Hamada Hamid Altalib, DO, MPH, FAES
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Professor of Neurology
Track Director, Health Informatics, Executive MPH; Chief of VA Neurology Service, VA Connecticut Healthcare SystemBiography
Dr. Altalib is the Chief of Neurology at the Veteran Administration (VA) Connecticut Healthcare System. He also serves as the Northeast Regional Director of the VA Epilepsy Centers of Excellence. He helped established a VA Neurobehavioral clinic, which provides clinical care for Veterans who suffer from emotional distress and/or behavioral problems associated with neurological conditions (such as traumatic brain injury, stroke, and epilepsy). At Yale University he also provides care for people with neurological injury that impact emotional processing. For instance, epilepsy, traumatic brain injury, movement disorders (and their treatments) can affect brain circuits and chemistry and lead to mood, anxiety, and even psychotic disorders. Furthermore, neuropsychiatric conditions such functional movement disorder and psychogenic non-epileptic seizures are managed in his clinic.
Dr. Altalib is also the Director of the Yale Epilepsy Outcomes Research Program, in which he oversees clinical trials and cohort studies related to epilepsy interventions. In addition to seizure control outcomes, his research explores psychiatric co-morbidity of neurologic disease. He is currently the primary investigator of a studies examining the neurologic substrates of depression in people with epilepsy; the burden of psychogenic non-epileptic seizures in the Veteran population; and measuring coordination of health care using social network analysis methods.
Appointments
Neurology
ProfessorPrimaryBiomedical Informatics & Data Science
Associate Professor on TermSecondary
Other Departments & Organizations
- Biomedical Informatics & Data Science
- Center for Medical Informatics
- Center for Neuroepidemiology and Clinical Neurological Research
- Epilepsy & Seizures
- Global Health Studies
- Middle East Studies
- Neurology
- Pediatric Epilepsy Program
- Yale Medicine
Education & Training
- Fellowship
- Yale University School of Medicine (2010)
- MPH
- New York University, Global Health (2008)
- MPH
- New York University, Global Health Epidemiology (2008)
- Residency
- New York University (2008)
- Intern
- Cook County Hospital, Chicago, IL (2002)
- DO
- Michigan State University (2001)
- BA
- University of Michigan, Psychology (1996)
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Clinical Care
Overview
Hamada Hamid Altalib, DO, MPH, is professor of Neurology, Psychiatry, and Bioinformatics & Data Science. He is the chief of Neurology at the Connecticut VA Healthcare System. His clinical areas of expertise include epilepsy, neuropsychiatry, traumatic brain injury, and behavioral neurology. Dr. Altalib helped establish a VA neurobehavioral clinic for veterans who suffer from emotional distress and/or behavioral problems associated with neurological conditions. He believes in caring for each patient’s individual emotional and physical needs while focusing treatment on eliminating seizures.
“Disorders that affect the brain have a huge impact on quality of life. Epilepsy is a field in which we have good treatments that can profoundly improve a person’s quality of life,” Dr. Altalib says. “Our care provides a one-stop shop for veterans with epilepsy.”
An associate professor of neurology and of psychiatry at Yale School of Medicine, Dr. Altalib focuses his research on exploring psychiatric comorbidity of neurological disease. “Our work has shown the important connection between mood, anxiety and seizure control, and how proper treatment can make a huge, positive impact,” he says.
Clinical Specialties
Fact Sheets
Epilepsy in Children and Teens
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Board Certifications
Clinical Informatics
- Certification Organization
- AB of Preventive Medicine
- Original Certification Date
- 2023
Epilepsy
- Certification Organization
- AB of Psychiatry & Neurology
- Original Certification Date
- 2017
Neurology
- Certification Organization
- AB of Psychiatry & Neurology
- Original Certification Date
- 2009
Psychiatry
- Certification Organization
- AB of Psychiatry & Neurology
- Original Certification Date
- 2009
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Coordination of Epilepsy Care
Social network analysis provides a method to measure coordination of health care. Each circle represents a health care provide (blue-epilepsy specialist, green-neurosurgeon, yellow-primary care, red-mental health). The larger the circle the larger volume of patients cared for. Each connection (line) represents a shared patient. Mapping provider networks may inform how to more effectively cover for lost providers, outreach to non-specialists, measure coordination of care across specific specialties (such as between neurology and mental health or neurosurgery).