Dr. Bernhard Suter, MD

Dr. Suter underwent post-graduate training at Harvard in Developmental Neuroscience at Massachusetts General Hospital. He trained in Child Neurology at Texas Children’s Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine. Currently, he is the Director of the MECP2 Duplication Clinic and the Medical Co-Director of the Blue Bird Circle Rett Center at Texas Children’s Hospital. This Rett Center specializes in the treatment of children with Rett syndrome and related disorders, including CDKL5 syndrome.

He is board-certified in Child Neurology and Epilepsy. He has both basic and clinical translational science experience and has published a number of publications pertaining to epilepsy as well as Rett related disorders. He has a special interest in gait analysis and movement disorders.

He is a scholar of the NIH Rare Diseases Clinical Research Network and is also a co-investigator of the NIH sponsored Rett and related disorders Natural History Study, which includes CDKL5.