Edwin Trevathan

Edwin Trevathan, M.D., M.P.H. is an American child neurologist, pediatrician, epidemiologist, and Professor of Pediatrics and Neurology and Director of the Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health, Vanderbilt University Medical Center. He previously served as executive vice president and provost at Baylor University, following his work at the Saint Louis University College for Public Health and Social Justice, where he was dean and professor of epidemiology, pediatrics, and neurology. Previously he was director of the National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, Georgia. Before joining CDC in 2007, Trevathan was professor of neurology and pediatrics, as well as director of the Division of Pediatric & Developmental Neurology, at Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine and was neurologist-in-chief at St. Louis Children's Hospital.

As an Epidemic Intelligence Service IEIS) officer at CDC in the late 1980s, Trevathan chaired an international committee of experts in child neurology, genetics, and developmental pediatrics who defined the diagnostic criteria for a then new neurogenetic disorder, Rett syndrome. In his early years at CDC, he also helped develop public health surveillance systems for developmental disabilities, and established the first major surveillance system for childhood epilepsy. After his training and service as an EIS officer, Trevathan entered private practice child neurology and was a founding partner in Child Neurology Associates in Atlanta, where he established and directed a comprehensive children's epilepsy center at Scottish Rite Children's Hospital - now part of Children's Healthcare of Atlanta.

In 1995, Trevathan returned to academic medicine as the director of the comprehensive epilepsy program and the associate director of the neurology service at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine. In 1998, he was recruited to Washington University School of Medicine and to St. Louis Children's Hospital, where he was a professor and directed the Pediatric Epilepsy Center, which grew to become one of the largest epilepsy centers dedicated to the care of children in the US. In 2004, Trevathan was appointed director of the Division of Pediatric and Developmental Neurology at Washington University School of Medicine, and neurologist-in-chief at St. Louis Children's Hospital. During Trevathan's tenure, the child neurology training program at Washington University and St. Louis Children's Hospital grew to be one of the largest in the US, and the number of child neurology faculty grew to 22 full-time neurologists.

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