Stanford Comprehensive Epilepsy Program Team
Adult Epilepsy
Robert Fisher, MD, PhD
Maslah Saul MD Professor of Neurology & Neurological Sciences
Director of Stanford Comprehensive Epilepsy Program
Dr. Fisher received his M.D. and Ph.D. from Stanford, and trained at Johns Hopkins where he remained as faculty. He served time as Chair of Neurology at Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix, before returning to Stanford in 2000. He has had a leading role in the testing of devices that can detect or treat seizures, including deep brain stimulation, focal drug infusion, seizure notification accelerometers and biosensor. He also collaborates with laboratory researchers studying mechanisms of epilepsy. He has been named in Best Doctors of America for 16 consecutive years. He is a past-president of the American Epilepsy Society, prior Editor-in-Chief of the world's main epilepsy journal, Epilepsia, and past Editor of epilepsy.com, the most visited website about epilepsy. He has published numerous articles and books about epilepsy.
Kimford J. Meador, MD
Professor of Neurology & Neurological Sciences
Director of the Epilepsy Monitoring Unit
Dr. Meador received his MD from the Medical College of Georgia. After an internship at the University of Virginia and service as an officer in the Public Health Corps, he completed a residency in Neurology at the Medical College of Georgia and a fellowship in Behavioral Neurology at the University of Florida. Dr. Meador is currently the Multi-PI on two multicenter investigations, one on pregnancy outcomes in women with epilepsy including neurodevelopmental effects of fetal antiepileptic drug exposure, and one on the cognitive effects of antiepileptic drugs in children with focal epilepsy. Dr. Meador has authored over 300 peer-reviewed publications and has served on the editorial boards of numerous journals.
Martha Morrell, MD
Professor of Neurology & Neurological Sciences
Dr. Morrell has focused her career on the treatment of patients with epilepsy, including health issues for women with epilepsy. She attended Stanford Medical School, then completed her residency in Neurology and her fellowship in EEG and epilepsy at University of Pennsylvania. After founding the Stanford Comprehensive Epilepsy Center, she moved to Columbia University where she was the Caitlin Tynan Doyle Professor of Epilepsy and Director of the Columbia Comprehensive Epilepsy Center. She returned in 2004 and sees patients in the Epilepsy Clinic. She is currently the Chief Medical Officer for NeuroPace, a company focused on brain stimulation for epilepsy.
Josef Parvizi, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Neurology & Neurological Sciences
Director of Stanford Program for Intractable Epilepsy
Dr. Parvizi’s clinical training is from Mayo Clinic- Rochester, BIDMC-Harvard University, and UCLA. His major interest is in the study of seizure propagation and treating patients with intractable epilepsy. His special expertise is in detecting the epileptic source in patients with uncontrolled seizures and mapping the brain circuitries that underlie development and spread of seizures. He performs functional brain mapping of the brain during epilepsy surgery evaluations. Dr. Parvizi is also the Director of the Stanford Human Intracranial Cognitive Electrophysiology Program (SHICEP), and is involved in multidisciplinary collaborative research projects with several Stanford principal investigators to understand how different parts of the human brain work and how their function may be broken during seizures.
Kevin Graber, MD
Clinical Associate Professor of Neurology & Neurological Sciences
Director of Outpatient Epilepsy Clinic
Dr. Kevin Graber earned his MD from Indiana University in 1992 and completed his training in Neurology & Neurological Sciences at Stanford Medical Center. Dr Graber has earned prestigious research awards and has served on several national committees including the American Epilepsy Society, CURE, and Epilepsy Foundation. As a Clinician Educator, Dr. Graber provides clinical care to patients with epilepsy, and teaches fellows, residents, and medical students. Dr. Graber's research is focused on discovering how brain injuries, such as trauma, lead to epilepsy.
Scheherazade Le, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor of Neurology & Neurological Sciences
Dr. Le received her MD from the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine. She completed her internship in Internal Medicine and residency in Neurology at Stanford. She served as Chief Resident in Neurology and then continued her training as a Neurophysiology fellow at Stanford in both Epilepsy/Electroencephalography (EEG) and Intra-operative Neuromonitoring (IONM). As a Clinician Educator, she is particularly interested in patient education, trainee medical education, tuberous sclerosis and clinical research.
David Chen, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor of Neurology & Neurological Sciences
Dr. Chen attended medical school at New York University School of Medicine where he remained for his internship in internal medicine. He completed his residency in Neurology at Stanford University in 1998, where he continued his training as a fellow in epilepsy. He currently is on the neurology staff at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center in San Jose as an attending, and has begun a subspecialty epilepsy clinic. He continues to maintain close ties with Stanford for collaboration in the presurgical evaluation of his epilepsy patients at Valley Medical Center.
Mimi Callanan, RN, MSN
Epilepsy Clinical Nurse Specialist
Ms. Callanan has many years experience as a Clinical Nurse Specialist in Epilepsy. She has been in this role at Stanford since the Center opened in 1990. She received her undergraduate degree at St Louis University and her graduate degree at the University of Pennsylvania. She is a past member of the Professional Advisory Board of the Epilepsy Foundation of America. She is a past President of the Epilepsy Society of San Francisco and was on the Board of Directors of the Epilepsy Foundation of Northern California. She is author of several publications pertaining to education of patients and families about epilepsy, and to the impact of epilepsy on life.
Bonnie Pamiroyan, RN, MSN, CFNP
Nurse Practitioner
Ms. Pamiroyan began her nursing career in 1982 after graduating from Baylor University with a Bachelor of Science in Nursing. After working in a variety of health care settings, she joined the Stanford Comprehensive Epilepsy Center in 1994 to coordinate the clinical drug trials provided by the Center. Completing her Master of Science in Nursing in 2001, her scope of practice has expanded, and she now enjoys providing extended patient care services as a Family Nurse Practitioner to patients with epilepsy.
