Emily de los Reyes, MD

  • Graduated medical school from Ramon Magsaysay Medical Center, Philippines
  • Completed residency at West Virginia University Medical Center and University Hospital
  • Completed fellowship at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center
  • Director of Nationwide Children’s Batten Disease Center of Excellence
  • Current research includes case reports for rare disorders, Batten’s EEG (for epilepsy fellows), and projects for those seeking experience in gene therapy
  • Research area: Developmental, Neurogenetics, Neurodegenerative
  • Clinical research projects available
  • Open to mentoring: current neurology resident or fellow, current neurology pre-lim, medical students

From Dr. de los Reyes:

Emily C. de los Reyes, MD is a clinical professor of Pediatrics and Neurology at The Ohio State University College of medicine. She is a pediatric neurologist at Nationwide Children’s hospital and director for Batten’s disease center of excellence and the Neurodevelopmental clinic. She is the primary investigator for the Batten’s disease research programs, which includes the enzyme replacement therapy and cognitive evaluations for CLN2 disease, CLN3, and CLN6 gene therapy programs, and Batten’s disease natural history program. She completed her pediatric residency training at West Virginia University and completed her neurology residency at University of Cincinnati children’s hospital medical Center in 1991. She serves as director of the Nationwide Children hospital, Batten disease center of excellence, and is lead specialist of the Pediatric Neurology Neurodevelopmental Clinic. She is also the lead autism specialist and the neurology subspecialty chair of the Autism Treatment Network at Nationwide Children’s.

Dr. de los Reyes’ research focuses on the development of therapeutic approaches for neurodegenerative diseases that affect the central nervous system (CNS), particularly Batten’s disease. Other research interests include autism, La Crosse encephalitis and other rare mitochondrial and genetic disorders.

Specific projects with Dr. de los Reyes include:

  1. Case reports
  2. Neuroimaging of La Crosse encephalitis

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