Dec 6, 2024

Sucheta M. Joshi, MD, MS, FAES

2024 Rebecca Goldberg Kaufman AES Clinical Award in Ethical Neuropsychiatry, Presented during the 2024 Best Practices in Clinical Epilepsy Symposium at the 2024 AES Annual Meeting

Meet the 2024 AES Award Recipients
Sucheta Joshi

Sucheta Joshi, MD, MS, FAES, is a pediatric epileptologist, currently medical director of the Comprehensive Epilepsy Orogram at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, and professor pf Pediatric Neurology at the USC Keck School of Medicine. She completed medical school and a pediatrics residency at the Seth G.S. Medical College, Mumbai India. She then trained at the University of California San Francisco (Pediatrics), Stanford University (Child Neurology, Clinical Neurophysiology), and the University of Michigan School of Public Health. Her clinical and scholarly interests include complex epilepsy care, access to epilepsy care for children in medically underserved areas, and transition of care for adolescents with epilepsy. 

She has served on the Executive Committee of the Child Neurology Society, AAP Section on Neurology, on the Advisory Committee for the AAP Coordinating Center for Epilepsy, and as faculty for the AAP, American Epilepsy Society, Child Neurology Society, and the International Child Neurology Association. 

She has been key faculty for several Epilepsy ECHO projects since 2013.  She serves on the Board of the Pediatric Epilepsy Research Consortium and on the AES/ILAE-NA Joint Taskforce on Epilepsy Health Care Disparities. She has mentored diverse learners, published several peer-reviewed manuscripts and book chapter,s and is a reviewer for several scientific journals. 

About the Rebecca Goldberg Kaufman Clinical Award in Ethical Neuropsychiatry

This award honors the memory of educator Rebecca Goldberg Kaufman, who held knowledge and compassion as keystone virtues. As a mother of a child with epilepsy, she understood the significant psychiatric and social ramifications of epilepsy. Supported by the AES Rebecca Goldberg Kaufman Ethical Neuropsychiatry Award Fund, this lecture promotes clinical neuropsychiatry, the psychiatric aspects of epilepsy, and/or the use of antiepileptic drugs in the treatment of psychiatric disorders.