes and genetic epilepsies. It is accredited by the National Association of Epilepsy Centers as a Level-4 epilepsy center.

In addition to epilepsy, the center’s specialists treat pediatric patients for a wide range of neurological disorders, in­cluding headache and migraine; move­ment disorders, tics and Tourette’s syn­drome; genetic and metabolic disorders; neurodevelopmental disorders and learn­ing disabilities; brain malformations; cere­bral palsy; stroke; tuberous sclerosis; and neurofibromatosis.

The center’s pa­tients will also benefit from a broad spectrum of pediatric neurol­ogy inpatient hospital services, including epilepsy monitoring unit, pediatric and neonatal intensive care units, procedural seda­tion services, pediatric neurosurgery and intraoperative EEG monitoring, imaging services, and neuropsychological testing. Physical, occupational and speech therapy services are also available to the center’s patients.

For more information about the Swedish Pediatric Neuroscience Center, please call 206-215-1440.

 

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