Medical Advisory Board

Raman Sankar, MD, PhD, FAAN

UCLA Mattel Children's Hospital

Pediatric Neurology

Medical Advisory Board

One of the Hemispherectomy Foundation's objectives is to provide you with medical information from the best available sources. For this reason, we established a Medical Advisory Board. The Board is composed of highly experienced surgeons and specialists, many who are active in Hemispherectomy research and are world-renowned. These doctors have generously donated their time and resources to provide up-to-date information on hemispherectomy brain surgery.

Dr. Benjamin Carson

Johns Hopkins Children's Center - Baltimore, MD Retired

Former United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development

Retired - Director of Pediatric Neurosurgery

Retired - Co-Director of the Johns Hopkins Craniofacial Center

Professor of Neurological Surgery, Oncology, Plastic Surgery and Pediatrics

Board Members

Sue Yudovin, R.N., M.N, C.P.N.P.

UCLA School of Medicine

RN, MN, CPNP, pediatric nurse practitioner in the Division of Pediatric Neurology at the David Geffen, UCLA, School of Medicine

Sean M. Lew, M.D.

Children's Hospital Of Wisconsin

Mardak/Vandenberg Family Chair of Pediatric Neurosurgery, Children’s Wisconsin; Professor, Department of Neurosurgery, Medical College of Wisconsin; Director, Epilepsy Surgery, Froedtert & the Medical College of Wisconsin

George Jallo, M.D.

Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital

Vice Dean and Physician-in-Chief

Professor of Neurosurgery

Phillip L. Pearl, M.D.

Boston Children's Hospital

Director, Epilepsy and Clinical Neurophysiology

William G. Lennox Chair and Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School

Honorary Chair

Harry T. Chugani, MD

NYU Langone Health

Adjunct Professor, Department of Neurology at NYU Grossman School of Medicine

Eric H. Kossoff, M.D.

Johns Hopkins Hospital

Director, Child Neurology Residency Program

Professor of Neurology

Deepak Lachhwani, M.D.

Cleveland Clinic

Director, Pediatric Epilepsy Support Group | Dept. of Neurology

Angel W. Hernandez, M.D.

Helen DeVos Children's Hospital (Neurology) - Grand Rapids

Division Chief of Neurosciences

Clinical Professor of Pediatrics and Human Development College of Human Medicine at Michigan State University

Howard Weiner, M.D.

Texas Children's Hospital

Chief of Neurosurgery

Professor, Pediatric Neurosurgery and Vice Chairman, Baylor College of Medicine

David P. Adelson, MD

WVU Medicine Children's

Steve A. Antoline Endowed Chair for Children’s Neuroscience, Vice Chair, WVU Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute Executive Director, WVU Medicine Children's Neuroscience Center Professor, Department of Neurosurgery, WVU School of Medicine