Child Neurology Fellowship

Ann Henderson-Tilton, MD
Professor of Neurology
Child Neurology Fellowship Program Director

The pediatric neurology faculty at Louisiana State University consists of seven members: Stephen Deputy, MD, Caroline Duncan, MD, Jonelle McAllister, MD, Ann Henderson-Tilton, MD, Maria Weimer, MD, and Joaquin Wong, MD. The program itself is a division of the department of Neurology at LSU. Children are seen in consultation or under the pediatric neurology service at Children's Hospital of New Orleans or in consultation at University Hospital (part of the Charity Hospital system). Children's Hospital contains 188 beds, including 20 pediatric intensive care unit beds and 20 neonatal intensive care unit beds. The pediatric neurology group admits approximately 300 patients per year and sees another 600 patients in consultation at Children's Hospital. Children's Hospital contains a Neurodiagnostics department where approximately 1100 EEG's and 600 evoked potentials are performed each year in addition to state-of-the-art video EEG monitoring facilities. Children's Hospital also has an inpatient neurorehabilitation center staffed by physical, occupational, speech, and music and recreation therapists. The Radiology department provides magnetic resonance imaging, computed tomography, nuclear medicine, and diagnostic angiographic services.

In addition to the inpatient services, the pediatric neurology group also sees approximately 3000 children as outpatients per year at Children's Hospital and another 650 children at Charity Hospital. Each faculty member has their own regular child neurology clinics in addition to several specialty clinics including: The Muscular Dystrophy Association clinic, the Neuromuscular clinic, the Spasticity clinic, the Early Childhood Developmental clinic, the Botox clinic, the pediatric neurology fellow's Continuity clinic, the Pediatric Movement Disorders clinic, a weekly teaching clinic at Charity Hospital, and the Children's Special Health Services clinics in New Orleans, Thibodaux, Alexandria, and Lafayette, Louisiana.

Teaching medical students, pediatric residents and fellows, neurology residents, and pediatric neurology fellows is an important priority for the group. Weekly conferences include a daily "Morning Report", weekly "Child Neurology Grand Rounds" ( which is held in conjunction with the Tulane University pediatric neurology department), weekly "Adult Neurology Grand Rounds", monthly neuropathology (brain cutting) sessions, and a monthly neuromuscular clinical pathology conference, to name a few. Bedside teaching is also a priority on inpatient rounds and during all of the above clinics. We are committed to education tomorrow's pediatric neurologists through a diverse patient population in southeast Louisiana, combined with a knowledge and caring faculty and excellent patient care facilities.