
E. Steve Roach, MD
Professor of Neurology
Associate Chair, Department of Neurology
Program Director, Child Neurology Residency
Co-Chief, Pediatric Neurosciences Program
Clinical Focus: Stroke in Children; Tuberous Sclerosis
Roach is the Editor-in-Chief of Annals of the Child Neurology Society, the former Editor-in-Chief of Pediatric Neurology (2012-2021), and a past president of the Child Neurology Society. He has written or edited 10 books and has published over 200 articles, commentaries, and chapters, most focusing on stroke in children, genetic disorders, and neurocutaneous syndromes.
Roach is a fellow of the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association and is recognized for his work defining pediatric stroke as a field of study, having written the first book devoted to the subject of childhood stroke. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Neurology, where he served as chair of the Child Neurology Section, and a fellow of the American Neurological Association, where he served on its executive council.
Roach has been named a Distinguished Alumnus of his alma mater, Carson-Newman University, and an Outstanding Alumnus of the University of Tennessee College of Medicine. In 2015, Roach received the Hower Award, the highest honor awarded by the Child Neurology Society to one of its members. He has also received the Manuel Gomez Award from the Tuberous Sclerosis Alliance. Prior to moving to Austin in 2018, Roach was chief of the pediatric neurology program at Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus, Ohio.
Recognition
Editor-in-Chief, Annals of the Child Neurology Society
Former Editor-in-Chief, Pediatric Neurology
Best Doctors in America
Castle Connolly Top Doctors
Child Neurology Society Past President
Child Neurology Society Hower Award 2015

Elizabeth Tyler-Kabara, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Neurosurgery
Chief, Pediatric Neurosurgery
Co-Chief, Pediatric Neurosciences Program
Clinical Focus: Functional Neurosurgery
Tyler-Kabara specializes in functional neurosurgery and minimally invasive skull base surgery and pioneered the use of expanded endonasal surgery of the skull base in extremely young children, providing them with a minimally invasive alternative for the treatment of a variety of conditions.
Tyler-Kabara earned her medical degree and doctorate from Vanderbilt University, where her graduate research investigated the neurophysiology of the corticostriatal synapse. She earned her bachelor’s from Duke University, double majoring in biomedical and electrical engineering. After leaving Duke, she worked at the National Institutes of Health as a biomedical engineer, where she developed and tested molecular biology software, developed a strategic plan for implementing computer networking, and recruited a head for the newly formed Computational Biology Group. She completed an internship in general surgery at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, a residency in neurological surgery at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and Pittsburgh VA Medical Center, and a fellowship in pediatric neurosurgery at Children’s Hospital of Alabama.
Tyler-Kabara’s ongoing research is supported by the National Institutes of Health, DARPA, the Craig Nielsen and Margot Anderson Foundations, The Copeland Fund, and Pedal with Pete. She served as principal investigator on five grants and as co-investigator on 13 grants. She also was the co-principal investigator on the grant that initiated the brain-computer interface human trials at the University of Pittsburgh. Her research focuses on restoring function using brain computer interfaces with microelectrode recording and stimulation techniques to control neural prosthetics. These studies are conducted with the Rehab Neural Engineering Laboratory to combine expertise in engineering, neuroscience, and rehabilitation medicine.
Tyler-Kabara’s work has been featured on CBS-TV’s 60 Minutes. She has authored over 90 publications in peer-reviewed journals, 16 book chapters, and 80 published abstracts and has given 25 local lectures, 20 regional lectures, 10 national invited lectures, and eight international invited lectures.

Glendaliz Bosques, MD
Assistant Professor of Neurology
Chief of Pediatric Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
Clinical Focus: Advanced Rehabilitation of Paralytic Diseases in Children
Bosques specializes in treating children with congenital or acquired physical disabilities. She earned her medical degree from the University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine in San Juan, Puerto Rico, where she graduated magna cum laude, and her bachelor’s in natural sciences from the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus in Río Piedras, Puerto Rico, where she graduated summa cum laude. She completed an internship in transitional medicine at San Juan City Hospital in San Juan, Puerto Rico, a residency in physical medicine and rehabilitation at the Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Alliance of Baylor College of Medicine and The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, and a fellowship in Pediatric Rehabilitation Medicine at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital/the University of Cincinnati.
Bosques is passionate about understanding the concerns of her patient not only as perceived in the medical visit, but also as their functional difficulties pertain to home and school as well as in their social context. Her clinical interests involve advanced rehabilitation of paralytic diseases in children, including traumatic and non-traumatic etiologies, and her academic interests include the integration of disability management into medical education. She serves on the Medical Educator Council and as the Inaugural Chair for LatinX in Physiatry, a community for members of the American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation with a Latin background. She is also an active member of the Association of Academic Physiatrists.

Dave F. Clarke, MD
Professor of Neurology and Pediatrics
Director, Pediatric Epilepsy Program
Clinical Focus: Epilepsy
Clarke received his medical degree at the University of the West Indies in Jamaica. He completed his first two years of pediatric training at Overlook Hospital, an affiliate of Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. He completed his pediatric neurology training at the University of Michigan Medical Center and neurophysiology training (epilepsy and sleep) at the Hospital for Sick Children at the University of Toronto in Canada.
Clarke is certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology with special qualifications in child neurology, sleep medicine, and epilepsy. He is an active member of the American Epilepsy Society, the Child Neurology Society, the American Clinical Neurophysiology Society, the American Academy of Neurology, and the International League Against Epilepsy.
Clarke’s clinical and research interests focus on the medical and surgical management of drug-resistant epilepsy. His recent collaborative projects have focused on reducing deficits and disparities in epilepsy care. He is widely published and was recently elected to the board of the Executive Committee of the Epilepsy Leadership Council, a collaborative group representing several major organizations that support epilepsy.
Recognition
Executive Committee, Epilepsy Leadership Council (elected 2020)
North American Commission of the International League Against Epilepsy
Castle Connolly Top Doctor
Patients’ Choice Award
Newcomers Award, NAACP

Kristina K. Jülich, MD
Assistant Professor of Neurology
Chief, Pediatric Neurogenetics Center
Clinical Focus: Epilepsy and Genetics
Jülich earned her medical degree and completed a residency in pediatrics at Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin in Germany. She completed a residency in child neurology and a fellowship in neurogenetics, both at Boston Children’s Hospital, and completed a second residency in pediatrics at Dell Children’s Medical Center.
Dr. Jülich is an epilepsy specialist. Her clinical and research interests also include genetic disorders affecting the nervous system.

Manikum “Mani” Moodley, MD
Professor of Neurology
Director, Pediatric Neurology Outpatient Clinics
Chief, Pediatric Multiple Sclerosis Center
Co-Director, Dell Children’s Hospital Neurofibromatosis Clinic
Clinical Focus: Neuroimmunology
Before joining the Dell Medical School faculty in 2019, Moodley was a senior neurologist at the Cleveland Clinic and a professor at the Lerner College of Medicine in Cleveland, Ohio. Moodley received his medical degree from the Nelson Mandela School of Medical Sciences in Durban South Africa, then completed residency training in the United Kingdom followed by a fellowship in neonatal neurology in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Dr. Moodley’s clinical interests include immunological disorders of the nervous system, the diagnosis and treatment of neurofibromatosis, and autonomic neurological disorders. He is an active member of the Network of Pediatric Multiple Sclerosis Centers, and has published widely on these and other topics.
Recognition
Distinguished Alumnus, Nelson R. Mandela School of Medical Sciences, Durban, South Africa
Excellence in Resident Teaching Award, College of Medicine, University of Saskatchewan
Neurological Institute Teacher of the Year Award, Department of Neurology, Cleveland Clinic
Pediatrics Institute Teacher of the Year Award, Department of Pediatrics, Cleveland Clinic
Best Doctors in America – U.S. News & World Report
Americas Top Doctors – Castle Connolly Medical Ltd.
Member, Royal College of Physicians of the United Kingdom

Sara Pavitt, MD
Assistant Professor of Neurology
Chief, Dell Children’s Pediatric Headache Center
Clinical Focus: Pediatric Headache
Pavitt is a board-certified pediatric neurologist and the Chief of the Dell Children’s Pediatric Headache Center received her medical degree at the Chicago Medical School in North Chicago, Illinois. She completed her Bachelor of Arts and Science in integrated physiology, Bachelor of Arts and Science in psychology, and certificate of neuroscience at the University of Colorado Boulder. She completed her pediatric residency at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford, her child neurology residency — as chief resident — at Stanford Health Care, and her pediatric headache fellowship at the University of California, San Francisco.
Pavitt is a boarded diplomat of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology with special qualifications in child neurology. Pavitt is a member of the American Headache Society as well as the American Academy of Neurology. She has received numerous awards throughout her career, including the Arnold P. Gold Humanism and Excellence in Teaching Award and the Christine Wijman Humanism in Medicine Award. Her other accolades includes recipient of the American Academy of Neurology’s Enhanced Resident Leadership Program, Consulting Fellow Teacher of the Year, Honors Certificate in Medical Education, and Top QI Project in the Stanford Quality Improvement and Patient Safety Symposium, as well as the Association of Pediatric Program Directors National Meeting.

Kristen Arredondo, MD
Assistant Professor of Neurology
Clinical Focus: Epilepsy
Kristen Arredondo, MD, is a board-certified pediatric neurologist in the Comprehensive Pediatric Epilepsy Center. She has special interests in medically refractory epilepsy, neurostimulation, and tuberous sclerosis management.
Arredondo earned her medical degree from Baylor College of Medicine and trained in pediatrics at Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston as part of the Baylor College of Medicine program. She then completed a pediatric neurology residency and clinical neurophysiology fellowship at Children’s Health/UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas. She was medical faculty at Ohio State University College of Medicine and a surgical epileptologist at Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus prior to joining UT Health Austin.
Arredondo’s research interests include thalamic EEG and practice trends in epilepsy presurgical evaluation and surgical management in the United States. She serves on a committee developing educational podcasts for the Child Neurology Society. She is also an active member of the American Epilepsy Society, American Clinical Neurophysiology Society, and the American Academy of Neurology.

Audrey C. Brumback, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Neurology
Clinical Focus: Autism and Neurodevelopmental Disorders
In addition to appointments in the Departments of Pediatrics and Neurology, Brumback is a member of the Department of Neuroscience at the University of Texas at Austin and a member of the Center for Learning and Memory and the Institute for Neuroscience at UT Austin.
Brumback received her bachelor’s degree in biochemistry from The University of Texas at Austin, then completed her MD and PhD degrees at the University of Colorado. During this time, she helped establish the scientific basis for a novel treatment for neonatal seizures. Brumback completed her pediatric neurology residency through the Neuroscience Pathway at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). Her research is supported by a K08 career development award from the NIH and the Philip R. Dodge Young Investigator Award from the Child Neurology Society.
Brumback’s clinical interests include autism and other neurodevelopmental disorders. Her current research goal is to develop brain-circuit-based therapies for the developmental neuropsychiatric disorders she treats in her clinical practice.
Recognition
Board of Directors, Child Neurology Society
Editorial Board, Frontiers in Neuroanatomy, Pediatric Neurology, Progress in Neurobiology, and Seminars in Pediatric Neurology
Philip R. Dodge Young Investigator Award, Child Neurology Society
Stroup Family Award in Pediatric Epilepsy Research (Johns Hopkins University)
Executive Committee, Child Neurology Society (2020-2022)

Clifford S. Calley, MD
Assistant Professor of Neurology
Clinical Focus: Epilepsy
Calley received his undergraduate degree from The University of Texas at Dallas and his medical degree from The University of Texas at San Antonio. He completed his pediatric and child neurology residencies at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center and his epilepsy fellowship also at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital. Calley has done research on Gulf War syndrome, and his clinical interests include the use of magnetoencephalography in the assessment of epilepsy in children.
Recognition
Education Chief, Child Neurology Residency, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital
Pellock Fellowship Award, Child Neurology Society/Child Neurology Foundation/American Epilepsy Society

Sireesha Chinthaparthi, MD
Assistant Professor of Neurology
Clinical Focus: General Child Neurology
Chinthaparthi received her undergraduate degree from Mississippi College and her medical degree from the University of Mississippi Medical Center. She completed her pediatric and child neurology residencies at the University of Mississippi. Chinthaparthi has presented research at numerous conferences and serves as a peer reviewer for Pediatric Neurology. She joined the team at Dell Medical School in 2019. Her clinical interests include movement disorders and attention deficit disorders.

Stephen R. Deputy, MD
Professor of Neurology
Clinical Focus: Pediatric Movement Disorders
Stephen R. Deputy, MD, is a board-certified pediatric neurologist and a professor in the Department of Neurology. Deputy earned his medical degree from the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and his bachelor’s in biochemistry and cell biology from the University of California, San Diego. He completed a residency in pediatric neurology at the University of California, San Francisco.
Deputy formerly served as the Clerkship Director for Neurology at the Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center in New Orleans, where he practiced for 24 years. His clinical and research interests include most disorders of the central and peripheral nervous system, though he has a special interest in pediatric movement disorders. He enjoys teaching medical students, neurology residents, pediatrics residents, and child neurology residents about basic neurosciences, neuroanatomy, and clinical pediatric neurology.
Recognition
Dr. Allen Copping Award for Excellence in Teaching, Louisiana State University School of Medicine Nicholas Gagliano Pediatrics Outstanding Faculty Award, Louisiana State University School of Medicine Top Physician, Consumers’ Research Council of America

Daniel A. Freedman, DO
Assistant Professor of Neurology
Clinical Focus: Epilepsy
Freedman received his undergraduate degree from Duke University and his medical degree from Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine. He completed his pediatric and child neurology residencies at Nationwide Children’s Hospital, in Columbus, Ohio, where he also completed a fellowship in pediatric epilepsy management. Freedman joined Dell Children’s in 2020. His clinical interests include epilepsy in children and psychogenic non-epileptic events.
Recognition
Education Chief, Child Neurology Residency, Nationwide Children’s Hospital
Academic Achievement Award, Child Neurology Residency, Nationwide Children’s Hospital

Duriel Hardy, MD
Assistant Professor of Neurology
Clinical Focus: Neuroimmunology
Hardy is a pediatric neuroimmunologist and an adult neurologist in UT Health Austin’s Multiple Sclerosis and Neuroimmunology Center within the Mulva Clinic for the Neurosciences. He is a graduate of Duke University School of Medicine and Brown University (Bachelor of Science in Neuroscience). In addition to residencies in pediatrics and child neurology at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Hardy completed a fellowship in multiple sclerosis and neuroimmunology disorders at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. His research and clinical interests are in multiple sclerosis and neuroimmunology as well as ensuring a coordinated continuum of care as pediatric patients with neuroimmunological disease age into adulthood.
Recognition
Americas Committee for Treatment and Research in Multiple Sclerosis (ACTRIMS)
Jessica Panzer Good Catch Award Recipient, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Minority Research Scholars Program, Child Neurology Society
Minority Scholars Award, American Academy of Neurology
Zeritsky Clinical Research Award, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

Louisa G. Keith, MD
Assistant Professor of Neurology
Clinical Focus: General Child Neurology
Dr. Keith received her undergraduate degree from Harvard University and her medical degree from Drexel University College of Medicine in Philadelphia. She completed her pediatric residency at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and her child neurology residency at Boston Children’s Hospital.
Dr. Keith is a member of the American Academy of Neurology and Child Neurology Society and serves on multiple committees dedicated to medical education. Her clinical interest is general child neurology, and she oversees the cardiac surgery neurological follow-up program.

Vandana Vedanarayanan, MD
Assistant Professor of Neurology
Clinical Focus: General Child Neurology
Vedanarayanan is an assistant professor in the Department of Neurology at Dell Medical School and a pediatric neurologist.
She received her Bachelor of Arts in English with minors in history and chemistry, summa cum laude, at Millsaps College and her medical degree from the University of Mississippi School of Medicine. She completed her pediatric residency at the University of Mississippi Medical Center and her anesthesiology residency at the University of Buffalo, SUNY.
She has published articles and abstracts and has given many presentations. She has certifications in pediatric advance life support as well as basic life support. Her honor society inductions include Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Tau Delta, and Alpha Epsilon Delta (pre-health honorary). Her clinical interest is general child neurology.

Vettaikorumakankav “Veda” V. Vedanarayanan, MD
Professor of Neurology
Director, Pediatric Neuromuscular Disease
Clinical Focus: Pediatric Neuromuscular Disease
Veda is a professor in the Department of Neurology at Dell Medical School. He was previously Professor of Pediatrics and Neurology at the University of Mississippi Medical Center, where he also served as Director of the Division of Neuromuscular Medicine and oversaw the Electromyography and Autonomic Laboratory. Veda received his medical education at Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research in India. After finishing his child neurology residency at Duke University, Veda went on to complete a neuromuscular disease fellowship at Johns Hopkins University. His clinical focus includes muscle and nerve disorders as well as dysfunction of the autonomic nervous system.

Jane C. Edmond, MD
Professor of Opthalmology
Clinical Focus: Pediatric Neuro-opthalmology
Edmond is the director of the Mitchel and Shannon Wong Eye Institute and a professor and founding chair in the Department of Ophthalmology at Dell Medical School. She is also an adjunct professor in the Department of Ophthalmology at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston.
Her practice focus is on pediatric and adult strabismus, medical and surgical management (50 percent of her surgery cases were adult strab), and pediatric neuro-ophthalmology (one of 25 in the country).
She earned her undergraduate degree at The University of Texas at Austin with honors (1981), Phi Beta Kappa. Med school was next at Baylor College of Medicine (1985), Alpha Omega Alpha.
Edmond was a member of the faculty from 1991-97 at Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston. From 1997 to 2003, she was a faculty member at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Scheie Eye Institute, and Wills Eye Hospital, all in Philadelphia. From 2003-2017, she resumed her faculty appointment at Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston.
Recognition
President, American Academy of Ophthalmology (2023-2025)
Achievement Award, American Academy of Ophthalmology
Honor Award, American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus
Outstanding Female Leader in Ophthalmology Award, MillenialEYE
Senior Achievement Award, American Academy of Ophthalmology
Senior Honor Award, American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus
Marshall M. Parks Medal, American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus

Faheem Mahomed, MD
Assistant Professor of Neurology
Clinical Focus: Management of Neuropathic Pain
After receiving his medical degree from the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine in 2016, Mahomed completed his physical medicine and rehabilitation residency at the University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio. During his residency, he received the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation’s resident medical school teaching award. Mahomed completed a two-year pediatric rehabilitation fellowship at the University of California Davis Health Center and Shriners Hospitals for Children and is certified by the American Board of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. His academic interests include management of neuropathic pain in children and facilitation of adaptive sports participation.

M. Omar Iqbal, MD
Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery
Clinical Focus: Pediatric Neurosurgery, Pediatric Spine and Epilepsy
Iqbal is a board-certified pediatric neurosurgeon with a special interest in pediatric spine and epilepsy. Iqbal received his Bachelor of Science in Psychobiology from the University of California in Los Angeles and earned his medical degree from St. George’s University School of Medicine. He completed neurosurgery residency training at Rutgers University and Great Ormond Street Hospital in London, England, and fellowships in both pediatric neurosurgery at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles and spine deformity at Shriners Hospitals for Children in Philadelphia.
Iqbal’s research interest is in the growing pediatric spine and developing growth-modulating technologies and approaches that allow surgeons to avoid fusion in a pre-pubescent spine. He has published multiple articles and teaches residents through his faculty position at Dell Med.

Ashley Stanley-Copeland, MD
Assistant Professor of Neurology
Clinical Focus: Pediatric Neuromuscular Disease
Stanley-Copeland is a board-certified pediatric neurologist who specializes in the assessment and treatment of neuromuscular disorders in children. She earned her medical degree from Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center New Orleans, completed a residency in pediatrics and child neurology at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, and completed a fellowship in pediatric neuromuscular medicine at The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. Stanley-Copeland is a member of the American Academy of Neurology and the American Association of Neuromuscular and Electrodiagnostic Medicine.

Cynthia Austin, PhD
Assistant Professor of Neurology
Clinical Focus: Pediatric Neuropsychology
Austin is a board-certified pediatric neuropsychologist in both the Traumatic Brain Injury/Concussion Clinic and the Pediatric Neuropsychology Clinic within UT Health Austin Pediatric Neurosciences at Dell Children’s. In the Traumatic Brain Injury/Concussion Clinic, she specializes in providing care to children and adolescents with traumatic brain injury through targeted neuropsychological screenings, education, brief intervention, and individualized treatment planning. In the Pediatric Neuropsychology Clinic, she evaluates patients with a variety of medical conditions that can affect brain/central nervous system development and functioning. These conditions include long-term recovery and follow-up for moderate-to-severe traumatic brain injury, epilepsy, hydrocephalus, cerebral palsy, prematurity, and stroke, as well as neurometabolic, genetic, and autoimmune disorders.
Austin is an assistant professor in Dell Medical School’s Department of Neurology. She earned both her doctorate in school psychology and her master’s in program evaluation from The University of Texas at Austin. She completed an internship in pediatric neuropsychology at the University of Minnesota Medical School and a fellowship in pediatric neuropsychology from Kennedy Krieger Institute/Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.
Austin’s research interests include parent experience and satisfaction with the neuropsychological assessment process. She studies predictors and outcomes of traumatic brain injury, including prolonged recovery from mild traumatic brain injury and family interventions/adjustment following moderate-to-severe traumatic brain injury. She is also part of a multisite study incorporating and delivering Teen Online Problems Solving intervention for adolescents and their families following traumatic and acquired brain injuries.

Rosalia Costello, PsyD
Assistant Professor of Neurology
Clinical Focus: Pediatric Neuropsychology
Costello is a pediatric neuropsychologist in the Comprehensive Pediatric Epilepsy Center. She completes comprehensive neuropsychological evaluations for children with drug-resistant epilepsy who may be candidates for neurosurgery. She also conducts assessments for youth with other medical conditions, including spina bifida, autoimmune encephalopathy, and genetic conditions.
Costello received her Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Loyola University in Chicago, where she minored in Spanish language, Italian language, and communications. She earned both her Master of Arts and Doctor of Psychology in Clinical Psychology with a specialization in neuropsychology from Adler University. She completed a predoctoral internship in pediatric neuropsychology at the University of Minnesota Medical Center and a two-year postdoctoral fellowship at Baylor College of Medicine/Texas Children’s Hospital.
Costello’s research focuses on health disparities and bilingual brain development in pediatric medical populations. She has presented locally, nationally, and internationally and is active in several neuropsychology organizations with the aim of fostering equity and inclusion for patients, students, and providers.

Rosario C. DeLeon, PhD
Assistant Professor of Neurology
Clinical Focus: Pediatric Neuropsychology
Rosario DeLeon, PhD, is a licensed psychologist with a specialization in neuropsychology and an extensive background in the neuropsychological evaluation of children with neurocognitive disorders from toddlerhood through late adolescence.
DeLeon completed her doctorate in clinical psychology at the University of Houston, a clinical psychology internship through the Children’s Assessment Center in Houston, and a postdoctoral fellowship in neuropsychology at The University of Texas Medical School at Houston, Department of Pediatrics, Center for Clinical Neurosciences.
DeLeon evaluates children through the Children’s Blood and Cancer Center of Dell Children’s Medical Center, the Texas Child Study Center, and the Dell Children’s Comprehensive Epilepsy Center. Through these clinics, DeLeon has the unique opportunity to complete bilingual neuropsychological evaluations in Spanish and English.

Emily Greenspahn, PhD
Assistant Professor of Neurology
Courtesy Assistant Professor of Psychiatry
Clinical Focus: Pediatric Neuropsychology
Greenspahn is a licensed neuropsychologist. Her specialty is assessing and treating children who have medical issues that affect neurocognitive functioning including brain tumors and other types of cancer, central nervous system infections, traumatic brain injuries, neurofibromatosis, blood disorders, and stroke.
Greenspahn received her Bachelor of Science in Psychology from Tulane University. She then earned both her master’s and doctorate in educational psychology from The University of Texas at Austin. Greenspahn completed an internship at Virginia Beach City Public Schools and a fellowship in clinical neuropsychology at Baylor College of Medicine.
Greenspahn served as the Director of Neuropsychological Services at the Texas Child Study Center for nine years. She developed the Embedded Behavioral Clinic in the Children’s Blood & Cancer Center at Dell Children’s and continues to lead the neuropsychological services in that clinic. Her current research interests include examining neurocognitive outcomes for children with brain tumors and blood disorders, and who have undergone cancer treatment. She is a past treasurer and current member of the Austin Neuropsychological Society and a current member of the International Neuropsychological Society. She trains doctoral students, interns, and fellows in clinical neuropsychology and has served as a dissertation supervisor.

Jessica A. Pliego, PhD
Assistant Professor of Neurology
Clinical Focus: Pediatric Neuropsychology
Pliego is a pediatric neuropsychologist in UT Health Austin Pediatric Neurosciences at Dell Children’s. She specializes in neuropsychological and neurodevelopmental care for children following perinatal complications and congenital heart disease. Additionally, Pliego is an assistant professor in the Dell Medical School Department of Neurology.
Pliego earned her doctorate in school psychology with an emphasis on neuropsychology as well as a master’s in educational psychology and a bachelor’s in psychology from Texas A&M University. She completed an internship in school psychology with an emphasis on pediatric neuropsychology at Virginia Beach City Public Schools and a postdoctoral fellowship in pediatric neuropsychology at Children’s Hospital Colorado.
Pliego’s research interests include examining cognitive outcomes in children with congenital heart disease or a history of strokes. Her clinical goal is to identify neurodevelopmental challenges early so that appropriate interventions can be implemented to improve long-term outcomes.

Eman K. Rettig, PsyD
Assistant Professor of Neurology
Clinical Focus: Pediatric Neuropsychology
Rettig is a licensed clinical psychologist and pediatric neuropsychologist who conducts inpatient and outpatient neuropsychological evaluations. Her clinical interests include medical and neurological conditions that affect brain development and functioning. She sees patients diagnosed with anoxia/hypoxia, brain tumors and cancers, encephalitis, meningitis, ischemic and hemorrhagic strokes, and traumatic brain injuries, among others. Rettig also assesses for co-occurring neurodevelopmental disorders such as ADHD and learning disabilities.
Rettig earned her Master of Clinical Psychology and Doctor of Psychology at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio. She completed her predoctoral internship in pediatric neuropsychology at the University of Texas at Austin Dell Medical School and Dell Children’s Medical Center. She went on to complete her postdoctoral fellowship in pediatric neuropsychology at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center.
Rettig is committed to the scientist-practitioner model with the goal of providing evidence-based care. Her research interests include acquired and traumatic brain injuries, epilepsy, health literacy, and the efficacy of neuropsychological evaluations and feedback. Rettig is also a clinical educator who mentors neuropsychology trainees.

William Schraegle, PhD
Assistant Professor of Neurology
Clinical Focus: Pediatric Neuropsychology
Schraegle is a licensed pediatric neuropsychologist in the Comprehensive Pediatric Epilepsy Center. He specializes in providing pre- and postsurgical assessments and general evaluations for children with chronic epilepsy who experience cognitive concerns. Additionally, Dr. Schraegle is an assistant professor in the Dell Medical School Department of Neurology.
Dr. Schraegle earned his doctorate degree in counseling psychology with a subspecialization in neuropsychology at The University of Texas at Austin. He completed an internship in clinical psychology with a specialty focus in pediatric neuropsychology at the Barrow Neurological Institute at Phoenix Children’s Hospital and a two-year postdoctoral fellowship in pediatric neuropsychology at Dell Children’s Medical Center/Dell Medical School.
Schraegle is committed to the scientist-practitioner model with the goal of improving clinical care delivery through scientific inquiry. Much of his research to date has explored neurocognitive and behavioral functioning in pediatric epilepsy, with particular emphasis on the association of cognitive profiles with epileptic foci and functional and health-related quality (HRQOL) of life outcomes. His current research focuses on exploring syndrome specific cognitive and behavioral phenotypes in pediatric epilepsy with the ultimate goal of improving early identification and providing targeted intervention for patients and their families. He is also a clinical educator who mentors research in students across a variety of disciplines.

Amanda Winter-Greenberg, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology
Clinical Focus: Pediatric Neuropsychology
Amanda Winter-Greenberg is a licensed psychologist with a specialization in pediatric neuropsychology. She has experience in performing neuropsychological assessment of children and adolescents with a broad variety of medical disorders that affect neurological functioning and development, including prematurity/low birth weight, genetic disorders, epilepsy, stroke, brain injury, hematological disorders, leukemia, brain tumors, demyelinating diseases, encephalitis, congenital heart defects, chronic renal failure, craniofacial abnormalities, histiocytosis, metabolic storage disorders, and perinatally acquired HIV. She also has experience assessing for developmental difficulties including autism spectrum disorder, developmental delay, intellectual disability, ADHD, and learning disorders.
Winter-Greenberg is the neuropsychologist at the Dell Children’s Medical Center’s Children’s Comprehensive Care Clinic. She also conducts outpatient neuropsychological evaluations at the Texas Child Study Center. Winter-Greenberg is in the process of becoming board certified in clinical neuropsychology (ABPP-CN). She is also involved in the training of predoctoral interns and is the Texas Child Study Center’s neuropsychology track supervisor for their APPIC member internship. Research interests include neurocognitive functioning in children born extremely prematurely and in children with tuberous sclerosis complex.

Jeffrey B. Titus, PhD
Assistant Professor of Neurology
Administrative Director, Pediatric Neurosciences
Clinical Focus: Pediatric Neuropsychology in Epilepsy
Titus’s clinical specialty is in pediatric epilepsy, and he practices as a pediatric neuropsychologist through Dell Children’s Medical Center. Prior to coming to Austin in 2011, Titus was an assistant professor of clinical neurology at Washington University School of Medicine and program lead of neuropsychology at St. Louis Children’s Hospital.
Throughout his career, Titus has been devoted to a scientist-practitioner model that focuses on the integration of scientific study with clinical care delivery. Much of his research has investigated emotional and behavioral concerns in pediatric epilepsy, with particular emphasis on cognitive and disease-specific features that may reflect brain-based predispositions for psychopathology. With health-related quality of life (HRQOL) as an end-point variable, Titus has also sought to quantify the relative contribution of cognitive, emotional, socioeconomic and family coping factors on health outcomes in epilepsy above and beyond seizure variables. He is working to combine this information with medical factors to develop metrics for early identification of risk so that prevention and intervention efforts can be implemented. He is also developing methods to integrate real-time measurement of risk factors into interdisciplinary clinics to monitor the social and economic impact of pediatric epilepsy and promote health and wellness initiatives at the primary, secondary and tertiary care levels.
Titus is a fellow of the American Epilepsy Society, and his recent research has been published in Epilepsy and Behavior, the Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, the Journal of Pediatric Epilepsy, the Journal of Attention Disorders, and the Journal of Child Neurology. He serves as a clinical supervisor for doctoral-level neuropsychology students at The University of Texas at Austin, and he is active in the strategic planning and organization of clinical neuroscience programs at Dell Children’s Medical Center.