Dr. Monica B. Dhakar, MD, MS

I am a board certified neurologist with specialization in epilepsy. I care for patients with epilepsy in my clinic and hospital setting. My research interests include broad range of epilepsy areas including status epilepticus, seizures in critically ill patients, epidemiology and healthcare outcome in epilepsy and autoimmune epilepsy.

Specialties

Neurology

Board Certifications

ABMS Psychiatry/Neurology

Fellowships

Yale University School of Medicine

Affiliations

Emory

Education & Training

Medical School: ECFMG-University of Aleppo Faculty of Medicine
Internship: Sinai Grace Hospital
Residency: Wayne University School of Medicine

Honors & Awards

Young Investigator award in America Epilepsy Society in 2014

American Clinical Neurophysiology Society in 2017

Publications

Acute Resective Surgery for the Treatment of Refractory Status Epilepticus. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28357637

A retrospective cross-sectional study of the prevalence of generalized convulsive status epilepticus in traumatic brain injury: United States 2002-2010. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26552556

Frontal Aslant Tract Abnormality on Diffusion Tensor Imaging in an Aphasic Patient With 49, XXXXY Syndrome https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26706051

Sacral Spine Myeloid Sarcoma https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27053987

Acute Onset Dystonia after Infarction of Premotor and Supplementary Motor Cortex. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26483154

A Cryptic Case: Isolated Cerebral Mucormycosis https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26450170