Shelley D. Williams, MD

Administrative Assistant: Sherri Rectenwald

Dr. Williams specializes in clinical care of children with epilepsy from birth to age 21 years.    She is familiar  with various treatment options including anticonvulsants ,  diet therapies and  neurostimulation.  She participates in the surgical evaluation of children with intractable epilepsy for including focal resections or corpus callosotomy.  She advocates care for such children  in a compassionate way balancing quality of life concerns with good seizure control  

Dr. Williams directs the Ketogenic Diet clinic of Children’s Hospital following children being treated with the ketogenic or Modified Atkins diet  for their epilepsy or metabolic conditions conjunction with highly trained dieticians and nurses. Dr. Williams also participates in clinical research of various pharmacologic treatments for intractable epilepsy in conjunction with her colleagues in the  Epilepsy program.  

Dr Williams directs the Tuberous sclerosis Clinic at Children’s Hospital following the care for children with this genetic disease in conjunction with her colleagues in Cardology, Nephrology, Opthalmology, Developmental Pediatrics and Psychiatry. 

Professional and Scientific Society Memberships:

• American Academy of Neurology
• American Epilepsy Society
• Child Neurology Society; Bylaws Committee, 2006-2014