We offer a one-year epilepsy fellowship and have two fellowship positions per year. Fellows will receive comprehensive training in adult and pediatric epilepsy at a Level 4 Epilepsy Center and will work with seven adult and pediatric fellowship-trained epileptologists, who, collectively, have more than 90 years of experience in caring for patients with epilepsy. With sufficient notice, we have some flexibility to offer 2-years training.
Our program offers fellows the opportunity to provide outpatient and inpatient care at Rutgers-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School (Rutgers-RWJMS), Department of Neurology, and Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick, NJ. Fellows will work closely with fellowship trained epilepsy attendings, neurology residents, epilepsy nurse practitioners, neurology nurses, and other providers and staff for collaborative patient care. Our Epilepsy Group currently has seven neurologists with epilepsy fellowship training.
Fellows will be exposed to several EEG modalities (routine; ambulatory; long-term video EEG; intracranial EEG, including stereo-EEG; intra-operative electrocorticography), as well as other means of evaluating epilepsy patients, including high resolution MRI, PET/CT, MEG, fMRI, neuropsychology testing, and intracranial sodium amobarbital procedures (Wada).
Fellows will work in our epilepsy monitoring unit, as well as on our busy long-term video EEG service, where studies arise from the Neuro-ICU, as well as other ICUs and non-ICU settings. Fellows will work within our active epilepsy surgery program, where we provide multidisciplinary care from epileptologists, epilepsy-trained neurosurgeons, neuropsychologists and neuroradiologists. We offer a wide range of resective, ablative, and neuromodulatory options for patients with refractory epilepsy.
We are very excited to welcome Dr. Robert Gross, a highly-experienced and renowned neurosurgeon with a long tenure at Emory. Dr. Gross will join Rutgers in late 2023 as chair of the neurosurgery departments at Rutgers-RWJMS and New Jersey Medical School.
Fellows will also have the opportunity in research and other scholarly activities. Our institution is home to numerous investigator-initiated and industry-sponsored clinical trials.
We encourage you to visit https://sites.rutgers.edu/ru-cecnj/ to meet our neurology, neurosurgery and other faculty; to learn about research being done at Rutgers; and to learn about other information of our Epilepsy Center.
