Katherine Susan Taub - Faculty Biosketch

Katherine Susan Taub, MD

Professor of Clinical Neurology

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Department: Neurology

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34th Street and Civic Center Boulevard
Philadelphia, PA 19104

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Email:
taubk@chop.edu

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13 Education:
21 7 BS 2d (Biology major and Theology minor) c
2e Georgetown University, 2000.
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41 Georgetown University School of Medicine, 2005.
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1f Post-Graduate Training
24 53 Pediatric Residency, University of California, Irvine, 2005-2007.
24 60 Child Neurology Residency, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, 2007-2010.
24 6e Epilepsy and Neurophysiology Fellowship, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, 2010-2011.
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17 Certifications
28 71 American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology with Special Qualification in Child Neurology, 2010.
28 63 American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology Board Certification in Epilepsy, 2013.
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Description of Research Expertise

61 PI for the EXIST 3 Trial for Everolimus and Focal Epilepsy in Tuberous Sclerosis
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55 PI for PREvENT Trial: Preventing Epilepsy using Vigabatrin in Infants with TSC
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Description of Clinical Expertise

2f Tuberous Sclerosis and Epilepsy
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Selected Publications

bb Katherine S. Taub: Neurocutaneous Disorders. Netter's Pediatrics. Elsevier Saunders (eds.). 2(16): 111, June 2022.

aa Taub, KS: Fox 29 News Interview on Alternating Hemiplegia of Childhood Fox 29 News January 2017.

da Taub KS, Abend NS: Seizure Disorders. Comprehensive Critical Care Pediatrics 2nd edition. Society of Critical Care Medicine, Page: 329-346, 2015.

cd Katherine S Taub, Sudha Kilaru Kessler, A G Christina Bergqvist: Risk of seizure recurrence after achieving initial seizure freedom on the ketogenic diet. 10 Epilepsia 4e 55(4): 579-83, April 2014 Notes: doi: 10.1111/epi.12583.

12b Tara Wenger, Jeffrey Gerdes, Katherine Taub, Daniel Swarr, Matthew Deardorff, and Nicholas Abend: Telemedicine for genetic and neurologic evaluation in the neonatal intensive care unit. J. Perinatol. 34(3): 234-40, March 2014.

d8 Taub KS and Abend NS: Seizure Disorders. Comprehensive Critical Care: Pediatric. Society of Critical Care Medicine, Page: 447-468, August 2012.

b7 Taub KS and Abend NS: Seizures. Clinical Handbook of Pediatrics 5th Edition. LWW, Page: 711-725, April 2012.

f9 Katherine S. Taub and Nicholas Abend: Book review of Atlas of EEG in Critical Care by Lawrence J. Hirsch and Richard P. Brenner. Epilepsy and Behavior. Elsevier, 20: 141, 2010.

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