Kelly Knupp, MD
University of Colorado, School of Medicine
Kelly Knupp, MD, is a professor of pediatrics and neurology at the University of Colorado. She received her medical degree from the University of New Mexico School of Medicine, completed her residency in pediatrics at Children’s Hospital of New York followed by pediatric neurology residency at Columbia University at Children’s Hospital of New York. After her residency, she trained as a clinical fellow in pediatric epilepsy at the Columbia Comprehensive Epilepsy Center at New York Presbyterian Hospital.
Dr. Knupp practices at Children’s Hospital Colorado in Aurora, Colorado, and is the director of the Dravet Program and director of the Epilepsy Program. Her interests are epileptic encephalopathies including Dravet Syndrome and CHD2 associated disorders. She was a founding member of the Pediatric Epilepsy Research Consortium. This group focuses on developing collaborative research across the country for children with epileptic encephalopathies. She also serves on the board of the American Epilepsy Society and the Dravet Syndrome Foundation as well as the medical advisory boards of the Dravet Syndrome Foundation, Coalition to Cure CHD2 and KCNQ2 Cure Alliance.