Madeline Chadehumbe

Dr. Chadehumbe is a board-certified neurologist with special qualification in Child Neurology, with extensive clinical and academic experience in the field. Most of her career was spent in academic practice at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) where she was an Associate Professor, Headache Fellowship Director and Director of Diversity and Inclusion for the Division of Neurology at CHOP/University of Pennsylvania until 2022 and, was recipient of the 2021 PENN Pearl Award for medical student teaching. She is set apart by her championing of children and adults with neurodevelopmental differences. She serves on the Board of Trustees for Eden Autism services- a non-profit organization that has a care model developed to service the life span of individuals and families with autism. Through that work, she recognized the paucity of care as these children age out of child neurology practices.

She recently joined Neurabilities where she serves as the Division Head for Neurology and Developmental Pediatrics. Her transition to Neurabilities, was prompted by her passion to provide comprehensive clinical care in neurobehavioral and general child neurology to the adolescent population and beyond. In her role, she is making strides in bridging the care gap for aging individuals with neurodevelopmental differences by allowing the care to extend beyond the age of 21 with many of her patients now extending to the early 30s where they can be more safely transitioned in a stable manner to the primary care physician. Through the American Academy of Neurology (AAN), she is the course director for 2022 and 2023 for the course – “Child Neurology for the Adult Neurologist” where continued advocacy and education for the adult colleagues is emphasized. Her desire to see that adult neurologists feel prepared for the aging child with disabilities is seen to extend, in her work and volunteer life, to expand the child neurology community. She has also been a strong advocate for diversity, inclusion and anti-racist curriculum. She was the Director for JEDI (Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion) at CHOP and currently the course director through the AAN for –“The Common goals of Wellness and DEI Initiatives”-(2022 and 2023). Furthermore, she currently serves on the AAN Diversity officer and the American Headache Society (AHS) Diversity Initiatives workgroups. Likewise, she has a strong desire to see these initiatives enhanced within the CNF.