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Shobha Asthana is a Pediatric Neurologist practicing medicine in Rostraver Township, Pennsylvania. Dr. Asthana is highly rated in 5 conditions, according to our data. Her clinical expertise encompasses Memory Loss, Seizures, Epilepsy, and Secondary Parkinsonism.

Laura Kirkpatrick, MD, specializes in pediatric neurology and is board certified in Neurology with Special Qualification in Child Neurology by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. She practices at Child Neurology in Lawrenceville and UPMC Department of Neurology and is affiliated with UPMC Magee-Womens Hospital. Dr. Kirkpatrick completed her fellowship and residency at University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and medical education at Georgetown University School of Medicine. Dr. Kirkpatrick is highly rated in 1 condition, according to our data. Her clinical expertise encompasses Epilepsy, Absence Seizure, Generalized Tonic-Clonic Seizure, and Seizures. Dr. Kirkpatrick is board certified in American Board Of Psychiatry And Neurology and American Board Of Psychiatry And Neurology. Dr. Kirkpatrick is currently accepting new patients.

Yoshimi Sogawa, MD, MS, is a board-certified pediatric neurologist who serves as director for Clinical Research in the Division of Child Neurology and director of the Early Onset Epileptic Encephalopathy Clinic atUPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh. She is also an associate professor in the Division of Child Neurology in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.Dr. Sogawa received her medical degree from Niigata University School of Medicine in Japan. She then completed her residency training in pediatrics and neurology at Schneider Children’s Hospital in Long Island, New York, and fellowship training in clinical neurophysiology (EEG) at Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York. She was awarded an NIH sponsored Neurological Sciences Academic Development Award (K12, NS048856) in 2009. During this period, she earned a master’s degree from the Clinical Research Training Program at Albert Einstein College of Medicine.Since joining UPMC Children’s Hospital in 2012, Dr. Sogawa has assumed clinical responsibility for the majority of patients with infantile spasms, a rare and intractable epilepsy in infancy. She is conducting a longitudinal study of their developmental outcomes. Dr. Sogawa designed the Early Onset Epileptic Encephalopathies Clinic to be patient and family-centered, flexible, and comprehensive. Common neurological tests such as EEG are typically scheduled on the day of a patient’s clinic visit to minimize trips to the hospital.Dr. Sogawa has been committed to research and scholarly activity in the field of pediatric epilepsy and child neurology and has published more than twenty peer-reviewed studies, invited reviews, and book chapters. On an international level, Dr. Sogawa has served on the Task Force on Epilepsy Syndromes under the commission on Classification and Terminology of the International League against Epilepsy (ILAE), the leading international organization for epilepsy care. Dr. Sogawa has been a collaborator for several NIH funded studies and site-primary investigator for medication trials on children with epilepsy.View Dr. Sogawa's full list of publications from PubMed. Dr. Sogawa is highly rated in 5 conditions, according to our data. Her clinical expertise encompasses Epilepsy, West Syndrome, Spasmus Nutans, and Epilepsy in Children. Dr. Sogawa is board certified in American Board Of Psychiatry And Neurology and American Board Of Psychiatry And Neurology. Dr. Sogawa is currently accepting new patients.