Dr. Kossoff is a Professor of Neurology and Pediatrics at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. He received his medical degree from SUNY at Buffalo School of Medicine in New York, followed by a residency in pediatrics at Eastern Virginia Medical School in Norfolk, Virginia. He completed a fellowship in child neurology and then pediatric epilepsy at The Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. He has been at Johns Hopkins since 1998.

His research and clinical practice focuses on the diagnosis and treatment of childhood seizures and epilepsy, particularly ketogenic diet therapy. Currently the Medical Director of the Pediatric Ketogenic Diet Center at Johns Hopkins, Dr. Kossoff is one of the world experts on ketogenic dietary therapy for neurologic disorders and developed the Modified Atkins Diet
for children and adults in 2003.

He is dedicated to bringing the use of diet therapies for neurologic disorders to the entire world and was recently the leader of a Task Force within the International League Against Epilepsy to help achieve this goal. He is a co-author of The Ketogenic and Modified Atkins Diets: Treatments for Epilepsy and Other Disorders, now in its 7th edition, and helped organize both the 2008 and 2018 expert consensus guidelines on ketogenic diet management. Dr. Kossoff is also very involved in teaching
and mentorship, and is the Director of the Child Neurology Residency Program at Johns Hopkins.

Tracy graduated from Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen in 2009. She is a Paediatric Dietitian with 10 years experience working within a variety of clinical areas. For the last 2 years she has been employed as the Ketogenic Diet Coordinator for the North of Scotland, based in Aberdeen.

She works as part of the North of Scotland Child and Adolescent Neurology Network (NeSCANN). This is a Managed Clinical Network which aims to provide the highest quality of care and treatment in the North of Scotland as close to the patient’s home as is safe, and appropriate to do so.

Tracy coordinates the Ketogenic Diet Service across Tayside, Grampian, Highland, Orkney and Shetland. Working closely with colleagues in these areas to provide the Ketogenic Diet Service she is involved with staff training, supporting families and dietetic colleagues in each area, and across the North of Scotland. Tracy is also co-publicist for the Ketogenic
Dietitians Research Network.