Description:

Abby Lampley, patient stakeholder, describes the motor and orthopedic challenges she has had into adulthood since having hemispherectomy surgery in childhood at our 2019 meeting on functional outcomes after large pediatric epilepsy surgeries.

She is followed by Dr. Raymund Woo, Medical Director, Pediatric Orthopedic Program at AdventHealth Medical Group Pediatric Orthopedic Surgery at Orlando and member of the Scientific Advisory Board member for The Brain Recovery Project: Childhood Epilepsy Surgery Foundation. Dr. Woo discusses the current state of research on motor and orthopedic outcomes after large resective/disconnective epilepsy surgeries, especially hemispherectomy.