Division Chief
Professor of Neurology; Director, Fellowship Program, Neurophysiology; Chief, Division of Epilepsy and EEG; Co-Director, Yale Comprehensive Epilepsy Center; Co-Director, Critical Care EEG Monitoring Program
Epilepsy and EEG
Welcome to the Yale Division of Epilepsy and EEG. The Comprehensive Epilepsy Center provides promising options for many adult and pediatric patients with epilepsy. Internationally known for clinical excellence and innovative research, this program was one of the nation's first and has evolved into one of the most active and advanced in the world.
Yale is internationally recognized as a leader in treatment for medically intractable and new onset epilepsy. This multidisciplinary program includes epileptologists, neurologists, neurosurgeons, neuropsychologists, neuroradiologists, neuropathologists, and psychiatrists. Nurses, technicians, technical staff, and administrative staff complete the team. Outpatient facilities include an adult epilepsy monitoring unit, pediatric epilepsy monitoring unit, and a technologically advanced operating suite.
The program provides educational opportunities and training for physicians, students, patients and their families. Referring physicians can send patients for consultations, specific procedures or clinical trials, and comprehensive evaluations.
- Faculty & Staff
- About Us
- History
- Contact
- Fellowships
Faculty
Associate Professor of Neurology and of Psychiatry; Track Director, Health Informatics, Online Executive MPH Program
Assistant Professor of Neurology; Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery; Assistant Professor of Psychology; Assistant Professor, Radiology and Biomedical Imaging
Mark Loughridge and Michele Williams Professor of Neurology and Professor of Neuroscience and of Neurosurgery; Director, Yale Clinical Neuroscience Imaging Center (CNIC)
Professor of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging; Director for Faculty Affairs
Associate Professor; Director, Fellowship Program, Epilepsy & Seizures
Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery and of Neuroscience; Chief, Functional Neurosurgery; Chief, Trauma Neurosurgery, YNHH
Assistant Professor; Director of Pediatric Epilepsy Monitoring Unit, Pediatrics
Medical Services Provider; Clinical Professor of Pediatrics and Neurology
Professor Emeritus of Neurology; Adjunct Professor of Nursing, Yale Nursing School
Associate Professor; Associate Vice-Chair of Education, Neurology; Neurology Residency Program Director
Assistant Professor of Neurology; Department of Neurology; Comprehensive Epilepsy Center
Harvey and Kate Cushing Professor Emeritus and Senior Research Scientist of Neurosurgery; Director Epilepsy Research, Neurosurgery
Professor of Clinical Pediatrics; Clinical Professor of Pediatrics and Neurology
Clinical Staff
Staff Affiliate - YNHH
Natalie LeBlanc is a board-certified physician associate (PA-C). She received her Master of Medical Science Physician Associate Studies at Yale Physician Associate Program. She practiced inpatient medical cardiology and acute care while on the rapid response team for 6 years and then transitioned to inpatient epilepsy in 2019 at Yale New Haven Hospital. She helps manage patients in the epilepsy monitoring unit, consultations of patients undergoing epilepsy brain surgery, interrogation of brain neuromodulation devices of patients undergoing MRI imaging and an active participant optimizing safety protocols within the epilepsy monitoring unit. She is also involved in creating epilepsy educational materials for patients and giving lectures to our neurology staff.  She is a member of the American Epilepsy Society and ConnAPA.Â
Staff Affiliate - YNHH
Caitlin sees adult patients as part of the Yale Comprehensive Epilepsy Center team. Caitlin has more than 20 years of clinical experience as a nurse practitioner. She received her BA from Columbia University, BSN from Johns Hopkins University and Master of Nursing from the University of Washington. Caitlin cares for adults with all epilepsy types and syndromes, as well as people with PNEA (psychogenic non-epileptic attacks or seizures). Her philosophy of care is centered on partnering with patients and families to help achieve their health goals. Caitlin has written about epilepsy for nursing and medical journals and has lectured to nurse practitioner students on epilepsy diagnosis and treatment.
Clinical Research Staff
Associate Research Scientist
Robert Duckrow received his Bachelor of Science Degree from Brown University and his M.D. from the Yale University School of Medicine, followed by a Neurology residency at Yale and a research fellowship in cerebral blood flow and metabolism at the University of Miami, Florida, School of Medicine. At the Pennsylvania State University he studied cerebrovascular mechanisms during ischemia and later the care and study of patients with epilepsy. He was a founding member of the Comprehensive Epilepsy Program and Epilepsy Monitoring Unit at the Milton S. Hershey Medical Center. He moved to the University of Connecticut Health Center and established their inpatient Epilepsy Monitoring Unit while acting as the Director of the Neurophysiology Laboratory. He collaborated with the Yale Epilepsy Program to analyze the intracranial EEG of patients with intractable epilepsy. He joined Yale’s department of Neurology in 2002 as a member of the Epilepsy Program and collaborated with Drs Hitten Zaveri and Susan Spencer on the development of quantitative methods of intracranial EEG analysis, with specific interests in seizure prediction, the interpretation of cerebral electrical fields, and the regional interaction of brain electrical activity during seizure onset and propagation. As a senior epileptologist in the Epilepsy Surgery Program he provided inpatient and outpatient care of patients with medically intractable epilepsy, was the principal investigator of clinical trials to study the safety and efficacy of an implantable neurostimulator system for epilepsy, and provided clinical support to research teams by interpreting and classifying the intracranial EEG data in relation to their specific protocols. Retiring from clinical practice in 2017, he continues to pursue his research interests within the Epilepsy Program.