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Irina Podkorytova, M.D.

Irina Podkorytova, M.D.

Assistant Professor

School
Medical School
Department
Neurology

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  • Biography

    Irina Podkorytova, M.D., is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Neurology 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.

  • Education
    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
    Fellowship
    UTSW (Research fellowship) (2016)
    Research Fellowship
    UT Southwestern Medical Center (2016), Neurophysiology
    Fellowship
    UT Southwestern Medical Center (2019), Epilepsy
  • Research Interest
    • Epilepsy surgery outcomes
    • Extraoperative electrical cortical stimulation
    • Ictal onset localization with invasive electrodes
    • Neuromodulation
  • Publications

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  • Books

    Featured 

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

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

  • Honors & Awards
    • FACNS
      Fellow, American Clinical Neurophysiology Society (FACNS) (2023)
    • 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)
  • Professional Associations/Affiliations
    • American Clinical Neurophysiology Society (2018)
    • American Epilepsy Society (2017)
    • American Stereo-EEG Consortium (2020)
    • Texas Neurological Society (2018)