Treasurer
John M. (Jack) Pellock, M.D. is Chairman of the Division of Child Neurology, Vice Chairman of the Department of Neurology and Professor of Neurology, Pediatrics, Pharmacy and Pharmaceutics at the Medical College of Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University Health System, in Richmond, Virginia.
Dr. Pellock is a diplomat of the American Board of Pediatrics and of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology with Special Qualification in Child Neurology. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Neurology and the American Academy of Pediatrics and is a member of several professional organizations including the American Neurological Association, The Child Neurology Society, and the American Epilepsy Society where he is Treasurer. He has been included in Best Doctors in America and Who’s Who International in America.
Dr. Pellock has been Principal Investigator for over 80 trials evaluating epilepsy treatments in children and adults, and a co-investigator for many others. He is funded by the NIH for various studies in pediatric and adult epilepsy. Dr. Pellock has been involved in antiepileptic drug development and studying epilepsy in children for over thirty years. Dr. Pellock is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Child Neurology, Pediatric Neurology, Epileptic Disorders, Journal of Pediatric Pharmacology and Therapeutics and serves as reviewer of a number of journals including the New England Journal of Medicine, Neurology, Epilepsia, and Pediatrics. He has published extensively and lectured widely on pediatric epilepsy and has conducted clinical research in anticonvulsant therapy. He received the 2004 J. Kiffin Penry Award for Excellence in Neurology from the American Epilepsy Society.
Dr. Pellock received a Master of Science in biology at Fairleigh Dickinson University in Teaneck, New Jersey and his medical degree from St. Louis University in St. Louis, Missouri. He completed an internship and residency in pediatrics at the Medical College of Virginia, VCU and a fellowship in pediatric neurology at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center in New York, New York.