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

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

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

Scalp-EEG negative events mimicing non-epileptic spells identified as insula seizures - Stereo-EEG study (2591)

Denise Li, Irina Podkorytova, Ghazala Perven, Mark Agostini, Alex Doyle, Sasha Alick, Rohit Das, Hina Dave, Kan Ding, Jay Harvey, Ryan Hays, Bradley Lega, Rodrigo Zepeda, Marisara Dieppa Neurology 2021 Supplement 15 96

Concordance between patient-reported and physician-reported seizure semiology (1890)

Andrew Lin, Patrick Arraj, Irina Podkorytova, Ghazala Perven, Kan Ding, Jay Harvey, Ryan Hays, Mark Agostini, Rohit Das, Hina Dave, Marisara Dieppa, Rodrigo Zepeda, Sasha Alick, Alexander Doyle Neurology 2021 Supplement 15 96

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

 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)