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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.

 

 Howard L. Kim, M.D.
 Adult Epilepsy Specialist

Dr. Kim, an adult epilepsy specialist, is the clinical program director for the UC Irvine Comprehensive Epilepsy Program. He has extensive experience and expertise in the medical and surgical treatments of epilepsy and additional skills in intraoperative neurophysiological monitoring. Dr. Kim is board-certified in neurology and clinical neurophysiology.

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 Jack J. Lin , M.D.
 Adult 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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 Devin K. Binder , M.D., Ph.D.
 Neurosurgeon

Dr. Binder is the surgical director for the UC Irvine Comprehensive Epilepsy Program. He is an award-winning fellowship-trained epilepsy neurosurgeon whose expertise includes all types of epilepsy surgery, including intracranial electrode implantations, vagus nerve stimulator implantations, disconnective procedures (hemispherotomy and corpus callosotomy) and resective procedures (including temporal lobectomy, selective amygdalohippocampectomy and focal cortical resections).

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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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 Gayle K. Deutsch, Ph.D., ABPP-CN
 Neuropsychologist

Board-certified in clinical neuropsychology, Dr. Deutsch is a licensed psychologist with specialized training in neuropsychology. She conducts pre- and post-operative neuropsychological evaluations for patients with epilepsy to evaluate changes in cognition, emotion and/or behavior as a result of their treatment.

 

 Anton Hasso, M.D.
 Neuroradiologist

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

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 Norah Milne, M.D.
 Neuroradiologist

A neuroradiologist for the UC Irvine's Comprehensive Epilepsy Program, Dr. Milne's expertise includes molecular imaging with a particular interest in functional brain imaging and epilepsy.

 

 Ann Nolan, R.N.
 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.

 

 Laurie Baumgartner, NP
 Epilepsy and Functional Neurosurgery Nurse
 Practitioner

Laurie provides care and education for patients and families during hospital admissions, surgery and clinic visits. She is board-certified by the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses in critical care nursing and as a clinical nurse specialist and by the American Nurses Credentialing Center as an adult acute care nurse practitioner.

 

 Ilda Prado
 Admissions Coordinator

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

 

 Heather Wright R.EEG/EPT, CNIM
 EEG Technologist

With more than 10 years of experience as an EEG technologist, Heather follows the patient throughout their treatment. She is also responsible collecting and preparing EEG/video data for review by the epileptologists.

 

 Kathleen David, R.EEG/EPT, CNIM
 EEG Technologist

With more than 20 years of experience in epilepsy monitoring and neurodiagnostics, Kathleen specializes in intra-operative procedures.

 

 Sinakka Holle, R.EEGT
 EEG Technologist

With more than 17 years of experience in neurodiagnostics at UC Irvine, Sinakka supports the epilepsy monitoring unit as a neurodiagnostic technologist caring for people with epilepsy.