Two new pediatric neurologists will help Le Bonheur Children's Me

McVicar has a special interest in the field of autism, language regression, and their possible interaction with immunology. She'll work with Dr. Fred Perkins in her studies of autism. Dr. Morgan will focus on neonatal neurology at the hospital and will help Le Bonheur extend care to Northern Mississippi.

McVicar comes to Memphis from Montefiore Medical Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, where she served as an attending physician after completing her fellowship in clinical neurophysiology. She completed her residency at Babies and Children's Hospital of New York and Children's Hospital of New York at Columbia University.

"I was attracted to Memphis because it's an opportunity to build a strong autism research program," McVicar said. "We're on the frontier, much as children's cancers were 30 years ago. Families are extremely vulnerable. There is no universally agreed upon treatment for autism so they are left trying to decide what to do."

While McVicar studies autism in Memphis, Dr. Robin Morgan will spend part of her time in Tupelo serving children of North Mississippi. She will also work from UT Medical Group Inc.'s office in Germantown one day a week.

Morgan has interests in tic disorders/Tourette Syndrome, has worked with many autism patients in Colorado, and has also started working in the neonatal neurology area after seeing a need for it here.

Morgan comes to Le Bonheur from Denver Children's Hospital, where she served as an assistant clinical professor in the department of pediatrics at the University of Colorado. She also worked in private practice in adult and pediatric neurology in Colorado Springs, Colo.

She completed her neurology residency and fellowship training at the Medical College of Virginia, followed by a pediatric residency at the University of Colorado Health Science Center. She is board certified in neurology with a special qualification in child neurology.