Medical Director, Kern Medical Epilepsy Center
“Having trained and practiced in the highest-level epilepsy centers in India, Brazil, and the United States (ie. Cleveland Clinic), it is abundantly clear that most of the medical and surgical advancements being discussed in national and international conferences are largely irrelevant to patients in rural regions which lack even basic epilepsy care, no less comprehensive epilepsy centers. This was certainly true in Central California until the Kern Medical Epilepsy Center was created. This could not have been possible without the unique resource-sharing strategy of the USC Epilepsy Care Consortium and the unmitigated support of many experts in the partner institutions. It may be in Kern and neighboring counties that the true impact of this effort is the greatest, and most improbable”
Director Bio:
Dr. Hari Veedu received his medical education and neurology fellowship at the Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology in Trivandrum, India. He has been exceptionally dedicated to epilepsy patients and has sought the tutelage of internationally recognized experts. He completed an epilepsy surgery fellowship at the Hospital Sao Lucas da PUCRS in Brazil. He then served as a research fellow and clinical scholar in clinical neurophysiology and epilepsy at the Neurological Institute of the Cleveland Clinic Foundation. He completed residency training in neurology at Case Western University in Cleveland, OH, where he was a member of the faculty before moving to Bakersfield, CA. He has benefited from the mentorship of internationally famous epilepsy experts such as Andrae Palmini and Hans Luders. He is passionate about establishing programs in critically underserved areas, such as Central California.