BOARD OF DIRECTORS

M. Scott Perry is the Head of Neurosciences and Director of the Genetic Epilepsy Clinic at the Jane and John Justin Institute for Mind Health at Cook Children’s Medical Center, Fort Worth, TX.

He completed his medical degree at the University of Mississippi School of Medicine and general pediatrics and child neurology training at Emory University before completing Clinical Neurophysiology fellowship at Miami Children’s Hospital.

His clinical and research interests include the use of epilepsy surgery for the treatment of intractable childhood epilepsy and the evaluation and treatment of genetic epilepsy syndromes.

He founded the Surgery Special Interest Group of PERC in 2017 and is principal investigator for the Epilepsy Surgery Database – a collaboration of over 20 US pediatric epilepsy centers collecting data on all children evaluated for epilepsy surgery. With over 2000 patients enrolled, this project continues to contribute practice-changing research related to pediatric epilepsy surgery.

In addition to his role at PERC, he serves on the Child Neurology Foundation Board of Directors, Epilepsy Foundation Professional Advisory Board, and the boards of several patient advocacy groups including the Dravet Syndrome Foundation, Lennox Gastaut Foundation and Brain Recovery Project.

Kelly Knupp is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Neurology at the University of Colorado.  She received her medical degree from the University of New Mexico – School of Medicine, completed her residency in Pediatrics at Children’s Hospital of New York followed by Pediatric Neurology Residency at Columbia University at Children’s Hospital of New York. After her residency, she trained as a Clinical Fellow in Pediatric Epilepsy at the Columbia Comprehensive Epilepsy Center at New York Presbyterian Hospital.

Dr. Knupp now practices at Children’s Hospital Colorado in Aurora, CO.  and is the Associate Research Director of Neuroscience Institute and Director of the Dravet Program.  Her interests are epileptic encephalopathies including Dravet Syndrome and infantile spasms. She was a founding member of the Pediatric Epilepsy Research Consortium and continues on the steering committee. This group focuses on developing collaborative research across the country for children with epileptic encephalopathies.  She also serves on the medical advisory boards of the Epilepsy Foundation of Colorado, Round up River Ranch and the Dravet Syndrome Foundation.

Charuta Joshi, M.D., is a Professor in the Departments of Pediatrics and Neurology and the Roy D. and Ragen S. Elterman Distinguished Chair in Pediatric Epilepsy at UT Southwestern Medical Center. She specializes in developmental and epileptic encephalopathies and surgical and nonsurgical therapy for medically intractable epilepsy in children.

Dr. Joshi earned her medical degree at Grant Medical College in Mumbai, India. She completed a residency in pediatric neurology at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center and gained advanced training through a clinical neurophysiology fellowship at Children’s Hospital Michigan.

Certified in child neurology and epilepsy by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, Dr. Joshi joined the UT Southwestern faculty in 2022. Previously, she served as Director of Regional Neurology Services and Director of Pediatric Epilepsy Fellowship at Children’s Hospital Colorado, where she was also the epilepsy team lead.

At UT Southwestern, Dr. Joshi is the Program Director of the Advanced EEG and Epilepsy Research Fellowship. An investigator on several clinical trials, her clinical research focuses on surgical and nonsurgical therapies for medically intractable epilepsy in children. She is also interested in global health and developmental and epileptic encephalopathies.

Dr. Joshi has delivered scores of presentations and published a broad range of scholarly articles, abstracts, and book chapters. She serves as an ad hoc reviewer for numerous scholarly journals and is a contributing editor for Epilepsy Currents.

An elected member of the Pediatric Epilepsy Research Consortium Steering Committee, she serves on the International Affairs Committee of the Child Neurology Society and is a member of several other professional organizations, including the American Epilepsy Society and the International Child Neurology Association.

In 2021, Dr. Joshi received the Exceptional Women in Medicine Award from Castle Connolly.

Sucheta Joshi, MD, MS, FAAP, FAES is a Pediatric Neurologist and Epileptologist. She completed training at University of California San Francisco, Stanford University and University of Michigan School of Public Health. Dr. Joshi is Professor in Pediatric Neurology, USC KSOM, and the Medical Director of the Comprehensive Epilepsy program at CHLA. Her clinical interests involve difficult to treat pediatric epilepsy, EEG and EEG monitoring. Her clinical and scholarly interests also include improving access to epilepsy care for children in medically underserved areas using innovative methods for epilepsy care such as telemedicine and telementoring, and transition of adolescents with epilepsy to adult care.

She has served as the Medical Director, and is currently on the Advisory Committee for the American Academy of Pediatrics National Coordinating Center for Epilepsy.  She has been key faculty for development of several Epilepsy ECHO projects since 2013. Dr. Joshi is Secretary of the Board of the Pediatric Epilepsy Research Consortium, an organization to foster multicenter research in Pediatric Epilepsy. She has served on the Executive Committee of the Child Neurology Society, AAP Section on Neurology, and as faculty for the AAP, American Epilepsy Society, Child Neurology Society and the International Child Neurology Association.  She has mentored medical students, residents, fellows and social workers on research projects, lectured on epilepsy related topics at national and international meetings, published several peer-reviewed manuscripts, book chapters and is a reviewer for scientific journals.

Jane M. McCabe joins us as the new Executive Director for PERC.

She holds a B.S. in Engineering from Duke University and an MBA in Marketing from The George Washington University.

Early in her career, she worked for Parke-Davis Pharmaceutical Company. She spent five years in their Neurology Care division, which focused on treatments for adult and childhood epilepsy.

After her two children were born, she transitioned to non-profit educational leadership, which culminated in her serving as the Head of School for Shining Mountain Waldorf School in Boulder, Colorado.

She resides in Boulder, Colorado, and in her spare time loves to hike, bike, read, knit, cook, and laugh with her family and friends!

Dr. Coryell, MD, MS, is board-certified in Neurology, with special qualifications in Child Neurology, and Epilepsy. He started his career as a genetic counselor before embarking on medical school and his eventual pathway towards becoming a pediatric epileptologist. He received his medical degree at Oregon Health & Sciences University (OHSU), and completed residencies at both University of Washington and OHSU before completing epilepsy fellowship at University of Colorado. He returned to OHSU in 2012 as a faculty member, where he now serves as an Associate Professor of Pediatrics & Neurology.

He has been a member of PERC since 2012 and has participated in research related to infantile spasms, early life epilepsy, epilepsy surgery, and learning healthcare systems to address quality improvement and optimizing efficacy of treatments in pediatric epilepsy. His work has resulted in a number of journal articles as well as abstracts/presentations at regional and national conferences. Dr. Coryell is an ad hoc reviewer for multiple journals, and he serves as a research mentor to medical students and residents on a continual basis.

Clinically, Dr. Coryell is interested in working with drug-resistant epilepsy, and this encompasses developmental and epileptic encephalopathies, epilepsy surgery candidates, and children with genetic epilepsy. Aside from his research interests, he has formerly served as the clinical director for the division of child neurology at OHSU, and dedicates half of his work appointment towards the OHSU School of Medicine as a course director and career advisor for medical students.