Secretary, USC Epilepsy Care Consortium
Surgical Director, USC Comprehensive Epilepsy Center
Surgical Director, Rancho Los Amigos Epilepsy Center
Surgical Director, Hoag Epilepsy Center
Surgical Co-Director, CHLA Epilepsy Center
Surgical Director, Kern Medical Epilepsy Center
Director, USC Neurorestoration Center
Director of Epilepsy Surgery, USC Keck School of Medicine
“Epilepsy knows no socioeconomic and age boundaries. The principal mission of the USC Epilepsy Care Consortium is to understand the system-level issues that limit access to critically needed epilepsy serves across our region and develop patient-centered solutions to integrate care in spite of these barriers. Practically, it gives epilepsy patients from the southern half of California access to the combined resources and expertise of a dedicated group of epilepsy experts. In practice, prospective data is acquired to inform policy makers and hospital administrators alike, while thousands of patients receive access to outstanding care that would not be possible otherwise.”
Director Bio:
Dr. Charles Liu did his undergraduate education in Chemical Engineering at the University of Michigan and his PhD in Chemical/Bioengineering at Rice University before attending medical school at the Yale University School of Medicine. He completed his neurosurgery training at the USC-Affiliated Hospitals. He developed an interest in epilepsy surgery through interactions with his principal neurosurgery mentor Michael Apuzzo, who encouraged him to see the tutelage of Johannes Schramm in Bonn, Germany. He has played a principal role in the establishment and growth of the four adult epilepsy centers in the USC Epilepsy Care Consortium, as well as in establishing the integration of the adult and pediatric epilepsy programs at USC and establishing a partnership between the programs in Central California. He is the founding “Secretary” of USC Epilepsy Care Consortium.