Child Neurology Society

Address: 1000 W. County Road E, Suite 290
Saint Paul, MN 55126 Phone: (651) 486-9447 Fax: (651) 4869436 Email: nationaloffice@childneurologysociety.org Website: http://www.childneurologysociety.org/

The Child Neurology Society is the preeminent non-profit professional association of pediatric neurologists in the United State, Canada, and worldwide devoted to fostering the discipline of child neurology and promoting the optimal care and welfare of children with neurological and neuro developmental disorders. These disorders include epilepsy, cerebral palsy, mental retardation, learning disabilities, complex metabolic diseases, nerve and muscle diseases and a host of other highly challenging conditions.

Child neurologists are specially trained physicians who have followed up their four-year medical school education with a five-year post-graduate training regimen consisting of two years training in pediatrics, one year in general neurology, and two years in pediatric neurology. In 1969, the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology awarded the first board certificate in Neurology “with Special Qualifications in Child Neurology.” Three years later, in 1972, the Child Neurology Society was founded with an initial enrollment of 223 members. There are, at present, over 80 university-based training programs in child neurology in the United States and Canada, and over 1300 child neurologists in the CNS.