Lisa R. Merlin, MD, FAAN, FANA
Distinguished Professor and Vice-Chair for Education
Departments of Neurology, Physiology, and Pharmacology
Director, the Clinical Neurosciences Pathway
As Vice Chair for Education, I overall all Downstate College of Medicine neurology-relevant required and elective coursework, and I am director and founder of the Clinical Neurosciences Pathway. I serve on the CCC and PEC of the Downstate adult neurology residency program, and I am program director of the Downstate Neurology at OBH advanced neurology program. I see neurology patients with the residents in the inpatient and outpatient settings.
Clinical Subspecialty:
- Neurophysiology
- Epilepsy
- Developmental Disabilities
- General Neurology
- Basic mechanisms of Epileptogenesis
- Hippocampal Neurophysiology
- Education projects relevant to standardizing grading and assessments and ensuring longitudinal and vertical integration of our competency-based curriculum across the four years of medical education
- Teaching residents to teach and assessing their teaching skills
- MD: SUNY Downstate Medical Center - 1986
- Neurology Residency: SUNY Downstate Medical Center - 1990
- Clinical Neurophysiology: SUNY Downstate Medical Center
- Developmental Disabilities/Epilepsy Research fellowship: SUNY Downstate Medical Center