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Meet the Children's Epilepsy Surgery Service (CESS)
Epilepsy Consultants
Dr Christin Eltze MRCPH, MSc, MD Res
Consultant Paediatric Neurologist
Special interest: Complex epilepsy, Ketogenic Diet
Professor Helen Cross MBChB, PhD, FRCPCH FRCP
Professor in Paediatric Neurology
Special interests: complex epilepsy and epilepsy surgery
Dr Krishna Das MBBS, DCH, MD, DM, FRCPCH
Consultant Paediatric Neurologist
Special interest: Complex epilepsy, Vagus Nerve Stimulation and Clinical Neurophysiology
Dr Nivedita Desai MBBS, DCH, MD MRCPCH
Consultant in Paediatric Neurology and Epilepsy
Special interests: Headache disorders including IIH, General Neurology and Complex Epilepsy
Dr Noelle Enright
Consultant Paediatric Neurologist
Special interests: Complex epilepsy and General Neurology
Dr Jane Hassell
Consultant Paediatric Neurologist
Special interests: Headache, general Neurology and Complex Epilepsy
Dr Marios Kaliakatsos MD, MSc, PhD
Consultant Paediatric Neurologist
Special Interests: General Neurology, Complex Epilepsy, Neuro-oncology
Dr Amy McTague MBChB MRCPCH PhD
Consultant Paediatric Neurologist
Special Interests: Early onset Epilepsy, Epilepsy Genetics
Professor Finbar O'Callaghan MA MB ChB MSc PhD FRCPCH FRCP
Professor in Paediatric Neurology
Special Interests: Complex epilepsy, tuberous sclerosis complex
Dr Suresh Pujar PhD MRCPCH
Consultant Paediatric Neurologist
Special interests: Complex Epilepsy
Dr Robert Robinson MA, MBBS, MRCP, PhD
Consultant Paediatric Neurologist
Special interests: General neurology and complex epilepsy, Vagus Nerve Stimulation
Professor Rod Scott PhD MRCPCH
Professor in Paediatric Neurology
Special interest: Complex epilepsy
Consultant Paediatric Neurologist
Special interest: complex epilepsy
Neurosurgeons
Mr Martin Tisdall MBBS BA MA (Cantab) MD FRCS (Eng)
Consultant Paediatric Neurosurgeon
Special Interests: Paediatric epilepsy surgery, cerebral monitoring techniques and traumatic brain injury
Mr Zubair Tahir
Consultant Paediatric Neurosurgeon
Special Interests: Paediatric epilepsy surgery and cerebral monitoring techniques
Clinical Neurophysiology Consultants
Stewart Boyd MD, FRCPCH
Consultant Clinical Neurophysiologist
Special interests: activity of the brain in childhood as assessed by EEG, evoked and event-related potentials, functional mapping and intracranial EEG recordings.
Dr Krishna Das Consultant Paediatric Neurologist
Special interest: Complex epilepsy, Vagus Nerve Stimulation and Clinical Neurophysiology
Ronit Pressler PhD
Consultant in Neurophysiology
Special interests: neonatal EEG and EEG-video telemetry
Dr Friederike Moeller
Consultant Clinical Neurophysiologist,
Special interests: EEG-video telemetry, stereo-EEG (SEEG), home video-telemetry (HVT)
Dr Gerald Cooray
Consultant Clinical Neurophysiologist
Special Interests: EMG, EEG-video telemetry and SEEG
Clinical Psychology and Developmental Epilepsy
Professor Faraneh Vargha-Khadem C Psychol, F Med Sci
Head of Neuropsychology
Special interests: developmental amnesia and other memory disorders, genetically-based speech and language disorders, cognitive and sensorimotor disorders resulting from focal lesions, complex epilepsy, traumatic brain injury, brain tumours and medico-legal expert witness in neuropsychology.
Dr Daniel Stark
Clinical Psychologist & Paediatric Neuropsychologist
Dr Patricia Martin Sanfilippo
Clinical Psychologist
Consultant in Paediatric Neurodisability
Special interests: Landau Kleffner Syndrome; complex and changing learning and behaviour profiles in epilepsy
Dr Hanna Richardson
Consultant in Paediatric Neurodisability
Special interests: Developmental Epilepsy and Genetic Epilepsies
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Dr Susan Walker
Child and Adolescent Consultant Psychiatrist
Epilepsy Surgery Nursing Team
Nicola Barnes – Advanced Nurse Practitioner for CESS and VNS Service
Telephone number: 020 7405 9200 ext 1592
Sarah Carter – Clinical Nurse Specialist for CESS and VNS
Telephone number: 020 7405 9200 ext 5814
CESS Service Coordinator
Mohima Begum
PA for the Children's Epilepsy Surgery Service (CESS)
Telephone number: 020 7405 9200 ext. 5594/4411
Administration Team
Toni Lawrence
Service Manager
Telephone number: 020 7405 9200 ext. 0667
Kolchum Begum
Assistant Service Manager for Neurology, Epilepsy, Neurophysiology
Telephone number: 020 7405 9200 ext. 5517