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Russell P. Saneto, DO, PhD

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Russell P. Saneto, DO, PhD

Neurology, Epilepsy, Mitochondrial Medicine

On staff since November 2001

Academic Title: Associate Professor, Neurology; Adjunct Associate Professor, Pediatrics

Research Center: Center for Clinical and Translational Research

Recommendations

ClarissaBattle Ground, WA05.23.12
Dr. Saneto was an answer to our prayers in 2008, after searching over a year for a doctor to listen to us and to help us diagnose our daughter. She has been Dr. Saneto's patient since April 2008 and was diagnosed in October 2008 with a mitochondrial disease at the age of 22 month old. We have been very thankful for him every since! He listens and cares about what you have to say, explains things wonderfully, and really gets that we as parents should play a leading role in our child's health care.
BrandiNampa, Idaho03.20.11
I truly believe the Dr. Saneto was a God Send!!! We are dealing with Dravet Syndrome in our family, and Dr. Saneto and Seattle Children's have been wonderful every step of the way since we found them. Dr. Saneto is rare among his peers. You get the sense when you are with him that he is truly interested in what you have to say, and that he truly cares. His ability to impart information so we can truly understand is amazing... I really can not put completely into words how he has made our lives with this truly devastating disorder so much easier... Brandi
Recommend Dr. Russell Saneto

Overview

Board Certification(s)
Pediatrics
Neurology with Special Qualifications in Child Neu
Medical/Professional School
University of Osteopathic Medicine and Health Sciences, Des Moines
Residency
Pediatrics, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland
Fellowship
Child Neurology, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland
Child Neurology, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland
Clinical Interests

Diagnosis and treatment of mitochondrial disease, intractable seizures, epilepsy surgery candidates, neurometabolic and neurogenetic disorders

Research Focus Area

Translational Research

Awards and Honors

Award NameAward DescriptionAwarded ByAward Date
Best Doctors'Best Doctors is a nomination and electoral process that selects 5% of the physicians nationwide for inclusion on the Best Doctors list.Best Doctors 2009 - 2012

Publications

Craig AK, Sotero de Menezes M, Saneto RP
Seizure , 2012: 17-21
Preserved interhemispheric functional connectivity in a case of corpus callosum agenesis.
Neuroradiology , 2011: (Epub ahead of print)
Mutations in Pickle orthologs cause seizures in flies, mice, and humans.
Am J Med Genetics , 2011: 138-146
Illness-induced exacerbation of Leigh syndrome in a patient with the MTATP6 mutation, m. 9185 T>C.
Mitochondrion , 2010 Aug: 567-72
Sensory ataxic neuropathy with dysarthria and ophthalmoparesis (SANDO) in late life due to compound heterozygous POLG mutations.
Muscle & nerve , 2010 Jun: 882-5
The use of neuroimaging in the diagnosis of mitochondrial disease.
Developmental disabilities research reviews , 2010 Jun: 129-35
Polymerase gamma disease through the ages.
Developmental disabilities research reviews , 2010 Jun: 163-74
POLG DNA testing as an emerging standard of care before instituting valproic acid therapy for pediatric seizure disorders.
Seizure : the journal of the British Epilepsy Association , 2010 Apr: 140-6
Onset of action and seizure control in Lennox-Gaustaut syndrome: focus on rufinamide.
Therapeutics and clinical risk management , 2009 Apr: 271-80
Cerebral MRI abnormalities associated with vigabatrin therapy.
Epilepsia , 2009 Feb: 184-94
Neuroimaging of mitochondrial disease.
Mitochondrion , 2008 Dec: 396-413
Molecular and clinical genetics of mitochondrial diseases due to POLG mutations.
Human mutation , 2008 Sep: E150-72
The in-depth evaluation of suspected mitochondrial disease.
Molecular genetics and metabolism , 2008 May: 16-37
Localization of extratemporal seizure with noninvasive dense-array EEG. Comparison with intracranial recordings.
Pediatric neurosurgery , 2008: 474-9
Mitochondrial disease: a practical approach for primary care physicians.
Pediatrics , 2007 Dec: 1326-33
Apnea caused by mesial temporal lobe mass lesions in infants: report of 3 cases.
Journal of child neurology , 2007 Sep: 1079-83
Vagus nerve stimulation in children with mitochondrial electron transport chain deficiencies.
Mitochondrion , 2007 Jul: 279-83
Persistence of suppression-bursts in a patient with Ohtahara syndrome.
Journal of child neurology , 2007 May: 631-4
Outcome following surgery for temporal lobe epilepsy with hippocampal involvement in preadolescent children: emphasis on mesial temporal sclerosis.
Journal of neurosurgery , 2007 Mar: 205-10
Vagus nerve stimulation for intractable seizures in children.
Pediatric neurology , 2006 Nov: 323-6
Use of dexmedetomidine in awake craniotomy in adolescents: report of two cases.
Paediatric anaesthesia , 2006 Mar: 338-42
A boy with muscle weakness, hypercarbia, and the mitochondrial DNA A3243G mutation.
Journal of child neurology , 2006 Jan: 77-9

Research Funding

Grant TitleGrantorAmountAward Date
North American Mitochondrial Disease Consortium (NAMDC): Subaward: Natural History Study of Alpers-Huttenlocher SyndromeThe National Instutue of Neurological Disorders and Stroke 2011 - 2014
Developing a North American Mitochondrial Disease Consortium.The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. 2009 - 2012
Childhood Absence Epilepsy RX, PK-PD-PharmacogeneticsThe National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke 2007 - 2012

Primary Office

Seattle Children's
MB.7.420 - Neurology
4800 Sand Point Way NE
Seattle, WA 98105
206-987-2078

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