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Contributors
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Bassel Abou-Khalil
Dr. Abou-Khalil earned both his B.S. and his medical degree (1978) at the American University of Beirut in Beirut, Lebanon. He completed an internship and one year of residency in Internal Medicine at the American University Medical Center in Beirut. He began a Neurology residency at the University of Rochester Medical Center in Rochester, NY, which he completed at the University of Michigan Medical Center in Ann Arbor, MI, from 1980-82. He completed a fellowship in EEG and Epilepsy at the University of Michigan Medical Center from 1983-85, and then was a post-doctoral fellow in Clinical Neurophysiology at the Montreal Neurologic Institute in Montreal, Quebec from April to September 1986.
Dr. Abou-Khalil is board certified in Neurology, Clinical Neurophysiology, and Epilepsy. He is founder and Director of the Vanderbilt Epilepsy Monitoring Unit and Clinical Epilepsy Program and was the founding director of the Vanderbilt Clinical Neurophysiology Training Program, which was accredited by ACGME in 1996. Dr. Abou-Khalil is a member of the American Neurological Association, a fellow of the American Academy of Neurology (Epilepsy Section), a fellow of the American Epilepsy Society, and a fellow of the American Clinical Neurophysiology Society.