Professional Advisory Board

Chair

Bruce P. Hermann, PhD
Professor
University of Wisconsin Medical Center
Madison, WI

Chair Elect

William R. Turk, MD
Nemours Children's Clinic Division of Child Neurology
Jacksonville, FL

Secretary

Thomas R. Henry, MD
PAB Chair
Emory University School of Medicine
Atlanta, GA

Members

Brian Alldredge, PharmD
San Francisco, CA

Jacquelyn Bainbridge, PharmD
Assistant Professor
University of Colorado Health Sciences Center
Englewood, CO

Scott C. Baraban, PhD
University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, CA

Tallie Z. Baram, MD, PhD
Professor
University of California, Irvine Depts of Pediatrics
Irvine, CA

John J. Barry, MD
Assistant Professor
Stanford University Medical Center
Stanford, CA

Malachy Bishop, PhD, CRC
Associate Professor
University of Kentucky Rehabilitation Counseling Program
Lexington, KY

Edward R. Bromfield, MD
PAB Chair
Harvard Medical School Chief, Div of EEG, Epilepsy & Sleep Neurology
Boston, MA

Jeffrey Buchhalter, MD, PhD
Director, Comprehensive Pediatric Epilepsy Program
Phoenix, AZ

Janice Buelow, RN, PhD
Assistant Professor
Indianapolis, IN

Patricia K. Crumrine, MD
PAB Chair
Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA

Sandra Dewar, RN, MS
University of California, Los Angeles Medical Center
Los Angeles, CA

Stephanie Dubinsky, RN, MPH
Program Coordinator
Kelsey Research Foundation
Houston, TX

David W. Dunn, MD
Indiana University School of Medicine
Indianapolis, IN

Alan Ettinger, MD
PAB Chair
Long Island Jewish Medical Center
New Hyde Park, NY

Jacqueline A. French, MD
Associate Professor of Neurology
Univ of Pennsylvania Medical Center
Narberth, PA

Peggy Friel, MSW
Social Worker
Swedish Neuroscience Institute
Seattle, WA

Frank Gilliam, MD, MPH
Caitlin Tynan Doyle Professor of Neurology
Director of the Comprehensive Epilepsy Center, Columbia University
New York, NY

Dale Hesdorffer, PhD
Assistant Professor of Epidemiology
Columbia University
New York, NY

Carolyn R. Houser, PhD
Department of Neurobiology, 73-235 CHS
Los Angeles, CA

Jaideep Kapur, MD, PhD
Associate Professor
University of Virginia, Health Sciences Center
Charlottesville, VA

David Labiner, MD
Director
Arizona Comprehensive Epilepsy Program
Tucson, AZ

Josiane Lajoie, MD
New York University Medical Center
New York, NY

John Langfitt, PhD
University of Rochester Medical Ctr.
Rochester, NY

Brian Litt, MD
University of Pennsylvania Dept of Neurology & Bioengineering
Philadelphia, PA

James W. McAuley, RPh, PhD
Associate Professor
Ohio State University
Columbus, OH

Thomas J. McCarrier, NREMT-I
PAB Chair
Stevens Point, WI

Kimford J. Meador, MD
The Melvin Greer Professor of Neurology
Univ of Fl College of Medicine, Dept of Neurology
Gainesville, FL

Georgia D. Montouris, MD
Assistant Professor
Boston University School of Medicine
Boston, MA

Christine L. O'Dell, RN, MSN
Clinical Nurse Specialist
Epilepsy Center, Montefiore Medical Center
Bronx, NY

Ruth Ottman, PhD
Professor of Public Health (Epidemiology)
Columbia University
New York, NY

Juliann Paolicchi, MD
Department of Neurology
Columbus, OH

Page B. Pennell, MD
Department of Neurology
Atlanta, GA

Richard N. Rovner, MD
PAB Chair
Rush Epilepsy Center
Chicago, IL

Raman Sankar, MD, PhD
Rubin Brown Professor and Chief
Division of Pediatric Neurology, 22-474 MDCC
Los Angeles, CA

Anbesaw W. Selassie, PhD, Pharm
Medical University of South Carolina
Charleston, SC

Teresa L. Sierzant, RN, MS
Clinical Nurse Specialist
St. Joseph's Hospital
Saint Paul, MN

Joseph Sirven, MD
Mayo Clinic Hospital
Phoenix, AZ

Michael C. Smith, MD
Rush Epilepsy Medical Center
Chicago, IL

Brien J. Smith, MD
Medical Director, Comprehensive Epilpesy Program
Henry Ford Hospital
Detroit, MI

Carl Stafstrom, MD
University of Wisconsin
Madison, WI

Kevin J. Staley, MD
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, MA

Dr. Charles Akos Szabo, MD
Neurodiagnostics Center
San Antonio, TX

Carlos A. Ugarte, MPH
National Council of La Raza
Washington, DC

Basim Uthman, MD
University of Florida
Gainesville, FL

Blanca Vazquez, MD
Director of Clinical Trials
New York University Medical Center
New York, NY

Samuel Wiebe, MD, MSc, F
Professor
University of Calgary Foothills Medical Centre
Calgary, Alberta

Mark S. Yerby, MD, MPH
PAB Chair
North Pacific Epilepsy Research
Portland, OR

Non-Voting Liaisons

Margaret Jacobs
Program Director for Epilepsy
NIH/NINDS
Bethesda, MD

Lewis Kull, R.EEG/EPT,
New York, NY

Patricia H. Price, DO
Epilepsy Program Director
Centers for Disease Control
Atlanta, GA