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On April 29, we celebrated the grand opening of the new home of UT Health Austin Pediatric Neurosciences at Dell Children’s in the Specialty Pavilion at Dell Children’s Medical Center. Our new home houses offices for pediatric neurology, neurosurgery, neuropsychology, epilepsy, and neuro-opthalmology as well as vastly expanded clinic space for all of our neuroscience clinical services where we are able to see all children without regard to their parent’s ability to pay for services. Thank you to Dell Children’s Medical Center for making this huge investment in the care of children with neurological disease.

The growth of Dell Children’s Medical Center and our world-class pediatric neuroscience program is making it possible for us to help children from all over Texas. Our doctors – Clifford Calley and Winson Ho – were featured in this heartwarming story about a little boy from the Texas valley who is making a wonderful recovery after they solved the mystery of his ailment. See the story in the May 17 issue of the Austin American-Statesman:

Dell Children’s Medical Center and UT Health Austin Pediatric Neurosciences – proof that the best medical care in the world is HERE.

We already knew that our 4-South inpatient team at Dell Children’s Hospital is as good as they come, because we work with them daily and our families often sing their praises. These dedicated people (many of them shown here) provide exceptional patient care and go above and beyond to help our neuroscience patients and their families. So we were not at all surprised when they recently received the Dell Children’s Hospital Daisy Award for outstanding team care. We are very proud of these folks and the work they do. Congratulations!

We recently received approval from the ACGME to increase our child neurology resident compliment. We are recruiting a PGY-3 resident for the 2021-2022 academic year in addition to the NRMP child neurology medical student match. Thank you to Dell Medical School and Dell Children’s for supporting our residency education mission. Stay tuned for more information!

By mid-April 2021, the new Pediatric Specialty Pavilion at Dell Children’s will be open and home to the Dell Medical School Pediatric Neurosciences at Dell Children’s program. This new facility, adjacent to Dell Children’s, will provide 40,000 square feet for our program and will house all pediatric neurology, neuropsychology, and neurosurgery faculty, residents, and fellows, as well as our program’s nurse practitioners and our main outpatient clinic space. Additionally, the new facility will provide outpatient eye lanes for pediatric neuro-ophthalmology. For the first time, we will all be together!

Congratulations to Dr. Dave Clarke on his election to the Steering Committee of the Epilepsy Leadership Council. Dr. Clarke is the director of the Dell Medical School Pediatric Epilepsy Program at Dell Children’s. The Epilepsy Leadership Council is a coalition of more than 40 professional societies, patient advocacy organizations, and governmental agencies working together to improve the lives of children and adults living with epilepsy. 

Way to go, Dave!