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Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford
Division of Pediatric Neurology
300 Pasteur Drive, Room A343
Stanford, CA 94305-5235

Jin Hahn, M.D., Medical Director
Patrick Barnes, M.D., Neuroradiologist

Ann Lewis, M.D., Ph.D.
Terence Sanger, M.D., Ph.D., Motor Specialist
Caryn Kovar, Ph.D., Neuropsychologist

Malathy Sivapalasingham, RN, MS, CPNP, Center Director
Susan Carter, Research Coordinator

650-498-2692
650-725-7459 (fax)
hpe@stanford.edu

Jin S. Hahn, M.D., Medical Director
Associate Professor of Neurology, Stanford
Chief of Neurology, Lucile Packard Children's Hospital

Dr. Hahn received his Medical Doctorate from Harvard Medical School. He received his neurology training at The Children's Hospital, Boston and Harvard Medical School. He has had over a decade of pediatric neurology experience with a special interest in newborns and children with congenital brain malformations. He is an Associate Professor of Neurology and Pediatrics at Stanford University. He has been the senior author on the recent NEUROLOGY papers on the clinical findings and neuroradiologic correlations in HPE.

Terence Sanger, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Neurology

Motor System Specialist

Dr. Sanger is our newest addition to our Center at Stanford. He received his M.D. and Ph.D. from Harvard Medical School from the Harvard-MIT Health Scientist Training Program. He completed his neurology training at the Children's Hospital, Boston. After residency, he received special fellowship training in Toronto, Canada in the area of movement disorders in children. His area of interest will be in the evaluation and treatment of the movement disorders in children with holoprosencephaly. He is also director the national multicenter Childhood Motor Study Group. 

Ann Lewis, M.D., Ph.D.
Neurodevelopmental Instructor

Dr. Lewis was our second Carter Center Fellow (2002-2002). She received a M.D. and Ph.D. from University of California, Irvine. She received her pediatric training at the Children's Hospital Los Angeles. During her fellowship, she investigated the clinical manifestations of the Middle Interhemispheric Variant of HPE. After her clinical fellowship, she became a child neurology resident at Stanford, and is now an instructor in the department. 

Caryn Kovar, Ph.D.
Neuropsychologist

We are very fortunate to have Dr. Kovar from the Children's Health Council at our Center. She performs all of the developmental and neuro- psychologic testing in our patients. She administers the Carter Neurocognitive Assessment.

Donald Olson, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Neurology
Presently working on EEG in HPE. 

Eugene Hoyme, M.D.
Professor of Pediatrics
Chief, Division of Genetics

Greg Enns, M.B.Ch.B.
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Division of Genetics

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