CHICAGO ― Sucheta M. Joshi MD, MS, FAES, will present the Rebecca Goldberg Kaufman AES Clinical Lecture in Ethical Neuropsychiatry during the Best Practices in Clinical Epilepsy Symposium at the 2024 Annual Meeting of the American Epilepsy Society (AES). Dr. Joshi will speak on “Designing and Implementing the Multidisciplinary Transition Clinic.”
Dr. Joshi is a pediatric epileptologist, medical director of the Comprehensive Epilepsy Program at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles and professor in pediatric neurology, University of Southern California (USC) Keck School of Medicine. She completed medical school and a pediatrics residency at the Seth G.S. Medical College, Mumbai, India. Dr. Joshi trained in pediatrics at the University of California San Francisco, in child neurology and clinical neurophysiology at Stanford University, California and in public health at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
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, American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Section on Neurology, on the Advisory Committee for the AAP Coordinating Center for Epilepsy, and as faculty for the AAP, AES, Child Neurology Society and the International Child Neurology Association.
Since 2013, Dr. Joshi 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/International League Against Epilepsy-North America Joint Taskforce on Epilepsy Health Care Disparities. She has mentored diverse learners, published several peer-reviewed manuscripts, book chapters and is a reviewer for several scientific journals.
As the mother of a child with epilepsy, Rebecca Goldberg Kaufman understood the significant psychiatric and social ramifications of epilepsy and became a staunch advocate for increased education on these aspects. Her son, AES member Dr. Kenneth R. Kaufman, professor of psychiatry, neurology and anesthesiology at Rutgers-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, N.J., established an AES fund in her honor to recognize her compassion, advocacy and support for clinical research on the psychiatric and social aspects of epilepsy and the use of antiepileptic drugs in the treatment of psychiatric disorders.