Dr. Richard Leventer

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+61 3 9345 5661

Prof. Leventer is a paediatric neurologist and a clinician scientist. He received his medical training at Monash University (including a BMedSci in biological psychiatry) and trained in general paediatrics and paediatric neurology at the Royal Children’s Hospital. He then completed a two-year fellowship in clinical paediatric neurology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis followed by two years as a Neurogenetics Fellow in the Department of Human Genetics at the University of Chicago, working under Professors William Dobyns and David Ledbetter on the Brain Malformation Research Project. He returned to the RCH as a Consultant Neurologist in July 2001. In October 2007 he received his PhD on the topic of human cortical malformations focussing on polymicrogyria. Prof. Leventer is a past president of the Australia and New Zealand Child Neurology Society.

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