Daniela Pohl MD, PhD

Biography

Dr. Daniela Pohl received her medical degree from the University of Goettingen in Germany in 1993. She completed her pediatric neurology fellowship at the Children’s Hospital of the University of Goettingen in 2006. Dr. Pohl received additional training in epileptology at the Swiss Epilepsy Centre in Zurich, the German Epilepsy Centre in Kehl-Kork and the Necker Hospital in Paris. She joined the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO) in 2008. Dr. Pohl is a steering committee member of the international pediatric MS study group and chair of the clinical subcommittee of the group. She is chair of the child neurology subcommittee of the European Neurological Society and site principal investigator (PI) for the Canadian pediatric demyelinating disease study and head of the pediatric multiple sclerosis clinic at CHEO. Current research interests include MS and other inflammatory and autoimmune disorders of the CNS, as well as the effect of exercise on neurologic diseases in childhood, including epilepsy, headaches and tic disorder.