Our Team
Robert Fisher, MD, PhD
Dr. Fisher is Director of the Epilepsy Center, and performs research on new technologies to treat epilepsy. He is internationally known as a developer of new treatment protocols involving brain stimulation to stop seizures, and has been awarded NIH and industry grants to develop this as a useful therapy.
He also has developed novel methods for applying drugs directly to a seizure focus on brain, thereby achieving high concentrations and avoiding some of the toxicity that occurs when pills have our injections are given systemically. These treatments will in the near future be linked with automatic seizure detection or even prediction of seizures that are around the corner based upon computer analysis of ongoing brainwave (EEG) patterns.
Experiments are also underway with several other technologies to stop seizures, including cooling.
Dr. Fisher is Past-President of the American Epilepsy Society, on the Board of the International League Against Epilepsy, the Professional Advisory Board of the Epilepsy Foundation and has been Editor-in-Chief of the journal Epilepsia.
John Barry, MD
Dr. Berry is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Director of the Neuropsychiatry and Psychotherapy clinics at Stanford.
Dr. Barry has a special interest in psychiatric problems of people with epilepsy.
He has done studies of depression and psychosis in association with epilepsy, and of the psychiatric mimics of seizures, called non-epileptic seizures, psychogenic seizures or pseudoseizures.
Michael S.B. Edwards, MD
Dr. Edwards is Professor of Neurosurgery and Pediatrics at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital.
He studied medicine at Tulane University where he also completed an internship and residency in Surgery and Neurosurgery. After serving as Chief Resident at the Ochsner Clinic, Veterans' Administration and Charity hospitals in New Orleans, he completed a Neuro-Oncology and Pediatric Neurosurgery Fellowship at the University of California, San Francisco under the guidance of Charles B. Wilson M.D.
Dr. Edwards then joined the faculties of Neurosurgery and Pediatrics at UCSF, eventually to become Director of the Division of Pediatric Neurosurgery and Vice-Chair of the Department of Neurological Surgery.
Most recently Dr. Edwards served as Director of the Sutter Neuroscience Institute in Sacramento and Clinical Professor of Neurological Surgery at Universityof California, Davis.
Dr. Edwards brings his expertise in research, teaching and the treatment in pediatric neurological diseases to bear in his new role as Director of Regional Pediatric Neurosurgery, a program intended to broaden relationships with referring physicians and enhance both research and teaching related to Pediatric Neurosurgery at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital.
He has had a long term commitment to the treatment of patients with Seizures Disorders especially in infants, children and adolescents.
Kevin Graber, MD, PhD
Dr. Graber is an Assistant Professor in Neurology.
Dr. Graber performs both basic science research and clinical epilepsy care at Stanford.
He has a special interest in discovering how brain injuries later lead to epilepsy.
Jin Hahn, MD
Dr. Hahn is a Child Neurologist who studies brain development, epilepsy and conditions such as dysplasia and holoprosencephaly, in which the two overlap.
Dr. Hahn received his MD from Harvard in 1982. After residency training in pediatrics and child neurology at Harvard in 1987, he came to Stanford to do a neurophysiology fellowship.
After a brief faculty position at UCSD, he returned to Stanford In 1991 to become the Chief of Neurology Service at Lucile Salter Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford.
His research interests are in the areas of neonatal seizures and electoencephalography, neonatal neurology, hypoxic ischemic brain injury and seizure disorders in the first year of life.
Jaimie Henderson, MD
Dr. Henderson has joined the program as a functional neurosurgeon, with a special interest in movement disorders and epilepsy.
Dr. Henderson received his M.D. from Chicago's Rush Medical College in 1988. After completing his residency in Neurosurgery at Saint Louis University and fellowship training in Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery, he started the movement disorders surgery program at St. Louis University where he remained on the faculty for 6 years.
He joined the Neurosurgery staff of the Cleveland Clinic in 2001, and accepted an offer to join Stanford's Neurosurgery Department in 2004.
Dr. Henderson is an expert in the surgical treatment of movement disorders and chronic pain, and is active in research to improve stereotactic navigation and the efficacy of neuromodulatory therapies for movement disorders, pain, and other neurological diseases.
Donald Olson, MD
Dr. Olson received his BA from Columbia College and his MD from University of Oregon Health Science Center. He received his pediatric neurology training at University of Washington and completed a two-year fellowship in pediatric epilepsy at University of California, Los Angeles.
Dr. Olson initially worked as Assistant Director of MINCEP Epilepsy Program For Children in Minnesota. He returned to the West Coast to become the Director of the Epilepsy Program and Neurodiagnostic Laboratory at the Children's Hospital Oakland.
He has special expertise in the treatment of pediatric patients with seizures and epilepsy. Specifically he is interested in newer modes of therapy for epilepsy, such as surgical treatments and ketogenic diet. He also has expertise with electroencephalophy (EEG) in infants and children and has served as President of the Western EEG Society.
Dr. Olson serves on the Board of Directors for the Epilepsy Foundation of Northern California and has been its President since 1996. Dr. Olson is the Director of Pediatric Epilepsy Program at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital.
His research interests are in the areas of epilepsy and language disorders, electoencephalography, and seizure disorders in children.
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Josef Parvizi, MD, PhD
Dr Parvizi is an assistant professor of Neurology with training from Mayo Clinic, Harvard University, and UCLA. His major interest is in the study of seizure propagation and treating patients with stereotyped seizures. 
David A. Prince, MD
For many years, Stanford has been an international resource for Epilepsy research, under the directorship of the former department chairperson, Dr. David Prince.
Dr. Prince has trained dozens of the next generation leading epilepsy researchers in the world, and he and his research associates have made major advances in the understanding of physiology of epilepsy.
He is the holder of numerous research awards, and is past president of the American Epilepsy Society.
Lawrence Shuer, MD
Professor of Neurosurgery and Chief of Staff for Stanford Hospital & Clinics, he performs surgical procedures on patients with uncontrolled seizures.
Dr. Shuer trained in surgery, neurosurgery and neuropathology at Stanford and joined the clinical faculty in 1984. He has been on the medical center faculty since 1990.
His interests in clinical neurosurgery include the management of craniofacial anomalies, degenerative spine disorders, syringomyelia, surgical treatment of epilepsy and hypothermic brain protection.
He is president of the California Association of Neurological Surgeons and is chair of the California Medical Association Scientific Advisory Panel on Neurosurgery.
John Huguenard, PhD
Dr. Huguenard is an Associate Professor of Neurology in the Epilepsy Center, and is a world's expert on the relationship between the pacemaker area of the brain called the thalamus, and cortex, and how this interaction can lead to seizures.
Paul Buckmaster, DVM, PhD
Dr. Buckmaster is an Assistant Professor who studies mechanisms of temporal lobe epilepsy - a common type of epilepsy in adults.
Mimi Callanan, RN, MSN
Mimi is a Clinical Nurse Specialist with expertise and experience in caring for adults with seizures.
Bonnie Pamiroyan, RN, MSN, CFNP
Bonnie is a Family Nurse Practitioner with expertise and experience in caring for adolescents and adults with epilepsy.
Maureen Sheehan, RN, MSN, CPNP
Maureen is a pediatric nurse practitioner and nurse clinician specialist with expertise and experience caring for children with epilepsy.