Charles Niesen MD

Biography

Charles E. Niesen, MD, a pediatric neurologist, heads a team of skilled providers at AMS Neurology in Pasadena, California, serving the greater Los Angeles region. Born in Poughkeepsie, New York, Dr. Niesen earned his undergraduate degree from Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, and his medical degree from the Sackler School of Medicine at Tel Aviv University in Israel. He completed his pediatric residency at Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital, affiliated with Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in Cleveland, Ohio, and pursued a child neurology fellowship at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Canada. Additionally, he conducted two years of postgraduate research in neurophysiology at the University of Toronto.

Dr. Niesen began his academic career at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles as an assistant professor of pediatrics and neurology, where he established an NIH-funded electrophysiology lab to investigate epilepsy in the developing brain. After five years, he joined Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles as an associate professor of pediatrics and director of the Division of Child Neurology. Board-certified in child neurology by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology and the Medical Research Council of Canada, Dr. Niesen specializes in childhood epilepsy and neurodevelopmental disorders. He has authored over twenty peer-reviewed publications on epilepsy and the effects of drugs on the developing brain.

BRAIN Funded Projects

Selected Publications

Niesen, C.E. Malformations of the posterior fossa: current perspectives. Seminars in Pediatric Neurology 9(4), 320-334 (2002).

Niesen, C.E., Shah, N.S. Pyridostigmine-induced microcephaly. Neurology 54(9), 1873-1874 (2000).

Niesen, C.E., Ge, S. Chronic epilepsy in developing hippocampal neurons: electrophysiologic and morphologic features. Developmental Neuroscience 21(3-5), 328-338 (1999).