Minh Dien Duong, MD - Norton Children's Dialysis & Transplant Clinic

Elizabeth S. Doll, M.D., is a pediatric neurologist with Norton Childrens Neuroscience Institute, affiliated with the UofL School of Medicine. She earned her medical degree from the University of Louisville School of Medicine, and completed her pediatric neurology residency at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. She is board certified in child neurology and headache medicine.Dr. Dolls interests include general child neurology, headache medicine and integrative medicine. She is involved in clinical research trials focusing on headache. She completed over 300 hours of acupuncture training through Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Dr. Doll enjoys learning from her patients and their families as well as educating them. She is interested in not only the disease, but also the patient who has the disease.Dr. Doll also is an associate professor in the UofL School of Medicine Department of Neurology Division of Child Neurology, where she teaches medical students, residents and fellows. A Louisville native, she finds serving patients in her hometown rewarding. Outside of medicine, Dr. Doll enjoys spending time with family and being outdoors.

Dr. Michael Sweeney is an assistant professor in the Division of Child Neurology. He joined the Department of Neurology at the University of Louisville in 2016. He graduated from the Medical College of Wisconsin and completed his residency in child neurology at Cincinnati Childrens Hospital Medical Center. He then went on to become the first pediatric neurologist to complete an autoimmune neurology fellowship at the University of Utah as a James T. Lubin fellow through the Transverse Myelitis Association. Upon joining as faculty at the University of Louisville, he started the regions first-ever clinic to treat children specifically with immune-mediated neurologic disorders. He also joined with colleagues in the Department of Neurology to start an adult autoimmune neurology clinic in conjunction with an established neuroimmunology program.Dr. Sweeney participates in the Division of Child Neurologys very active outreach clinic program. He travels to Taylor Regional Hospital monthly for a pediatric general neurology clinic.He oversees the education for medical students and residents who rotate through the child neurology inpatient and outpatient services. He is active in lecturing for first and second year medical students. He is a member of the education committee within the Department of Neurology.He is an active member of the Transverse Myelitis Association and attends their family camp each summer. He is also a member of the American Academy of Neurology and the Child Neurology Society.

Malavika Prasad, M.D., joined Norton Children’s in August 2020 as a pediatric nephrologist. In addition to her clinical role, she is an assistant professor of pediatrics at the University of Louisville School of Medicine. She has special interest in many aspects of kidney diseases, from glomerulonephritis (group of diseases that injure the part of the kidney that filters blood) to kidney transplantation. Acute care nephrology is her key interest. She eagerly monitors innovative modern advances, including Molecular Adsorbent Recirculating System. Dr. Prasad graduated from Stanley Medical College with a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) in 2011. She completed her residency in pediatrics at Maimonides Children’s Hospital in Brooklyn, New York, in 2016, and then finished her fellowship in pediatric nephrology at NewYork-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital in 2019. During her training, she earned multiple awards. In 2016, Dr. Prasad was the recipient of the best overall research award from Maimonides Children’s Hospital. Her fellowship scholarly project was investigating kidney diseases and complications in pediatric patients undergoing bone marrow transplantation, a clinical field in which she remains actively involved. Dr. Prasad, who loved biology in school, developed an interest in the pathophysiology of diseases. Coupled with her desire to help those who are sick, she quickly cemented her interest in medicine. She views nephrology as an opportunity to improve the outcomes of chronic conditions for children with kidney problems and has a passion finding answers to the complexities of various related illnesses. Dr. Prasad is certified by the American Board of Pediatrics in general pediatrics and pediatric nephrology. She is a member of multiple national and international organizations, including the American Academy of Pediatrics, National Kidney Foundation, and the International Pediatric Nephrology Association. When not with her patients, she excitedly spends time with her daughter. Dr. Prasad enjoys biking, hiking, painting, baking and gardening, while listening to her daughter’s “mind-blowing” solutions to solve worldly issues.