Blessing offering EEGs

Through a partnership with SIU School of Medicine, Blessing Hospital is able to provide brain testing known as electroencephalograms (EEGs) for children under seven.
An EEG measures and records the electrical activity of your brain. Special sensors or electrodes are attached to the head and hooked to a computer. The computer records your brain’s electrical activity on the screen or on paper as wavy lines. Certain conditions, such as seizures, can be seen by the changes in the normal pattern of the brain’s electrical activity.  Blessing’s Respiratory Services department conducts 900 tests a year for inpatients and outpatients of all ages.
Drs. Theodore Sunder and Hossam AbdelSalam, pediatric neurology specialists, perform the reading and interpreting of brainwave patterns in pediatric patients. Through the use of intelligent technology the physicians are able to read EEG studies performed at Blessing on their office computers in Springfield.  This partnership provides patients the benefit of a pediatric specialist without having to leave Quincy.
Sunder is a professor of pediatrics and neurology at SIU School of Medicine in Springfield, Ill. Sunder earned his medical degree at the Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia (1972). He completed his pediatric residency at the Children’s Hospital National Medical Center in Washington, D.C. (1974), a residency in neurology at Duke University Medical Center (1975) and a fellowship in pediatric neurology at Duke University (1975-1977).
AbdelSalam is an assistant professor of neurology, specializing in pediatric neurology with SIU School of Medicine in the Department of Neurology. He completed a three-year fellowship in child neurology at Cleveland Clinic Foundation in Cleveland, Ohio (2006) and a pediatric residency at Brookdale University Hospital and Medical Center in Brooklyn, NY (2003).  He earned his medical degree and completed a pediatric residency at Cairo University Pediatric Hospital in Cairo, Egypt (1995, 1998).
AbdelSalam is board certified by the American Board of Pediatrics. He is a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Academy of Neurology. He is interested in treating children with headaches, epilepsy and neuron-metabolic disorders including mitochondrial disorders.
A physician order is required for an EEG.