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UC Irvine Healthcare’s Comprehensive Epilepsy Program is a leader in the research and implementation of epilepsy care in the United States. The program combines specialists from various disciplines to unite their expertise and provide comprehensive care in the diagnosis and treatment of this complex disease.

Once a diagnosis is complete, our specialists analyze the results along with the patient’s clinical history. An assessment is made regarding the best treatment options. This process draws on the skills of UC Irvine’s board-certified neurologists with subspecialty training and expertise in managing people with epilepsy, as well as a fellowship-trained neurosurgeon, neuroradiologists, a neuropsychologist, electroencephalography (EEG) technologists, nursing specialists, physician’s assistants and a nurse practitioner. Regularly scheduled multidisciplinary conferences ensure that each patient’s case is given comprehensive, expert medical and surgical review.

Mona Sazgar, MD Adult and Pediatric Epilepsy Specialist

Dr. Mona Sazgar is a neurologist and director of UC Irvine Healthcare’s Comprehensive Epilepsy Program. Sazgar, who is board certified in neurology and clinical neurophysiology, has expertise in diagnosing and treating medically refractory epilepsy and in the presurgical evaluation of patients with epilepsy. She received fellowship training in epilepsy monitoring. Her clinical interests include a special emphasis on the unique medical issues of women with epilepsy.

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Jack J. Lin, MD Adult and Pediatric Epilepsy Specialist

Dr. Lin is an adult epilepsy specialist for the UC Irvine Comprehensive Epilepsy Program. He is board-certified in both neurology and clinical neurophysiology and specializes in the treatment of adults with epilepsy. Following his medical residency, he completed a two-year academic fellowship at UCLA in epilepsy and clinical neurophysiology. He has received numerous awards including the Gower Fellowship from the Epilepsy Foundation and the Fritz E. Dreifuss award from the National EpiFellows Foundation. In addition to his clinical interests, Dr. Lin actively engages in cutting-edge neuroimaging research to better understand the causes, mechanisms and consequences of medically refractory epilepsy.

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Lilit Mnatsakanyan, MD Adult and Pediatric Epilepsy Specialist

Dr. Mnatsakanyan, who specializes in epilepsy and clinical neurophysiology, is board certified in adult neurology and clinical neurophysiology. She diagnoses and treats seizure disorders, including medical and surgical treatments of refractory epilepsy. Mnatsakanyan performs functional brain mapping and electroencephalography on patients undergoing brain, vascular surgery or interventional procedures. She also conducts intraoperative neuromonitoring to evaluate the integrity of neural pathways during various brain and spinal cord surgeries and prevent devastating neurological deficits. Her clinical interests include the usefulness of newer antiepileptic medications in status epilepticus and finding the best combination modalities to improve accuracy of intraoperative neurophysiologic neuromonitoring in prevention of deficits.

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Tallie Z. Baram, MD, PhD Pediatric Neurologist/ Neuroscientist

Dr. Baram is the scientific director for the UC Irvine Comprehensive Epilepsy Program and the founder and executive committee chair of the UC Irvine Epilepsy Research Center (EpiCenter). An internationally-renowned neuroscientist, her clinical and research interests include seizures and epilepsies affecting infants and children – especially febrile seizures and infantile spasms.

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Anton Hasso, MD Neuroradiologist

Board-certified in diagnostic radiology and neuroradiology, Dr. Hasso provides imaging diagnosis and evaluation of patients with epilepsy.

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Ann Nolan, RN Nurse Coordinator

Ann is responsible for program administration including scheduling in-patient video-EEG monitoring studies, coordinating appropriate epilepsy surgical evaluation tests and providing on-going patient and nursing education.

Ilda Prado Admissions Coordinator

Ilda is responsible for scheduling patients, verifies insurance coverage and provides patients with important information regarding hospital stays.