Miya R. Asato, MD

Miya Asato is a pediatric neurologist and neurodevelopmental disabilities specialist with expertise in caring for children and adolescents with developmental, neurological and complex medical conditions. She specializes in neurodevelopmental disabilities, epilepsy, intellectual and developmental disabilities, developmental delays and the transition of patients with childhood-onset neurologic conditions into adult care. At Kennedy Krieger Institute, she serves as vice president of training, director of the Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental Disabilities (LEND) Program, and program director of the Neurodevelopmental Disabilities Residency Program. She also holds the Arnold J. Capute, M.D., M.P.H., Endowed Chair in Neurodevelopmental Disabilities.

Dr. Asato received her medical degree from Jefferson Medical College, followed by a pediatrics residency and child neurology fellowship at UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh. She also completed a clinical research fellowship focused on neurodevelopment and pediatric epilepsy at Western Psychiatric Hospital.

A leader in neurodevelopmental disabilities education, Dr. Asato has spent much of her career advancing physician training and interdisciplinary workforce development. She directs federally funded LEND programs that provide training for physicians, psychologists, therapists, nurses, public health professionals and other specialists who care for children with developmental disabilities. She has helped shape national training standards, developed educational curricula used across the country and serves as a mentor to trainees and faculty in neurodevelopmental disabilities programs nationwide.

Her research has focused on childhood epilepsy, cognitive development and neurodevelopmental disorders. She has led and contributed to studies examining the effects of epilepsy on brain development, cognition and behavior, and has published extensively in leading neurology and pediatric journals.

Kennedy Krieger Institute’s Your Child’s Brain podcast “The Impact of a Physician Shortage on Children,” June 2024

• Johns Hopkins Mary Elizabeth Garrett Executive Leadership Program (2025)
• American Academy of Neurology Health Care Equity Program Scholarship (2025)
• Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Interprofessional Collaborative Practice Physician Exemplar (2022–present)
• Child Neurology Society – Professors and Educators of Child Neurology, Training Director of the Year Award (2021)

• American Academy of Pediatrics
• American Academy of Neurology
• Child Neurology Society
• American Neurological Association
• Kennedy Fellows Association