Kallol Kumar Set, MD

Kallol Set, MD is a pediatric neurologist at Dayton Children’s Hospital. Dr. Set was born and raised in Kolkata, India in a family with several renowned doctors. He was inspired by Mother Teresa to serve sick children. He completed his medical school education at Calcutta National Medical College, University of Calcutta in India. Following graduation, completed his residency in pediatrics and pediatric neurology, and fellowship in pediatric EEG, neurophysiology and epilepsy at Children’s Hospital of Michigan, Wayne State University in Detroit. He has a special interest in caring for pediatric patients with epilepsy and movement disorders. Dr. Set’s favorite things about working with kids are their cuteness, innocence, and inability to express themselves properly. It’s a challenge for him to find out the problem in a child who cannot express like an adult and solve it. Outside of work Dr. Set enjoys Traveling, reading books, and playing as well as coaching soccer and playing with his kids. He is actively involved in fundraising and helping orphans in an orphanage ( Antyodoi Anath Ashram) in India.

awards, honors and organizations
Chief Resident (2017-2018) in Pediatric Neurology at Wayne State University.
Received Scholarship from Movement Disorder Society to attend MDS School in Dallas, Feb,2018.
Received Travel grant from American Academy of Neurology to present at AAN Annual Conference, Boston, 2017.
Third Prize Winner at Annual Research Competition June, 2018 of Southeast Michigan Center for Medical Education. 

organizations:
American Academy of Neurology
American Epilepsy Society
Child Neurology Society
Movement Disorder Society
American Academy of Pediatrics
International Child Neurology Society
Indian Academy of Pediatrics.
American Red Cross
Susmita Foundation
National Geographic Society
American Medical Association

publications and presentations
Set, K.K., Sen, K., Huq, A.H.M., & Agarwal, R. (2019). Mitochondrial Disorders of the Nervous System: A Review. Clinical pediatrics, 58(4), 381-394.
Set, K.K., & Warner, J.N. (2021) Tourette syndrome in children: An update. Current problems in pediatric and adolescent health care, 101032.
Kallol K Set, A Weber, F Serajee, A Huq. Siblings with progressive weakness, hypotonia, nystagmus and hearing loss (2018) Neurology Feb 13;90(7): e625-e631.
K Thusang, Kallol K Set, H Jiang. Premature termination of treatment in neonatal herpes simplex virus encephalitis-a case of false negative initial HSV PCR and corpus callosum diffusion restriction (2018) Pediatric Neurology Feb 79:72-73.
Kallol K Set, J Poulik, R Agarwal. A "spotty" brain mimicking demyelination (2018) Accepted in Pediatric Neurology.
A Firdous, Kallol K Set. An infant with status epilepticus and stroke (2018) Accepted in Pediatric in Review.
Kallol K Set, D Ghosh, A Huq and A Luat. Episodic Ataxia type 1 (K-channelopathy) manifesting as paroxysmal non-kinesogenic dyskinesia: expanding the phenotype. (2017) Movement Disorder Clinical Practice. https://doi.org/10.1002/mdc3.12518
Kallol K Set. Images in Aicardi-Goutieres syndrome. (2016) Translational Biomedicine; 7(3): i88.
Kallol K Set. 5 Week Old Boy with L1 Syndrome: HSAS (X-Linked Hydrocephalus with Stenosis of the Aqueduct of Sylvius) and Adducted Thumbs (2015) Open Journal of Clinical and Medical Case Report Vol 1: 6.
R Agarwal, R Patel, Kallol K Set et al. Safety, Awareness, and Familiarity regarding Epilepsy in Teenage Years (SAFETY): Understanding the adolescents' perspective about their disease (2014) Epilepsy & Behavior 41; 114-118.
Kallol K Set, M Alsaleem, L saadeh. Developmental Dysplasia of Hip: A Review (2015) Clinical Pediatric. Vol 54, Issue 10, 921-928.
M Rajpurkar, M Callaghan, M Frey, Kallol K Set, H Chugani, S Sood. Management of intracranial surgery for refractory epilepsy in severe factor VII deficiency: choosing the optimal dosing regimen (2014) Haemophilia 20, e222--e242SSN.
Lin, A. & Set, K. (2020). Botulinum Toxin dose optimization in pediatric DYT1 type Focal Hand Dystonia and tremor: 1254. Movement Disorders, 35.
Vinson, C., Chowdhury, P., Waker, C., Keoni, C., Set, K., & Lober, R. (2020). The Effects of Dexamethasone on Mitogen Activated Protein Kinase-14 Signaling in Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma (DIPG) Cells (4268). Neurology Apr 2020, 94 (15 Supplement) 4268;
Kallol K Set, E Asano, A Kumar, A Luat. Knowledge, Attitude and Practice About Acute Seizure Care Among Pediatric Residents and Nurses at the Epilepsy Monitoring Unit of Children's Hospital of Michigan. QUESST, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI (April, 2018).
Kallol K Set, R Agarwal, C Juhász, H Chugani, J Jeong. Increased fronto-thalamic connectivity associated with evolution of continuous spike-and-wave in slow-wave-sleep (CSWS). American Epilepsy Society Annual Meeting at Washington, DC on Dec. 1-5, 2017.
Kallol K Set, A Huq. Co-occurrence of pathogenic mutations in multiple genes in 2 siblings with Brown-Vialetto-Van Laere Syndrome Type 2 phenotype. American Academy of Neurology Annual Meeting at Boston, MA on April 26th, 2017.
Kallol K Set, D Ghosh D, A Huq, A Luat. An Interesting case of Potassium channelopathy mimicking Paroxysmal Non- Kinesogenic Dyskinesia. Movement Disorder Society Congress-PAS 2017 at Miami, FL on February 25th, 2017.