Elizabeth Anne (Elizabeth) Thiele, MD, PhD
Director, Pediatric Epilepsy Program
Director, Carol and James Herscot Center for Tuberous Sclerosis Complex
- Phone: 617-726-6540
- Departments
- Department of Neurology
- Department of Pediatrics
Specialties
- MassGeneral Hospital for Children
- Tuberous Sclerosis Complex
- Neurology
- Epilepsy Service
- Clinical Interests
- Ketogenic diet
- Tuberous sclerosis complex
- Pediatric epilepsy
- Locations
- Boston: Massachusetts General Hospital
- Medical Education
- MD, PhD, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
- Residency, Johns Hopkins Hospital
- Board Certifications
- Clinical Neurophysiology, American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology
- Neurology with Special Qualifications in Child Neurology, American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology
- Gender
- Female
- Patient Gateway
- Yes, learn more
- Patient Age Group
- Adult and pediatric
- Accepting New Patients
- Yes
Biography
Dr. Elizabeth A. Thiele is a neurologist and epileptologist at Massachusetts General Hospital. She received her medical training at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland and completed an internship and residency in pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. She completed a second residency in child neurology and a postdoctoral research fellowship in neurology at Children's Hospital in Boston.
Dr. Thiele organized and established the Herscot Center for Tuberous Sclerosis Complex, a multidisciplinary comprehensive clinical program for TSC, as well as a ketogenic diet clinic to treat and manage patients with epilepsy. She is also the Director of the Pediatric Epilepsy Service at MGH and an Associate Professor in Neurology at Harvard Medical School.
Dr. Thiele's research and clinical interests include the role of diet in epilepsy treatment, genotype-phenotype correlation in TSC, the role of epilepsy surgery in management of intractable epilepsy, outcomes following infantile spasms, and neuropsychological profiles in relationship to tuber number and location in TSC.
Publications
Tuberous Sclerosis Complex
The Carol and James Herscot Center for Tuberous Sclerosis Complex (TSC) at Massachusetts General Hospital and MassGeneral Hospital for Children is using genetic research to better understand TSC and other diseases like cancer, autism and obesity.
Lessons learned through pages turned
When it came time for Bryn Seltzer, 13, of Needham, to choose her bat mitzvah project, she knew she wanted to give back to the Pediatric Epilepsy Program at MassGeneral Hospital for Children (MGHfC), which had cared for her since she was 6 years old.
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Fax: 617-726-0230
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