EPILEPSY AND BRAIN MAPPING PROGRAM (EBMP) - Key Persons
Dr. Linda Philpott is the director of neuropsychology services. She received her doctorate from the California School of Professional Psychology in Los Angeles and completed her post graduate education as a fellow in neuropsychology at the UCLA School of Medicine Neuropsychiatric Institute. She is a member of the American Psychological Association and International Neuropsychological Society. For eight years Dr. Philpott conducted research in memory and aging, Alzheimer's disease and neuropsychometric correlates in psychiatric disease at Harbor UCLA Meical Center. At The Epilepsy and Brain Mapping Program, she is involved in active research programs studying neuronal activity in the human brain during learning and memory, cognitive outcomes, post surgical treatment of epilepsy, WADA and intraoperative brain mapping.
Dr. Tatiana Maleeva received her medical degree from the Kursk Medical Institute and the Children's Hospital of Kursk in Kursk, Russia. After relocating to the United States, she completed a Pediatric Internship and Residency at White Memorial Medical Center, Los Angeles, California and did a Residency in Adult Neurology and a Pediatric Neurology Fellowship at the University of California, Los Angeles. Dr. Maleeva finished an Epilepsy/Neurophysiology Fellowship with Huntington Memorial Hospital and Epilepsy and Brain Mapping Program in affiliation with University of Southern California, Keck School of Medicine. She is Board Certified in Neurology and speaks Russian fluently.
Job Titles:
- Medical Director at Epilepsy
Dr. William Sutherling is the medical director at Epilepsy and Brain Mapping Program. He is known internationally for evaluating difficult-to-manage seizure disorders, brain mapping of seizures, tumors, and eloquent cortex and noninvasive techniques to diagnose and localize epilepsy for surgery. Dr. Sutherling has 25 years experience in epileptology and invasive monitoring studies. He is board-certified in neurology by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology and in EEG, Evoked Potentials and Intensive Monitoring by the American Board of Clinical Neurophysiology. Before moving to Huntington Memorial Hospital, he directed the Adult and Pediatric Epilepsy Subdural Grid and Brain Mapping Programs at UCLA. As the principal investigator on a National Institutes of Health (NIH) research grant studying the use of magnetoencephalography (MEG), Dr. Sutherling continues to seek new noninvasive techniques to diagnose and localize epilepsy for surgery. He has written more than 30 publications on the treatment of epilepsy.
Dr. Yafa Minazad, is an adult epileptologist who received her B.S. in Biology from the University of California, Los Angeles. She received her Doctorate of Osteopathy from Western University of Health Sciences in Pomona, California and did her internship at Downey Regional Medical Center, Downey, California. Dr. Minazad completed her Neurology Residency at the University of Southern California, Keck School of Medicine. She finished an Epilepsy/Neurophysiology Fellowship with Huntington Memorial Hospital and Epilepsy and Brain Mapping Program in affiliation with University of Southern California, Keck School of Medicine.
Job Titles:
- Director for the Epilepsy
Jeri Nichols-Sutherling is the director of adult and pediatric programs for the Epilepsy and Brain Mapping Program. She is a registered nurse with a bachelor's degree in nursing from Florida State University. Her professional experience encompasses work in health care administration, neonatal nursing, pediatrics and adult critical care. She has been the director of adult and pediatric programs for the Epilepsy and Brain Mapping Program since 1993. After extensive training on the ketogenic diet at Johns Hopkins University's medical school, she was instrumental in establishing the ketogenic diet program here at EBMP. She has been actively involved in treating patients with the diet and continues to coordinate one of 17 ketogenic diet centers in the United States.