Maria Augusta Montenegro

Prof. Dr. Maria Augusta Montenegro, MD, PhD,
Child Neurologist and Epileptologist
Rady Children's Hospital / UC San Diego School of Medicine.

Dr. Montenegro completed Medical School, Residency, and PhD at Unicamp (Campinas - SP, Brazil) and a postdoctoral research fellowship at Columbia University (New York, United States). She also spent four months at the Herscot Centre for Tuberous Sclerosis Complex/ Mass General Hospital (Boston, US). Prior to her current position, Dr. Montenegro held academic faculty appointments at the Unicamp, where she was the head of Pediatric Neurology. She has published several papers and book chapters. Her clinical expertise is in pediatric epilepsy, especially in epileptic encephalopathy and EEG.