Members of the Duke Neurology Department advanced the field of epilepsy care, research and education at the 2022 American Epilepsy Society (AES) Conference in Nashville this week. This year, faculty and trainees gave two of his lectures and co-authored eight new abstracts. Since 2000, there have been over 150 total submissions from Duke to AES.
Matthew Luedke, MD, director of the hospital’s neurology department, delivered two lectures. “Exercise, Fitness, and Epilepsy” as part of the Annual Advances in the Management of Epilepsy Symposium and “Managing for Meaningfulness” as part of the Professional wellness in Epilepsy Care: Clinicalian Burnout—Causes, Consequences, and Cures Special Interest Group ” .
In addition, faculty and trainees contributed to the following abstracts presented at this year’s AES conference.
- Seizure recurrence and management in antibody-positive autoimmune encephalitis –M. Omar Subei, MD and Yash Shah, MD (photo)Danelvis Paredes, MD, Suma Shah, MD, and Prachi Parikh, MD
- Pharmacokinetics, Pharmacodynamics, and Safety Studies of Intravenous Ganaxolone in Healthy Adult Volunteers – Aatif Husain, MD, Shruti Raja, MD
- Use of prophylactic antiepileptic drugs in patients undergoing brain tumor resection – Katherine Peters, MD, PhD
- Time Is Brain: Improving early access to antiepileptic drugs during status epilepticus in a pediatric population – Dr. Muhammad Zafar, M.D.
- High-frequency oscillations captured with a microelectroencephalogram array during intraoperative recording –Dr. Gregory Cogan, Derek Southwell, M.D.
- Variations in prescribing practice for early-stage epilepsy, research on pediatric epilepsy learning medical system – Dr. Muhammad Zafar, M.D.
- A 12-month analysis of BUTTERFLY: an observational study to investigate cognition and other non-seizure comorbidities in children and adolescents with Dravet syndrome (DS). – Dr. Muhammad Zafar, M.D.
- Microburst Vagus Nerve Stimulation: Safety and Efficacy Results – Dr. Muhammad Zafar, M.D.
