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Contributors
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Madona Plueger MSN, APRN, ACNS-BC, CNRN FAES
Madona Dawn Plueger, MSN RN, ACNS-BC CNRN, FAES is an Adult Health Clinical Nurse Specialist at Barrow Neurological Institute , Phoenix Arizona. She is a content expert in the neurosciences, with a special interest functional disorder presentations, and seizure disorders. She has a special interest in behavior management of patients and addressing cognitive and behavioral concerns. She has been a member of the American Epilepsy Society since 2008, being active in a multitude of committees.
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Jamie J. Van Gompel, MD
Jamie J. Van Gompel MD(Honors), BS(Honors) is a Professor in Neurosurgery and Otolaryngology specializing in endoscopic/open skull base as well as Epilepsy at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, USA. He completed his undergraduate and medical school training at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. He has worked at the NIH as well as completed a Howard Hughes Fellowship in research. His neurosurgical training was undertaken at the Mayo Clinic and he went on to complete a complex cranial fellowship under the tutelage of Dr. Harry van Loveren at the University of South Florida. His current clinical and research interests involve device development for epilepsy and treating skull base tumors such as pituitary adenomas. His active research is on stimulation for epilepsy and other novel indications as well as device development.
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Dragos Sabau, MD, FAES, FACNS
I am an Associate Professor of Clinical Neurology at IU School of Medicine. I am the Program Director of the Clinical Neurophysiology Fellowship Program at our institution. I have a solid background in clinical epileptology and neurophysiology. As a Clinical Neurophysiology fellow at New York University Comprehensive Epilepsy Center, I received training in Epileptology. For the past 16 years I have been part of the Faculty at Indiana University Comprehensive Epilepsy Center. I am taking care of many of patients suffering from Epilepsy, majority of them suffering from medically refractory epilepsy. At Indiana University Comprehensive Epilepsy Center I have been involved as co-investigator in several multicenter clinical trials for patients with medically refractory epilepsy. These include NIH funded trials such as ROSE trial (Radiosurgery or Open Surgery for Epilepsy), as well as other clinical trials such as RNS (Responsive Neurostimulator for the Treatment of Epilepsy) SANTE (Stimulation of The Anterior Nucleus of the Thalamus for Epilepsy), SLATE trial (Stereotactic Laser ablation for Temporal lobe Epilepsy), NAUTILUS trial (Responsive Thalamic Stimulation for Primary Generalized epilepsy. Through these clinical trials I gained experience in clinical research dealing with patients with the most refractory epilepsy. In addition, I collaborated with other researchers on other project with IU School of Nursing and Purdue University, Indiana. One of my primary roles as a clinical epileptologist is to care for patients with drug resistant epilepsy, and patients’ whose seizures do not respond to pharmacological management of their epileptic symptoms and consequently undergo surgical evaluation and neuromodulation. My experience and expertise in this patient population, make me suitable to serve as Co-Investigator of the proposed study.