Sage Neuroscience and Neurology

JCN's Residents and Fellows Board Director, Dr. Alison Christy, interviews Dr. Brenda Banwell, chair of neurology at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia about Pediatric Multiple Sclerosis and Neuroimmunologic Disease.

JCN's Residents and Fellows Board Director, Dr. Alison Christy, interviews Dr. Svetlana Blitshteyn, Director of Dysautonomia Clinic and Amherst Neurology, and Clinical Assistant Professor of Neurology at University at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences about Postural Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS).  

In this episode Dr. Alison Christy, Director of JCN and CNO's Residents and Fellows Board, interviews Dr. Marc Patterson, Editor in Chief of JCN and CNO. Their discussion covers the journals' mission, his career journey and research interests, and finally advice for authors and reviewers working in academic publishing. 

JCN's Residents and Fellows Board Director, Dr. Alison Christy, interviews Dr. Aliya Frederick, a Fellow in pediatric epilepsy at UCSD and a member of the JCN & CNO Residents and Fellows board about her experiences getting into medicine and pediatric neurology; Dr. Frederick then interviews Dr. Eseosa Ighodaro, a Resident in adult neurology at Mayo Clinic. Finally, Dr. Frederick interviews Dr. Joshua Bonkowsky, Chair of Pediatric Neurology at the University of Utah, about his article "Disparities in Pediatric Epilepsy Remission Are Associated With Race and Ethnicity," published September 2019 in JCN.

JCN's Residents and Fellows Board Director, Dr. Alison Christy, interviews Dr. Samiya Ahmed from Baylor College of Medicine in San Antonio, Texas on sleep.  Read more at the Journal of Child Neurology and Child Neurology Open. 

JCN's Residents and Fellows Board Director, Dr. Alison Christy, interviews Dr. Inna Hughes of the University of Rochester on epilepsy.  Read more at the Journal of Child Neurology and Child Neurology Open.

JCN's Residents and Fellows Board Director, Dr. Alison Christy, interviews Dr. Paige Kalika of the University of Miami on ADHD.  Read more at the Journal of Child Neurology and Child Neurology Open. 

JCN's Residents and Fellows Board Director, Dr. Alison Christy, interviews Dr. Samantha Irwin of UCSF on headaches.  Read more from the Journal of Child Neurology and Child Neurology Open.

Dr. Angela Curcio of Columbia University Medical Center and a member of JCN and CNO's Residents & Fellows Board interviews Dr. Rana Said of UT Southwestern Medical Center on her research on infantile spasms and career in pediatric neurology. For more information, please check out Dr. Said's article published in The Journal of Child Neurology: "Outcomes of High-Dose Steroid Therapy for Infantile Spasms in Children With Trisomy 21".

Dr. Alison Christy interviews Dr. Natalie Guido Estrada, a pediatric neurologist at Rady Children’s Hospital about how her department shifted to telemedicine quickly, and Dr. Max Perelman, a resident at Oregon Health and Sciences University to hear their experience as a trainee in this time. Finally, Dr. Christy interviews Dr. Heather Lau, of New York University, on how she continues her research and clinical work in the middle of the surge in New York City.