Sandi K. Lam, MD, MBA
Northwestern University
Lurie Children's
Marc Rosenman, MD
Lurie Children's
Dr. Anup Patel, MD
National Children's
Tracy Salazar, PhD
LGS Foundation
Principal Investigator
Dr. Lam is a pediatric neurosurgeon and a leading specialist in the areas of pediatric cerebrovascular surgery, epilepsy surgery and craniofacial surgery with a focus on minimally invasive and endoscopic techniques. In addition to her clinical experience in complex surgeries, her research focuses on quality, outcomes, and healthcare utilization for children and neurological surgery. Dr. Lam regularly lectures nationally and internationally and is recognized for her work globally.
Data Core
Dr. Rosenman is a graduate of Washington University Medical School in St. Louis. He completed residency training in Pediatrics at Indiana University School of Medicine (James Whitcomb Riley Hospital for Children, and Wishard Health Services) and completed fellowship training in Health Services Research at Indiana University School of Medicine. He works on improving methods for extracting, merging, and validating complex data from various sources (clinical, payer, public health, justice system, and other), and for making better use of these data sources in establishing cohorts, measuring outcomes, supporting randomized clinical trials, and conducting analyses in clinical epidemiology.
Site PI
Anup D. Patel, MD, is board certified in neurology with special qualifications in child neurology. In addition, he is board certified in epilepsy and clinical neurophysiology. He is the President of the Child Neurology Foundation Board of Directors. He is a medical director of Quality at the Center for Clinical Excellence at Nationwide Children's Hospital. He is a professor of neurology and clinical pediatrics at Nationwide Children's Hospital and The Ohio State University Medical Center in Columbus, Ohio.
Dr. Tracy Dixon-Salazar is a neuroscientist, geneticist, and patient advocate. Her desire to get her Ph.D. was inspired by her daughter, Savannah, who developed intractable seizures at the age of 2, which evolved into Lennox-Gastaut Syndrome (LGS) by the age of 5. She did her Ph.D. and postdoctoral work at UC, San Diego and it was during her research tenure, and after 16 years of watching daily, unrelenting seizures in her child, that she uncovered the driver of her daughter's illness and identified a novel precision therapy that improved her child's life. She serves as the Executive Director at the LGS Foundation.
Lennox-Gastaut Syndrome (LGS) Foundation
PCORI
