Tammy Noriko Tsuchida, MD, PHD

Neurophysiologist

Neonatal Neurologist

Tammy Tsuchida, MD, PhD, is a professor in the departments of Neurology and Pediatrics at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences. She completed her fellowships in child neurology and neurophysiology at the University of California, San Francisco, after finishing medical school at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1997.

At Children's National Hospital, she is a co-director of the Hemimegalencephaly (HME) Program. She consults and teaches in the Neonatal Neurocritical Care Program and Comprehensive Pediatric Epilepsy Program. Her areas of interest are the study and clinical care of neonates and infants with brain injury, seizures and epilepsy as well as neonatal electroencephalogram (EEG). Dr. Tsuchida has made significant contributions to national EEG guidelines and international recommendations for managing neonatal seizures and epilepsy.

• Center for Neuroscience and Behavioral Medicine
• Comprehensive Pediatric Epilepsy Program
• Hemimegalencephaly Program
• Neonatal Neurology and Neonatal Neurocritical Care Program
• Neonatology (Newborn Care)
• Neurocritical Care
• Neurology