About Julie
Julie Ziobro, MD, PhD is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics in the division of Pediatric Neurology at the University of Michigan. She received her MD and PhD degrees from Virginia Commonwealth University, where she studied cannabinoid receptor changes in models of acquired epilepsy. She completed Pediatric and Child Neurology residencies at Children’s National in Washington, DC, where she learned rodent modeling of genetic epilepsies in the lab of Dr. Judy Liu. She completed an Epilepsy fellowship at Children’s Hospital Colorado before joining the faculty at the University of Michigan. She has received K12, AES/PCDH19 Alliance, and K08 training awards under the mentorship of Dr. Jack Parent, in work exploring molecular changes in rodent models of PCDH19.
Dr. Ziobro is a co-leader of the Epilepsy Genetics clinic and the Genetic Therapeutics Action Committee at the University of Michigan, striving to provide improved diagnosis and precision therapies for patients with genetic epilepsies.