Neurology for the Non-Neurologist
Date: May 14, 2010
Time: 8:00 am - 5:00 pm
Location: Harrisburg Holiday Inn East
Dr. Jayant N. Acharya is a Professor in the Department of Neurology and the Director of the Comprehensive Epilepsy Program. He is a member of the Penn State Neuroscience Institute and is listed in the Best Doctors in America.
Dr. Acharya provides care to patients with epilepsy, including those with the most complicated and medically resistant seizure forms. He oversees a team that utilizes the most current diagnostic technologies and offers a full spectrum of medical and surgical therapies for epilepsy. He is the Director of the Epilepsy Monitoring Unit, which provides diagnostic and presurgical (noninvasive and invasive) inpatient video-EEG monitoring.
The research efforts of Dr Acharya cover all aspects of epilepsy and epileptic seizures including the pathophysiology, genetics and neuroimaging of epilepsy, the medical treatment of epilepsy and the surgical treatment of epilepsy. Dr Acharya is currently a co-investigator in two projects related to the neuroimaging of epilepsy at Penn State, and is part of an effort to create an extensive epilepsy database. He is involved in several other developing research projects.
In collaboration with faculty from Neurology and other departments, Dr. Acharya’s goal is to provide comprehensive interdisciplinary epilepsy care for both adult and pediatric patients, to educate and train future leaders in epilepsy, and to expand research efforts in order to make Penn State Hershey Medical Center one of the foremost centers for epilepsy care in the nation.
Date: March 5, 2010 Speakers: Stephen Oppenheimer, MA, DM, DSc(Oxon), FRCP, FACP, FRCPC, FAHA, Director of Research and CMO, Sentient, Professor of Neurology, PSU and Vanderbilt University School of Medicine and Philippe Haouzi, MD, Professor of Medicine, PSU Topic: Cortical Control of Autonomic Function
Date: March 12, 2010 Speaker: Ella Popeliansky, MD, Neurology Resident, PSU Topic: Clinical Case Conference
Date: March 19, 2010 Speaker: William Cantore, MD, Associate Professor of Ophthamology and Neurology, PSU Topic: "Atypical" Optic Neuritis?
Date: March 26, 2010 Speaker: Murray Grossman, MD, Ed.D, Associate Professor, University of Pennsylvania, School of Medicine Topic: What If It's Not Alzheimer's Disease
The following Physicians have been named to the "Best Doctors in America, 2009-2010"
Neurology
Jayant N. Acharya, MD
David C. Good, MD
Milind J. Kothari, DO
Stephen C. Ross, MD
Zachary Simmons, MD
Richard B. Tenser, MD
