Irina Podkorytova, M.D.
Assistant Professor

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.

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

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

Featured Publications

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

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

Non-lesional mesial temporal lobe epilepsy requires bilateral invasive evaluation.

Perven G, Podkorytova I, Ding K, Agostini M, Alick S, Das R, Dave H, Dieppa M, Doyle A, Harvey J, Lega B, Zepeda R, Hays R, Epilepsy Behav Rep 2021 15 100441

Utility of genetic testing in epilepsy surgery decision making (1678)

Irina Podkorytova, Ryan Hays, Kan Ding, Mark Agostini, Sasha Alick, Rohit Das, Hina Dave, Marisara Dieppa, Alexander Doyle, Jay Harvey, Bradley Lega, Rodrigo Zepeda, Ghazala Perven Neurology 96 (15 Supplement) April 13, 2021 2021 15 Supplement 96

 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)