Our Experts at the UPMC Comprehensive Epilepsy Center

Meet our board-certified neurologists, neurosurgeon, and other epilepsy experts.

To make an appointment or learn more about the UPMC Comprehensive Epilepsy Center, call 833-299-4320.

Epilepsy Center Leadership

• Anto Bagić, MD, PhD, Center Director
  Chief, Epilepsy Division
  Director, Epilepsy Monitoring Unit, UPMC Presbyterian
  Director, MEG Epilepsy Program
• Jorge Gonzalez-Martinez, MD, Center co-director
  Director, Epilepsy and Movement Disorders Surgery
• Christina Patterson, MD, Center co-director
  Director, Epilepsy, UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh
• Patrick Chauvel, MD
  Director, Neural Networks Disorders Program (NNDP)

Neurology Epilepsy Experts

• Rafeed Alkawadri, MD
  Associate Professor of Neurology
• Anto Bagić, MD, PhD
  Professor of Neurology and Chief of Epilepsy Division
• Niravkumar Barot, MD
  Medical Director, Epilepsy Surgery
• James Castellano, MD, PhD
  Assistant Professor of Neurology
• Patrick Chauvel, MD
  Professor of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Neuroscience
• Joanna Fong-isariyawongse, MD
  Director, UPMC CEEG Program
• Page B. Pennell, MD
  Chair, Department of Neurology
• Vijayalakshmi (Viji) Rajasekaran, MD
  Assistant Professor of Neurology
• Alexandra Urban (Popescu), MD
  Director, PUH EEG Lab

Other members of the Epilepsy Center neurology team

• Hallie Gilbert, PA-C
  Physician Assistant
• Alexus Widmer, PA-C
  Physician Assistant

Neurosurgery Epilepsy Experts

• Jorge Gonzalez-Martinez, MD
  Director, Epilepsy and Movement Disorders Surgery

Other members of the team

• Jennifer Anwar, RN
  Nurse Coordinator
• Luke Henry, PhD
  Neuropsychologist

Contact the UPMC Comprehensive Epilepsy Center

To make an appointment or learn more about epilepsy treatments, call 833-299-4320.

Kaufmann Medical Building
3471 Fifth Ave.
Pittsburgh, PA 15213