Awards and Honors

McGregor receives 2020 "Excellence in Training" award from UTHSC

Pediatric Neurologist Amy McGregor, MD, received the 2020 “Excellence in Teaching” award from the University of Tennessee Health Science Center Department of Pediatrics. This annual award recognizes education contributions to the department.

Weatherspoon named a Health Care Hero by the Memphis Business Journal

Pediatric Neurologist Sarah Weatherspoon, MD, was recently named a Health Care Hero by the Memphis Business Journal (MBJ). Each year the MBJ recognizes individuals and organizations for their contributions to improving health care in the Mid-South. Weatherspoon is director of the Infantile Epilepsy Center at Le Bonheur. She founded the Infantile Epilepsy Center in 2019 in an effort to provide early diagnosis and treatment for infantile spasms.

Narayana receives 2020 Infrastructure Grant from the American Epilepsy Society

Shalini Narayana, PhD, was awarded the 2020 Infrastructure Grant by the American Epilepsy Society. This grant seeks to facilitate widespread collaboration in epilepsy research by supporting the creation of national or international multicenter research programs. Through this award Narayana will help create a Consortium for Standardizing TMS Language Mapping Protocols and Establishing Best Practice Guidelines for Using TMS in Presurgical Evaluation of Language in Children.