CURRICULUM VITAE
Sue Yudovin, R.N., M.N, C.P.N.P.
ADDRESS: UCLA School of Medicine
Division of Pediatric Neurology
10833 Le Conte Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1752
(310) 206-8083 or syudovin@ucla.edu
EDUCATION: 1975-1976
1976-1980
1980-1983
University of California, Santa Barbara
California State University, Northridge
California State University, Los Angeles
R.N., B.S.N.
1987-1990 University of California, Los Angeles
M.N., Clinical Nurse Specialist Pediatrics
CAREER
1994-1995 University of California, Los Angeles
Pediatric Nurse Practitioner
Pediatric Nurse Practitioner in a large teaching institution with
OBJECTIVES: an emphasis on pediatric neurology.
PROFESSIONAL UCLA School of Medicine, Division of Pediatric Neurology
Clinical Nurse Specialist
1986 - Present
Assistant Clinical Professor, UCLA School of Nursing
1994 - Present
Plan, provide and coordinate the management of care for the child and their families undergoing evaluations for epilepsy. This includes pre and post operative teaching; discharge teachings; gathering data regarding both medical and psychosocial problems and distributing information to all the members of the multidisciplinary team; providing community resources and teaching; interaction with school systems; designed and wrote two different brochures describing our pediatric epilepsy programs which were distributed to hundreds of physicians throughout the country; provide continuing education to staff; supervise two

secretaries; implemented several forms to gather data on neurology patients.
2005-Present Participate in the evaluation, assessment and clinical/research care of the pediatric traumatic head trauma patient. Coordinate the IRB approved research study that looks at outcomes of children who have sustained mild, moderate or severe head trauma. Participate as a member of the multidisciplinary team caring for these children. Our research involves looking at factors that may determine a child’s outcome and create specific guidelines for the treatment of these children n both the acute and chronic setting.
PROFESSIONAL UCLA Medical Center Adult Neurology Service
EXPERIENCE: Staff Position
1983 - 1986
Delivered in patient hospital care to the adult neurology patient.
Developed a care plan for patients undergoing an invasive monitoring procedure.
Other professional history includes experience as a staff nurse in an acute care burn center and emergency room.
Details available on request.
LICENSURE: Board Certified Registered Nurse in California
CERTIFICATION: Certified Pediatric Nurse Practitioner in California
PROFESSIONAL
ORGANIZATIONS: American Nurses Association
California Nurses Association
Epilepsy Foundation of America
American Epilepsy Society
American Association of Neuroscience Nurses
UCLA Nursing Alumni Association.
Association of Child Neurology Nurses
National Association of Pediatric Nurse Associates and
Practitioners

Member of the University of California Brain Institute Research
Center
RECENT
PRESENTATIONS: “Pre and post operative counseling for the child/family undergoing surgery for epilepsy.” Presented to nurses at the
American Epilepsy Society, October., 1988.
“Infantile Spasms; A Case Presentation.” Presented to nurses at the Child Neurology Society, October, 1990.
“Role of the Clinical Nurse Specialist in Epilepsy Surgery”.
Presented at the meeting of the American Association of
Neuroscience Nurses, April 1992.
“Nursing Care and Assessment of the Critically Ill Pediatric
Patient.” UCLA Medical Center Outreach Program, March 1993.
“Pediatric EEG/Video Monitoring for Epilepsy Surgery”.
Presented to pediatric staff at Shand’s Hospital, University of
Florida, Gainesville, July 1993.
“Being the Best Advocate for Your Child.” Presented at a UCLA
Symposium entitled “Treating Epilepsy”. Los Angeles, CA Nov.
1993.
Guest lecturer: UCLA School of nursing.
“The Challenges of the Childhood Epilepsies.” Presented at a
UCLA Symposium entitled, “Management of Epilepsy - Nursing
Considerations.” November, 1994.
ABSTRACTS:
“Neurology Physical Assessment” Long Beach Memorial
Hospital. September, 1994.
“Nurses’ Epilepsy Advisory Meeting. San Francisco, CA. June,
2004
Farria, D.M., Curran, J.G., Hall, T.R., W.D. Shields, S.L.
Yudovin. MR Imaging in Infantile Spasms. Presented at the
Scientific Exhibit at the 78 th
Scientific Assembly and Annual
Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America, 1992.

Caplan, R., Guthrie, D., Shields, W.D. & Yudovin, S.
Communication Deficits in pediatric complex partial seizure disorder. Presented ;the Annual Meeting of the American
Academy of Child Psychiatry. Washington, D.C., 1992.
Caplan, R., Guthrie, D., Shields, W.D., Yudovin, S., Vinters, H.V.
& Peacock,, W.J. Communication Deficits in Children
Undergoing temporal lobectomy. Presented at the Annual
Meeting of the American Epilepsy Society. Seattle, WA. 1992.
D.Alan Shewmon, M.D., W.Donald Shields, M.D., Raman
Sankar, M.D., Ph.D., Sue Yudovin, R.N., M.N., Diane Kinnon,
R.N., Pertti J. Rintahaka, M.D., Warwick J. Peacock, M.D.
UCLA School of Medicine. Follow-up on Infants with Surgery for Catastrophic Epilepsy. Presented at the Sixth International
Cleveland Clinic - Bethel Epilepsy Symposium. Pediatric
Epilepsy Surgery.
PUBLICATIONS: Surgical Treatment of Pediatric Epilepsy at UCLA. W.D. Shields,
D.A. Shewmon, H.T. Chugani, W.J. Peacock, Y.Comair, S.
Yudovin, S. Roper. Epilepsia. Vol. 31, #5. 1990. Pgs. 652-653.
Middle Childhood Onset of Interictal Psychosis. R. Caplan,
W.D., Shields, L. Mori, S. Yudovin. Journal of American
Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 30:6, Nov 1991.
Communication Deficits in Children Undergoing Temporal
Lobectomy. R. Caplan, D. Guthrie, W.D. Shields, W.J. Peacock,
H. Vinters, S. Yudovin. Journal of American Academy of
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 32:3, May 1993.
Communication Deficits in Pediatric Complex Partial Seizure
Disorder and Schizophrenia. R. Caplan, D. Guthrie, W.D.
Shields, S. Yudovin. Development and Psychopathology.
Revised and resubmitted.
Follow-up on infants with surgery for catastrophic epilepsy.
Shewmon, D.A., Shields, W.D., Sankar R., Yudovin, S.L.,
Rintahaka, P.J., Peacock, W.J. In: Tuxhorn I, Holtausen H.,
Boenigk, H.E.: Paediatric Epilepsy Syndromes and their
Surgical Treatment. London, John Libbey & Coi. 1997.
Post-Operative Seizure Control and Antiepileptic Drug Use in
Pediatric Epilepsy Surgery Patients: The UCLA Experience,
1986-1997. Mathern, GM, Giza, CG, Yudovin, S., Vinters, HV,

REFERENCES:
Peacock, WJ, Shewmon, DA, and Shields, WD. Epilepsia, 40
(12): 1740-1749. 1999
Cook, SW, Nguyen ST, Hu, B. Yudovin, S. Shields, WD, Vinters,
HV, Van de Wiele, BM, Harrison, RE, Mathern, GW. Cerebral
Hemispherectomy for pediatric epilepsy patients: A comparison of three techniques by pathologic substrate in 115 patients.
Journal of Neurosurgery: Pediatrics. 100 (2) 125-141. 2004
Jonas, R. Nguyen, BS, Hu, B., Asarnow, RF., LoPresti, C.,
Curtiss, S., de Bode, S., Yudovin, S., Shields, WD., Vinters, HV.,
Mathern, GW. Cerebral Hemispherectomy: Hospital Course, seizure, developmental, language and motor outcomes
Neurology. (62): 1712-1721. 2004.
Koh, S., Nguyen, S., Asarnow, RF., LoPresti, C., Yudovin, S.,
Shields, WD, Vinters, HV., Mathern, GW. Five or More Acute
Postoperative Seizures Predict Hospital Course and Long –term
Seizure Control after Hemispherectomy. Epilepsia, 45(5): 527-
533. 2004
Jonas, R., Asarnow, RF., LoPresti, C., Yudovin, S., Koh,S.,
Wu,J., Sankar, RS., Shields, WD., Vinters, HV., Mathern, GM..
Surgery for Infant-onset Epileptic Encephalopathy With and
Without Infantile Spasms.
Neurology, (64): 746-750. 2005.
J .
Y . Wu, MD; W.W. Sutherling, MD; S. Koh, MD; N.
Salamon,
Md; R.Jonas, MD; S. Yudovin, RN,MN,PNP; R. Sankar,
MD,PhD; W.D.Shields, MD; and G.W. Mathern, MD. Magnetic
Source Imaging Localizes Epileptogenic Zone in Children with
Tuberous Sclerosis Complex. Neurology. (66). 1270-1272. 2006.
D. Arndt , J. Breault, D. McArthur, S. Yudovin, C. Giza. Post-
Traumatic Headaches in an Outpatient Pediatric Population.
UCLA Brain Institute Research Center. Presented at New
Frontiers in Pediatric Traumatic Brain Injury. San Diego Ca.
November, 2007
Available on request.