Biography

Dr. Pedro Balaguera received his medical degree at Universidad Militar Nueva Granada in Bogota, Colombia. He completed a neurology residency at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Bogota and a clinical neurophysiology fellowship at the Universidad CES in Medellin. After moving to the United States, he completed a postdoctoral research fellowship in epilepsy and clinical neurolophysiology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. He also completed an additional neurology residency at Baylor College of Medicine and a clinical epilepsy fellowship at the University of Texas Health Science Center – Houston.

Education

Medical Degree
Universidad Militar Nueva Granada Medical School - Bogotá, Colombia
Residency
Neurology, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana - Bogotá, Colombia
Residency
Neurology, Baylor College of Medicine - Houston, Texas
Fellowship
Clinical Neurophysiology (EEG/EMG/IOM), Universidad CES, Instituto Neurológico de Colombia - Medellín, Colombia.
Fellowship
Epilepsy, McGovern Medical School at UTHealth - Houston, TX

Areas of Interest

Clinical Interests

  • Epilepsy
  • Intracranial EEG
  • Clinical neurophysiology
  • General neurology

Research Interests

  • Epilepsy
  • Surgical Treatment of Epilepsy
  • Stereoelectroencephalography (SEEG)
  • Ambulatory EEG
  • Critical Care EEG

Publications

1. Restrepo CE, Balaguera P, Thompson SA, Johnson J, Lacuey N, Pati S, Harris K, Lhatoo SD, Tandon N. Safety and efficacy of bihemispheric sampling via transmidline stereoelectroencephalography. J Neurosurg. 2022 Dec 30:1-9. doi: 10.3171/2022.11.JNS221144. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 36585867.

2. González Otárula KA, Balaguera P, Schuele S. Ambulatory EEG to Classify the
Epilepsy Syndrome. J Clin Neurophysiol. 2021 Mar 1;38(2):87-91. PMID: 33661784.

3. González Otárula KA, Mikhaeil-Demo Y, Bachman EM, Balaguera P, Schuele S.
Automated seizure detection accuracy for ambulatory EEG recordings. Neurology.
2019 Apr 2;92(14): e1540-e1546. PMID: 30842291.

4. Ladino LD, Balaguera P, Rascovsky S, Delgado J, Llano J, Hernández-Ronquillo L, Gómez-Arias B, Téllez-Zenteno JF. Clinical benefit of 3 tesla magnetic resonance
imaging rescanning in patients with focal epilepsy and negative 1.5 tesla magnetic
resonance imaging. Rev Invest Clin. 2016 May-Jun;68(3):112-8. PMID: 27408997.