About the presenter:
Eric H. Kossoff, MD
Professor, Neurology and Pediatrics
Director, Pediatric Ketogenic Diet Program
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Eric H. Kossoff, MD, is a Professor of Neurology and Pediatrics at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland USA. He received his medical degree from SUNY at Buffalo School of Medicine in New York, followed by a residency in Pediatrics at Eastern Virginia Medical School in Norfolk, Virginia. He completed fellowships in Child Neurology and then Pediatric Epilepsy at Johns Hopkins Hospital. He has been at Johns Hopkins since 1998.
Dr. Kossoff is a pediatric epilepsy specialist and the Medical Director of the Pediatric Ketogenic Diet Center at Johns Hopkins. He is one of the world experts on ketogenic dietary therapy for neurologic disorders, a founding member of the International Neurologic Ketogenic Society, and is dedicated to bringing the use of diet therapies for neurologic disorders to the entire world. He is a coauthor of The Ketogenic and Modified Atkins Diets: Treatments for Epilepsy and Other Disorders, now in its 7th edition, helped organize both the 2008 and 2018 expert consensus guidelines on ketogenic diet management. Within the ketogenic diet therapy field, he is interested in infantile spasms, epilepsy with myoclonic atonic seizures, Glut1 deficiency syndrome, simplifying the initiation and maintenance of diet therapy, and expanding first-line use. Dr. Kossoff is very involved in teaching and mentorship, and is the Director of the Child Neurology Residency Program at Johns Hopkins.
