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Dr. Sweney is a pediatric neurologist and epileptologist who focuses on the diagnosis and treatment of drug-resistant pediatric epilepsy. He is Medical Director of the Comprehensive Pediatric Epilepsy Program at Primary Children’s Hospital. He is board certified in General Pediatrics, Neurology, Epilepsy, and Clinical Neurophysiology. He participates in all aspects of pediatric epilepsy care, including medication management, non-medication alternatives such as ketogenic diet and vagal nerve stimulation, as well as palliative and curative epilepsy surgery. He remains active in ongoing studies into new potential anti-seizure medications and is committed to providing advanced epilepsy care to children of the intermountain region.

Clinical Locations

Eccles Primary Children’s Outpatient Services Building

801-213-3599

81 N Mario Capecchi Drive
Salt Lake City, UT  84113
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Primary Children's Hospital Outpatient Services at Riverton

801-213-3599

3773 West 12600 South
Riverton, UT  84065

Specialties

  • Epilepsy
  • EEG
  • Long Term Monitoring
  • Pediatric Neurology

Board Certification and Academic Information

Academic Departments Pediatrics - Associate Professor (Clinical)
Neurology - Associate Professor (Clinical)
Academic Divisions Pediatric Neurology
Board Certification American Board of Clinical Neurophysiology (Epilepsy Monitoring)
American Board of Clinical Neurophysiology (Neurophysiologic Intraoperative Monitoring)
American Board of Pediatrics (Pediatrics)
American Board of Psychiatry & Neurology (Special Qualification in Child Neurology)
American Board of Psychiatry & Neurology (Sub: Epilepsy)

Dr. Sweney is a pediatric neurologist and epileptologist who focuses on the diagnosis and treatment of drug-resistant pediatric epilepsy. He is Medical Director of the Comprehensive Pediatric Epilepsy Program at Primary Children’s Hospital. He is board certified in General Pediatrics, Neurology, Epilepsy, and Clinical Neurophysiology. He participates in all aspects of pediatric epilepsy care, including medication management, non-medication alternatives such as ketogenic diet and vagal nerve stimulation, as well as palliative and curative epilepsy surgery. He remains active in ongoing studies into new potential anti-seizure medications and is committed to providing advanced epilepsy care to children of the intermountain region.

Academic Locations

Eccles Primary Children’s Outpatient Services Building

801-213-3599

81 N Mario Capecchi Drive
Pediatric Neurology, 4B.096
Salt Lake City, UT  84113

Board Certification and Academic Information

Academic Departments Pediatrics - Associate Professor (Clinical)
Neurology - Associate Professor (Clinical)
Academic Divisions Pediatric Neurology
Board Certification American Board of Clinical Neurophysiology (Epilepsy Monitoring)
American Board of Clinical Neurophysiology (Neurophysiologic Intraoperative Monitoring)
American Board of Pediatrics (Pediatrics)
American Board of Psychiatry & Neurology (Special Qualification in Child Neurology)
American Board of Psychiatry & Neurology (Sub: Epilepsy)

Education History

Fellowship University of Utah
Clinical Neurophysiology/Epilepsy
Fellow
Fellowship University of Utah
General Child Neurology
Fellow
Research Fellow University of Utah
Alternating Hemiplegia of Childhood
Research Fellow
Residency University of Nebraska - Omaha
Pediatrics
Resident
Internship University of Nebraska - Omaha
Pediatrics
Intern
Professional Medical University of Nebraska - Omaha
Medicine
M.D.
Graduate Training University of Minnesota
Biomedical Engineering
M.S.
Undergraduate University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Bioengineering
B.S.

Selected Publications - Journal Articles

Journal Article

  1. Gregerson CHY, Bakian AV, Wilkes J, Knighton AJ, Nkoy F, Sweney M, Filloux FM, Bonkowsky JL (2019). Disparities in Pediatric Epilepsy Remission Are Associated With Race and Ethnicity. J Child Neurol, 34(14), 928-936.
  2. Afra P, Bruggers CS, Sweney M, Fagatele L, Alavi F, Greenwald M, Huntsman M, Nguyen K, Jones JK, Shantz D, Bulaj G (2018). Mobile Software as a Medical Device (SaMD) for the Treatment of Epilepsy: Development of Digital Therapeutics Comprising Behavioral and Music-Based Interventions for Neurological Disorders. Front Hum Neurosci, 12, 171.

Other

  1. Viollet L, Glusman G, Murphy KJ, Newcomb TM, Reyna SP, Sweney M, Nelson B, Andermann F, Andermann E, Acsadi G, Barbano RL, Brown C, Brunkow ME, Chugani HT, Cheyette SR, Collins A, DeBrosse SD, Galas D, Friedman J, Hood L, Huff C, Jorde LB, King MD, LaSalle B, Leventer RJ, Lewelt AJ, Massart MB, Mrida MR 2nd, Ptek LJ, Roach JC, Rust RS, Renault F, Sanger TD, Sotero de Menezes MA, Tennyson R, Uldall P, Zhang Y, Zupanc M, Xin W, Silver K, Swoboda KJ (2015). Correction: Alternating Hemiplegia of Childhood: Retrospective Genetic Study and Genotype-Phenotype Correlations in 187 Subjects from the US AHCF Registry. PLoS ONE (10(8), pp. e0137370). United States.

ZX008-1900

Description: Recruiting Keywords: Fenfluramine Hydrochloride, Dravet Syndrome, Lennox-Gastaut Syndrome Principal Investigator: Matthew Sweney

Zogenix ZX008-1503 Open Label Extension

Description: Recruiting Keywords: Dravet Syndrome, (Fenfluramine Hydrochloride) Oral Solution , Pediatrics, epilepsy Principal Investigator: Matthew Sweney

YKP509C002

Description: Recruiting Keywords: Carisbamate Principal Investigator: Matthew Sweney

ZX008-1601

Description: Recruiting Keywords: pediatric epilepsy syndrome, Lennox-Gastaut Syndrome, Fenfluramine Hydrochloride Principal Investigator: Matthew Sweney

An Open-Label Study to Investigate the Safety and Pharmacokinetics of Single and Multiple Ascending Doses of Antisense Oligonucleotide STK-001 in Children and Adolescents with Dravet Syndrome

Description: Recruiting Keywords: Dravet Syndrom, Open-Label Principal Investigator: Matthew Sweney

YKP509C001 Carisbamate

Description: Not yet recruiting Keywords: Carisbamate Principal Investigator: Matthew Sweney

The Scope & Other Podcasts

  • Surgical Option to Treat Drug-Resistant Epilepsy
  • Frustrating Epilepsy Case? Here Are Your Options

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