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Virtual Live Streaming Neuroscience Grand Rounds https://PhoenixChildrensHospital.zoom.us/j/99378373233?pwd=UXBudHZLemRYK056ZWZvMm8yUzNkUT09 Zoom Information: CNI Grand Rounds Meeting ID: 993 7837 3233 Global Health Neurology & Epilepsy: My Journey in Academia Andrea Lowden, MD, FACNS Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Neurology & Epilepsy UT Southwestern Medical Center Learning Objectives
Andrea Lowden, MD, FACNS Associate Professor in Pediatric Neurology & Epilepsy at the University of Texas Southwestern. Graduated from medical school in Santiago, Dominican Republic. She joined the child neurology program at UTSW as a child neurology resident and completed fellowship in pediatric epilepsy and clinical neurophysiology as well as a mini-fellowship with clinical expertise in magnetoencephalogram. As a clinician educator, in addition to her clinical duties, she is actively engaged in global health. She leads the Hispanic epilepsy support group for patients and their families in her institution and has established ongoing public health programs in the Dominican Republic with more recent an initiative of expansion of the EEG lab in the second largest pediatric hospitals in Dom. Rep. She created a global health elective for trainees to deepen knowledge on global health disparities, foster experience working in resource-limited settings, and provide neurological care to underserved patients. Separately, she also works with a group of neurophysiologists participating in an annual Critical Care EEG Latin American Symposium. The goal is to expand knowledge in critical care EEG and treatment of epilepsy within Latin America.
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