Sucheta Joshi
Past Chair and Secretary

Sucheta Joshi, MD, MS is a Pediatric Neurologist and Epileptologist. She completed training at University of California San Francisco, Stanford University and University of Michigan School of Public Health. Dr. Joshi is Clinical Professor in Pediatrics (Division of Pediatric Neurology) at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Her clinical interests involve difficult to treat pediatric epilepsy, EEG and EEG monitoring. Her clinical and scholarly interests also include improving access to epilepsy care for children in medically underserved areas using innovative methods for epilepsy care such as telemedicine and telementoring, and transition of adolescents with epilepsy to adult care.

She has served as the Medical Director for the American Academy of Pediatrics National Coordinating Center for Epilepsy; in this role, she has overseen establishment of several telementoring and multi-state telemedicine projects. Dr. Joshi is a member of the Child Neurology Society Scientific Planning Committee. She has served on the Executive Committee of the AAP Section on Neurology, and as faculty for the AAP and Child Neurology Society and the International Child Neurology Association.  She has mentored medical students, residents, fellows and social workers on research projects, lectured on epilepsy related topics at national and international meetings, published several peer-reviewed manuscripts, book chapters and is a reviewer for scientific journals.