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Our Neurology specialists are dedicated to providing compassionate, ethical, intellectual, and financially responsible care to all children with pediatric neurological diseases.

You can be certain our board-certified physicians — Jay Cook, MD; Petr Ruzicka, MD; Scott Elton, MD; Jeremy Timothy, MD; Tamara Zach, MD; Kathy Thomas, Ph.D.; and Brianne Butcher, Ph.D. — will provide comprehensive neurological care for your child. They specialize in pediatric neurology, pediatric neurosurgery and pediatric neuropsychology for patients from before birth through childhood, adolescence and early adulthood.

Our pediatric neurological care includes, but is not limited to, the following areas:

• Prenatal consultations for neurological findings
• Dysraphic disorders (spina bifida, lipomyelomeningocele, encephalocele)
• Brain and spinal cord tumors
• Brain and spine tumors
• Chiari malformations
• Hydrocephalus
• Craniofacial abnormalities
• Tethered spinal cord
• Central nervous system trauma
• Seizure disorders
• Headaches
• Neuromuscular disease
• Chronic idiopathic demyelinating polyneuropathy
• Developmental delay

If you do not see your child’s condition listed here, please contact our office at (480) 412-7400. We see a broad range of neurological diseases, many more than those listed here. For our physician colleagues, we are always available for phone consultation.