Dr. Sonika Agarwal is an attending physician/Assistant Professor  in the Division of Neurology at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia/Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. Originally trained and faculty in India (IMS/BHU, AIIMS) and then child neurology training at Baylor College of Medicine/Texas Children’s Hospital.

Recognitions:

• Elected to the Board Of Directors at the Child Neurology Foundation October 2021 – current.

• Director of the Resident Fellow Board of the Journal of Child Neurology/Child Neurology Open – selected Jan. 2022.

• Associate Editor of the Fetal Neonatal Neurology Section 2021- current. She has also developed a series of podcasts on fetal neonatal neurology with the Journal of Child Neurology/CNO for education.

• Selected for the prestigious American Academy of Neurology Transforming Leadership Program (2021) and has led the development of a Fetal Neurology Consortium for facilitating collaborations among fetal-neonatal neurology programs across the US.

• This leadership role in forming the collaborative network at the Fetal Neurology Consortium further led to development of a Child Neurology Society Fetal Neurology Special Interest Group in June 2022 to foster a collaborative network of pediatric neurology specialists and expand the work of the consortium on a national and global platform.

• Selected in the advocacy/health policy initiative  of the American Academy of Neurology-Neurology on the Hill 2022.