Joseph E. Sullivan, MD
Murphy Parker Endowed Professorship in Pediatric Epilepsy
Professor of Neurology and Pediatrics
University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)
Director, UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital
Pediatric Epilepsy Center of Excellence
San Francisco, California
Joseph E. Sullivan, MD, is a professor of neurology and pediatrics at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and director of the UCSF Pediatric Epilepsy Center of Excellence at Benioff Children’s Hospital. He has served as principal investigator for numerous clinical trials in pediatric epilepsy and has a particular interest in Dravet syndrome and PCDH19 related epilepsy. He completed a pediatric residency at the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Memorial Hospital of Northwestern University in Chicago, where he spent an additional year as pediatric chief resident. He then completed his neurology, child neurology and epilepsy training at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, both in Philadelphia, before taking his first faculty position at UCSF in 2007. He currently serves on the Board of Directors and medical advisory board for the Dravet Syndrome Foundation and is chair of the PCDH19 Alliance scientific advisory board.
