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Nancy Foldvary-Schaefer, DO

Nancy Foldvary-Schaefer, DO
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Department Sleep Disorders Center
Primary Location Cleveland Clinic Main Campus
Type of Doctor Adults Only
Languages English
Surgeon No
Locations
Cleveland Clinic Main Campus
Primary Location

Cleveland Clinic Main Campus

Appointment:
216.444.2165
Fax:
216.636.0090

Additional Locations

Specialties & Treatments

Treatment & Services

  • Actigraphy
  • Clinical Neurophysiology
  • Clinical Trials
  • Electroencephalogram (EEG) Interpretations
  • Epilepsy Surgery
  • Epilepsy Surgery Evaluation
  • First Seizure Assessment
  • Intracranial EEG Monitoring and Brain Mapping for Presurgical Evaluation
  • Polysomnogram
  • Positive Airway Pressure Titration (CPAP; Bilevel PAP Titration)
  • Sleep Medicine
  • Sleep Studies
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Specialty in Diseases & Conditions

  • Adult Epilepsy
  • Brain Malformations Causing Epilepsy
  • Circadian Rhythm Disorders
  • Complex Epilepsy in Adults
  • Geriatric Epilepsy
  • Hypersomnia
  • Insomnia
  • Intractable (Drug Resistant) Epilepsy
  • Malformations of Cortical Development
  • Narcolepsy
  • Neurofibromatosis Causing Epilepsy
  • Rem Sleep Behavior Disorder
  • Restless Leg Syndrome
  • Seizures
  • Sleep and Epilepsy Issues
  • Sleep Apnea
  • Status Epilepticus (Continuous Seizures)
  • Traumatic Brain Injury Causing Seizures
  • Women's Health and Epilepsy
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Biography

About Nancy Foldvary-Schaefer, DO

Nancy Foldvary-Schaefer, DO, MS is Director of the Sleep Disorders Center and Staff in the Epilepsy Center. She is Professor of Medicine at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University with a Joint Appointment in the Women’s Health Center at Cleveland Clinic.

Certified by the American Board of Neurology and Psychiatry in Neurology, Clinical Neurophysiology and Sleep Medicine and the American Board of Clinical Neurophysiology, she has treated patients with sleep disorders and epilepsy at Cleveland Clinic since 1995. She has served as a lead investigator on numerous clinical trials and has published on sleep and epilepsy, epilepsy surgery, EEG, women's issues in epilepsy and sleep disorders.

Education & Professional Highlights

Education & Professional Highlights

Appointed
1995

Education & Fellowships

Fellowship - Duke University Medical Center
Clinical Neurophysiology
Durham, NC
1995

Residency - Loyola University Medical Center
Neurology
Maywood, IL
1993

Residency - Evanston Hospital
Internal Medicine
Evanston, IL
1990

Internship - Chicago Osteopathic Medical Center
Rotating
Chicago, IL
1989

Medical Education - Chicago College of Osteo. Med. @ Midwestern University
DO
Downers Grove, IL United States
1988

Undergraduate - Loyola University of Chicago
Chicago, IL
1984

Additional Training

  • Master of Science in Clinical Research from Case Western Reserve University, 2011

Professional Highlights

  • Published several books on sleep disorders including "The Cleveland Clinic Guide to Sleep Disorders", Kaplan Publishing, 2009 and "Sleep Disorders: A Case a Week from the Cleveland Clinic", Oxford University Press, 2010.

Certifications

  • Psychiatry and Neurology - Epilepsy
  • Psychiatry and Neurology - Neurology
  • Psychiatry and Neurology - Sleep Medicine
  • Psychiatry and Neurology - Clinical Neurophysiology

Specialty Interests

Adult epilepsy and sleep disorders, sleep and epilepsy, women's health and epilepsy, clinical trials, clinical neurophysiology, surgical evaluation of epilepsy

Awards & Honors

  • Listed in "Top Docs," Cleveland Magazine, 2007-11.
  • Received 2004 Epilepsy Association Legacy Award, 2006-2007 Cleveland Clinic Innovators Award, and 2008 Cleveland Clinic Neurological Institute Professional Staff Award.

Innovations & Patents

  • Pioneering use of hotel-based sleep laboratories in a large tertiary care center

Memberships

  • American Academy of Neurology
  • American Academy of Sleep Medicine
  • American Epilepsy Society
  • Sleep Research Society
  • American Clinical Neurophysiology Society
Research & Publications

Research & Publications

See publications for Nancy Foldvary-Schaefer, DO.

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Industry Relationships

Industry Relationships

Cleveland Clinic physicians and scientists may collaborate with the pharmaceutical or medical device industries to help develop medical breakthroughs or provide medical expertise or education. Cleveland Clinic strives to make scientific advances that will benefit patient care and support outside relationships that promise public benefit. In order for the discoveries of Cleveland Clinic physicians' and scientists' laboratories and investigations to benefit the public, these discoveries must be commercialized in partnership with industry. As experts in their fields, Cleveland Clinic physicians and scientists are often sought after by industry to consult, provide expertise and education.

To assure professional and commercial integrity in such matters, Cleveland Clinic maintains a program that reviews these collaborations and, when appropriate, puts measures in place to minimize bias that may result from ties to industry. Cleveland Clinic publicly discloses the names of companies when (i) its physicians/scientists receive $5,000 or more per year (or, in rare cases, equity or stock options) for speaking and consulting, (ii) its physicians/scientists serve as a fiduciary, (iii) its physicians/scientists receive or have the right to receive royalties or (iv) its physicians/ scientists hold any equity interest for the physician's/scientist's role as inventor, discoverer, developer, founder or consultant.* In publicly disclosing this information, Cleveland Clinic tries to provide information as accurately as possible about its physicians' and scientists' connections with industry.

As of 10/7/2024, Dr. Foldvary-Schaefer has reported the financial relationships with the companies listed below. In general, patients should feel free to contact their doctor about any of the relationships and how the relationships are overseen by Cleveland Clinic. To learn more about Cleveland Clinic's policies on collaborations with industry and innovation management, go to our Integrity in Innovation page.

Consulting and/or Speaking. Dr. Foldvary-Schaefer receives fees of $5,000 or more per year (or, in rare cases, equity or stock options) as a paid consultant, speaker or as a member of an advisory committee for the following companies:

  • Jazz Pharmaceuticals, plc

Public Health Service-Reportable Financial Conflicts of Interest. Cleveland Clinic scientists and physicians engage in basic, translational and clinical research activities, working to solve health problems, enhance patient care and improve quality of life for patients. Interactions with industry are essential to bringing the researchers' discoveries to the public, but can present the potential for conflicts of interest related to their research activities. Click here to view a listing of instances where Cleveland Clinic has identified a Public Health Service (PHS)-Reportable Financial Conflict of Interest and has put measures in place to ensure that, to the extent possible, the design, conduct and reporting of the research is free from bias.

* Cleveland Clinic physicians and scientists subscribe to the guidance presented in the PhRMA Code on Interactions with Healthcare Professionals and the AdvaMed Code of Ethics on Interactions with Health Care Professionals. As such, gifts of substantial value are generally prohibited.

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