Our comprehensive one-year fellowship program focusing on EEG/Epilepsy provides clinical and didactic education that emphasizes the multidisciplinary care of patients with epilepsy. In both ICU and non-ICU settings, under faculty supervision, our fellows learn how to read routine, ambulatory, and long-term video EEG studies for both adults and pediatric patients. Fellows also work to master the differential diagnosis of seizures, characterizing and recognizing various epilepsy syndromes, complex interictal and ictal patterns, managing convulsive and non-convulsive status epilepticus, and the medical and surgical treatment of epilepsy.

Our fellows additionally learn how surgical referrals are made for different types of interventions such as stereoelectroencephalography (SEEG), responsive neurostimulation, vagal nerve stimulation, stereotactic laser ablation of the seizure focus staged craniotomy, etc. Under supervision, they participate in performing functional brain mapping and Wada tests.

During their time within the Department, our fellows serve patients throughout the New York City metropolitan area. We have outpatient practices at multiple locations, and inpatient epilepsy monitoring units at three locations: The Mount Sinai Hospital, Mount Sinai West, and Kravis Children’s Hospital. Our inpatient locations are all designated as Level 4 Comprehensive Epilepsy Centers certified by the National Association of Epilepsy Centers. At Mount Sinai West, fellows learn to use ROSA™ robotic assistance for placement of intracranial SEEG electrodes, a state-of-the-art approach that is minimally invasive and highly accurate, to localize the seizure focus.

In addition to clinical education, the Department offers didactics on an array of topics, weekly multidisciplinary epilepsy surgical conferences, journal clubs, and SEEG lectures, as well as clinical research meetings. On a regular basis throughout their training, fellows interact with and teach medical students, neurology residents, and allied health professionals. We also encourage our fellows to attend and present posters and abstracts at national meetings, such as those organized by the American Academy of Neurology and the American Clinical Neurophysiology Society. For these events, we often cover travel expenses.

Our electromyography track emphasizes clinical electromyography and neuromuscular diseases. Fellows learn the principles and practice of electroencephalography, nerve conduction studies, electromyography, evoked potentials, intraoperative monitoring, diseases of the peripheral nervous system, sleep medicine, autonomic physiology, intraoperative monitoring, central motor physiology, and electronystagmography.

Within the Department’s clinical neurophysiology laboratories, our team performs approximately 1,400 EMG examinations per year. Our wide range of patients enables our fellows to observe and participate in a broad spectrum of procedures, including neuromuscular ultrasound, botulinum toxin injections, motor unit analysis, and single-fiber EMG. We emphasize electrodiagnosis as an adjunct to clinical examination.

Throughout the New York City metropolitan area, fellows participate in outpatient and inpatient neuromuscular consultations, and share responsibility for teaching the neurology residents and medical students who rotate through the laboratories. In addition, we offer an extensive teaching conference schedule, covering electrophysiology and nerve/muscle/skin biopsy review. 

Didactics for this track include weekly lectures on a variety of topics, weekly multidisciplinary epilepsy surgical conferences, journal clubs, and clinical research meetings. The Department also encourages fellows to attend and present posters and research abstracts at national meetings, such as those organized by the American Academy of Neurology and the American Clinical Neurophysiology Society. For these events, we often cover travel expenses.

To qualify for the Clinical Neurophysiology Fellowship at The Mount Sinai Hospital, applicants must have successfully completed an approved neurology residency (or equivalent) within the United States. They must also be eligible for licensure in the State of New York.

Electroencephalography (EEG) Track:

Those interested in the EEG track must submit an application through ERAS, including a curriculum vitae, three letters of recommendation, United States Medical Licensing Examination scores, medical school transcript, and personal statement.

Each year, we begin reviewing applications on December 1, and invite selected candidates for interviews from January through April. We participate in the National Resident Matching Program in Epilepsy and Clinical Neurophysiology Fellowship Match.

Electromyography (EMG) Track:

Those interested in the EMG track must submit a completed application by December 1 of each academic year. Our application includes: a completed application form, curriculum vitae, personal statement, at least three letters of recommendation (one letter should come from the applicant’s residency program director), as well as any previous research experience or