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Specialty:: Pediatrics, Neurodevelopmental Disabilities
Department Affiliation:: Pediatrics
Hospital Affiliation:: Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center
UCLA Mattel Children's Hospital
UCLA Medical Center, Santa Monica
State License:: A96522
Phone:: 310-825-0867
Health Plans:: Accepted Plans

About Me: Associate Chief of Clinical Pediatric Neurology
Director, Pediatric Neurophysiology Lab
Director, Adolescent Epilepsy Center at UCLA

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Primary Office: Developmental Studies Program
Primary Address: 300 UCLA Medical Plaza
Suite 3300
Los Angeles, California 90095
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Phone: 310-825-0867
Fax: 310-825-5834

Medical Board Certifications: Neurology with Special Qualification in Child Neurology, American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, 2007
Certification 2: Clinical Neurophysiology, American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, 2009
Fellowship: Clinical Neurophysiology, UCLA School of Medicine, 2006-2008
Residency: Pediatrics, Penn State Univ-Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, 2000-2003
Residency 2: Pediatric Neurology, Montefiore Medical Center Moses Division Hospital, 2003-2006
Degree: Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, MD, 2000

Research Interests

Pediatric epilepsy
Traumatic brain injury
Pediatric epilepsy surgery

Publications

Salamon N, Kung J, Shaw S, Koo J, Koh S, Wu JY, Lerner JT, Sankar R, Shields WD, Engel Jr J, Fried I, Miyata H, Yong WH, Vinters HV, Mathern GW. FDG-PET/MRI Co-registration improves detection of cortical dysplasia in epilepsy patients. Neurology 2008;71(20):1594-601.
Evans E, Koh S, Lerner JT, Sankar R, Garg M. Accuracy of amplitude integrated EEG in a neonatal cohort. Arch Dis Child Fetal Neonatal Ed. 2010;95:F169-73.
Wu JY, Sankar R, Lerner JT, Matsumoto JH, Vinters HV, Mathern GW. Removing interictal fast ripples on electrocorticography linked with seizure freedom in children. Neurology 2010;75(19):1686-94.
Abend NS, Arndt DH, Carpenter JL, Chapman KE, Cornett KM, Gallentine WB, Giza CC, Goldstein JL, Hahn CD, Lerner JT, Loddenkemper T, Matsumoto JH, McBain K, Nash KB, Payne E, Sanchez SM, Sanchez Fernandez I, Shults J, Williams K, Yang K, Dlugos DJ. Electrographic seizures in pediatric ICU patients: cohort study of the risk factors and mortality. Neurology 2013;81(4):383-391.
Sanchez SM, Arndt DH, Carpenter JL, Chapman KE, Cornett KM, Dlugos DJ, Gallentine WB, Giza CC, Goldstetin JL, Hahn CD, Lerner JT, Loddenkemper T, Matsumoto JH, McBain K, Nash KB, Payne E, Sanchez Fernandez I, Shultz J, Williams K, Yang A, Abend NS. Electroencephalography monitoring in critically ill children: current practice and implications for future study design. Epilepsia, 2013;54(8):1419-1427.
Arndt DH*, Lerner JT*, Matsumoto J, Madikians A, Yudovin S, Valino H, McArthur DL, Wu JY, Leung M, Buxey F, Szeliga C, Van Hirtum-Das M, Sankar R, Brooks-Kayal A, Giza CC. Subclinical early post traumatic seizures detected by continuous EEG monitoring in a consecutive pediatric cohort. Epilepsia, 2013;54(10):1780-8.
Sánchez Fernández I, Abend NS, Arndt DH, Carpenter JL, Chapman KE, Cornett KM, Dlugos DJ, Gallentine WB, Giza CC, Goldstein JL, Hahn CD, Lerner JT, Matsumoto JH, McBain K, Nash KB, Payne E, Sánchez SM, Williams K, Loddenkemper T. Electrographic seizures after convulsive status epilepticus in children and young adults: a retrospective multicenter study. Journal of Pediatrics, 2014;164(2):339-46.
Hussain SA, Shinnar S, Kwong G, Lerner JT, Matsumoto JH, Wu JY, Shields WD, Sankar R. Treatment of infantile spasms with very high dose prednisolone before high dose adrenocorticotropic hormone. Epilepsia, 2014;55(1):103-7.

Awards: 2018 Los Angeles Magazine Top Doctors
Outstanding PBL Tutor Award 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017

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