Meet the Children's Epilepsy Surgery Service (CESS)

Epilepsy Consultants

Dr Christin Eltze MRCPH, MSc, MD Res
Consultant Paediatric Neurologist
Special interest: Complex epilepsy, Ketogenic Diet

Professor Helen Cross MBChB, PhD, FRCPCH FRCP 
Professor in Paediatric Neurology
Special interests: complex epilepsy and epilepsy surgery 

Dr Krishna Das MBBS, DCH, MD, DM, FRCPCH
Consultant Paediatric Neurologist
Special interest: Complex epilepsy, Vagus Nerve Stimulation and Clinical Neurophysiology

Dr Nivedita Desai MBBS, DCH, MD MRCPCH
Consultant in Paediatric Neurology and Epilepsy
Special interests: Headache disorders including IIH, General Neurology and Complex Epilepsy

Dr Noelle Enright
Consultant Paediatric Neurologist
Special interests: Complex epilepsy and General Neurology

Dr Jane Hassell
Consultant Paediatric Neurologist
Special interests: Headache, general Neurology and Complex Epilepsy

Dr Marios Kaliakatsos MD, MSc, PhD
Consultant Paediatric Neurologist
Special Interests: General Neurology, Complex Epilepsy, Neuro-oncology

Dr Amy McTague MBChB MRCPCH PhD
Consultant Paediatric Neurologist
Special Interests: Early onset Epilepsy, Epilepsy Genetics

Professor Finbar O'Callaghan MA MB ChB MSc PhD FRCPCH FRCP
Professor in Paediatric Neurology
Special Interests: Complex epilepsy, tuberous sclerosis complex

Dr Suresh Pujar PhD MRCPCH
Consultant Paediatric Neurologist
Special interests: Complex Epilepsy

Dr Robert Robinson MA, MBBS, MRCP, PhD  
Consultant Paediatric Neurologist 
Special interests: General neurology and complex epilepsy, Vagus Nerve Stimulation

Professor Rod Scott PhD MRCPCH
Professor in Paediatric Neurology
Special interest: Complex epilepsy

Dr Sophia Varadkar

Consultant Paediatric Neurologist
Special interest: complex epilepsy

Neurosurgeons

Mr Martin Tisdall MBBS BA MA (Cantab) MD FRCS (Eng)

Consultant Paediatric Neurosurgeon
Special Interests: Paediatric epilepsy surgery, cerebral monitoring techniques and traumatic brain injury

Mr Zubair Tahir

Consultant Paediatric Neurosurgeon
Special Interests: Paediatric epilepsy surgery and cerebral monitoring techniques

Clinical Neurophysiology Consultants

Stewart Boyd MD, FRCPCH 
Consultant Clinical Neurophysiologist
Special interests: activity of the brain in childhood as assessed by EEG, evoked and event-related potentials, functional mapping and intracranial EEG recordings.

Dr Krishna Das Consultant Paediatric Neurologist
Special interest: Complex epilepsy, Vagus Nerve Stimulation and Clinical Neurophysiology

Ronit Pressler PhD
Consultant in Neurophysiology
Special interests: neonatal EEG and EEG-video telemetry

Dr Friederike Moeller 
Consultant Clinical Neurophysiologist,
Special interests: EEG-video telemetry, stereo-EEG (SEEG), home video-telemetry (HVT)

Dr Gerald Cooray
Consultant Clinical Neurophysiologist
Special Interests: EMG, EEG-video telemetry and SEEG

Clinical Psychology and Developmental Epilepsy

Professor Faraneh Vargha-Khadem C Psychol, F Med Sci
Head of Neuropsychology
Special interests: developmental amnesia and other memory disorders, genetically-based speech and language disorders, cognitive and sensorimotor disorders resulting from focal lesions, complex epilepsy, traumatic brain injury, brain tumours and medico-legal expert witness in neuropsychology.

Dr Daniel Stark

Clinical Psychologist

Dr Maria Clark 

Consultant in Paediatric Neurodisability
Special interests: Landau Kleffner Syndrome; complex and changing learning and behaviour profiles in epilepsy

Dr Hanna Richardson

Consultant in Paediatric Neurodisability

Special interests: Developmental Epilepsy and Genetic Epilepsies

Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Dr Susan Walker

Child and Adolescent Consultant Psychiatrist

Epilepsy Surgery Nursing Team

Nicola Barnes – Advanced Nurse Practitioner for CESS and VNS Service
Telephone number: 020 7405 9200 ext 1592

Sarah Carter – Clinical Nurse Specialist for CESS and VNS 
Telephone number: 020 7405 9200 ext 5814

CESS Service Coordinator

Mohima Begum

PA for the Children's Epilepsy Surgery Service (CESS)

Telephone number: 020 7405 9200 ext. 5594/4411

Administration Team

Toni Lawrence
Service Manager
Telephone number: 020 7405 9200 ext. 0667

Kolchum Begum
Assistant Service Manager for Neurology, Epilepsy, Neurophysiology
Telephone number: 020 7405 9200 ext. 5517