Annette Grefe, M.D.
Assistant Professor
Program Director for Pediatric Neurology
Clinical Interests: Special interest is general child neurology including epilepsy, headaches, movement disorders and developmental delay, as well as pediatric sleep medicine
EDUCATION: University College, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Birmingham, Alabama, January 1987-June 1988
Pre-medical sciences
M.A., Journalism, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York,
University Fellowship, December 1993,
B.A., Political Science, Southern
State Connecticut University, New Haven, Connecticut,
June 1981
M.D., Medical School: University of Alabama School of
Medicine (UASOM), Birmingham, Alabama; May 1992
POST DOCTURAL TRAINING:
Internship in Internal Medicine
Baptist Medical Centers, Birmingham, Alabama
June 1992 - June 1993
Residency in Neurology and Child Neurology
Internship in Pediatrics University of Colorado Health
Sciences Center and The Children’s Hospital, Denver,
Colorado, July 1993 - June 1997
BOARD CERTIFICATION:
American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology with
Special Qualification in Child Neurology, November 1998
Dr. Annette Grefe was born in San Francisco but grew up in Germany and attended high school there. She returned to the U.S. at age 18 and graduated from Southern Connecticut State University, then obtained a Master’s degree in Journalism at Syracuse University in 1983. After working at a medical center publication for the University of Alabama Hospitals in Birmingham, Alabama, she become fascinated with medicine, and with the neurosciences in particular. She pursued premedical studies at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and in 1992 graduated from the University of Alabama School of Medicine. She completed an internship in Internal Medicine at the Baptist Medical Centers in Birmingham and then entered residency and fellowship training at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in Denver, Colorado. She completed her Child Neurology training program in 1997 and then moved to Billings, Montana, where she spent nine years in private practice, seeing a wide variety of patients from all of eastern and south-central Montana as well as northern Wyoming and western North Dakota. She missed the intellectual stimulation of academic practice, however, and therefore joined the faculty of Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center in October 2006.
Dr. Grefe is a generalist within the subspecialty of pediatric neurology. She particularly enjoys taking care of patients with epilepsy, neurologic complications of rare genetic and metabolic disorders, as well as movement disorders. She believes that truly listening to patients (or their parents) is a physician’s most important attribute. She is enthusiastic about teaching and plans to be actively engaged in medical student and resident education and curriculum development.
In her free time, Dr. Grefe enjoys art and photography. She and her husband also love choral music, travel and exploring the outdoors with their two Australian Shepherd puppies.
PUBLICATIONS:
Geisert EE., Seo H., Sullivan CD, and Grefe A. “A Novel Approach to Identify Proteins Associated with the Inhibition of Neurite Growth,” Journal of Neuroscience Methods, 79(1): Jan 31 1998, 21-29.