Dennis J. Dlugos, MD, is Professor of Neurology and Pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania; and Director, Pediatric Epilepsy Program at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP). He received his MD from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York. He completed internship in Pediatrics at the National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, Maryland; residency in Neurology-Child Neurology at the University of Pennsylvania/CHOP; and Epilepsy fellowship at CHOP.
Dr. Dlugos currently serves as a Vice-President of the Epilepsy Study Consortium, Incorporated (ESCI). As Vice-President, he coordinates reviews and adjudications for pediatric epilepsy trials, and participated in discussions with FDA regarding extrapolation of efficacy for focal-onset seizures to one-month to age, and the validity of Developmental and Epileptic Encephalopathy broadly (DEE Other) as a clinical indication for pivotal trials and FDA labelling. Dr. Dlugos is also a member of AES and the Pediatric Epilepsy Research Consortium (PERC). Articles authored or co-authored by Dr. Dlugos have been published in Neurology, Annals of Neurology, Lancet Neurology, Epilepsia, Lancet, Nature, the New England Journal of Medicine, and other journals. Dr. Dlugos has helped train more than 30 pediatric epilepsy fellows. He has presented extensively throughout the US, South America, Europe, and
