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Gretchen K. Von Allmen, MD, is a board-certified and fellowship-trained pediatric neurologist whose clinical interests center around pediatric epilepsy, including intractable pediatric epilepsy, epilepsy surgery, brain malformations, and infantile spasms. She believes every child with epilepsy deserves a complete evaluation with an individualized management and treatment plan. She takes care to listen to each child’s concerns, always making herself available and never giving up on improving care and seizure control. She emphasizes a personal touch and enduring relationships with patients and families. Her practice offers proactive evaluation to achieve freedom from seizures or optimal control of seizures, as well as early consideration for options such as epilepsy surgery, vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) therapy, and ketogenic diet. In practice since 2003, she treats patients up to 18 years old and speaks French.
In addition, Von Allmen is a professor, director of the Division of Child and Adolescent Neurology, and director of the pediatric epilepsy program in the Department of Pediatrics at McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston, where she’s also the Jacobo Geissler Distinguished Chair in West Syndrome Research.
A Fulbright Scholar, she has been recognized with the Child Neurology Foundation Research Award. In practice since 2003, Dr. Von Allmen treats patients up to 18 years old and speaks French.
A resident of Houston, Von Allmen is the mother of two sons. Outside of work, she enjoys running, triathlons, tennis, being outdoors, and traveling, especially to France, Germany, and Latin America.
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