Dennis J. Dlugos, MD, MSCE, is Professor of Neurology and Pediatrics at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and the Perelman School of Medicine (PSOM) at the University of Pennsylvania. He is Director of the Epilepsy Program at CHOP, holds the Tristram C. Colket, Jr. Endowed Chair in Pediatric Neurology, and is Associate Dean for the UME Science and Discovery Curriculum at PSOM.
Dr. Dlugos obtained his medical degree at Columbia University College of Physician and Surgeons in 1988, and a Master of Science Degree in Clinical Epidemiology (MSCE) from the University of Pennsylvania in 2002. He completed an internship in Pediatrics at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, in 1989, and served as an Undersea Medical Officer in the U.S. Navy from 1989 to 1993. He then completed a residency in Pediatrics at Thomas Jefferson University and Alfred I. duPont Institute in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Wilmington, Delaware. Dr. Dlugos then completed a residency in Neurology/Child Neurology and a fellowship in Epilepsy and Clinical Neurophysiology at the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.
Dr. Dlugos is board certified in Neurology with special qualifications in Child Neurology and in Epilepsy.
Dr. Dlugos is a member of the American Epilepsy Society, the Epilepsy Study Consortium, and the Pediatric Epilepsy Research Foundation. Dr. Dlugos is a frequent lecturer at national and international medical meetings on topics related to pediatric epilepsy and clinical trials. He has published papers in journals such as Neurology, Epilepsia, Lancet Neurology, Annals of Neurology, and the New England Journal of Medicine.
