Neurologists at Johns Hopkins Children’s Center are highly trained experts who have changed the way the specialty is practiced worldwide. This group of specialists has been building an exemplary reputation for decades, which is why today’s team is regarded as being a leader in the field.

We work with patients and their families to educate them about their neurological disorder and provide them with ongoing care and support. 

Our neurologists are devoting their careers to more manageable therapies to alleviate debilitating seizures in children. One procedure in particular that has garnered attention for our neurologists and their surgical counterparts in the Division of Neurosurgery is the hemispherectomy. This is a drastic surgery involving the removal of as much as half the brain to alleviate severe seizures. Johns Hopkins surgeon Walter Dandy pioneered the procedure in humans in 1923.

Even today, although Johns Hopkins Children’s Center neurosurgeons and neurologists plan and perform at least one hemispherectomy a month, the overwhelming success of our patients continues to fascinate experts in the field, as well as the public. Our neurologists consider this to be a drastic measure only for patients who resist all other therapies and medications.