Section Editor, Practice Current

Luca Bartolini, MD

Dr. Luca Bartolini, MD is the Director, Pediatric Epilepsy Program at Hasbro Children's Hospital (Providence, RI) and Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Assistant Professor of Neurology and Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. Dr. Bartolini is board-certified in Child Neurology and Epilepsy. His area of expertise is treatment of childhood epilepsy and pharmacoresistant epilepsy, including epilepsy surgery.

He graduated from the School of Medicine of the University of Padua, Italy, and completed training first at the University of Padua (obtaining the Italian board certification in Pediatrics with special qualification in Pediatric Neurology with honors) and then at Children’s National Medical Center, where he graduated from a Pediatric Residency, Child Neurology Fellowship and Neuroscience Research Fellowship, before joining the National Institutes of Health, where he completed an Epilepsy Fellowship and then a Clinical Neurophysiology Fellowship, while also conducting research in the laboratory of Dr. Steven Jacobson (Division of Neuroimmunology and Neurovirology, NINDS).

His areas of research include electrical status epilepticus during sleep (ESES) and electrophysiological features of rare genetic conditions; inflammatory mechanisms involved in pediatric epilepsy and EEG machine learning.

Dr. Bartolini's research has been supported by the American Epilepsy Society (AES), Epilepsy Foundation (EF) of America and by the Division of Intramural Research of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS).

Dr. Bartolini serves on the e-Learning subcommittee of the American Academy of Neurology (AAN) and Pediatric Committee of the AES.

Dr. Bartolini also serves as Section Editor for Neurology Clinical Practice (AAN journal) and has been selected for the 2019/2020 AAN Emerging Leaders Program.