Biographical Sketch
Lara Jehi, MD, was born in Beirut, Lebanon. She completed her medical school training at the American University of Beirut, graduating with High Distinction, and then completed her Neurology Residency and Clinical Neurophysiology Fellowship training at Cleveland Clinic.
She is board-certified in neurology and clinical neurophysiology with many clinical interests, including medical treatment of epilepsy, epilepsy surgery and outcome analysis. She is currently leading efforts to broaden the spectrum of epilepsy management at the Cleveland Clinic Epilepsy Center to include social, psychological, and quality of life aspects. She is also focused on research pertaining to appropriate selection of epilepsy surgery patients and defining predictors of seizure outcome following surgery.
As a trainee, Dr Jehi’s research on West Nile Virus was recognized by the American Academy of Neurology as she gave the Contemporary Clinical Issues Plenary Session in 2003. This session usually highlights issues most critical to practicing neurologists, including abstracts related to new therapeutic developments, clinical applications of basic and translational research, and innovative technical developments.
Dr. Jehi was given the Young Investigator Award by the American Epilepsy Society in 2005. This is a yearly award recognizing 18 of 3,000-5,000 young researchers based on distinctive and promising research projects. She has also been the recipient of the First prize in Neuroscience research throughout her training. Recently, she received a grant award from the Bakken Heart-Brain Institute to investigate mechanisms of Sudden Death in Epilepsy.
As an invited lecturer at national and international medical meetings, Dr. Jeha has authored several scientific papers on epilepsy and has authored two book chapters.
Specialty Interests
adult and geriatric epilepsy, adult epilepsy, clinical drug trials, clinical neurophysiology, EEG, Epilepsy, invasive EEG monitoring for pre-surgical evaluations, outcome analysis, Seizure disorder treatment and surgery in brain malformations, seizure manifestations, vagus nerve stimulation, Video EEG
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Dr. Jehi has reported no financial relationship with
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