Epilepsy

The OHSU Comprehensive Epilepsy Center provides a full spectrum of medical services for patients with epilepsy. For some patients with medically intractable seizures, surgery to remove epileptogenic areas of the brain may be feasible. In conjunction with Martin Salinsky, M.D., director of the Epilepsy Center, the department offers innovative and cost-effective surgical services. Surgical Procedures include extraoperative corticography and stimulation mapping (brain mapping), selective microsurigcal amygdalohippocampectomy, neocortical resection, subpial transection, modified hemisherectomy and corpus callosotomy. Most surgical procedures involve the use of stereotactic computer-assisted navigational planning and guidance. Innovative research programs include the use of vagal nerve stimulation for patients in whom drugs are ineffective but who are not otherwise candidates for other epilepsy surgery.

Related Health Topics

Anatomy of the brain
Epilipsy and Seizures

Clinical Team

Kim Burchiel, M.D., Professor and Chairman
David Gostnell, PhD., Assistant Clinical Professor
Richard Kolbell, PhD., Clinical Instructor
Martin Salinsky, M.D., Associate Professor

Support Team

503 494-4314
Todd Ellingson-Patient Care Coordinator
Jodi Phillips - Surgical Care Coordinator