Training Experience & Didactics

Training is primarily based at our state-of-the-art facilities at Memorial Hermann Hospital in the Texas Medical Center in Houston, Texas, which houses our Epilepsy Monitoring Unit. We help care for patients with seizure concerns in the dedicated neurocritical care units, medical intensive care units, and neonatal intensive care units, providing other services as needed for inpatient consultations. Our training program offers experience with the latest technologies, including:

• High-resolution MRI
• Magnetoencephalography (MEG)
• Ictal single-photon-emission computed tomography (SPECT)
• Positron emission tomography (PET)
• Functional and anatomic magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)
• Wada (amytal) testing
• Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS)
• Computational reconstruction programs: 3D Slicer, Curry, Brainstorm
• AI/Quantitative EEG software: Persyst

The fellowship program is designed to maximize learning and clinical experience and is intended for those planning careers in academic medicine as well as those headed for private practice. Training begins with an 8-week epilepsy neurophysiology course that provides a highly effective introduction to clinical EEG, followed by weekly didactics. There are weekly patient management conferences, monthly epilepsy surgery case review conferences, monthly epilepsy grand rounds with invited speakers, weekly neurology grand rounds, bimonthly epilepsy journal clubs, and bimonthly networking events and lectures from epilepsy experts within the Texas Medical Center (EpiEx). Participation in national and international epilepsy meetings is encouraged, and fellows can be sponsored to attend one or more meetings. Clinical rotations include the Epilepsy Monitoring Unit, continuous ICU-EEG, routine EEGs, ambulatory EEGs, Ceribell EEG, outpatient epilepsy clinics, and elective opportunities in areas such as intra-operative monitoring (NIOM), MEG, sleep, neuropsychology, neuroradiology, and research.