Dr. Eric Kossoff on How Listening to Parents Shaped his Practice

Epilepsy News From: Friday, March 24, 2017

Dr. Eric Kossoff of Johns Hopkins Children’s Center in Baltimore, Maryland, shares why he mentions the ketogenic diet early to families and how input from parents has shaped his medical practice. 

Listening to parents…has led to so much amazing research and breakthroughs.

Dr. Kossoff's work focuses on the diagnosis and treatment of childhood seizures and epilepsy, particularly treatments other than medications, such as diet, neurostimulation, and surgery. Specific interests include the ketogenic diet, modified Atkins diet for children and adults, infantile spasms, hemispherectomy, the interaction of migraine headaches with epilepsy, and Sturge-Weber syndrome. He is also epilepsy.com's Ketogenic Diet Editor and contributes regularly to the site in Keto News.

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The Charlie Foundation for Ketogenic Therapies

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Friday, March 24, 2017

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