JAMES W. WHELESS, M.D.

Professor and Chief

Department of Pediatric Neurology

The University of Tennessee Health Science Center

Chair

Divison of Pediatric Neurology

Le Bonheur Children's Medical Center

Director, Le Bonheur Comprehensive Epilepsy Program

Director, Le Bonheur Neuroscience Center

Clinical Director and Chief

Department of Pediatric Neurology

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

Address

The University of Tennessee Health Science Center

Pediatric Neurology

777 Washington Avenue, Suite 335

Memphis, TN 38105

Tel: (901) 287-5207; Fax: (901) 287-5325

Education

M.D. Institution: University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, OK

Residency & Fellowship Training: University of Oklahoma Tulsa Medical College, Tulsa, OK; Child Neurology Fellow, Children's Memorial Hospital, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL; EEG/Epilepsy Fellow, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, GA

Research Interests

My interests are seizure disorders and epilepsy in children and adolescents. This includes drug therapy, the ketogenic diet, epilepsy surgery, vagus nerve stimulation and magnetoencephalography.

Recent Publications

• Wheless JW. Treatment of refractory convulsive status epilepticus in children: other therapies. Semin Pediatr Neurol. 2010 Sep;17(3):190-4. PMID: 20727489
• Pellock JM, Hrachovy R, Shinnar S, Baram TZ, Bettis D, Dlugos DJ, Gaillard WD, Gibson PA, Holmes GL, Nordli DR, O'Dell C, Shields WD, Trevathan E, Wheless JW. Infantile spasms: A U.S. consensus report. Epilepsia. 2010 Jul 1; [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 20608959
• Aquilina K, Clarke DF, Wheless JW, Boop FA. Microencephaloceles: another dual pathology of intractable temporal lobe epilepsy in childhood. J Neurosurg Pediatr. 2010 Apr;5(4):360-4. PMID: 20367340
• Wheless JW, Vazquez B. Rufinamide: a novel broad-spectrum antiepileptic drug. Epilepsy Curr. 2010 Jan;10(1):1-6. PMID: 20126329
• Wheless JW, Conry J, Krauss G, Mann A, LoPresti A, Narurkar M. Safety and tolerability of rufinamide in children with epilepsy: a pooled analysis of 7 clinical studies. J Child Neurol. 2009 Dec;24(12):1520-5. PMID: 19955344
• Wheless JW. Managing severe epilepsy syndromes of early childhood. J Child Neurol. 2009 Aug;24(8 Suppl):24S-32S; quiz 33S-6S. Review. PMID: 19666880

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