NYU Langone’s Comprehensive Epilepsy Center (CEC) is a Level 4 Epilepsy Center and is among the largest epilepsy programs in the United States. In addition to adult and pediatric inpatient video EEG monitoring units, an epilepsy consult service, and outpatient clinics. Some of the most complex epilepsy patients from across the United States, and internationally, are cared for at the CEC, leading to a rich clinical experience for our fellows. Our epilepsy surgical program is one of the most robust in the country and involves regular multidisciplinary collaboration with neurosurgeons, neuropsychologists, neuroradiologists, and neuroscientists.

Fellows gain wide-ranging experience in various clinical settings and long-term video EEG interpretation on both adult and pediatric services, acquiring the technical and clinical skills needed to practice as independent epileptologists. Fellows participate in the presurgical and surgical evaluation of patients becoming adept at intracranial configuration and interpretation, also having extensive exposure to intraoperative electrocorticography, cortical mapping procedures, intracranial EEG interpretation, and intracarotid sodium amobarbital procedures (Wada tests).

Epilepsy Research at the CEC

Research at the Comprehensive Epilepsy Center is vast. The CEC faculty are renowned leaders in the varied fields of clinical research in epilepsy and work on diverse projects ranging from new drug development, rare genetic epilepsies, sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP), shared molecular pathways between neurodegenerative disease and epilepsy, neuroinflammation and autoimmune-related etiologies of epilepsy, autism and epilepsy, neurostimulation, epilepsy surgery, memory processing and disruption in epilepsy, and many others.

Fellows receive academic and career mentorship throughout the academic year and beyond. We adhere to the nationally recognized Patient Oriented Research Curriculum to educate trainees on the principles of clinical and basic research and to create a foundation for understanding neurological investigation.