Director of Micro-Neurosurgical Programs, USC Epilepsy Consortium
Director of Cerebrovascular Surgery, USC Keck School of Medicine
“The neurosurgical management of epilepsy has become increasingly sophisticated. Over the past years, minimally invasive stereotactic approaches are becoming increasingly established, thereby requiring the outcomes and techniques for microsurgical resections to improve as well. The capacity for surgical and peri-operative management of epilepsy patients vary greatly across the region, with exceptional resources available in top academic centers like USC Keck, these resources are much less uniform in more rural settings. Therefore, the execution of safe and effective epilepsy microsurgery across highly variable venues is hardly trivial. The USC Epilepsy Care Consortium makes available the combined expertise and resources to all patients in the partner centers, allowing for uniformly excellent quality in surgery”
Surgeon Bio:
Dr. Jonathan Russin completed his medical education graduating at the top of his class at UMDNJ. He received his neurosurgery training at the USC-Affiliated Hospitals. He completed an en-folded fellowship in epilepsy surgery under the direction of Charles Liu and played a seminal role in establishing the USC Epilepsy Care Consortium. After residency, he completed a cerebrovascular microsurgical fellowship at the Barrow Neurological Institute under the direction of Robert Spetzler and returned to join the neurosurgical faculty at the USC. He plays the principal role in standardizing microsurgical approaches to epilepsy across the centers of the USC Epilepsy Care Consortium.