Stanford Comprehensive Epilepsy Program Team

Brenda Porter, MD
Professor of Neurology & Neurological Sciences and Pediatrics

Dr. Porter has 15 years of experience in taking care of children with epilepsy. Taking care of children with epilepsy and trying to provide them with the best opportunity for seizure freedom, social and emotional well-being is the goal of her practice.  She has expertise in medical, surgical and dietary therapy for intractable epilepsy.  She directs the Stanford Tuberous Sclerosis Clinic. Her research has focused on improving outcomes in epilepsy surgery and designing therapies for the prevention of epilepsy in at risk patients.  Dr. Porter sees patients at Lucille Packard Children’s Hospital.

Fiona Baumer, MD
Assistant Professor of Neurology & Neurological Sciences

Dr. Fiona Baumer is an Assistant Professor in Neurology at Stanford University with a focus on pediatric epilepsy. Dr. Baumer received her B.A. at Stanford University and her M.D. from Harvard Medical School. She remained on the east coast to train in pediatrics and child neurology at Boston Children’s Hospital before returning to Stanford in 2015 for epilepsy training as the first Maggie Otto Fellow in Pediatric Epilepsy.  She joined the neurology faculty in 2016.

Dr. Baumer’s clinical and research interests include difficult to treat pediatric epilepsies and the interaction between epilepsy and cognition. She is gaining expertise in noninvasive brain stimulation as a clinical and research tool in epilepsy. Dr. Baumer is currently participating in the KL2 Mentored Research Fellowship through which she will conduct a study using transcranial magnetic stimulation to assess cortical excitability and synaptic plasticity in benign epilepsy with centrotemporal spikes (Rolandic Epilepsy).

William Gallentine, DO
Clinical Professor of Neurology & Neurological Sciences and Pediatrics

Dr. William Gallentine is a Clinical Professor of Neurology at Stanford University.  A product of Waynesburg University, he subsequently received his D.O. from the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine and then completed a pediatrics residency at Geisinger Medical Center.   Dr. Gallentine next undertook his child neurology residency and clinical neurophysiology fellowship at Duke University, where he remained on the faculty as a pediatric epileptogist for 11 years, prior to being recruited to Stanford in 2018.

Dr. Gallentine’s research interests focus on the role of inflammation and genetics in the development of epilepsy, and the ovelap between the two.   He is part of a NIH funded multi-center study aimed at discovering novel biomarkers of epileptogenesis  and identifying potential therapeutic targets within the inflammatory cascade as a new approach to treating and preventing epilepsy.   He is also interested in the exploration of novel mutation-specific therapeutics for children with genetic epilepsies.

Dr. Gallentine’s clinical interests focus on children with refractory epilepsy.  He offers clinical expertise in all aspects of epilepsy management, including medications, dietary therapy, surgical planning, and neurostimulation.  He has developed specific interests in autoimmune and genetic epilepsies.  His epilepsy and inflammation clinic focuses on children with antibody-mediated autoimmune epilepsy (including NMDA receptor encephalitis), Rasmussen’s encephalitis, recurrent febrile seizures, febrile status epilepticus, genetic epilepsies with seizures triggered by fever (Dravet syndrome , GEFS+), fever-induced refractory epileptic encephalopathy (FIRES), mesial temporal temporal lobe epilepsy, and infantile spasms. His epilepsy and genetics clinic provides multi-disciplinary care focused on the evaluation and management of children with known or suspected genetic epilepsy syndromes with an emphasis on mutation-specific therapy.

At Stanford he serves as the Outpatient Medical Director of Pediatric Epilepsy.  He is an active member of the American Clinical Neurophysiology Society, American Epilepsy Society, and American Academy of Neurology.  Dr. Gallentine has a passion for teaching, too.  During his tenure at Duke, he played a prominent role in medical education serving as the Child Neurology Residency Program Director.   

When not working, Dr. Gallentine is always up for seeking a new travel adventure with his wife Darla and kids, Caleb, Anya, and Gabe.  They definitely consider themselves “foodies,” always looking to try a new dish.  He enjoys watching anything sports related, with San Jose Sharks hockey being his most recent obsession.  

Jin Hahn, MD
Professor of Neurology & Neurological Sciences and Pediatrics, Emeritus

Dr. Hahn is a Child Neurologist who studies brain development, epilepsy and conditions such as dysplasia and holoprosencephaly, in which the two overlap. Dr. Hahn received his MD from Harvard in 1982. After residency training in pediatrics and child neurology at Harvard in 1987, he came to Stanford to do a neurophysiology fellowship. After a brief faculty position at UCSD, he returned to Stanford In 1991 to become the Chief of Neurology Service at Lucile Salter Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford. His research interests are in the areas of neonatal seizures and electoencephalography, neonatal neurology, hypoxic ischemic brain injury and seizure disorders in the first year of life.

Ann Hyslop, MD
Clinical Associate Professor of Neurology  & Neurological Sciences

Dr. Ann Hyslop is a Clinical Associate Professor Neurology at Stanford University. She received her B.A. at Macalester College and M.D. at the University of Texas, Houston. She then completed her pediatrics residency at the Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City and child neurology residency at the University of Washington. She next completed a clinical neurophysiology fellowship at Miami Children's Hospital after which she had further training in the pre-surgical evaluation of medically intractable epilepsy. She remained as a pediatric epileptologist at Miami Children's Hospital with a concentration in surgical epilepsy for 10 years before joining the Stanford faculty in 2022. 

Dr. Hyslop is an avid diver, seeking out shark dives worldwide, and loves yoga, sailing, and traveling with her husband.  

Hyunmi Kim, MD, PhD, MPH
Clinical Professor of Neurology & Neurological Sciences

Dr. Hyunmi Kim is Clinical Professor of Neurology at Stanford University. She received her M.D. and Ph.D. from Ewha Womans University in Seoul, Korea. She completed her residency in Pediatrics at Asan Medical Center and fellowship in Pediatric Neurology at Ewha Womans University Hospital and Seoul National University Hospital in Seoul, Korea. In the United States, she completed her child neurology residency at Medical College of Georgia and epilepsy fellowship at the Cleveland Clinic. She was on the faculty at University of Alabama at Birmingham and then Emory University, before joining at Stanford in 2018.

Dr. Kim’s clinical and research interests are treatment-resistant epilepsy, epilepsy surgery including stereo EEG monitoring and less-invasive treatment, multimodal brain imaging analysis, and population health research of neurological disorders.  She has established a line of research exploring how epidemiological factors relate to childhood epilepsy risk and outcomes.

Dr. Kim’s personal interests are exploring the National Parks, golfing, sailing, and scuba diving.

Juliet K. Knowles, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Neurology & Neurological Sciences

Dr. Juliet Knowles is Assistant Professor in Neurology, and specializes in epilepsy. She received her B.A. with a double major in Microbiology and Philosophy at the University of Texas-Austin.  She then completed her M.D. and Ph.D. in Neurosciences at Stanford University. In graduate school, Dr. Knowles conducted research on novel neurotrophin-based small molecules for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease under the mentorship of chair Dr. Frank Longo. After deciding to become a pediatric neurologist, Dr. Knowles completed her residencies in Pediatrics and Child Neurology at Stanford, where she also served as Chief Resident in Neurology. Following this, she completed a Pediatric Epilepsy fellowship, also at Stanford.

Currently Dr. Knowles cares for patients with pediatric epilepsy, and is particularly interested in genetic epilepsy and difficult to treat, or refractory, epilepsy. Dr. Knowles has developed a basic and translational research program under the mentorship of Drs Michelle Monje, John Huguenard and Courtney Wusthoff, and she is focused on how recurrent seizures influence brain development in pediatric epilepsy, as well as the mechanisms underlying epileptogenesis and associated cognitive dysfunction. Her current projects are particularly focused on interactions between neurons (gray matter) and myelin (white matter). Dr. Knowles’s research is supported by the American Epilepsy Society, a NIH/NINDS K12 award, the CURE Epilepsy Foundation, the Child Neurology Foundation/Pediatric Epilepsy Research Foundation and the Stanford Child Health Research Institute.

When she is not in the clinic or the lab, Dr. Knowles loves to spend time with her husband, Joshua, and their two children. She also enjoys reading, training and running in marathons, and spending time in the great outdoors of California.

Christopher Lee-Messer, MD, PhD
Clinical Associate Professor of Neurology & Neurological Sciences and Pediatrics

Dr. Lee-Messer’s chief clinical focus is in pediatric epilepsy, especially the relationship between stroke and epilepsy. His translational and basic science interests lie in neuronal development and physiology, and in using that knowledge to create treatments for disease, especially in the injured developing brain. To investigate these subjects, he is currently participating as a fellow in the Deisseroth lab, combining techniques of in vivo and in vitro electrophysiology with optogenetics.

Lauren Mattas, M.S., C.G.C

Lauren Mattas, M.S., C.G.C, completed her master’s degree in Genetic Counseling at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in 2014, and was certified by the American Board of Genetic Counseling that same year. She began her career at the Mills Peninsula Dorothy Schneider Cancer Center in San Mateo, providing cancer genetics counseling. She then practiced at Kaiser Permanente in Oakland and supported wide spectrum of patients in cancer, prenatal, and pediatric and adult general genetics.

Lauren came to Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford in the Pediatric Neurogenomics Program in 2020. Since that time, she has specialized in providing care for children with rare neurological conditions, including epilepsy, leukodystrophy, brain malformations, and movement disorders. She has been very involved in supervising and teaching graduate students and providing mentorship to future genetic counselors.

In her spare time, Lauren enjoys spending time with friends and family, hiking and backpacking, and traveling the world, mainly to eat delicious food.

Emily Spelbrink, MD, PhD
Clinical Associate Professor of Neurology & Neurological Sciences and Pediatrics

Dr. Emily Spelbrink is Clinical Assistant Professor of Neurology at Stanford University. Dr. Spelbrink received her B.S. at Emory University in Atlanta, and then her M.D. and Ph.D. degrees through the Medical Scientist Training Program at the University of California San Diego. She completed her pediatrics residency at Harbor UCLA, followed by child neurology residency at Stanford, and pediatric epilepsy fellowship at the University of California, San Francisco. Her interests in learning and memory were extended by Ph.D. research in these areas, and continue to fuel her interests in brain development and epileptic encephalopathies as she treats epilepsy patients.

Dr. Spelbrink joined the faculty at Stanford in 2016 as a child neurologist and epileptologist. She sees outpatients primarily at California Pacific Medical Center, in addition to inpatient and EEG service and teaching at Stanford.

When not at work, Dr. Spelbrink enjoys travel, time and space in nature (hiking, running, backpacking, camping), reading, knitting, yoga, and being with close friends and family.

Besim Uzgil, MD, PhD

Dr. Besim Uzgil is an Adjunct Clinical Assistant Professor of Neurology at Stanford University with a clinical focus on pediatric epilepsy. He provides specialty care in child neurology and subspecialty care in epilepsy to patients in the East and North Bay, with offices in Walnut Creek and Pleasant Hill.

He earned his undergraduate degree in Neuroscience at UCLA as a Howard Hughes Undergraduate Research Scholar. He went on to complete a dual MD-PhD degree in the Medical Scientist Training Program at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, where his thesis focused on learning and memory in the laboratory of Dr. Kelsey C. Martin. Dr. Uzgil completed his child neurology residency and pediatric epilepsy fellowship at UCSF, alongside postdoctoral research as a physician-scientist investigating human brain development in the laboratory of Dr. Arnold Kriegstein at the UCSF Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regeneration Medicine and Stem Cell Research.

His clinical and academic interests include EEG interpretation, epilepsy genetics, surgical epilepsy treatments, patient advocacy, medical education, and child health equity. Dr. Uzgil has been an active member of the American Epilepsy Society since 2017, where he serves on the Assessment and Examination Committee. He is also a member of the Pediatric Epilepsy Research Consortium and the American Academy of Neurology.

In his free time, Dr. Uzgil enjoys backpacking and skiing in the mountains, spending quality time with family and friends, and running with his dog, Marlowe.

Lawrence Shuer, MD
Professor of Neurosurgery
Associate Chair of the Department of Neurosurgery

Dr. Shuer performs surgical procedures on patients with uncontrolled seizures. Hetrained in surgery, neurosurgery and neuropathology at Stanford and joined the faculty in 1984.  He has been part of the Comprehensive Epilepsy Team at Stanford since 1992. His interests in neurosurgery include the management of craniofacial anomalies, degenerative spine disorders, syringomyelia, surgical treatment of epilepsy and hypothermic brain protection. He was a consultant for Neuropace as it developed the responsive brain stimulator for medically refractory epilepsy. He is past president of the California Association of Neurological Surgeons, past president of the Western Neurosurgical Society and is chair of the California Medical Association Scientific Advisory Panel on Neurosurgery.

Vivek P. Buch, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery  

Dr. Buch is a neurosurgeon with fellowship training in epilepsy, functional, and minimally invasive neurosurgery. He is a clinical assistant professor in the Department of Neurosurgery of Stanford University School of Medicine.

Dr. Buch focuses his expertise on the open and minimally invasive treatment of epilepsy, brain disorders, spinal injury and disease, and other conditions. For each patient, he develops a personalized care plan that is designed to be both comprehensive and compassionate.

Jaimie Henderson, MD
John and Jene Blume - Robert and Ruth Halperin Professor
Director, Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery

Dr. Henderson is the director of the program in Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery, and has a special interest in movement disorders and epilepsy. Dr. Henderson received his M.D. from Chicago's Rush Medical College in 1988. After completing his residency in Neurosurgery at Saint Louis University and fellowship training in Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery, he started the movement disorders surgery program at St. Louis University where he remained on the faculty for 6 years. He joined the Neurosurgery staff of the Cleveland Clinic in 2001, and Stanford's Neurosurgery Department in 2004. Dr. Henderson is an expert in invasive monitoring for surgical evaluation of patients with drug resistant epilepsy.

Ashwin Ramayya, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery

Dr. Ramayya is an assistant professor in the Department of Neurosurgery. He specializes in the treatment of patients with epilepsy,  chronic pain, movement disorders, and traumatic brain injury. Dr. Ramayya specializes in neuromodulation, including deep brain stimulation (DBS), spinal cord stimulation, MRI-guided laser therapy, and focused ultrasound. Dr. Ramayya obtained his MD and PhD from the University of Pennsylvania, where he also completed his neurosurgery residency and a fellowship in stereotactic and functional neurosurgery. His research program is aimed towards enabling brain restoration in brain injury and chronic pain by using principles from systems and cognitive neuroscience.

Candice Osuga Lin, MSN, APRN, BC, ACNP
Nurse Practitioner

Candice earned her undegraduate degree in Biological Sciences from the University of California, Davis. She received her Master of Science in Nursing from Vanderbilt University. She is certified as an Acute Care Nurse Practitioner through the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners, and is a member of the American Association of Neurosciences Nursing, American Association of Nurse Practitioners and Sigma Theta Tau.

She has been active in the care of adult neurosurgery patients. Her interests include neuro-oncology and degenerative spine disease.

Michael Zeineh, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Neuroradiology

Dr. Michael Zeineh’s background is in Neurosciences and Medicine from California Technological Institute and UCLA with residency training in Diagnostic Radiology and subspeciality in Neuroradiology from Stanford Medical Center. He has extensive experience studying the hippocampus with MRI and is an expert of advanced quantitative neuroimaging in epilepsy and leads the state-of-the art brain imaging of epilepsy patients with 7 Tesla MR scanner.

Eric K. van Staalduinen, DO
Clinical Assistant Professor, Radiology

Dr. van Staalduinen completed residency training at Stony Brook University School of Medicine and Neuroradiology Fellowship at Stanford University.  He has special interests I advanced imaging for epilepsy patients, particularly detailed subfield imaging anatomy and connectivity, as well as topography of the insular regions. 

Gayle K Deutch, PhD
Staff Neuropsychologist and Associate Professor
Clinical and Research Neuropsychologist

Dr. Deutsch has special expertise in evaluation of brain function in people with epilepsy. She received her doctoral degree in clinical psychology at Drexel University and completed a pre-doctoral internship the University of Pennsylvania and a post-doctoral fellowship in clinical neuropsychology at the Graduate Hospital in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She was the Staff Neuropsychologist at the New Jersey Neuroscience Institute and Assistant Professor of Neuroscience at Seton Hall University, Graduate School of Medical Education. Her research interests are the neural basis of dyslexia and learning disorders and cognitive disorders in epilepsy.

Sepideh Bajestan, MD, PhD
Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry

Dr. Bajestan has received her PhD in Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience. She spent her training during her PhD and post-doctoral course in learning the molecular genetics and biology of neurological and psychiatric disorders. She later trained in Psychiatry at Stanford University and became a board certified General Psychiatrist by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. Dr. Bajestan was the first neuropsychiatry fellow at Stanford University and established this fellowship with Dr. John Barry, her fellowship director and is currently the Associate Neuropsychiatry Fellowship Director. She is also board certified in Neuropsychiatry and Behavioral Neurology by the United Council of Neurological Subspecialties. She has undergone training in different psychotherapy Orientations including Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, Cognitive and Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Hypnosis and Prolonged Exposure (PE).

John Barry, MD
Professor of Psychiatry

Dr. Barry is the Director of the Neuropsychiatry and Psychotherapy Clinics has a special interest in psychiatric problems of people with epilepsy. He has done studies of depression and psychosis in association with epilepsy, and of the psychiatric mimics of seizures, called psychogenic non-epileptic seizure-like events, also known as psychogenic seizures or pseudoseizures. In patients admitted for video-EEG evaluation, he leads the efforts in making the diagnosis of psychogenic disorders and treating the patients disabled by this condition.

Kim Bullock, MD
Clinical Professor of Psychiatry

Dr. Bullock is certified in the subspecialty of Behavioral Neurology & Neuropsychiatry. She runs an outpatient Neuro-Behavior Clinic and Laboratory with special emphasis on non-pharmacological interventions and  evidenced-based psychotherapies for problems such as psychogenic seizures. Her focus is cognitive behavior group therapy and she trains residents, psychology students and therapists in these methods. She currently is investigating the use of group dialectical behavior for non-epileptic seizures.

Sai Folmsbee, MD, PhD
Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry

Sai Folmsbee is a clinical assistant professor in the neuropsychiatry section and leads the Neuroimmunology Disorders Neuropsychiatry Clinic and the Neuropsychiatry Consult Service. He is also a member of the Stanford Autoimmune Encephalitis Clinic (AEC), focusing on the treatment of the psychiatric symptoms of immune-mediated epilepsy/encephalitis. His clinical and research interests include the psychiatric manifestations and treatment of immune-mediated illness. He graduated from the Medical Scientist Training Program at Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine, where he received his Ph.D. investigating the role of cell adhesion in immunologic and neurologic processes. He completed his general psychiatry residency training in the Psychiatry Research Pathway at the University of Pittsburgh. Afterwards, he completed the Neuropsychiatry and Behavioral Neurology Fellowship at Stanford University and joined the faculty in 2023. Currently, he is the Neuropsychiatry Fellowship Course Director, Neuropsychiatry Rotation Director, and a faculty mentor for the Stanford Comprehensive Neurology Instructorship.

Paul Buckmaster, PhD
Professor of Comparative Medicine and Neurology & Neurological Sciences

Dr. Buckmaster is one of the world’s leading scientists working on the anatomy and electrophysiology of temporal lobe epilepsy in animals to discover how brains become epileptic and how spontaneous seizures begin. Dr. Buckmaster's laboratory specializes in the studies of the pathophysiological mechanisms of temporal lobe epilepsy and the neuronal circuitry of temporal lobe structures in normal and epileptic brains.

Robert Fisher, MD, PhD
Maslah Saul MD Professor of Neurology & Neurological Sciences

Robert S. Fisher, MD, PhD is Maslah Saul MD Professor and Director of the Stanford Epilepsy Center and EEG lab. He had research funding or awards from the Klingenstein Foundation, Epilepsy Foundation, CURE, American Society of Clinical Neurophysiology, NIH and NSF. He has published about 230 peer-reviewed articles and 3 books. He has been named every year from 1996 to 2019 in Best Doctors in America.  He received the Ambassador Award from the International League Against Epilepsy, the 2005 American Epilepsy Society Service Award and the 2006 Annual Clinical Research Award. Dr. Fisher is Past-President of the American Epilepsy Society, and has served on the Board of the International League Against Epilepsy and as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal, Epilepsia. He is past Editor-in-Chief of the world’s most visited website about epilepsy, epilepsy.com. Dr. Fisher led the projects to develop a formal definition of who has epilepsy and an update of seizure type classification. His recent research is on new devices to detect and treat seizures. He led the clinical trials on deep brain stimulation for epilepsy and on the next-generation (heart-rate-sensing) vagus nerve stimulation device. Dr. Fisher has additionally won several teaching awards and cares for epilepsy patients in the Stanford Epilepsy Clinics and inpatient epilepsy unit.

John Huguenard, PhD
Professor of Neurology & Neurological Sciences

Dr. Huguenard is the director of the Stanford Neuroscience Graduate Program training PhD students involved in the study of the brain. He is also one of the world's leading scientists working on the relationship between the pacemaker area of the brain (thalamus) and the cerebral cortex, and how dysfunction of this interaction can lead to seizures. Dr. Huguenard's laboratory specializes in the study of neuronal mechanisms underlying synchronous oscillatory activity in the thalamus, cortex and their interconnection and genes whose products, mainly ion channels, play key roles in the regulation of thalamocortical network responses.

Yi Li, MD, PhD
Clinical Associate Professor of Neurology & Neurological Sciences

Dr. Yi Li received her M.D. and Ph.D. from Central South University in China, conducting her Ph.D. research as a visiting graduate student at UCLA. She received two national grants in China to research the role of neurogenesis in animal models of refractory temporal lobe epilepsy. Dr. Li received her residency training from University of Massachusetts Medical School, during which time she received a Safety and Quality Award from the American Academy of Neurology. She then continued her training as an epilepsy clinical and research fellow at Stanford. She is interested in medically refractory epilepsy management, epilepsy clinical research, precision medicine and genetics in epilepsy, and improving quality of patient care.

Paul Nuyujukian, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Bioengineering and of Neurosurgery

Paul Nuyujukian is a physician-engineer who directs the Brain Interfacing Laboratory . He received his MD and PhD in Bioengineering from Stanford and joined the Departments of Bioengineering and Neurosurgery as faculty in 2017. His group focuses on the development of brain-machine interfaces towards applications for neurological conditions such as stroke and epilepsy, spanning both translational preclinical models and human clinical studies.

Josef Parvizi, MD, PhD
Professor of Neurology & Neurological Sciences
Director of Stanford Program for Intractable Epilepsy

Dr. Parvizi’s clinical training is from Mayo Clinic- Rochester, BIDMC-Harvard University, and UCLA. His major interest is in the study of seizure propagation and treating patients with intractable epilepsy. His special expertise is in detecting the epileptic source in patients with uncontrolled seizures and mapping the brain circuitries that underlie development and spread of seizures. He performs functional brain mapping of the brain during epilepsy surgery evaluations. Dr. Parvizi is also the Director of the Stanford Human Intracranial Cognitive Electrophysiology Program (SHICEP), and is involved in multidisciplinary collaborative research projects with several Stanford principal investigators to understand how different parts of the human brain work and how their function may be broken during seizures.

Niyatee Samudra, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor, Neurology & Neurological Sciences

Dr. Niyatee Samudra is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Neurology and Neurological Sciences at Stanford University School of Medicine who completed fellowship training in both epilepsy and clinical neurophysiology at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and behavioral neurology at the University of California, San Francisco. She leads a Stanford clinic dedicated to the care of older adults with epilepsy and has clinical and research interests in the cognitive and neuropsychiatric consequences of epilepsy. Her research interests include clinical trials in epilepsy and efforts to improve outcomes and quality of life for people living with epilepsy and neurodegenerative disease. 

Ivan Soltesz, PhD
Professor of Neurosurgery and Neurosciences

Dr. Soltesz's laboratory employs a combination of closely integrated experimental and theoretical techniques, including closed-loop in vivo optogenetics, paired patch clamp recordings, in vivo electrophysiological recordings from identified interneurons in awake mice, 2-photon imaging, machine learning-aided 3D video analysis of behavior, video-EEG recordings, behavioral approaches, and large-scale computational modeling methods using supercomputers. He is the author of a book on GABAergic microcircuits (Diversity in the Neuronal Machine, Oxford University Press), and editor of a book on Computational Neuroscience in Epilepsy (Academic Press/Elsevier). He co-founded the first Gordon Research Conference on the Mechanisms of neuronal synchronization and epilepsy, and taught for five years in the Ion Channels Course at Cold Springs Harbor. He has over 30 years of research experience, with over 20 years as a faculty involved in the training of graduate students (total of 16, 6 of them MD/PhDs) and postdoctoral fellows (20), many of whom received fellowship awards, K99 grants, joined prestigious residency programs and became independent faculty.