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Southern Illinois University School of Medicine

Dr. Theodore Sunder, Professor of Clinical Neurology

Specializing in Pediatric Epilepsy Pranzatelli

Dr Sunder is Professor of Clinical Neurology, Pediatrics and Psychiatry and has been on the faculty since 1994. He has been the Director of Child Neurology Clinics at SIU since 2006.

He is a graduate of the Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia in 1972. He was trained in Pediatrics at The Children’s Hospital of the District of Columbia and in Neurology and Child Neurology at Duke University Medical Center. He is board certified both in Pediatrics and in Neurology with Special Competence in Child Neurology.

Dr Sunder has served in the United States Navy from 1975 until 1984 as a child neurologist at Camp Pendelton, CA and at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, where he was director of residency training and assistant department chair in the Dept of Neurology. He served as chief, Pediatric Neurology at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences with collateral appointments in Neurology at Georgetown University School of Medicine and George Washington University School of Medicine.

He was appointed associate professor of Pediatrics and chief, Child Neurology at East Carolina University School of Medicine between 1984 and 1994. In Illinois he served as Medical Director, Division of Developmental Disabilities, Illinois Dept of Human Services from 1994 until 2006 and has served on a number of statewide task forces and committees for persons with developmental disabilities and autism. He currently serves as Medical Director at the Hope Institute for Children and Families in Springfield.

Dr Sunder has special interest and expertise in epilepsy generally and epilepsy in persons with developmental disabilities specifically. He has published a number of articles and monographs in this area and is developing a guideline for treatment of epilepsy in this population. In addition he has special interest in neurobehavior and treatment of behavioral disorders in persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities.