Comprehensive Epilepsy Team
Adult Epilepsy
Albert Hinn, MD
- Director of Clinical Neurophysiology and Intraoperative Monitoring (IOM)
- Professor of Neurology, Adjunctive Professor of Neurosurgery
- Clinical interests: Epilepsy, Clinical Neurophysiology
- Research interests: Intraoperative monitoring
- Board Certification: ABPN Neurology and ABCN Clinical Neurophysiology
Bradley V. Vaughn, MD
- Chief of the Division of Sleep and Epilepsy
- Professor of Neurology, Biomedical Engineering and Allied Health Sciences
- Clinical interests: Epilepsy, Sleep disorders, and nocturnal events
- Research interests: Sleep disorders Epilepsy, interaction of sleep and epilepsy, Sleep physiology and disorders in neurological disorders
- Board Certification: ABPN Neurology, ABPN Sleep Medicine, ABCN Clinical Neurophysiology, ABSM – Sleep Medicine
Angela Wabulya, MBChB
- Assistant Professor of Neurology
- Clinical interests: Epilepsy, Epilepsy Surgery, Intraoperative Monitoring
- Research interests: Epilepsy, Epilepsy Surgery, Epilepsy Care in Underserved Population
- Board Certification: ABPN Neurology, ABPN Epilepsy
Clio Rubinos, MD
- Assistant Professor of Neurology
- Clinical Interests: Critical care, traumatic brain injury, intracranial hemorrhage, acute ischemic stroke, status epilepticus, epilepsy, critical care EEG and clinical neurophysiology
- Research Interests: EEG, serum and CSF biomarkersand multimodality monitoring to measure brain function and prediction of epileptogenesis
Atif Tahir Sheikh, MD
- Assistant Professor of Neurology – Epilepsy and Clinical Neurophysiology
- Clinical Interests: Management of refractory epilepsy through epilepsy surgery, including pre-surgical work up, intracranial EEG monitoring, and targeted treatment options
- Procedures and Research Interests: Epilepsy, epilepsy surgery, electroencephalography (EEG) in the EMU and ICU settings, stereoelectroencephalography (SEEG), intraoperative monitoring, and evoked potentials
Linh Ngo, FNP
- Epilepsy Nurse Practitioner
Shabina Sheikh, NP
- Epilepsy Nurse Practitioner
Erin Carrier, LCSW
- Epilepsy Social Worker
Pediatric Epilepsy
Michael Tennison, MD
- Professor of Neurology
- Clinical interests: Epilepsy in childhood, neurogenetics
- Research interests: Treatment of Epilepsy
- Board Certification: ABPN Child Neurology, ABCN Clinical Neurophysiology
Chon Lee, MD
- Associate Professor
- Clinical Interests: Evaluation and management of pediatric epilepsy
- Research Interests: Epidiolex (cannabidiol) for epilepsy
- Board Certification: Epilepsy, Epilepsy Monitoring, Child Neurology, Pediatrics
Yael Shiloh-Malawsky, MD
- Assistant Professor of Neurology
- Clinical Interests: Epilepsy in childhood
- Research interests: Neuroplasticity, neuromuscular disease, and epilepsy
- Board Certification: ABPN Child Neurology, ABPN Epilepsy
Quian-Zhou (Jojo) Yang, MD
- Assistant Professor – Child Neurology and Epilepsy
- Director, Pediatric Epilepsy Monitoring Unit
- Clinical interests: Surgery for medically refractory epilepsy, precision therapeutics for genetic epilepsies, integrative medicine in neurology
- Board Certification: Neurology with Special Qualification in Child Neurology
- Board eligible: Epilepsy
Senyene Hunter, MD, PhD
- Assistant Professor – Child Neurology and Epilepsy
- Research Interests: Epilepsy neurogenetics, neonatal seizures
- Board Certification: ABPN Child Neurology
Neurosurgery
Scott Elton, MD
- Director of Pediatric Neurosurgery
- Professor of Neurosurgery
- Specialties: Craniofacial disorders, Chiari malformations, tethered spinal cord disorders, spinal cord and brain tumors, the treatment of neurosurgical disorders of the brain and spine in infancy, childhood, and adolescence.
Eldad Hadar, MD
- Vice Chair of Neurosurgery and Surgical Director of Epilepsy Surgery Program
- Program Director, Section Chief of Functional Neurosurgery
- Professor of Neurosurgery
- Specialties: Functional and epilepsy, DBS, epilepsy surgery, tumor and vascular surgery, spinal and peripheral nerve surgery
Neuropsychology
Matthew Harris, PhD
- Assistant Professor, Neuropsychology
Karla Thompson, PhD
- Assistant Professor, Neuropsychology
- Specialties: Acquired Brain Dysfucntions, Cognitive Disorders Associated with Aging, Spinal Cord Injury (SCI), Back Pain and Other Disabling Conditions, Emotional and Behavioral Changes, Chronic Conditions.
Neuropsychiatry
Jarrett Barnhill, MD
- Professor of Psychiatry
Neuroradiology
Valerie Jewells, DO
- Associate Professor of Radiology, Neuroradiology section
Epilepsy and EMU Coordinators
La Toya Bethea
- EMU and Epilepsy Surgery Coordinator