Dr. Carlos Ivan Salazar MD

Dr. Ivan Salazar is a Pediatric and Neonatal Neurologist, and Epileptologist at Jim Pattison Children’s Hospital in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. He is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pediatrics in the School of Medicine of University of Saskatchewan.

Dr. Salazar completed his residency in Pediatrics in Tamaulipas Children’s Hospital, followed by Pediatric Neurology at the Tec Salud Multicentric Program in Monterrey, Mexico. He then pursued clinical fellowships in Neonatal Neurology and Pediatric Epilepsy at Sick Kids Children’s Hospital in Toronto, ON. He is an EEG-laureate by the Canadian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology.

Dr. Salazar is actively involved in teaching activities in the topic of Neonatal Neurology, Pediatric Epilepsy, and Pediatric Neurology. He is part of a task force of the Newborn Brain Society to bring virtual education in Neonatal Neurology to different countries across Latin America.  He has coordinated small symposiums of this topic in Annual Meeting of the Mexican Pediatric Neurology Society.

Dr. Salazar research areas in which his expertise in Neonatal Neurology and Pediatric Epilepsy merge include neonatal seizures, neurocritical care, neuromonitoring and HIE.  As well as research project in medical education like defining a Consensus in Canadian Epilepsy training, and evaluation of virtual education in Neonatal Neurology across Latin America.

Neonatal Neurology , including prenatal Fetal Neurology counseling,  assessment and treatment of newborns with neurological conditions, as well as Neurodevelopmental follow up of these patients. Neonatal and Pediatric Neurocritical care assessment with EEG, aEEG, and QEEG neuromonitoring evaluation. Epilepsy surgery evaluation. Treatment of refractory epilepsies and developmental and epileptic encephalopathies, including non-pharmacological treatment like Ketogenic diet, Neuromodulation (e.g. VNS, DBS), or epilepsy surgery.