The Epilepsy Foundation in partnership with the Epilepsy Center at George Washington University are proud to host Epilepsy Grand Rounds, a monthly series of lectures covering a wide variety of epilepsy-related topics. The topics discussed will be presented by renowned speakers, and the goal of the series is to provide education for the attendees to improve their knowledge, competence, and clinical performance.
"Thanks to our partnership with Epilepsy.com, this series will now be visible to hundreds of thousands of physicians, health care providers, and lay persons from all over the world," said Mohamad Koubeissi, MD, director of the GW Epilepsy Center and associate professor of neurology at the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences. "With this exposure, we will have greater opportunity to educate and improve knowledge, competence, and clinical performance of larger numbers of attendees."
- Learn more about the Epilepsy Foundation and George Washington University Partnership
Disclosure Statement
In accordance with the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education's Standards for Commercial Support, The George Washington University Office of CEHP (CEHP) requires that all individuals involved in the development of activity content disclose any relevant financial relationships with commercial interest. CEHP identifies and resolves all conflicts of interest prior to an individual's participation in development of content for an educational activity.
The speaker(s) and planners report the following relationships:
- Mohamad Koubeissi, MD (Planner) declares that he has served on the speakers bureau for UCB Pharma and Sunovion.
- Christos Papadelis, PhD (Speaker) COI pending.
The following planners/staff report no financial relationships relevant to this activity:
- Radwa Aly (Staff)
- Leticia Hall (Staff)
Claiming CME Credit
If you wish to claim credit for these lectures, please click to view lecture from GW epilepsy center website.
July 14, 2020 — 8:00 AM EST LIVE STREAM
Stream Archive
June 9, 2020
Ruben Kuzniecky MD, Northwell Health
Title: The Human Epilepsy Project: What is new about new onset epilepsy?
Video coming soon.
May 12, 2020
James McNamara MD, Duke University
Title: In Search of Disease Modifying Therapy of Temporal Lobe Epilepsy
April 14, 2020
Patrick Forcelli MD, Georgetown University
Title: Targeting Subcortical Networks to Control Seizures
March 10, 2020
Lara Jehi, MD, Cleveland Clinic
Title: Algorithms in clinical decision-making: applications in epilepsy
February 11, 2020
Jack Parent, MD, University of Michigan
Title: Using Human Stem Cells and Brain Organoids to Explore Genetic Epilepsies
January 14, 2020
Alberto E. Musto, MD, PhD, FAES, Eastern VA Medical
Title: Neuroinflammation: An Opportunity for New Therapies in Epilepsy
December 17, 2019
Chaitali Ghosh, Cleveland Clinic
Title: Understanding the role of Blood-Brain Barrier in human drug resistant epilepsy
Video coming soon.
November 12, 2019
Curt LaFrance, MD, MPH, Brown University
Title: PNES
October 8, 2019
Kevin Staley, MD, Harvard Medical School
Title: Seizures and Acute Brain Injury
September 10, 2019
Ramin Javan, MD, George Washington University
Title: Role of Neuroimaging Techniques in Epilepsy
August 13, 2019
Mark S. Quigg, MD, University of Virginia
Title: Sleep and Epilepsy
July 9, 2019
Melanie Boly, MD, PhD, University of Wisconsin
Title: Dissociating Consciousness from Responsiveness: Potential Relevance to Identify the Mechanisms of Loss of Consciousness During Epileptic Seizures
June 11, 2019
Daniel Drane, Emory University
Title: Neural underpinnings of memory and language
May 14, 2019
Kareem Zaghloul, MD, PhD, National Institutes of Health
Title: Neural mechanisms of human episodic memory formation
April 16, 2019
Howard Goodkin, MD, University of Virginia
Title: État de Mal 2019
March 5, 2019
Nitin Tandon, MD, University of Texas
Title: Windows on the Mind from Intracranial Recordings
February 5, 2019
MacKenzie Cervenka, MD, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Title: A Role for Ketogenic Diets in the Management of Adult Epilepsy
January 8, 2019
Tanvir Syed, MD, University Hospital Cleveland
Title: Ambulatory EEG: Utility, Outcomes, and Interrater Reliability
December 11, 2018
Patti Vining, MD, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Title: Epilepsy and Intellectual Disabilities
November 13, 2018
Patricia Penovich, MD
Title: An Approach to Medical Therapy For Epilepsy
October 23, 2018
David Treiman, MD
Title: Status Epilepticus: insights from the clinic and the laboratory
September 11, 2018
Aristea S. Galanopoulou, MD, PhD
Title: New therapies for epilepsies across the lifespan: a team approach to success
August 14, 2018
Anto Bagic, MD, PhD, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC)
Title: Not so Benign Neglect: Underutilization of MEG in Epilepsy Surgery
July 10, 2018
Jennifer A Kearney, PhD, Northwestern University
Title: Epilepsy Channelopathies
June 12, 2018
Eric Marsh, MD, PhD, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Title: Cannabinoids in Epilepsy
May 15, 2018
Scott Baraban, PhD, University of California, San Francisco
Title: Cell Transplantation for Epilepsy
April 10, 2018
David J. Mogul, Ph.D., Illinois Institute of Technology
Title: Using brain dynamics to tailor deep brain stimulation for treating epilepsy
March 13, 2018
Jason Gerrard, M.D., Ph.D., FAANS, Yale University
Title: Neural Networks in Epilepsy: The Evolving Role of Surgery and Technology in Epilepsy Treatment
February 13, 2018
Jerzy P. Szaflarski, M.D., Ph.D., University of Alabama at Birmingham
Title: Quo Vadis Neuroimaging in Epilepsy?
January 16, 2018
Cynthia L. Harden, M.D., Mount Sinai
Title: Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy: Incidence and Risk Factors
December 12, 2017
Donald Shields, M.D., Ph.D., George Washington University
Title: Novel Epilepsy Surgical Techniques
November 14, 2017
Jason Brandt, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University
Title: Some Neuropsychological Aspects of Epilepsy and PNES in Adults
October 10, 2017
Pavel Klein, M.D., Mid-Atlantic Epilepsy Center
Title: The Idiot and the Genius: writers with epilepsy
September 12, 2017
Andrea Bernasconi, M.D., Montreal Neurological Institute
Title: Neuroimaging of epilepsy - Quantitative models of lesions and networks
August 8, 2017
Eliane Kobayashi, M.D., Ph.D., McGill University
Title: Multimodal functional neuroimaging in epilepsy
July 11, 2017
Adam Hartman, M.D., National Institute of Health
Title: Metabolism-based treatments for Epilepsy
June 13, 2017
Thomas Sutula, M.D., Ph.D., University of Wisconsin
Title: Glycolysis as a metabolic target for treatment of seizures and consequences of TBI
May 8, 2017
Ronald Lesser, M.D., John Hopkins University
Title: Psychogenic Nonepileptic Seizures
April 11, 2017
Gary Mathern, M.D., UCLA Brain Research Institute
Title: Pediatric epilepsy surgery; treating the epileptic encephalopathy
March 14, 2017
Jean Gotman, Ph.D., Montreal Neurological Institute
Title: Epileptic foci identified by combining EEG and fMRI
February 14, 2017
Nathan Fountain, M.D., University of Virginia
Title: New treatments for intractable epilepsy
January 10, 2017
Aatif Husain, M.D., Duke University
Title: Appropriately Aggressive Treatment of Seizures in Critically Ill Patients
December 13, 2016
William H. Theodore, M.D.
Title: PET Scanning in Epilepsy: Clinical and Research Applications
November 8, 2016
Marla J. Hamberger, Ph.D.
Title: Naming in Epilepsy and Epilepsy Surgery
October 11, 2016
Anthony Ritaccio, M.D.
Title: Decodification of the Brain Using Electrocorticography
August 9, 2016
Elinor Ben-Menachem, M.D., Ph.D.
Title: The Importance of Cardiovascular Fitness and Epilepsy
June 12, 2016
Frank Drislane, M.D.
Title: How Aggressively Should Status Epilepticus be Treated?
May 10, 2016
Tobias Loddenkemper MD, Harvard Medical School
Title: Pediatric Status Epilepticus
April 12, 2016
Jaideep Kapur MBBS, PhD, University of Virginia
Title: Mechanisms and Treatment of Status Epilepticus
March 8, 2016
Eric Kossoff MD, Epilepsy.com Ketogenic Diet Editor, Johns Hopkins University
Title: The Promise and Challenge of Dietary Therapy for Epilepsy
February 2, 2016
Michael Privitera, M.D., University of Cincinnati
Title: Generic-Brand Antiepileptic Drug Equivalence: From Anecdotes to Evidence
January 12, 2016
Hal Blumenfeld MD, PhD, Yale University
Title: Epilepsy & Consciousness: From Neurotransmitters to Driving Safety
December 15, 2015
Andres Kanner MD, University of Miami Health System
Title: Psychiatric Complications of Epilepsy Surgery
November 10, 2015
Amy Brooks-Kayal MD, Children's Hospital Colorado
Title: Challenge & Promise of Developing Disease Modifying Therapies for Epilepsy
October 13, 2015
Shlomo Shinnar MD, PhD, Montefiore Medical Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Title: Consequences of Prolonged Febrile Seizures in Childhood
September 8, 2015
Frances Jensen, MD, University of Pennsylvania
Title: Cognitive Consequences of Epilepsy: Shared Mechanisms
August 11, 2015
David Labiner, MD, University of Arizona
Title: Epilepsy, Pregnancy, and the Child
July 14, 2015
Gregory Krauss, MD, Johns Hopkins Medical
Title: Epilepsy and the Aging Brain
June 9, 2015
Steve Schachter, MD, Harvard Medical School
Title: Epilepsy and the Creative Mind: Art as Windows into Complexity and Comorbidities of Epilepsy
May 12, 2015
Gregory Cascino, MD, Mayo Clinic
Title: Surgical Treatment for Epilepsy: The Changing Patient Population and Challenges
April 7, 2015
Carl Stafstrom MD, PhD, Johns Hopkins University
Title: Beyond Excitation and Inhibition: Novel Mechanisms for Seizures and Epilepsy
March 17, 2015
Bassel Abou Khalil, MD, Vanderbilt University
Title: Rational Polytherapy in the Management of Epilepsy
February 10, 2015
Bill Gaillard, MD,Children's National Health System, Washington, D.C.
Title: Variability and Plasticity of Language Networks in Human Focal Epilepsy
Jan 13, 2015
Helen Scharfman, PhD, New York University Langone Medical Center and The Nathan Kline Institute
Title: Diverse Roles of Adult Neurogenesis in Epilepsy
Dec 16, 2014
Carl Bazil, M.D., Ph.D., Columbia University
Title: Sleep and Epilepsy: Importance for Memory
Nov 18, 2014
Riki Matsumoto, MD, PhD, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan
Title: Single Pulse Electrical Stimulation to Probe Human Brain Connectivity and Epileptogenicity
Oct 14, 2014
Ed Bertram, MD, University of Virginia
Title: Understanding the Neurobiology of Limbic Epilepsy to Improve Surgical Outcomes
