Eric Kossoff, M.D.
Assistant Professor
Neurology and Pediatrics
Specialty:
Neurology
Location(s):
The Johns Hopkins Hospital
David M. Rubenstein Child Health Building
Room 2158
200 N. Wolfe Street
Baltimore, MD 21287
Education:
Medical School:
SUNY, Buffalo School of Medicine (New York)
Residencies:
Eastern Virginia Medical School (Norfolk, Virginia)
The Johns Hopkins Hospital – Child Neurology
Fellowship:
The Johns Hopkins Hospital – Pediatric Epilepsy and Clinical Neurophysiology
Special Interests:
Seizures and Epilepsy – particularly treatments other than medications such as diet, neurostimulation and surgery.
Ketogenic diet,
Atkins diet for children and adults,
Infantile spasms,
Hemispherectomy,
Interaction of migraine headaches with epilepsy,
Sturge-Weber syndrome.
Biography:
Dr. Kossoff received his medical degree from SUNY at Buffalo School of Medicine in New York. He went on to complete a residency in pediatrics at Eastern Virginia Medical School in Norfolk, Virginia. He completed a second residency in child neurology and a fellowship in pediatric epilepsy and clinical neurophysiology at The Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore.
Now an Associate Professor of Neurology and Pediatrics at Johns Hopkins Children's Center, Dr. Kossoff 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, the Atkins diet for children and adults, infantile spasms, hemispherectomy, the interaction of migraine headaches with epilepsy and Sturge-Weber syndrome.
Dr. Kossoff is also very involved in teaching and is the Director of the Pediatric Neurology Residency Program. He is a coauthor of Treatment of Pediatric Neurologic Disorders and the 4th edition of The Ketogenic Diet.
Dr. Kossoff currently sees epilepsy patients in the Johns Hopkins Outpatient Center located in Baltimore on Tuesdays and Thursdays. He sees general pediatric neurology and headache patients at the same location on Wednesdays.
Certifications:- American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology with special certification in child neurology
- American Board of Pediatrics
Phone: 410-955-4259
Fax: 410-614-2297