Carmela Lydia Tardo, MD

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	Carmela Lydia Tardo, MD Associate Professor of Neurology Children's Hospital 200 Henry Clay Avenue New Orleans, LA 70118 Phone: (504) 896-9458 Phone: (504) 895-5140 ctardo@lsuhsc.edu
Degrees	BS Biology - 1965 Loyola University of the South, New Orleans MD - 1969 Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA
Bio	Dr. Carmela Tardo is from New Orleans, LA, and a graduate of the Tulane University School of Medicine. Her pediatric residency was at the Johns Hopkins Hospital and the University of California at San Francisco. She was a fellow in Child Neurology at the Neurological Institute of New York. She returned to Tulane for 2 years as an Assistant Professor of Neurology before joining the Ochsner Clinic, where she practiced for 19 years and was section head of Child Neurology and Child Development. In 1995, Dr. Tardo joined the Neurology Department of the LSU Health Sciences Center, where she is currently Professor of Clinical Neurology. The same year she began the epilepsy monitoring unit and Epilepsy Center at Childrens Hospital of New Orleans, which offers expert experience with the ketogenic diet and vagus nerve stimulation, as well as research opportunities for clinical trials of new antiepileptic drugs. In 2002, she joined the LSU Epilepsy Center of Excellence as Director of Pediatric Epilepsy. Dr. Tardo is currently Chair of the Practice Committee of the Child Neurology Society and a member of the Medical Economics and Management Committee of the American Academy of Neurology. She is board certified in pediatrics, child neurology, and clinical neurophysiology, and is a senior examiner for the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology.
Selected Publications	Helmers SL, Wheless JW, Frost M, Gates J, Levinsohn P, Tardo C, Conry JA, Yalnizoglu D and Madsen JR, Vagus nerve stimulation in children with refractory epilepsy: Retrospective study., J Child Neurology 16 (11): 843-848, 2001. Olejniczak PW, Fisch BJ, Carey M, Butterbaugh G, Happel L and Tardo C, The effect of vagus nerve stimulation on epileptiform activity recorded from hippocampal depth electrodes., Epilepsia 42(3): 423-429, 2001. Frost M, Gates J, Helmers SL, Wheless JW, Levinsohn P, Tardo C, Conry JA, Vagus nerve stimulation in children with Lennox-Gastaut syndrome., Epilepsia 42(9): 1148-52, 2001. Tardo C and Nadell J, Vagus nerve stimulation in adolescents with intractable epilepsy., J Child Neurology 14 (7):460, 1999. Posada JC and Tardo CL, Neuroblastoma detected by somatostatin receptor scintigraphy in a case of opsoclonus-myoclonus-ataxia syndrome., J of Child Neurology 13 (7): 345-346, 1998.

Associate Professor of Neurology