Phillip L. Pearl MD
Director of Epilepsy and Clinical Neurophysiology, Boston Children's Hospital; William G. Lennox Chair and Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MassachusettsPhillip L. Pearl, MD, is Director of Epilepsy and Clinical Neurophysiology at Boston Children’s Hospital and William G. Lennox Chair and Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Pearl took his residency at Baylor College of Medicine and fellowship at Boston Children’s Hospital. He was Division Chief of Neurology at Children’s National and Professor of Neurology, Pediatrics, and Music at the George Washington University School of Medicine until returning to Boston in January 2014. Dr. Pearl also is a faculty member of the Music and Health Institute at the Berklee College of Music in Boston. Dr. Pearl is Past President of the Professors of Child Neurology and the Child Neurology Society. He has authored over 250 peer-reviewed manuscripts and over 150 chapters and reviews, and written or edited five books including two editions of Inherited Metabolic Epilepsies and serving as Co-Editor in Chief of the 7th edition of Swaiman’s Pediatric Neurology.