Andy Ng, MD, PhD, FRCPC, CSCN (EEG)

Area of Study / Keywords

Ketogenic diet neonatal hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy brain tumour epilepsy infantile spasms

About

I am a clinician-investigator recruited in July 2025 as an Assistant Professor at the University of Alberta.

I am a Pediatric Neurologist / Epileptologist in the Division of Neurology under the Department of Pediatrics.

I am an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Physiology. 

Research

My laboratory seeks to understand how the immature, injured brain responds to the ketogenic diet. To do this, we use rodent models to test the effects of the ketogenic diet in the following neurologic conditions: 1. neonatal hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy. 2. pediatric brain cancers. 3. severe childhood epilepsies. We have optimized a method to deliver the ketogenic diet into pre-weaning rats, which allows us to examine the direct effects of enterally administered ketogenic diet in the immature brain.

Teaching

I teach resident physicians as they progress through their Pediatric Neurology training. I am also accepting graduate students in my laboratory.