Jefferson Comprehensive Epilepsy Center
Leadership
Name:
Chengyuan Wu, MD, MSBmE
Position:
- Chief of the Division of Epilepsy and Neuromodulation Neurosurgery
- Fellowship Director for the Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery
- Co-Director of the Integrated Magnetic Resonance Imaging Center
Email:
Chengyuan.Wu@jefferson.edu
Jefferson Comprehensive Epilepsy Center - Surgical Division
This is a multi-disciplinary program for epilepsy with one of the largest referral bases and clinical volumes in the country, providing a variety of surgical and non-surgical approaches to epilepsy. Each year, between 80 and 100 surgical epilepsy cases are performed.
More patients with epilepsy disorders are treated at Jefferson than all other programs in Philadelphia combined. The current research interests of this program include clinical trials for antiepileptic drugs, nerve stimulation and deep brain stimulation as a treatment for seizures, mathematical models of neural activity, investigations on genetics of and gene therapy for epilepsy, and biochemistry of receptors and neurotransmitters implicated in the pathogenesis of epilepsy.