Health Equity
SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP
Our Health Equity Special Interest Group (SIG) has two key goals:
To determine what is known about health disparities in pediatric epilepsy and identify gaps in knowledge.
To develop an agenda of multi-center research projects and recommendations for practice-changing interventions to work towards health equity.
Our group meets on the third Monday of the month at 2 pm EST.
Sig Co-leader
Sonal Bhatia, MD
Medical University of South Carolina
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Dr. Sonal Bhatia was born in Bombay (now Mumbai), India and completed her medical school and pediatric residency at one of the top four medical colleges in the city. She then worked for close to three years as an assistant professor of pediatrics at the topmost government-run medical school and hospital before moving to the United States to pursue her strong interest in child neurology. She did her initial training at SUNY Downstate Medical Center in New York before moving to Charleston, South Carolina to be with her husband who was training there to become a pediatric hematologist-oncologist. She completed the remainder of her child neurology residency and her fellowship in epilepsy at the Medical University of South Carolina and then joined the division of pediatric neurology as a faculty in July 2018.She is board-certified in child neurology and epilepsy (American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology). She enjoys teaching residents and medical students. She has several publications, as well as poster and oral presentations, to her credit. She is currently the director of the Epilepsy Monitoring Unit at the Medical University of South Carolina. Besides English, she is proficient in four other Indian languages (Hindi, Marathi, Sindhi, Gujarati) and enjoys reading, playing scrabble, and traveling.
SIG Co-Leader
Chris Beatty, MD
Nationwide Children’s Hospital
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Christopher Beatty, MD, MAS, is an attending pediatric neurologist at Nationwide Children’s and assistant professor of Clinical Pediatrics and Neurology at The Ohio State University College of Medicine. He completed a child neurology residency, clinical neurophysiology fellowship and epilepsy fellowship at Seattle Children’s Hospital. He is board certified in neurology with special qualifications in child neurology, clinical neurophysiology and epilepsy. His clinical interests include complex epilepsy care including epilepsy surgery and dietary therapies for epilepsy.