Irina Podkorytova, M.D.
Assistant Professor

Irina Podkorytova, M.D., is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Neurology and Neurotherapeutics at UT Southwestern Medical Center.

Dr. Podkorytova earned her medical degree at Perm State Medical Academy in Russia, followed by a residency in neurology at Children’s Hospital in Kurgan, Russia. She then completed the Epilepsy Neurophysiology Clinical Research Fellowship at the Cleveland Clinic Epilepsy Center, followed by the Neurophysiology Research Fellowship and Epilepsy Clinical Fellowship at the University of Texas Southwestern.

Dr. Podkorytova joined UT Southwestern faculty in 2019 to supervise the invasive EEG evaluations with stereotactic and subdural electrodes.

Medical School

Perm State Medical Academy, Russia (1989)

Residency

Kurgan Municipal Children's Hospital - Russia (1990), Child Neurology

Research Fellowship

Cleveland Clinic Foundation (2014), Epilepsy/clinical Neurophysiology

Research Fellowship

UT Southwestern Medical Center (2016), Neurophysiology

Fellowship

UT Southwestern Medical Center (2019), Epilepsy

• Epilepsy surgery outcomes
• Extraoperative electrical cortical stimulation
• Ictal onset localization with invasive electrodes
• Neuromodulation

Featured Publications

Magnetoencephalography and ictal SPECT in patients with failed epilepsy surgery.

El Tahry R, Wang ZI, Thandar A, Podkorytova I, Krishnan B, Tousseyn S, Guiyun W, Burgess RC, Alexopoulos AV, Clin Neurophysiol 2018 08 129 8 1651-1657

Aicardi syndrome: epilepsy surgery as a palliative treatment option for selected patients and pathological findings.

Podkorytova I, Gupta A, Wyllie E, Moosa A, Bingaman W, Prayson R, Knight EM, Epileptic Disord 2016 Dec 18 4 431-439

Stereo-Encephalography Versus Subdural Electrodes for Seizure Localization.

Podkorytova I, Hoes K, Lega B, Neurosurg. Clin. N. Am. 2016 Jan 27 1 97-109

Stereo-EEG Seizure Localization in Patients with Medically Intractable Focal Epilepsy Associated with Schizencephaly (2505)

Irina Podkorytova, Bradley Lega, Ryan Hays, Mark Agostini, Sasha Alick, Rohit Das, Hina Dave, Marisara Dieppa, Kan Ding, Alexander Doyle, Jay Harvey, Rodrigo Zepeda Garcia, Ghazala Perven Neurology 2020

Patient selection and outcomes of placement of the Neuropace Responsive Neurostimulator for the treatment of intractable epilepsy: a single center experience (P5.5-029)

Mark Agostini, Sasha Alick, Rohit Das, Hina Dave, Marisara Dieppa, Kan Ding, Jay Harvey, Ryan Hays, Ghazala Perven, Bradley Lega, Irina Podkorytova, Rodrigo Zepeda Garcia, Vijay Ram, Joseph Flay Neurology 2019

Level Four Epilepsy Center Experience With Stereo-electroencephalography (P5.5-020)

Irina Podkorytova, Ghazala Perven, Kan Ding, Mark Agostini, Ryan Hays, Sasha Alick, Marisara Dieppa, Rohit Das, Hina Dave, Jay Harvey, Rodrigo Zepeda Garcia, Bradley Lega Neurology 2019

Combined Treatment of Bilateral Periventricular Nodular Heterotopia with Laser Ablation and Neuropace Leads Placement after Stereo-EEG Evaluation (P5.5-033)

Irina Podkorytova, Mark Agostini, Bradley Lega, Rodrigo Zepeda Garcia, Ryan Hays, Ghazala Perven Neurology 2019

 Featured Books

Depth Electrodes. In Operative Techniques in Epilepsy Surgery, Second Edition.

Neely, O; Podkorytova, I; Lega, BC. (2019). Thieme

• American Clinical Neurophysiology Society Program Director’s Travel Scholarship
  (2019)
• Poster Competition Award
  Texas Neurological Society (2019)
• Research Poster Award
  University of Texas Southwestern (2019)
• Victor Rivera/Leon Weisberg Research Manuscript Award
  University of Texas Southwestern (2019)

• American Stereo-EEG Consortium (2020)
• American Clinical Neurophysiology Society (2018)
• Texas Neurological Society (2018)
• American Epilepsy Society (2017)