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Christina M. Patterson, MD

Job Title Clinical Assistant Professor, Pediatrics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

Division of Child Neurology

4401 Penn Avenue, Suite Floor 2

Pittsburgh, PA 15224

412-692-5520 Phone

412-692-6787 Fax

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Education and Training

Medical School:

2004 American University of the Caribbean School of Medicine, St. Maarten, Netherlands Antilles

Residency:

2007 Pediatrics, Tod Children's Hospital, Youngstown, Ohio

2010 Child Neurology, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, Pittsburgh, Pa.

Fellowship:

2011 Clinical Neurophysiology, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC and UPMC, Pittsburgh, Pa.

Memberships

American Academy of Neurology
Child Neurology Society

Board Certifications

American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology
Neurology with Special Qualifications in Child Neurology

Awards

Resident Teaching Award in Pediatrics, NEOUCOM
Outstanding Resident Award in Neonatology
Psi Chi National Honor Society, Psychology
Phi Eta Sigma National Honor Society

Publications

Valproic acid in the treatment of infantile spasms in patients with Down syndrome. Patterson C, Resnick T, Holder D, Vaisleib I. (2009) Epilepsia, 50: 158–308.
Efficacy of Lacosamide as adjunctive therapy in adolescents with intractable epilepsy: a case series. Patterson C, Williams S, Crumrine P, Varma R, Holder D. (2010) Epilepsia 0 Suppl. 0 (Abst. 2.197 ).

Research Interests

Efficacy of Rufinamide as an Adjunctive Treatment in Subjects with Absence Seizures, who are unresponsive to Current Antiepileptic Drugs, Multi-Center Pilot Study (Rufinamide). PI: Vaisleib, I.

Last Update
May 22, 2013

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