Archana A. Patel

Assistant Professor of Neurology, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School

Archana A. Patel, MD, MPH, MSc, is an Assistant Professor of Neurology, and Pediatric Epileptologist, at Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, in the Department of Neurology, Division of Epilepsy and Clinical Neurophysiology. She is the Director of Global Neurology at Boston Children’s Hospital and lead of the BCH Child Neurology Residency Global Health Track. She serves as a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Zambia-Children’s Hospital and Volunteer Lecturer at the University of Global Health Equity in Rwanda; she also previously was a Visiting Consultant for Human Resources for Health Rwanda. She spends 4-5 months a year in Zambia (primary site) and Rwanda, working directly on clinical, educational and research efforts. Dr. Patel’s work is focused on identifying mechanisms for earlier identification and treatment of pediatric epilepsy in low resource regions. Her research includes identifying EEG and clinical markers of epileptogenesis after cerebral malaria, diagnostic support tool development for pediatric seizure diagnosis and classification, and studying the impact of short-course educational interventions and guideline implementation for improved outcomes at the primary care level. Additionally, she helped lead the first Pediatric Neurology training program in Zambia and continues to support both in-person and remote training, consultation, EEG reading, epilepsy advocacy and community health worker initiatives in both Zambia and Rwanda, as well as bi-directional rotation opportunities for trainees in the US and in Zambia.