I am a pediatric epileptologist with Norton Children’s Neuroscience Institute. He earned his medical degree from Damascus University Faculty of Medicine in Syria. He completed his pediatric residency at Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center in Shreveport, and a pediatric neurology fellowship at Cleveland Clinic Foundation in Ohio. He then completed additional fellowships in epilepsy and clinical neurophysiology at Case Western Reserve University Hospital in Cleveland.

 

I serve as the director of the pediatric epilepsy program at Norton Children's Hospial and am also an Associate Professor of Neurology at the University of Louisville. 

 

My main area of interest is drug resistant epilepsy and epilepsy surgery. 

 

I am an active member of several professional organizations, including the American Epilepsy Society, the American Clinical Neurophysiology Society and the Child Neurology Society.