Deepa Sirsi, MD
Pediatric Neurologist
Professor at UT Southwestern Medical Center
- Languages Spoken:
- English Kannada,Hindi
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.
Education and Training
- Medical School
- Bangalore University (1999)
- Residency
- Newark Beth Israel Medical Center (2004), Pediatrics
- Fellowship
- Albert Einstein College of Medicine (2008), Neurophysiology
New York Presbyterian Hospital - Weill Cornell (2007), Pediatric Neurology - Board Certification
- American Board of Psy&Neurology/Child Neurology
Conditions
- Angelman syndrome
- Concussion
- Congenital cortical dysplasia
- Doose syndrome
- Dravet syndrome
- Epilepsy
- First unprovoked seizure
- Infantile spasms (West's syndrome)
- Intractable epilepsy
- Landau-Kleffner syndrome (LKS)
- Lennox-Gastaut syndrome
- Malformations of cortical development (MCD)
- Neuronal migration disorders (NMDs)
- Rasmussen syndrome
- Rett syndrome
- Sturge-Weber syndrome
- Tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC)
Treatments
Departments and Programs
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Research Interests
- Genetic epilepsy syndrome
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Publications
Publications
- Spatially clustering de novo variants in CYFIP2, encoding the cytoplasmic FMRP interacting protein 2, cause intellectual disability and seizures. Zweier M, Begemann A, McWalter K, Cho MT, Abela L, Banka S, Behring B, Berger A, Brown CW, Carneiro M, Chen J, Cooper GM, Finnila CR, Guillen Sacoto MJ, Henderson A, Hüffmeier U, Joset P, Kerr B, Lesca G, Leszinski GS, McDermott JH, Meltzer MR, Monaghan KG, Mostafavi R, Õunap K, Plecko B, Powis Z, Purcarin G, Reimand T, Riedhammer KM, Schreiber JM, Sirsi D, Wierenga KJ, Wojcik MH, Papuc SM, Steindl K, Sticht H, Rauch A Eur. J. Hum. Genet. 2019 Jan
- Evolution of EEG findings in children with autism spectrum disorder: A tertiary care centre?s clinical experience. Thodeson D, Dowd D, Golla S, Evans P, Huang R, Sirsi D Journal of Psychology and Psychiatry (Online-Open Access Text) 2018 2 2 1-4
- SYN1 Gene Mutation in a Child with Focal Epilepsy and Reflex Bathing Seizures. Sirsi D, Armstrong D, Muñoz-Bibiloni J, Redondo B, Park JY. J Pediatr Epilepsy 2017 6 2 119-124
- Paroxysmal Choreoathetosis in a Child with SCN2A Mutation and Neonatal Seizures. George N, Thodeson D, Park J, Sirsi D. Neurology & Neurosurgery 2017 4 4
Books
- Epilepsy Board Review. 1st ed. Modur PN, Gupta PK, Sirsi D. (Ed.) (2016). New York: Demos Medical Publishing.
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Professional Activities
- American Academy of Neurology (2011)
- Fellow, American Epilepsy Society (2017)
- Member, American Epilepsy Society (2008)
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Awards and Honors
- Top Doctor in Plano, TX - International Association of Healthcare Professionals (IAHCP) (2018)
- Best Pediatric Specialists - D Magazine (2017)
- Best Doctors in Dallas - D Magazine (2016)
- Top Scholar Award - Epilepsy Foundation (2007)
- Intern of the Year Award - Pediatrics, Newark Beth Israel Medical Center (2003)
