Ernesto Gonzalez-Giraldo, MD
Assistant Professor
Neurology
School of Medicine

He also has a special interest in treating epilepsy with the ketogenic diet, a low carbohydrate, high-fat diet that has been shown to reduce seizures in patients with drug-resistant epilepsy.

His research focuses on treating infantile spasms, a seizure disorder that arises in the first year of life and can severely impact development and cognition if not treated early. He also studies various anti-seizure medications and the ketogenic diet to evaluate their effectiveness in treating epilepsy.

He earned his medical degree from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. He completed a residency in pediatrics at the Sinai Hospital in Baltimore and a residency in child neurology at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. He completed a fellowship in epilepsy at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.

He belongs to the American Academy of Neurology and American Epilepsy Society.

• Education Research: Quality and Validity Evidence for a National In-Training Examination for Epilepsy Fellows.
  Neurology. Education 2023 Moeller J, Gonzalez-Giraldo E, Fung FW, Johnson EL, Kheder A, MacLean J, McGinnis EL, Muhlhofer WG, Oster JM, Schmitt S, Voinescu PE, Wong-Kisiel LC, Kidd KJ, Kephart A, Lado FA, Kessler SK
• Epilepsy surgery in children with genetic etiologies: A prospective evaluation of current practices and outcomes.
  Seizure 2023 Coryell J, Singh R, Ostendorf AP, Eisner M, Alexander A, Eschbach K, Shrey DW, Olaya J, Ciliberto MA, Karakas C, Karia S, McNamara N, Romanowski EF, Kheder A, Pradeep J, Reddy SB, McCormack MJ, Bolton…
• Responsive Neurostimulation in Drug-Resistant Pediatric Epilepsy: Findings From the Epilepsy Surgery Subgroup of the Pediatric Epilepsy Research Consortium.
  Pediatric neurology 2023 Singh RK, Eschbach K, Samanta D, Perry MS, Liu G, Alexander AL, Wong-Kisiel L, Ostendorf A, Tatachar P, Reddy SB, McCormack MJ, Manuel CM, Gonzalez-Giraldo E, Numis AL, Wolf S, Karia S, Karakas C, …
• Genetic Testing to Inform Epilepsy Treatment Management From an International Study of Clinical Practice.
  JAMA neurology 2022 McKnight D, Morales A, Hatchell KE, Bristow SL, Bonkowsky JL, Perry MS, Berg AT, Borlot F, Esplin ED, Moretz C, Angione K, Ríos-Pohl L, Nussbaum RL, Aradhya S, ELEVIATE Consortium, Haldeman-Englert CR…
• Surgical evaluation in children <3 years of age with drug-resistant epilepsy: Patient characteristics, diagnostic utilization, and potential for treatment delays.
  Epilepsia 2021 Perry MS, Shandley S, Perelman M, Singh RK, Wong-Kisiel L, Sullivan J, Gonzalez-Giraldo E, Romanowski EF, McNamara NA, Marashly A, Ostendorf AP, Alexander A, Eschbach K, Bolton J, Wolf S, McGoldrick P…
• Acceptability of Standardized EEG Reporting in an Electronic Health Record.
  Journal of clinical neurophysiology : official publication of the American Electroencephalographic Society 2020 Witzman S, Massey SL, Kessler S, Gonzalez-Giraldo E, Fridinger SE, Worden L, Lewin N, Dlugos D, Melamed S, Fitzgerald M, Fung FW, Ferruzi M, McNamee N, LaFalce D, Donnelly M, Haywood A, Allen-Napoli L…
• Clinical Reasoning: An 11-year-old girl with focal seizures, fevers, and unilateral, enhancing cortical lesions.
  Neurology 2020 Russ JB, Timbie CM, Li Y, Gonzalez-Giraldo E
• Tablet-based electroencephalography diagnostics for patients with epilepsy in the West African Republic of Guinea.
  European journal of neurology 2020 Sokolov E, Abdoul Bachir DH, Sakadi F, Williams J, Vogel AC, Schaekermann M, Tassiou N, Bah AK, Khatri V, Hotan GC, Ayub N, Leung E, Fantaneanu TA, Patel A, Vyas M, Milligan T, Villamar MF, Hoch D, …
• Advances in the Treatment of Drug-Resistant Pediatric Epilepsy.
  Seminars in neurology 2020 Gonzalez-Giraldo E, Sullivan JE
• Reply to Sharawat et al. "Efficacy of High-Dose Oral Steroids in Children With Epileptic Spasms".
  Pediatric neurology 2019 Gonzalez-Giraldo E, Stafstrom CE, Stanfield AC, Kossoff EH
• Treating Infantile Spasms with High-Dose Oral Corticosteroids: A Retrospective Review of 87 Children.
  Pediatric neurology 2018 Gonzalez-Giraldo E, Stafstrom CE, Stanfield AC, Kossoff EH
• Recurrent Dysarthria and Ataxia in a Young Girl.
  JAMA neurology 2018 Romba M, González-Giraldo E, Levy M
• Scoring system for periventricular leukomalacia in infants with congenital heart disease.
  Pediatric research 2015 McCarthy AL, Winters ME, Busch DR, Gonzalez-Giraldo E, Ko TS, Lynch JM, Schwab PJ, Xiao R, Buckley EM, Vossough A, Licht DJ
• Brachial plexus injury mimicking a spinal-cord injury.
  Evidence-based spine-care journal 2010 Macyszyn LJ, Gonzalez-Giraldo E, Aversano M, Heuer GG, Zager EL, Schuster JM