About this presenter:
Neil Friedman, MBChB
Director, Clinical Transformation
Child Neurology
Barrow Neurological Institute at Phoenix Children’s
Dr. Neil Friedman obtained his medical degree from the University of Cape Town, South Africa in 1987. He worked in London, UK for 3 years under the tutelage of Professor Victor Dubowitz at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School, London, UK. His specialty training included a Pediatrics residency at the University of Arizona (1995) with subsequent completion of a Neurology fellowship with special qualifications in Child Neurology through Children’s Hospital, Boston (1998). From 1998-2019, Dr. Friedman served as a staff physician in Pediatric Neurology at the Cleveland Clinic and served as the director of the Center for Pediatric Neurosciences in the Neurological Institute at the Cleveland Clinic from 2014-2018. Dr. Friedman is currently serves as Director of Clinical Transformation and the Director of the Neurocritical Care program.
Dr. Friedman’s clinical specialty interests include pediatric stroke, the neurological complications of congenital heart disease and cardiomyopathy, fetal and neonatal neurology and pediatric neuromuscular disease. His research work has been in the field of pediatric stroke. Dr. Friedman co-edited a textbook on the Neurological Manifestations of Pediatric Infectious Diseases and Immunodeficiency Syndromes. He has authored over 50 papers in peer review journals, written a number of book chapters and presented extensively at invited lectures around the world.
