
Irina Podkorytova, M.D.
Assistant Professor
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
Featured Publications
- Pearls & Oy-sters: Two Cases of Stereotactic EEG-Proven Insular Epilepsy With Non-localizing Scalp EEG and Interesting Semiologies.
- Li D, Podkorytova I, Dieppa M, Perven G, Neurology 2022 Jun
- Epilepsy surgery in patient with monogenic epilepsy related to SCN8A mutation.
- Podkorytova I., Hays R., Perven G., Alick Lindstrom S. Epilepsy and Behavior Reports 2022 in press
- Non-lesional mesial temporal lobe epilepsy requires bilateral invasive evaluation
- Ghazala Perven, Irina Podkorytova, Kan Ding, Mark Agostini, Sasha Alick, Rohit Das, Hina Dave, Marisara Dieppa, Alexander Doyle, Jay Harvey, Bradley Lega, Rodrigo Zepeda, Ryan Hays Epilepsy & Behavior Reports 2021
- Stereo-EEG Evaluation and Surgical Treatment in Patients With Drug-Resistant Focal Epilepsy Associated With Nodular Heterotopia
- Durica S., Caruso J., Podkorytova I., Ding K., Hays R., Lega B., Perven G. Stereo-EEG evaluation and surgical treatment in patients with drug-resistant focal epilepsy associated with nodular heterotopia. Journal of Clinical Neurophysiology 2021 April 7, 2021 - Volume Publish Ahead of Print
- 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
- Temporal lobe interictal spikes disrupt encoding and retrieval of verbal memory: A subregion analysis.
- Camarillo-Rodriguez L, Leenen I, Waldman Z, Serruya M, Wanda PA, Herweg NA, Kahana MJ, Rubinstein D, Orosz I, Lega B, Podkorytova I, Gross RE, Worrell G, Davis KA, Jobst BC, Sheth SA, Weiss SA, Sperling MR, Epilepsia 2022 Jun
- Emergency department visits and readmissions in patients with psychogenic nonepileptic seizures (PNES) at a safety net hospital.
- Ramamurthy S, Steven Brown L, Agostini M, Alick Lindstorm S, Dave H, Dieppa M, Ding K, Doyle A, Hays R, Harvey J, Perven G, Podkorytova I, Zepeda R, Das RR, Epilepsy Behav 2021 Aug 122 108225
- Emergent Admissions to the Epilepsy Monitoring Unit in the Setting of COVID-19 Pandemic-related, State-mandated Restrictions: Clinical Decision Making and Outcomes.
- Zepeda R, Lee Y, Agostini M, Alick Lindstrom S, Dave H, Dieppa M, Ding K, Doyle A, Harvey J, Hays R, Perven G, Podkorytova I, Das RR, Neurodiagn J 2021 Jun 61 2 95-103
Books
Featured Books
Depth Electrodes. In Operative Techniques in Epilepsy Surgery, Second Edition.
Neely, O; Podkorytova, I; Lega, BC. (2019). Thieme
Honors & Awards
- American Clinical Neurophysiology Society Program Directors 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)