Dr Michael Oldham MD MPH is a child neurologist and paediatric epileptologist, completing paediatrics and child neurology training at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center followed by clinical neurophysiology/epilepsy fellowship at the University of California-San Francisco. He served on faculty in the division of child neurology at the University of Louisville where he treated children of all ages with epilepsy and was the director of the neonatal neurology program. His clinical experience with paediatric epilepsy included attending in the epilepsy monitoring unit (EMU), as well as in various outpatient epilepsy clinics, such as new onset epilepsy, complex epilepsy, and epilepsy surgery clinics.
Dr Oldham transition to the biotech/pharmaceutical industry where he was the medical lead of several compounds for the treatment of CNS diseases, specifically movement disorders, addiction, and disorders affecting paediatric populations with neurologically-devastating diseases. He spent over 3 years working as a medical director for a clinical research organisation (CRO), involved in a wide range of studies in neuroscience and rare disease.
His love the paediatric epilepsy and commitment to help find cures for genetic epilepsy is due him to Praxis, where he is currently the clinical lead for the epilepsy/neurodevelopmental and rare disease programs. He holds board certification by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology (ABPN) in both neurology with special qualification in child neurology as well as epilepsy.