Michael R. Sperling, MD Baldwin Keyes Professor of Neurology Director, Jefferson Comprehensive Epilepsy Center Thomas Jefferson University Philadelphia, PA

Professor Sperling is the Baldwin Keyes Professor of Neurology and Vice Chairman for Clinical Affairs in the Department of Neurology at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, PA. He is the Director of the Jefferson Comprehensive Epilepsy Center and the Clinical Neurophysiology Laboratory at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital. He has been published widely in both international and national medical journals including Epilepsia, Neurology, Journal of the American Medical Association, and Annals of Neurology, with more than 200 original papers, reviews, and book chapters, and over 200 abstracts. He has also published an EEG atlas and a textbook on the pharmacologic management of epilepsy. He has received grants from the National Institutes of Health and private industry for research in epilepsy, with a focus on the surgical treatment of epilepsy, mortality in epilepsy, epilepsy genetics, and clinical neurophysiology. He lectures at many international and national meetings and has organized numerous conferences. Professor Sperling is an active member of many professional organisations including the American Epilepsy Society, American Clinical Neurophysiology Society, and the American Academy of Neurology, and is past-President of the American Clinical Neurophysiology Society and the Philadelphia Neurological Society. Professor Sperling is also an associate editor of Epilepsia and is a reviewer for numerous medical journals.

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