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Orrin Devinsky, M.D. (born February 12, 1957) is the Director of the NYU Comprehensive Epilepsy Center and the Saint Barnabas Institute of Neurology and Neurosurgery (INN). He is also a Professor of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry at NYU Langone School of Medicine. Devinsky specializes in epilepsy and behavioral neurology. == Education and Academic Career == Devinsky was mentored by Norman Geschwind, who stimulated his interest in both epilepsy and behavioral neurology. He received his B.S. and M.S. from Yale University (1977) and his M.D. from Harvard Medical School (1982). He interned at Boston's Beth Israel Hospital, completed neurology training at the New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, and his epilepsy fellowship at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Devinsky arrived at Saint Barnabas Medical Center in 1998. In 2009, Saint Barnabas’ Neurology and Neurosurgery Program became the first in New Jersey to make U.S. News & World Report top 50 in the nation list. Devinsky directs (The Comprehensive Epilepsy Center ) (CEC) at (New York University Langone Medical Center ). The CEC has 16 inpatient video-EEG-monitored beds in a specialized Epilepsy Monitoring Unit. Each bed has the capacity for 64 channels of EEG data with on-line computer analysis for 24-hour seizure and spike detection. He has chaired several committees of the American Epilepsy Society and has served as a Board member. He is active in the American Academy of Neurology and the Epilepsy Foundation. He is an associate editor of Epilepsy and Behavior and co-founded Reviews in Neurological Disorders, and serves as a reviewer for more than 30 journals. Devinsky founded (Finding A Cure for Epilepsy and Seizures ) (FACES) and co-founded (epilepsy.com ). He co-founded the (Epilepsy Therapy Project ), where he serves as the Vice President for Translational programs. Devinsky has appeared on many television news programs, including NBC Nightly News, Today Show, and Good Morning America, and he has been featured several times on Mystery Diagnosis. He was invited to the White House to ask President Obama a (question ) about Health Care. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Orrin Devinsky」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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