
Epilepsy Research Faculty
NYU Langone’s Comprehensive Epilepsy Center comprises faculty who are leaders in the field of epilepsy research.

Orrin Devinsky, MD
Professor, Departments of Neurology, Neuroscience, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry.
Expertise: epilepsy, neurogenetics, molecular biology therapies, cannabidiol, and electrophysiology
Methodological skills: epilepsy genetics, gene therapies, treatment-resistant epilepsy, clinical trials, generalized epilepsy, neuropsychiatry

Patricia C. Dugan, MD, FAES
Professor, Department of Neurology
Director, Adult Epilepsy
Expertise: epilepsy, epilepsy surgery, EEG and electrocorticography, cortical stimulation
Methodological skills: EEG, electrocorticography, cortical stimulation and functional mapping

Christopher Elder, MD
Assistant Professor of Neurology
Department of Neurology
Expertise: epilepsy, refractory epilepsy, generalized epilepsy, epilepsy in the elderly, cerebellum
Methodological skills: epidemiology, EEG, clinical neurophysiology

Adeen Flinker, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Neurology
Expertise: speech and language electrophysiology
Methodological skills: signal processing, machine learning, electrocorticography, electroencephalography, magnetoencephalography, nonparametric statistical analysis

Jacqueline A. French, MD
Co-Director, Epilepsy Clinical Trials
Chief Medical Officer, Epilepsy Foundation
Professor, Department of Neurology
Expertise: epilepsy clinical trials and outcomes research
Methodological skills: clinical trial methodology

Daniel Friedman, MD
Director, Comprehensive Epilepsy Center
Professor, Department of Neurology
Expertise: epilepsy and EEG
Methodological skills: epidemiology, EEG, and human neurophysiology

Laura Ann Gould, MSc, MA, PT
Research Assistant Professor
Department of Neurology
Expertise: Sudden unexplained death in children, febrile seizures
Methodologic Skills: Design and implementation of observational studies of sudden death in the young

Biyu J. He, PhD
Associate Professor, Departments of Neurology, Neuroscience and Physiology, and Radiology
Expertise: perceptual, cognitive, and computational neuroscience
Methodological skills: multimodal human brain imaging, including 3T/7T fMRI, EEG/MEG, and intracranial electrophysiology

Beth A. Leeman-Markowski, MD, MA, MMSc
Assistant Professor
Department of Neurology
Expertise: epilepsy and cognitive disorders
Methodological skills: EEG, cognitive assessments, eye tracking, clinical trials

Anli A. Liu, MD
Associate Professor, Department of Neurology
Expertise: epilepsy, memory, and neuromodulation
Methodological skills: EEG signal analysis, statistics, and eye tracking

Andrew J. Michalak, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology
Expertise: epilepsy, EEG, and epilepsy surgery
Methodological skills: neural signal processing, machine learning, and epidemiology

Dana Price, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor of Neurology
Director, Angelman Clinic at NYU
Director, NYU CDKL5 Deficiency Disorder Center of Excellence
Department of Neurology
Expertise: genetic epilepsy, pediatric neurology
Methodological skills: neurophysiology, genetic epilepsy, managing refractory epilepsy, Antisense oligonucleotide (ASO) therapies

Claude Steriade, MD
Associate Professor, Department of Neurology
Expertise: epilepsy, neuroinflammation, and autoimmune neurology
Methodological skills: neuroimaging, clinical trials, microbiome, and predictive modeling