Duke Comprehensive Epilepsy Center Team

Our multidisciplinary team includes adult and pediatric epileptologists, neurosurgeons, psychologists, advanced practice providers, epilepsy nurses, neurodiagnostic technologists, and administrative professionals.

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Adult Epileptologists

Shruti Agashe

Assistant Professor of Neurology

Birgit Frauscher

Professor of Neurology

Aatif Mairaj Husain

Professor of Neurology

Matthew William Luedke

Associate Professor of Neurology

Vishal A. Mandge

Assistant Professor of Neurology

Prachi T. Parikh

Assistant Professor of Neurology

Rodney Allan Radtke

Professor of Neurology

Tung T Tran

Assistant Professor of Neurology

Epilepsy Neurosurgeons

Derek Southwell

Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery

Gerald Arthur Grant

Allan H. Friedman Distinguished Professor of Neurosurgery

Epilepsy Psychologists

Jill Z. Stuart

Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

Neurointensivists

Bradley Jason Kolls

Associate Professor of Neurology

Researchers

Gregory Cogan

Assistant Professor in Neurology

Birgit Frauscher

Professor of Neurology

James O'Connell McNamara

Duke School of Medicine Distinguished Professor in Neuroscience

Derek Southwell

Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery

Advanced Practice Providers

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Susannah White, PA-C

Advanced Practice Provider

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Alisa Wilczynski

Physician Assistant

Adult Epileptologist Community Partners

Michael Robert Pietak

Assistant Professor of Neurology

Zachary Eric Potter

Clinical Associate in the Department of Neurology

Hemang Kulpeshlaumar Shah

Clinical Associate in the Department of Neurology

Mariam Wasim

Assistant Professor of Neurology

Senior Administrators and Staff

Emily Kale, BS, R. EP T., CNIM

Operations Director - Neurodiagnostic Services

Crystal Keller BA, R. EEG T., CLTM

Neurodiagnostic Lab Supervisor

Lisa Messer MSN, RN

Epilepsy Nurse

Matthew Odom, BSN, RN

Epilepsy Nurse