Adult Program
Pediatric Program

Fellowship Application (PDF format)

Neurophysiology Fellowship Application(PDF format)

We offer a one year accredited fellowship that is extendable for up to two years.  Parkland Health and Hospital Systems funds the fellowship as a PGY-5 position.  Training occurs at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Campus that includes Parkland Memorial and Zale-Lipshy University Hospitals and Children's Medical Center of Dallas. 

The fellowship is for neurologists interested in an academic or clinic practice career in epileptology and CNS neurophysiology.  After completing the fellowship, the physician will meet training requirements to be board eligible for the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology Added Qualifications in Clinical Neurophysiology and for the American Board of Clinical Neurophysiology exam. 

There are 3 adult neurology faculty, Paul C. Van Ness, M.D. (director), Mark A. Agostini M.D., and Ramon Diaz-Arrastia M.D., Ph.D. and a pediatric neurology faculty, Noel Baker, M.D.

The fellowship provides hands on experience and intensive individual training by faculty in the following procedures and clinical activities:

• Clinical epilepsy in an inpatient unit
• Pharmacology of antiepileptic drugs
• Investigational antiepileptic drug research
• Outpatient subspecialty epilepsy clinic for 4 hours per week
• Presurgical evaluation and surgical treatment of epilepsy
• Use of the vagus nerve stimulator
• Basic electronics and neurophysiology
• Scalp electroencephalography in over 3000 adult and pediatric patients per year
• Video EEG monitoring in an epilepsy monitoring unit evaluating over 400 patients/yr
• Invasive electroencephalography with depth and subdural electrodes
• Wada testing
• Extraoperative cortical mapping
• Intraoperative EEG
• Intraoperative electrocorticography and cortical mapping in awake or anesthetized patients
• Routine and intraoperative evoked potentials
• Neonatal and pediatric EEG and evoked potentials
• Polysomnography, multiple sleep latency test and clinical evaluation of sleep disorders
• Epilepsy and neurophysiology research opportunities

There is also a weekly lecture series on clinical neurophysiology topics that cover both peripheral and central neurophysiology.  The neuromuscular disorders faculty participate in this lecture series.  Fellows can get brief exposure to the EMG/Neuromuscular service if desired. 

Pediatric Neurophysiology and Epilepsy Fellowship

This is a one-year flexible program offering specialized training in neonatal and pediatric epilepsy and neurophysiology. For the interested candidate, training in sleep is also available. The program is staffed by one pediatric and two adult neurophysiologists and one pediatric sleep specialist. It interacts closely with the Adult Epilepsy and Neurophysiology Fellowship Program. Primarily based at Children's Medical Center, the program trains in a five bed inpatient pediatric monitoring until for epilepsy and sleep that evaluates over 400 patients annually. Over 2000 pediatric EEGs and evoked potential studies are done at Children's Medical Center, and neonatal EEGs are performed at Parkland Memorial Hospital, due to the physical location of the NICU. Depending on the clinical circumstances of individual patients, invasive monitoring for surgical evaluation and intraoperative corticography may be performed. For the interested candidate, EMG/NCV training is available at Texas Scottish Rite Hospital as well as the Aston Center. There is clinical training in epilepsy at a weekly pediatric epilepsy clinic, as well as a weekly patient management conference. Opportunities are available for clinical research with on-going investigational anti-epileptic drug trials. Fellows are encouraged to develop their own areas of interest. Those successfully completing the program are eligible for certification in both the American Board of Clinical Neurophysiology and the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology Added Qualifications in Clinical Neurophysiology.