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UCLA Health neurosurgeons provide advanced surgical epilepsy treatment. To schedule an appointment with the Seizure Disorder Center, please call 424-260-8836.

Adult Epilepsy Program

Neurosurgery

Itzhak Fried, MD, PhD
Professor of Neurosurgery (Director)

Ausaf Bari, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery

Seizure Disorder Center

Jerome Engel, Jr., MD, PhD
Professor of Neurology and Neurobiology (Director)

Itzhak Fried, MD, PhD
Professor of Neurosurgery (Co-Director)

Marc Nuwer, MD
Professor of Neurology (Co-Director)

John Stern, MD
Associate Professor of Neurology (Co-Director)

Massoud Akhtari, PhD
Assistant Professor of Neurology

Anatole Bragin, PhD
Assistant Professor of Neurology

Christopher DeGiorgio, MD
Professor of Neurology

S. Dawn Eliashiv, MD
Associate Professor of Neurology

Jessica Horsfall, PhD
Assistant Professor of Neurology

Noriko Salamon, MD
Assistant Professor of Radiology

Lara Schrader, MD
Assistant Professor of Neurology

Jason Soss, MD
Assistant Professor of Neurology

Richard J. Staba, PhD
Associate Professor of Neurology

Sandra Dewar, R.N., M.S.
(Patient Care Coordinator)

Kathie Langlois, R.N.
(Patient Care Coordinator)