Biography

Deepa Sirsi, M.D., is a Pediatric Neurologist at Children’s Health℠. She is a Professor of Pediatrics, Neurology and Neurotherapeutics at UT Southwestern Medical Center. Dr. Sirsi is also the Program Director for the Pediatric Clinical Neurophysiology and Epilepsy fellowship programs at UT Southwestern Medical Center.

After graduating from Bangalore Medical College and Research Institute in India, Dr. Sirsi completed a pediatric residency at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center in New Jersey. Subsequently, she completed a pediatric neurology residency at New York-Presbyterian Weill Cornell Medical Center and then went on to a neurophysiology fellowship at University Hospital for Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center in New York.

She has board certifications in pediatrics, neurology, with special qualifications in child neurology, clinical neurophysiology and epilepsy.

Dr. Sirsi’s clinical interests include: childhood epilepsy, genetic epilepsy syndromes and management of intractable epilepsy, with treatments such as epilepsy surgery, ketogenic diet, neurostimulation and newer anti-seizure medications. She is currently involved with clinical trials for intractable epilepsy.

Her research interests include: Dravet Syndrome and treatment, genetics of epilepsy and electroencephalographic abnormalities in children with autism.

Biography