Deepa Sirsi, M.D., is a Pediatric Neurologist at Children’s Health. She currently serves as an Associate Professor of Pediatrics, and Neurology  at UT Southwestern Medical Center. Dr. Sirsi is the Program Director for the Pediatric Epilepsy fellowship program at UT Southwestern Medical Center. She is the Director of the Pediatric Epilepsy Center at Children's Heath Dallas.

After graduating from Bangalore Medical College and Research Institute in India, Dr. Sirsi completed a pediatric residency at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center in New Jersey. Subsequently, she completed a pediatric neurology residency at New York-Presbyterian Weill Cornell Medical Center in New York and then went on to a neurophysiology fellowship at University Hospital for Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center in New York. She came to UT Southwestern in 2008 and since then, has served in a number of leadership roles and has given many lectures on campus in addition to several guest lectures by invitation. She is currently a Fellow of the American Epilepsy Society (FAES). 

Dr. Sirsi is currently involved with clinical trials for intractable epilepsy. Dr. Sirsi currently serves as the principal investigator for clinical trials in Lennox-Gastaut Syndrome and she co-investigates for research into dietary treatment of glucose transporter type 1 deficiency (G1D) among other anti-seizure medication trials for intractable epilepsy. Her clinical interests include pediatric genetic epilepsy syndromes, epilepsy surgery for medically intractable epilepsy, and dietary treatments for epilepsy.