Elaine Wyllie MD

Dr. Elaine Wyllie, Professor of Pediatrics, is a world-renowned thought leader in epilepsy medicine. Dr. Wyllie has been on the Castle Connolly list of America’s Best Doctors for many years, as well as on several other national and regional Top Doctors lists. Her many honors and awards include the highly competitive Award for Outstanding Work in Epilepsy Research from the Milken Family Foundation and the American Epilepsy Society and Honorary Membership in the Canadian Association for Child Neurology.

Dr. Wyllie is certified by the American Boards of Pediatrics, Sleep Medicine, and Psychiatry and Neurology, with Special Competencies in Pediatric Neurology and Epilepsy. During her training in neurology, epilepsy, and clinical neurophysiology, she won the Cleveland Clinic Neuroscience Residents’ Research Award three years in a row, as well as the Cleveland Clinic Lower Scientific Paper Award.

After her training, she joined the professional staff of Cleveland Clinic to establish the pediatric epilepsy program, which grew under her leadership into one of the largest and most respected programs in the world.

She then led Cleveland Clinic’s Center for Pediatric Neurology through a period of explosive growth to become ranked in 2012 as the number one program in Ohio for the fifth consecutive year and one of the top three programs in the country by US News & World Report.