Le Bonheur Pediatric Neurology Experts Present at American Epilepsy Society (AES)

Pediatric experts from the Neuroscience Institute at Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital and the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) presented their research at the annual meeting of the American Epilepsy Society (AES) held Dec. 3-7, 2021.

AES is a community of professionals engaged in the understanding, diagnosis, study, prevention, treatment and cure of epilepsy with the goal of improving outcomes for persons with epilepsy. The annual meeting is held each year for the epilepsy community to learn best practices and review breakthrough research.

Le Bonheur Children’s and UTHSC presentations included:

Epilepsy and Behavior: What Physicians and Providers Need to Know
• Le Bonheur Neurodevelopmental Disabilities Specialist Tanjala Gipson, MD

Prevalence and Treatment of Dysphagia in Children with Infantile Spasms
• Director of Le Bonheur Children’s Infantile Epilepsy Center Amy Patterson, MD
• Co-director of Le Bonheur Children’s Neuroscience Institute James W. Wheless, MD
• Pediatric Neurology Nurse Practitioner Brittany Williams, DNP

Attachment Style and Brain Abnormalities in Patients with PNES
• Director of Le Bonheur Children’s Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) Laboratory Shalini Narayana, MS,
MBBS, PhD
• Le Bonheur Nurse Practitioner and Director of Research Strategies and Collaboration for the University of
Tennessee Health Science Center Pediatric Neurology Tracee Ridley-Pryor, DNP, APRN, PMHNP-BC

Presurgical Language Mapping Using Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation is Effective in Surgical Planning
and Preserving Language Function in a Predominately Pediatric Cohort with Epilepsy or Brain Tumor
• Director of Le Bonheur Children’s Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) Laboratory Shalini Narayana, MS,
MBBS, PhD

Standardizing TMS Language Mapping Protocols in Children with Epilepsy or Brain Tumor: A
Multicenter Study
• Director of Le Bonheur Children’s Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) Laboratory Shalini Narayana, MS,
MBBS, PhD

Initial Real-World Experience with Cenobamate (Xcopri®) in Adolescents and Adults: A Single Center
Experience
• Le Bonheur Children’s Nurse Practitioner and Director of Research Strategies and Collaboration for the
University of Tennessee Health Science Center Pediatric Neurology Tracee Ridley-Pryor, DNP, APRN, PMHNP-BC
• Co-director, Le Bonheur Children’s Neuroscience Institute James Wheless, MD