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Rodrigo Zepeda, M.D.

Rodrigo Zepeda, M.D.

Epilepsy Outreach Clinic Director, Parkland Health & Hospital System

Associate Professor

School
Medical School
Department
Neurology

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  • Biography

    Rodrigo Zepeda, M.D., is an epilepsy specialist, he works with the epilepsy team at UT Southwestern to diagnose and treat patients who suffer from seizures.

    Trainee Education: Dr. Zepeda serves as the Program Director of the Clinical Neurophysiology Fellowship Program.

    Research: Dr. Zepeda's research interests include the management of refractory epilepsy, ICU EEG, and global health.

    Background: Dr. Zepeda earned his medical degree with honors at the Tecnológico de Monterrey School of Medicine in Mexico.  After graduating from medical school, Dr. Zepeda spent almost a year providing medical care for marginalized communities in Chiapas, Mexico working for Partners in Health, a Boston-based global health nonprofit. He then completed his internal medicine internship, neurology residency, and epilepsy fellowship at Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and Massachusetts General Hospital. During this time, he also joined the Bhutan Epilepsy Project, which used portable EEG diagnostic equipment to accurately diagnose patients suffering from seizures in Bhutan, located in the Eastern Himalayas.

  • Education
    Medical School
    Tecnologico de Monterrey Escuela de Medicina Ignacio A. Santos (2009)
    Research Fellowship
    Massachusetts General Hospital (2010), Neurophysiology
    Internship
    Harvard/Brigham and Women's Hospital (2011), Internal Medicine
    Residency
    Massachusetts General Hospital & Brigham and Women's Hospital (2014), Neurology
    Fellowship
    Massachusetts General Hospital (2016), Epilepsy/clinical Neurophysiology
  • Research Interest
    • Epilepsy Surgery
    • ICU EEG
  • Publications
    Stereo-electroencephalographic seizure localization in patients with mesial temporal sclerosis: A single center experience
    Zhang B, Podkorytova I, Hays R, Perven G, Agostini M, Harvey J, Zepeda R, Alick-Lindstrom S, Dieppa M, Doyle A, Das R, Lega B, Ding K Clinical Neurophysiology Practice 2024 Jan 9 106-111
    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 and Behavior 2021 Sep 122
    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 and Behavior Reports 2021 Jan 15
    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 Neurodiagnostic Journal 2021 61 95-103
    Association of epileptiform abnormalities and seizures in Alzheimer disease
    Lam AD, Sarkis RA, Pellerin KR, Jing J, Dworetzky BA, Hoch DB, Jacobs CS, Lee JW, Weisholtz DS, Zepeda R, Westover MB, Cole AJ, Cash SS Neurology 2020 Oct 95 E2259-E2270
    Widespread changes in network activity allow non-invasive detection of mesial temporal lobe seizures
    Lam AD, Zepeda R, Cole AJ, Cash SS Brain 2016 Oct 139 2679-2693
    Medication prescribing and patient-reported outcome measures in people with epilepsy in Bhutan
    McKenzie ED, Nirola DK, Deki S, Tshering L, Patenaude B, Clark SJ, Cash SS, Thibert R, Zepeda R, Leung EC, Lam AD, Lim AS, Mantia J, Cohen J, Cole AJ, Mateen FJ Epilepsy and Behavior 2016 Jun 59 122-127
    Hearing loss in Wernicke encephalopathy
    Walker MA, Zepeda R, Afari HA, Cohen AB Neurology: Clinical Practice 2014 4 511-515
    Individualized localization and cortical surface-based registration of intracranial electrodes
    Dykstra AR, Chan AM, Quinn BT, Zepeda R, Keller CJ, Cormier J, Madsen JR, Eskandar EN, Cash SS NeuroImage 2012 Feb 59 3563-3570
    Graphical models for localization of the seizure focus from interictal intracranial EEG
    Dauwels J, Eskandar E, Cole A, Hoch D, Zepeda R, Cash SS 2011 745-748
  • Books

    Featured 

    Bell´s Palsy. In Pocket Primary Care

    Meghan M. Kiefer, Curtis R. Chong (2014). Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

    Seizures, Epilepsy and EEG. In Pocket Neurology

    Brandon Westover, Matthew Bianchi (2010). Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

    Seizures. In Pocket Primary Care

    Meghan M. Kiefer, Curtis R. Chong (2014). Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

  • Honors & Awards
    • Brigham & Women’s Hospital Dunne Award for Outstanding Compassionate Care
      (2011)
  • Professional Associations/Affiliations
    • University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (2016)