Dr. Patterson Gentile is an Attending Physician in the Pediatric Headache Program of the Division of Neurology at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), an Assistant Professor of Neurology and Pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, and an Affiliate Research Scientist at the Center for Injury Research and Prevention at CHOP.
Dr. Patterson Gentile is an Attending Physician in the Pediatric Headache Program of the Division of Neurology at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), an Assistant Professor of Neurology and Pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, and an Affiliate Research Scientist at the Center for Injury Research and Prevention at CHOP.
Dr. Patterson Gentile's research focuses on improving care for youth with post-traumatic headache. Specifically, she is exploring biomarkers to identify children and adolescents at risk for developing chronic post-traumatic headache following concussion, which is associated with prolonged recovery, to allow for earlier intervention. She is interested in understanding the symptomatic and pathophysiologic overlap between post-traumatic headache and migraine in the pediatric population. Her biomarker research includes longitudinally measuring visual and blood biomarkers in children and adolescents following concussion who develop chronic post-traumatic headache compared to those who recover. Clinically, Dr. Patterson Gentile sees youth with prolonged post-traumatic headache as part of the Minds Matter Concussion Program.
BA, Hamilton College (Neuroscience), 2006
PhD, Albert Einstein College of Medicine (Neuroscience), 2012
MD, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 2014
Affiliate Research Scientist, Center for Injury Research and Prevention, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Attending Physician, Pediatric Headache Program, Division of Neurology, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Director, Headache Fellowship, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Assistant Professor of Neurology and Pediatrics, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
Member, American Academy of Pediatrics
Committee Member, American Academy of Pediatrics Section on Neurology
Member, American Academy of Neurology
Member, American Headache Society
Member, Child Neurology Society
Patterson-Gentile C, Aguirre GKarl. A Neural Correlate of Visual Discomfort From Flicker. J Vis. 2020;20(7):11.
Patterson-Gentile C, Szperka CL. The Changing Landscape of Pediatric Migraine Therapy: A Review. JAMA Neurol. 2018;75(7):881-887.
Patterson Gentile, Carlyn et al. "American Headache Society white paper on treatment of post-traumatic headache from concussion in youth." Headache, In Press.
Patterson Gentile, Carlyn. "Physical activity intervention in youth with concussion." Pediatrics 151.5 (2023): e2022060386.
Patterson Gentile, Carlyn, et al. "Comparison of continuous headache features in youth with migraine, new daily persistent headache, and persistent post-traumatic headache." Cephalalgia 43.1 (2023): 03331024221131331.
Patterson Gentile, Carlyn, et al. "Relationship between Visually Evoked Effects and Concussion in Youth." Journal of neurotrauma 39.11-12 (2022): 841-849.
Patterson Gentile, Carlyn, et al. "Acute and chronic management of posttraumatic headache in children: A systematic review." Headache: The Journal of Head and Face Pain 61.10 (2021): 1475-1492.
Gentile, Carlyn Patterson, et al. "Developmental effects on pattern visual evoked potentials characterized by principal component analysis." Translational Vision Science & Technology 10.4 (2021): 1-1.
Gentile, Carlyn Patterson, and Geoffrey Karl Aguirre. "A neural correlate of visual discomfort from flicker." Journal of Vision20.7 (2020): 11-11.