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Patricia Crumrine, MD
Job Title
Director, EEG, Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC
Job Title
Director, Medical Epilepsy Program, Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC
Job Title
Professor of Pediatrics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
4401 Penn Avenue, Suite Floor 2
Pittsburgh,
PA
15224
412-692-5520
Phone
412-692-6787
Fax
Education and Training
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Medical School: |
1968 Medical College of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA |
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Residency: |
1971 Cleveland Metropolitan General Hospital of Western Reserve University Affiliated Hospital, Cleveland, OH |
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Fellowship: |
1974 College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, New York, NY |
Memberships
- American Academy of Pediatrics, Fellow
- Child Neurology Society
- American Academy of Neurology
- American EEG Society, Associate
- Pittsburgh Neuroscience Society
- American Epilepsy Society
- Central EEG Society
Board Certifications
- American Board of Pediatrics
- American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology Special Competence in Child Neurology
Awards
- Secretary-Treasurer, Child Neurology Society
- Community Service Award, United Way, Pittsburgh
- 2000, 2005-2006 Best Doctors
Publications
- Crumrine, PK Antiepileptic Drug Selection in Pediatric Epilepsy. Journal of Child Neurology; February 2002; 17 (suppl 2) 2S2.
- Crumrine, PK. Lennox-Gastaut Syndrome. Journal of Child Neurology 2002;17:S70-75.
- Hirtz, D, Berg, A, Bettis, D, Camfield, C, Camfield, P, Crumrine, PK, Gaillard, WD, Schneider, S, Shinnar, S. Practice Parameter: Treatment of the Child With A First Unprovoked Seizure. Neurology 2003: 60 (2) 166.
View Dr. Crumrine's full list of publications from PubMed.
Biography Summary
Dr. Crumrine, director of Children’s Pediatric Epilepsy Center, specializes in epilepsy neurology. She sees patients at Children’s in Oakland and at the Children’s Institute in Squirrel Hill. Dr. Crumrine also devotes three months each year to reading EEGs and as an attending physician for the Epilepsy Monitoring Unit.
An advocate for the neurological needs of kids, Dr. Crumrine holds leadership roles with the Child Neurology Society, American Academy of Pediatrics, American Epilepsy Society and American Academy of Neurology.
She is a career advisor for medical students and travels to national and international conferences to present her research on anticonvulsant drug treatment of epilepsy in children.
Dr. Crumrine trained in Pediatric Neurology at Columbia University in New York.
Active Research Projects / Grants
- NINDS Childhood Absence Seizures
