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Specialty:: Neurology
Department Affiliation:: Neurology
Hospital Affiliation:: Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center
State License:: G45896
Phone:: 626-792-7300
Health Plans:: Accepted Plans

About Me

Dr. William Sutherling is an internationally known expert in Epilepsy, Epilepsy Presurgical Evaluation and Source Reconstruction. He has a large Epilepsy and Clinical Neurophysiology practice. Dr. Sutherling has 36 years of experience in diagnosing and treating epilepsy, seizures and other paroxysmal disorders.

Primary Office: Epilepsy and Brain Mapping Center
Primary Address: 10 Congress Street
Suite 505
Pasadena, California 91105
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Phone: 626-792-7300
Fax: 626-792-7336

Medical Board Certifications: Neurology, American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, 1982
Certification 2: Clinical Neurophysiology, American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, 1994, 2015
Certification 3: Epilepsy, American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, 2013
Fellowship: Neurology, Mayo Clinic, 1980-1981
Fellowship 2: Neurology, UCLA School of Medicine, 1981-1983
Residency: Neurology, University of Virginia Medical Center, 1977-1980
Internship: Internal Medicine, George Washington University Medical Center, 1976-1977
Degree: University of Virginia School of Medicine, MD, 1976

Research Interests

Presurgical localization of medically intractable partial epilepsy from temporal and frontal lobes.

Publications

Sutherling WW, Crandall PH, Engel J, Darcey TM, Cahan LD, Barth DS. The magnetic field of complex partial seizures agrees with intracranial localizations. Ann Neurol 1987;21:548-558.
Sutherling WW, Risinger MW, Crandall PH, Becker DP, Baumgartner C, Cahan LD, Wilson C, Levesque MF. Focal functional anatomy of dorsolateral fronto-central seizures. Neurology 1990;40:87-98.
Engel J, Henry TR, Risinger MW, Mazziotta JC, Sutherling WW, Levesque MF, Phelps ME. Presurgical evaluation for partial epilepsy: Relative contributions of chronic depth-electrode recordings versus FDG-PET and scalpsphenoidal ictal EEG. Neurology 1990;40:1670-1677.
Sutherling WW, Levesque M, Baumgartner C. Cortical sensory representation of the human hand: Size of finger regions and non-overlapping digit somatotopy. Neurology 1992;42:1020-1028.
Sutherling, WW, Levesque, MF. Electrical Stimulation of the Supplementary Sensorimotor Area. Advances in Neurology 1996;70:211-215. (Reprinted in Hans O. Lueders (Ed.) Supplementary Motor Area. Philadelphia:Lippincott-Raven, 1996
Sutherling W, Akhtari M, Mamelak AN, Mosher J, Arthur D, Sands S, Weiss P, Lopez N, DiMauro M, Flynn E, Leahy R. Dipole localization of human induced focal afterdischarge seizure in simultaneous magnetoencephalography and electrocorticography. Brain Topography 2001;14:101-116.
Mamelak AN, Lopez N, Akhtari M, Sutherling W. Magnetoencephalography-directed surgery in patients with neocortical epilepsy. Journal of Neurosurgery 2002;97:865-873.
Sutherling WW, Mamelak AM, Thyerlei D, Maleeva T, Minazad Y, Philpott L, Lopez N. Prospective, observational case-series of influence of MSI on intracranial EEG plans in epilepsy. Neurology 2008 Sep;71:990-996.
Dyve S, Serensen L, Mamelak AN, Sutherling WW, Cascino GD. Neuroradiologic evaluation for epilepsy surgery. In Winn R (Ed) Youman's Neurological Surgery. 6th Edition. 2011. pp 55-1 to 55E2
Sindhu KK, Sutherling WW. Role of Lead in the Central Nervous System: Effect on Electroencephalography, Evoked Potentials, and Nerve Conduction. The Neurodiagnostic Journal. 2015;55(2):107-121.

Awards

Teacher-Investigator Development Award, NINCDS, 1983-88
Faculty Clinical Teaching Award, Department of Neurology, UCLA, 1983
Merritt-Putnam Award, Epilepsy Foundation of America, 1982-83
Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society, 1974
Distinguished Service Medal, Pacific Campaign, U.S. Navy, 1969-71

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