Ann Tilton

Ann Henderson Tilton is Professor of Neurology and Pediatrics at Louisiana State University Health Services Center; and Section Chair of Child Neurology. She is director of the Rehabilitation Center at Children’s Hospital of New Orleans, director of the Comprehensive Spasticity Program, and co-director of the Muscular Dystrophy clinics.

The textbook ''Child Neurology: Its Origins, Founders, Growth and Evolution'' states that Tilton is "one of the most globally visible leaders within child neurology." Tilton has been very involved in international professional organizations. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Neurology, serving for many years as chair of the Meeting Management Committee, in 2011 as chair of the Child Neurology Section, and formerly as vice chair of the society.

Tilton was elected Councillor from the South of the Child Neurology Society in 1997, served as Secretary-Treasurer 2002–2004, and became president in 2005 - the second female president of the society, after Mary Anne Guggenheim in 1981.

Tilton has also been very active in the American Academy of Pediatrics, serving from 2002 to 2009 on the National Council for Children with Developmental Disabilities.

She has served as president of the patient advocacy group Child Neurology Foundation. Provided by Wikipedia