Matthew T. Sweney

Matthew T. Sweney, MD, MS

Languages spoken: English

Clinical Locations

  • Eccles Primary Children’s Outpatient Services Building

    801-213-3599

  • Primary Children's Hospital Outpatient Services at Riverton

    801-213-3599

  • 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 and Program Director of the Pediatric Epilepsy Fellowship at the University of Utah. 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.

    Specialties

    • Epilepsy
    • EEG
    • Long Term Monitoring
    • Pediatric Neurology

    Board Certification and Academic Information

    Academic Departments Pediatrics - Primary
    Neurology - Primary

  • 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 and Program Director of the Pediatric Epilepsy Fellowship at the University of Utah. 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.

    Board Certification and Academic Information

    Academic Departments Pediatrics -Primary
    Neurology -Primary

    Education history

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

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