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Yoshimi Sogawa, MD, MS

  • Associate Professor of Pediatrics

Dr.Sogawa's research focus is in early onset epileptic encephalopathy and long term effects of childhood seizures, for which she received Outstanding Junior Member award from Child Neurology Society and the Early Career Physician-Scientist Award from the American Epilepsy Society. She has received a master degree from the Clinical Research Training Program at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. She has been a collaborator for several NIH funded clinical trials and site-PI for state funded and pharmaceutical company sponsored clinical trials on childhood epilepsy. She has also served as a reviewer for the American Academy of Neurology Research Program. She has been a director of clinical research and member of education committee in child neurology division since 2019, supervising scholarly activity of residents during their training.

 

Education & Training

  • MD, Niigata University School of Medicine, 1995
  • Internship, Japanese National physician Graduate Medical Education Program, 1995-1996
  • Residency in Pediatrics, Niigata University Hospital, 1996-1997
  • Residency in Pediatrics, Saiseikai General Hospital, 1997-1998
  • Research Fellow in Neurology, Children’s Hospital, Boston, 1999-2000
  • Residency in Child Neurology, Schneider Children’s Hospital, 2000-2003
  • Residency in General Pediatrics, Schneider Children’s Hospital, 2003-2005
  • Clinical Fellow in Neurophysiology, Montefiore Medical Center, 2005-2006
  • Master's Clinical Research Program, Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University, 2007-2009

Selected Publications

My ORCID Profile

Academic and Research Interests

  • Childhood epilepsy
  • Infantile spasms
  • Epileptic encephalopathy
  • EEG
  • Epilepsy
  • Child neurology
  • Early onset Epiletic encephalopathy
  • Infantile spasms
  • Genetic epilepsy
  • Clincal trial