Infantile Spasms
SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP
The Infantile Spasms SIG is a national group of clinicians and scientists whose mission is to facilitate collaboration on projects to improve our understanding and care of children with Infantile Spasms. There are multiple ongoing projects currently underway. These projects include IS biomarker discovery and validation, time to treat IS, ISITT2, IS corpus callosotomy, disparities in treatment of IS, machine learning, and variability in 2nd line treatment of spasms.
Our group meets on the second Thursday of the month at Noon EST.
Sig Co-leader
Shaun Hussain, MD
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
SIG Co-Leader
Emily Spelbrink, MD, PhD
Stanford
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Dr. Emily M. Spelbrink is an Associate Professor of Child Neurology at the Stanford Pediatric Epilepsy Center, with a special interest in early-life and genetic epilepsies. She provides clinical care in the Epilepsy Genetics Clinic and serves as a principal investigator or sub-investigator on several research studies and clinical trials focused on early-life genetic epilepsies and infantile spasms.
Dr. Spelbrink has been an active member of the Pediatric Epilepsy Research Consortium (PERC) since 2016. She previously co-led the Early Life Epilepsy Special Interest Group (SIG) alongside Dr. Courtney Wusthoff and Dr. Krista Eschbach. She currently co-leads the Infantile Spasms SIG with Dr. Shaun Hussain.