To celebrate its 17th anniversary, the NEF awarded 5 research grants of up to $20,000 each. All grant applications are reviewed on a competitive basis by the NEF Advisory Board. Proposals are encouraged in all areas related to epilepsy, including, but not limited to, basic mechanisms, clinical considerations and treatment, epidemiology, and psychosocial aspects.

Eligibility
The applicant must hold an MD degree or the equivalent, have completed residency training or be in the final year, have no more than 3 years of postresidency experience, and be in or accepted to a formal epilepsy fellowship. It is expected that the candidate will have clinical duties in addition to research activities.

The applicant must be sponsored by a full-time faculty member of a university medical school of research institution, with the recommendation of the sponsor and the director of the epilepsy fellowship.

2009 NEF Research Grant Recipients

Name:

Daniel H. Arndt, MD, MA

Institution:

The Children’s Hospital, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center

Title:

Continuous EEG Monitoring for Pediatric Moderate to Severe TBI

 

 

Name:

Kendra W. Drake, MD

Institution:

University of Arizona

Title:

Feasibility of Providing Tele-Epilepsy Services on the Indian Reservation

 

 

Name:

Patricia C. Dugan, MD

Institution:

New York University Langone Medical Center

Title:

Surgical Grading Scale in the Evaluation of Patients with Treatment Resistant Epilepsy

 

 

Name:

Hamada Hamid, MD

Institution:

Yale University School of Medicine

Title:

White Matter Changes in Epilepsy and Depression

 

 

Name:

Jeffrey Tsai, MD, PhD

Institution:

The University of California, San Francisco

Title:

fMRI Study of Hyperexcitability in the Visual Thalamus of Idiopathic Generalized Epilepsy Patients