Our community of patients, relatives, friends and doctors has been busy advancing the field of epilepsy and seizures!
Although it has been challenging to be active as a community with all the social distancing we have been advised to keep, we have still managed to keep active by working on research and publications. Also, we are very proud of our doctors who were voted Best Doctors this year! Congratulations to all of them.
The Northeast Regional Epilepsy Group congratulates its group of 2021 Best Doctors!
Eric Segal, MD:
-Castle Connolly Regional Top Doctor
-Bergen Top Doctor (Bergen County, NJ)
Marcelo Lancman, MD:
-Castle Connolly Regional Top Doctor
Publications:
Dr. Eric Segal, Director of Pediatric Epilepsy at the Northeast Regional Epilepsy Group, was a co-author on five publications in 2020:
Hogan RE, Tarquinio D, Sperling MR, et al. Pharmacokinetics and safety of VALTOCO (NRL-1; diazepam nasal spray) in patients with epilepsy during seizure (ictal/peri-ictal) and nonseizure (interictal) conditions: A phase 1, open-label study. Epilepsia. 2020;61(5):935-943. doi:10.1111/epi.16506
Szaflarski M, McGoldrick P, Currens L, et al. Attitudes and knowledge about cannabis and cannabis-based therapies among US neurologists, nurses, and pharmacists. Epilepsy Behav. 2020;109:107102. doi:10.1016/j.yebeh.2020.107102
Gibbs SN, Choi J, Khilfeh I, Ahmed KH, Yermilov I, Segal E. The Humanistic and Economic Burden of Pediatric Focal Seizures in the United States. J Child Neurol. 2020;35(8):543-555. doi:10.1177/0883073820911785
Gupta S, Schwab M, Valdez-Gonzalez K, Segal E. Rare homozygous nonsense variant in AIMP1 causing Early Onset Epileptic Encephalopathy with Burst Suppression (EOEE-BS). Eur J Med Genet. 2020;63(9):103970. doi:10.1016/j.ejmg.2020.103970
Tomycz L, Hale AT, Abdulrazeq HF, Naftel RP, Englot DJ, Segal E. An algorithmic approach to preoperative studies and patient selection for hemispheric disconnection surgery: a literature review. An algorithmic approach to preoperative studies and patient selection for hemispheric disconnection surgery: a literature review. Epileptic Disord. 2020;22(5):592-609. doi:10.1684/epd.2020.1205
Dr. Lorna Myers co-authored a paper that was published in Epilepsy and Behavior journal: "A descriptive study of patients diagnosed with psychogenic non-epileptic seizures at a tertiary epilepsy center in the Czech Republic: one-year follow-up." Authors: Lenka Krámská, Lorna Myers, Lucia Hrešková, David Krámský, Zdeněk Vojtěch
Grand Rounds:
In 2020, Dr. Eric Segal was invited to give Grand Rounds at Englewood Hospital where he lectured on Pediatric Epilepsy.
