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Sophia Varadkar
Dr Varadkar is the specialty lead for the Epilepsy Unit and the Children’s Epilepsy Surgery Service (CESS).
Specialisms
Dr Varadkar has specialist interests and expertise in complex epilepsy. She holds new and follow-up epilepsy clinics, epilepsy surgery clinics jointly with the epilepsy neurosurgeons, and transition clinics jointly with the adult neurologists (Dr Varadkar is an Honorary Consultant at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery). She is also the clinical lead for the Vagus Nerve Stimulation therapy programme.
Qualifications
Dr Varadkar completed her undergraduate degree at Trinity College Dublin and her postgraduate medical training in Dublin and London.
- BA, MB, BAO, BCh - June 1995, University of Dublin
- DCH - Nov 1996, UCD
- MRCPI (Paeds) - Feb 1998, RCPI
- MSc (Clin Paed) - Sept 2002, UCL
- PhD (Neurosciences) - Nov 2011, UCL
Membership of professional assoications
- The British Paediatric Neurology Association
- International League Against Epilepsy
- American Epilepsy Society
Research Interests
Dr Varadkar’s current research interests are in complex epilepsy, epilepsy surgery, Rasmussen syndrome, and metabolic causes of childhood epilepsy. She is an enthusiastic teacher and is a regular faculty member of various national and international training programmes, including the British Paediatric Neurology Association Paediatric Epilepsy Training (PET) courses (for which she is a member of the PET steering committee and leads the organising group for Expert-to-Expert: Epilepsy, a course for consultant paediatric neurologists).
Contact
Epilepsy Unit, Department of Neurology, Great Ormond Street Hospital