Meet Our Infantile Epilepsy Center Team
Neurology
Amy Patterson, MD, is a pediatric neurologist and director of the Infantile Epilepsy Center. Her clinical areas of special interest include epilepsy, epilepsy in infancy including infantile spasms and tuberous sclerosis complex.
Clinical Neuropsychology
Christen Holder, PhD, is the clinical director of Pediatric Neuropsychology and specializes in epilepsy, congenital heart disease and high-risk newborn populations. She serves as co-director of the Movement Disorders and Tourette Syndrome Center.
Neuro-ophthalmology
Lauren Ditta, MD, specializes in pediatric neuro-ophthalmology. She treats children with a wide range of abnormal eye movements including complex strabismus, nystagmus, cranial nerve palsies affecting eye movement and congenital cranial dysinnervation syndromes.
Neurosciences
Shalini Narayana, MBBS, PhD, is a professor at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center and director of the Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) Laboratory and Functional Neuroimaging Research Program at Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital Neuroscience Institute. She is an expert in the application of TMS and other non-invasive imaging in children with interests in changes in motor and cognitive neural systems.
Roozbeh Rezaie, PhD, is an expert in functional neuroimaging with interests in the application of EEG and MEG to the surgical management of epilepsy and the organization of brain function in neurodevelopmental disorders.
Neuroradiology
Asim F. Choudhri, MD, is a radiologist and assistant professor at The University of Tennessee Health Science Center in the Department of Radiology where he is also an assistant chair of research affairs. He is certified by the American Board of Radiology with a subspecialty in neuroradiology and a certificate in diagnostic radiology. His specialties include neuroradiology, spine imaging, functional neuroradiology, head and neck imaging and non-invasive neurovascular imaging.
Additional Clinic Team Members
Clinic Coordinator
Emmeline Martin, RN
Speech Therapist
Amy Claire Petro, MS, CCC-SLP
Dietician
Lindsay Walsh, MS, RD, CSP, LDN, CLC