The University of Florida Comprehensive Epilepsy Program (UFCEP) is a team of health care providers committed to delivering the best possible care to people with epilepsy and other paroxysmal neurologic disorders. The team is composed of professionals from different backgrounds all with special expertise in various aspects of diagnosing and treating epilepsy. The "team" currently includes the following individuals: Neurology (Stephan Eisenschenck, Chris Sackellares, Basim Uthman, Paul Carney, Michael Kohrman) Neuropsychology (Russell Bauer, Eilleen Fennell, Dawn Bower) Neuropathology (Tom Eskin, Tony Yachnis) Radiology (Ron Quisling). Dr. Steven Roper (Neurosurgery) performs all diagnostic and therapeutic epilepsy surgical procedures at UF.

Most of the activities of the UFCEP take place in Shands Hospital at the University of Florida and the Gainesville Veterans Administration Medical Center. In addition to state of the art medical, surgical and imaging facilities, Shands Hospital houses an Epilepsy Monitoring Unit that includes four adult and two pediatric rooms specifically designed for long-term monitoring of seizures in patients with epilepsy.

In addition to these two excellent hospitals, the UFCEP also benefits from the intellectual and physical resources of the McKnight Brain Institute at the University of Florida. Current research projects include chaos in epilepsy, amygdala and emotion, cerebral dysgenesis, imaging in epilepsy, radiosurgery as a treatment for epilepsy, and BC12 containing amygdala cells. Since 1994, the UFCEP has performed over 600 epilepsy surgical procedures, published over 100 papers and chapters, and received 8 major grants.

For more information about the treatment of epilepsy at the University of Florida download the Shands Neurological Center brochure:

Understanding Seizures and the Treatment Options, A Guide for you and your family. (654KB .pdf file)