|
|
|
Faculty
and Staff
Physicians
Anthony
M. Murro, MD - Adult Neurology
706-721-3325
amurro@mcg.edu
Joseph
R. Smith, MD - Adult Neurosurgery
706-721-3071
jsmith@mcg.edu
Yong
D. Park, MD - Pediatric Neurology
706-721-3371
ypark@mcg.edu
Mark
R. Lee, MD - Pediatric Neurosurgery
706-721-5688
mlee@mcg.edu
Neuropsychologists
Gregory
P. Lee, PhD - Adult
706-721-3851
glee@mcg.edu
Morris
J. Cohen, EdD - Pediatric
706-721-0267
mcohen@mcg.edu
Nurses
Danene
Carter, RN, BSN - Pediatric
706-721-3071
danene@mcg.edu
Pam
Culberson-Brown, RN, MSN - Pediatric
706-721-3371
pcbrown@mcg.edu
Physician
Assistant
Erika
Doster, PA-C - Pediatric
706-721-3071
edoster@mcg.edu
Epilepsy Monitoring Unit Staff
Lynne
Wallom, RN, DSN, CPNP, Nurse Manager
Kim
Jaeger, RN, Charge Nurse
Karen
Burke, RN
Charlotte
Byrum, RN
Michelle
Gregory, RN
Donna
Kolb, RN
Heather
Langford, RN
Evelyn
Miller, RN
Susan
Schnebelt, RN
Maria
Stephens, RN
Wanda
Smith, Unit Clerk
706-721-7387
Electroencephalography (EEG) Technologists
Lillie Marion
Mary
Mitchell
Brian Turner
706-721-3608
Epilepsy Program Coordinator
Erin E. Hall
706-721-4626
ehall@mcg.edu
Faculty
Biographies
Anthony
M. Murro, MD
Professor of Neurology
Dr. Murro received his undergraduate degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute in
Troy,
NY, and his medical doctorate from
Downstate
Medical
Center
in Brooklyn, NY
in 1981. He completed a residency in Neurology at Downstate
Medical
Center
in 1985, followed by a fellowship in Epilepsy and EEG at the Medical College
of Georgia in 1986. He has been on staff at MCG ever since. He is a diplomat
of the American Boards of Psychiatry and Neurology and Clinical
Neurophysiology. He is also acting director of the EEG and Sleep Laboratories
at the VA Medical Center in Augusta, GA. Dr. Murro has numerous clinical and
research interests. He is a member of the American
Academy
of Neurology and the American Epilepsy Society.
Yong
D. Park, MD
Professor of Neurology and Pediatrics
Dr. Park received his undergraduate and medical degrees from
Yonsei
University
in Seoul, Korea. He completed his residency in pediatrics at
Flushing
Hospital
Medical Center
in Flushing, NY
in 1985, and his fellowship in child neurology at Albert Einstein College of
Medicine in 1988. He completed an academic epilepsy fellowship at Duke
University
Medical
Center
in 1990, and remained on staff at
Duke
University
as a neurologist until 1991, when he came to MCG. Dr. Park is a diplomat of
the American Board of Pediatrics, the American Board of Clinical
Neurophysiology, the American Board of Sleep Medicine and the American Board
of Neurology with special qualifications in Child Neurology. His research
activities have included pediatric epilepsy surgery outcome, neurophysiology,
narcolepsy, and child neurology. Dr. Park is a member of the American
Academy
of Neurology, the American Epilepsy Society, and the Child Neurology Society.
Joseph
R. Smith, MD
Director of Surgical Epilepsy Service
Professor
of Neurosurgery
Dr. Smith completed a bachelor of science in psychology at the University of
Washington in 1963. He then obtained his doctor of medicine in 1967, and
then he completed his residency in neurosurgery in 1973 at the University of
Washington, School of Medicine, in Seattle, Washington. Dr. Smith worked
as an army neurosurgeon from 1973 to 1975. After that he was in a
private practice of neurosurgery until 1985 when he began a fellowship in
epilepsy surgery, functional and stereotactic, under Dr. Herman Flanigin at
the Medical College of Georgia. Dr. Smith has remained here ever
since. Dr. Smith has performed over 700 craniotomies for the surgical
treatment of epilepsy since that time. Dr. Smith is a Diplomat of the
American Board of Neurosurgery. He is a member of the American
Association of Neurological Surgeons, the Congress of Neurological Surgeons,
the World and American Societies of Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery,
and the American Epilepsy Society. He is a past President of the Georgia
Neurosurgical Society. He has over 100 abstracts and publications.
He is also the Director of the Functional and Stereotactic Neurosurgery and
Gamma Knife Surgery at MCG.
Mark
R. Lee, MD, PhD
Allen Distinguished Chair, Department of Neurosurgery
Associate
Professor of Neurosurgery
Dr. Lee obtained his doctor of medicine at the
University
of
Chicago, Pritzker School of Medicine in 1986, followed by his PhD in Neurobiology,
also at the University
of
Chicago. He then moved to
New York, where he completed his residency in neurosurgery at
New York
University, in 1994. He moved to
Augusta,
GA
and became a staff neurosurgeon in 1994. He became Chief of the Neurosurgery
Service at the Augusta VA Medical Center and of the
Eisenhower
Army
Medical
Center
in 1995. Dr. Lee completed a fellowship in functional and neurophysiologic
surgery under Dr. Joe Smith at MCG in 1998.He became Chief of the Pediatric
Neurosurgery Service at MCG in 1998, and Chief of the Section of Neurosurgery
at MCG in 2000. Dr. Lee is a fellow of the
American
College
of Surgeons. His main interest is pediatric epilepsy surgery. He is a member
of the American Epilepsy Society, the American Society of Stereotactic and
Functional Neurosurgery, and amongst many other professional societies.
Gregory
P. Lee, PhD
Professor
of Neurology
Dr.
Gregory Lee received his undergraduate degree in psychology from the
University
of
Northern Colorado
in 1975 and his doctorate in clinical psychology from the Florida Institute of
Technology in 1980. He completed a
postdoctoral fellowship in clinical neuropsychology at the
University
of
Houston, in conjunction with the Baylor College of Medicine, in 1984 and a second
postdoctoral fellowship in clinical and research neuropsychology at the
University of Wisconsin Medical School (MCC) in 1986.
Dr. Lee joined the Department of Neurosurgery at MCG in 1986 and has
subsequently been the Director of the Adult Neuropsychology Service in the
Departments of Neurosurgery, Psychiatry, and Neurology at various periods of
his career at MCG. Dr. Lee is a
board certified neuropsychologist by the American Board of Clinical
Neuropsychology and American Board of Professional Psychology.
His research has focused on human cerebral hemispheric specialization
of cognitive functions, functional outcome of epilepsy surgery, and the in
utero effects of antiepileptic drugs on neurodevelopment.
Dr. Lee is a member of the American Epilepsy Society,
American
Academy of Neurology, American Psychological Association, National Academy of
Neuropsychology, and the International Neuropsychological Society.
Morris
J. Cohen, EdD
Professor,
Neurology, Pediatrics & Psychiatry
Dr.
Morris Cohen performs the neuropsychological evaluations of children is a
Professor of Neurology, Pediatrics, and Psychiatry and is the director of the
Pediatric Neuropsychology Service at the Medical College of Georgia.
He earned his Ed.D. in school psychology for the University
of
Georgia
and completed a doctoral internship and postdoctoral fellowship in
neuropsychology at MCG before joining the faculty in 1983.
Dr. Cohen holds an adjunct faculty appointment in the Department of
Educational Psychology at the University of Georgia and is the author of the
Children's Memory Scale (1997), published by the Psychological Corporation.
Lynne Wallom, RN, DSN, CPNP
Nurse Manager
Dr.
Lynne Wallom received
her baccalaureate nursing degree from the Medical College of Georgia, School
of
Nursing
in 1977. She received her Master's Degree in Nursing (major in Pediatric
Nursing and minor in Education) from the Medical College of Georgia in 1987.
In 1997, she received her Pediatric Nurse Practitioner Degree from
Georgia
State
University
in
Atlanta, Georgia. In 2000, she received her Doctorate of Science in Nursing from the
University
of
Alabama
at
Birmingham
with an emphasis in pediatric nursing. Before assuming the role of Nurse
Manager of 4CMC in May, 2003 and Nurse Manager of 4E in July 2004, she had
taught pediatric nursing at the Medical College of Georgia,
School
of
Nursing
(both
Augusta
and SONAT campuses), Kennesaw
State
University
in Kennesaw,
Georgia
and Georgia Baptist School of Nursing in Atlanta, Georgia. She has practiced nursing at the Medical Center of Central Georgia in
Macon,
Georgia, Egleston Children's Hospital in
Atlanta, Georgia
and Scottish Rite Children's Hospital in
Atlanta, Georgia. From August 1997 until August 2002, she practiced as a pediatric
practitioner at the Children's Clinic in Morrow, Georgia.
Pamela L.
Culberson-Brown, RN, MSN, CNS
Clinical Nurse Specialist
Mrs.
Pam Culberson-Brown received her baccalaureate degree in nursing from Medical
College of Georgia in 1991. In
2003 she received her Master of Science Degree in Nursing (Pediatric Clinical
Nurse Specialist), from Medical College of Georgia, School
of
Nursing. She has always worked in
pediatric nursing, primarily surgery and general medicine, until 2003 when she
accepted her position as Clinical Nurse Specialist in the pediatric epilepsy
program. She is a member of Sigma
Theta Tau, Nursing Honor Society and Chi Eta Phi, Nursing sorority.
She has participated in research in the areas of pediatrics and
pediatric epilepsy. Mrs. Culberson-Brown assists in patient care planning,
patient education and follow-up care for the pediatric epilepsy service.
|
