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William Davis Gaillard, MD
Contact Information
Children's National Medical Center
Center for Neuroscience Research (CNR)
Children’s Research Institute (CRI)
111 Michigan Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20010-2970
202-476-2120
wgaillar@childrensnational.org
Education & Training
| Institution & Location |
Degree |
Year(s) |
Field of Study |
Yale College,
New Haven, CT |
BA |
1980 |
History |
Yale University School of Medicine,
New Haven, CT |
MD |
1985 |
Medicine |
Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh,
Pittsburgh, PA |
|
1985-1987 |
Internship and Residency, Pediatrics |
| Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD |
|
1987-1990 |
Residency Neurology (Chief Resident Ped Neur 88-90) |
| Clinical Epilepsy Section, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Washington, DC |
|
1990-1993 |
Fellowship - Epilepsy, Clinical Neurphsiology & Neuroimaging; Clinical Associate |
Research Interests
William Davis Gaillard, MD, an internationally recognized expert in pediatric epilepsy and imaging, is professor of Pediatrics and Neurology at George Washington University and professor of Neurology at Georgetown University. Dr. Gaillard is chief of the Division of Epilepsy and Neurophysiology and director of the Center for Treatment of Epilepsy and Related Disorders at Children’s National Medical Center and Georgetown University Hospital. He is also the director of the IDDRC imaging core and associate director of the Center for Neuroscience Research, Children’s Research Institute. Dr. Gaillard joined the staff of Children’s in 1993. He earned his undergraduate degree in history at Yale College, and his medical degree at the Yale University School of Medicine. After completing internship and residency in Pediatrics at the Children’s Hospital in Pittsburgh and Neurology residency at Johns Hopkins Hospital, he completed a fellowship in Epilepsy, Clinical Neurophysiology, and Imaging at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), National Institutes of Health (NIH). A pediatrician, neurologist, and epileptologist by training, Dr. Gaillard has worked throughout his career to study the effects of childhood epilepsy on brain structure and function. He helped pioneer brain mapping with functional MRI in pediatric populations. Dr. Gaillard currently directs brain imaging initiatives in pediatric developmental disorders in addition to his continuing work in epilepsy. He has published more than 100 peer reviewed articles and chapters and over 200 abstracts.
Clinical Interests
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Publications
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