Stanford Comprehensive Epilepsy Program Pediatric Fellowship

Pediatric Fellowship Program

Our Pediatric Epilepsy Fellowship positions starting July 1, 2025 have already been filled. We will be accepting applications for fellowship positions starting July 1, 2026 through the Electronic Residency Application System (ERAS). Applications will become available to our programs for review in December 2024 which will mark the beginning of interview season. Interviews will be conducted virtually in January-March 2024. Our program will be participating in the National Residency Matching Program (NRMP) with a rank list submission deadline of April 30, 2025 and Match day on May 14, 2025.

Stanford Pediatric Epilepsy Fellowship:

ERAS Accreditation ID: 1840518003
NRMP Program Code: 1820184F1

The Stanford University Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Pediatric Epilepsy Fellowship is a one-year ACGME accredited program. We are dedicated to providing exemplary clinical training in the comprehensive evaluation and management of children with epilepsy in an environment that prioritizes fellow education while providing opportunities for research and innovation at a world-class academic epilepsy center. We have two fellowship positions available per year.

Fellows in our program will develop expertise in the following areas:

Routine, ICU, and video EEG for neonates through adolescents and young adults
Inpatient and outpatient epilepsy management
Dietary treatment of epilepsy
Management of developmental epileptic encephalopathies
Management of genetic epilepsies
Pre-surgical evaluation for refractory epilepsy
Intracranial video EEG monitoring with stereoelectroencephalograpy (sEEG) electrodes or strip/grid electrodes
Extraoperative and intraoperative functional mapping
Extraoperative seizure network mapping
Intraoperative electrocorticography interpretation
Electrical source localization and exposure to high density EEG
Neuromodulation techniques for refractory epilepsy (VNS, RNS, DBS)
Exposure to clinical trials
Opportunity for engagement in scholarly research

Fellows in our program are exposed to a broad array of clinical experiences focusing on the evaluation and management of pediatric epilepsy, medical and surgical. They function as the primary epileptologist within in their own continuity clinic, which takes place once weekly. For those interested in getting more in-depth training in certain areas, there are also subspecialty clinics available in multidisciplinary epilepsy genetics, tuberous sclerosis, neonatal epilepsy, neuromodulation, and the dietary therapy clinic.

Scholarly activity is strongly encouraged during the fellowship, with numerous research opportunities and quality improvement initiatives available to our trainees. Stanford provides a one-of-a-kind environment where physicians, clinical researchers, bench scientists, and data informatics teams work together closely (and in close proximity), enabling novel, creative and highly-productive cross-disciplinary collaborations. All the pediatric epilepsy faculty are involved in research, with domains of expertise including machine learning, neonatal seizures, tuberous sclerosis, epilepsy genetics, inflammation and epilepsy, epilepsy surgery, and clinical trials. Highlighting the work of two of our recent pediatric epilepsy fellowship graduates, the Knowles lab studies basic and translational mechanisms underlying epilepsy pathogenesis and treatment, and the Baumer lab uses noninvasive neurostimulation to disrupt epilepsy networks and improve cognition. In addition, the Lee-Messer lab focuses on developing novel computational methods for analyzing neurological data using a combination of deep learning, signal processing, and methods from statistics and machine learning.

The program is designed to be flexible in tailoring the curriculum to the individual needs of each fellow depending upon their long-term goals.

Information regarding our Pediatric Epilepsy faculty can be found here:

Dr. Brenda Porter

Dr. Ann Hyslop Segeren

More ERAS Application timeline details can be found here: https://students-residents.aamc.org/applying-fellowships-eras/applying-fellowships-eras