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Child Neurology In Wexford
Shelley Williams, MD, returned in 2007 to the Division of Child Neurology at UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh after two years at SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, N.Y. Dr. Williams completed fellowships in child neurology and pediatric epilepsy, as well as her pediatrics residency, at UPMC Children's Hospital. Her medical degree is from Bowman Gray School of Medicine, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, N.C. In addition, she has specialty certifications in clinical neurophysiology and child neurology and epilepsy. She directs the pediatric clinical neurophysiology fellow ship program and serves as director of the ketogenic diet and tuberous sclerosis specialty clinics. Her top areas of expertise are Early Infantile Epileptic Encephalopathy, Dihydrolipoamide Dehydrogenase Deficiency, Pyruvate Carboxylase Deficiency, and PEPCK 1 Deficiency.
Child Neurology In Wexford
Robert Safier, MD, is a pediatric neurologist, clinical director of the Division of Child Neurology, and director of Medical Student Education at UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh. He is also an associate professor of pediatrics at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. Dr. Safier received his medical degree from Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv, Israel, in 1999. He completed his training in pediatrics at MetroHealth Medical Center, Case Western Reserve University, in Cleveland, OH, and his training in child neurology at UPMC Children’s Hospital. As both Clinical Neurosciences Child Neurology clerkship director and Child Neurology Elective course director, he is committed to teaching and mentoring medical students. On the graduate medical education level, Dr. Safier is involved in the clinical education of child neurology residents. As an active member on the Child Neurology Education Committee, he developed new Clinical Neurosciences Clerkship structures within the Division of Child Neurology. His mentorship directly influenced medical students to choose the field of child neurology at UPMC Children’s and nationally. Dr. Safier is recognized as an excellent general clinical child neurologist and regularly receives high praises from his patients and their families. His main research interest is studying the clinical and radiological presentation of hemiplegic migraine of childhood to better understand the pathophysiology. Since July 2005, Dr. Safier serves one day a week as the staff neurologist at Polk State Home, a campus for adults with neurodevelopmental disabilities. View Dr. Safier's full list of publications from PubMed.