Charuta Joshi, M.D.

Charuta Joshi, M.D., is a Professor in the Department of Pediatrics and the Roy D. and Ragen S. Elterman Distinguished Chair in Pediatric Epilepsy at UT Southwestern Medical Center. Her research focuses on surgical and nonsurgical therapies for medically intractable epilepsy in children.

Dr. Joshi earned her medical degree at Grant Medical College in Mumbai, India. She completed a residency in pediatric neurology at New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center and received advanced training through a clinical neurophysiology fellowship at Children’s Hospital Michigan. Dr. Joshi joined the UT Southwestern faculty in 2022.

She is the Program Director of the Advanced EEG and Epilepsy Research Fellowship and an investigator on several clinical trials. Her additional interests include global health and developmental and epileptic encephalopathies. 

Dr. Joshi has delivered scores of presentations and published a broad range of scholarly articles, abstracts, and book chapters. 

She is the current President of the Pediatric Epilepsy Research Consortium and is a member of several other professional organizations, including the American Epilepsy Society and the International Child Neurology Association. Dr. Joshi serves as an ad hoc reviewer for numerous scholarly journals and is a contributing editor for Epilepsy Currents.