Amy McGregor, MD was born in St. Louis, Mo. She attended college at Haverford College in Philadelphia. She went to medical school at Washington University Medical School in St. Louis. She did her pediatric residency, pediatric neurology residency, and clinical neurophysiology fellowship at University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston. She is currently a pediatric epileptologist in Memphis, TN at Le Bonheur Children's Hospital. She is also the author of Laughing Your Way to Passing the Neurology Boards (2007, Medhumor Medical Publications) and had a co-author for the second edition, which was published in 2013.