Comprehensive Epilepsy Team
Adult Epilepsy
Suzette LaRoche, MD, FACNS, FAAN
- Interim Chief of the Division of Epilepsy
- Professor of Neurology, Epilepsy and Clinical Neurophysiology
- Clinical Interests: Providing specialty care to under-served and rural populations
- Research Interests: EEG monitoring in critically ill patients, video EEG monitoring for diagnosis of seizures, non-epileptic seizures and functional neurological disorders
- Board Certifications: ABPN Epilepsy, ABCN Critical Care EEG, ABCN Epilepsy Monitoring, ABPN Clinical Neurophysiology, ABPN Neurology
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
- 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
- Associate Professor of Neurology
- Fellowship Program Director
- Clinical interests: Epilepsy, epilepsy surgery, intraoperative monitoring
- Research interests: Epilepsy, epilepsy surgery, epilepsy care in underserved populations
- 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 biomarkers and multimodality monitoring to measure brain function and prediction of epileptogenesis
- Board Certification: ABPN Clinical Neurophysiology, ABPN Adult Neurology
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
Brandon Waters, MD
- Assistant Professor of Neurology – Epilepsy and Clinical Neurophysiology
- Clinical Interests: Status epilepticus diagnosis and treatment; refractory epilepsy management, including complex pharmacotherapy and epilepsy surgery; pre-surgical evaluations for epilepsy surgery; neuropsychiatric comorbidities in epilepsy
- Procedures: Continuous video electroencephalography (EEG) in the EMU and ICU settings, ambulatory EEG, stereoelectroencephalography (SEEG), electrocorticography (ECoG), WADA testing, intraoperative neuromonitoring, neurostimulation (VNS, RNS, DBS) and evoked potentials
- Research: Status epilepticus treatment and outcomes; development of epileptic networks in patients with focal epilepsy; cognitive and neuropsychological outcomes of epilepsy surgery; quantitative EEG in critical care monitoring
- Board Certification: ABPN Neurology
Linh Ngo, FNP
- Epilepsy Nurse Practitioner
Shabina Sheikh, NP
- Epilepsy Nurse Practitioner
Ann Walker, RN
- Epilepsy Nurse
Erin Carrier, LCSW
- Epilepsy Social Worker
Pediatric Epilepsy
Chon Lee, MD
- Division Chief, Child Neurology
- Associate Professor
- Clinical Interests: Evaluation and management of pediatric epilepsy
- Research Interests: Epidiolex (cannabidiol) for epilepsy
- Board Certifications: Epilepsy, Epilepsy Monitoring, Child Neurology, Pediatrics
Yael Shiloh-Malawsky, MD
- Assistant Professor of Neurology
- Associate Director – Epilepsy Fellowship Program
- Program Director – Child Neurology Residency Program,
- Co-founder and Clinical Core Leader – UNC Epilepsy Neurogenetics Initiative (ENGI)
- Clinical Interests: Epilepsy in childhood
- Research interests: Neuroplasticity, neuromuscular disease, and epilepsy
- Board Certifications: 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
Eldad Hadar, MD
- Professor & Residency Program Director, Department of Neurosurgery
- Section Chief of Functional Neurosurgery
Carolyn Quinsey, MD
- Assistant Professor, Pediatric Neurosurgery
- Research Director for Neurosurgery
Neuropsychology
Matthew Harris, PhD
- Assistant Professor, Neuropsychology
Karla Thompson, PhD
- Assistant Professor, Neuropsychology
Neuropsychiatry
Jarrett Barnhill, MD
- Professor of Psychiatry
Rebecca Nash, MD
- Assistant Professor of Psychiatry
Neuroradiology
Valerie Jewells, DO
- Professor of Radiology, Neuroradiology section
Nuclear Medicine
Mitchel Muhelman, MD
- Assistant Professor of Radiology
Epilepsy and EMU Coordinator
La Toya Bethea
- EMU and Epilepsy Surgery Coordinator