Rodrigo Zepeda, M.D.

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Rodrigo Zepeda, M.D., is an Assistant Professor of Neurology at UT Southwestern Medical Center. As an epilepsy specialist, he works with the epilepsy team at UT Southwestern to diagnose and treat patients who suffer from seizures. Dr. Zepeda also serves as the Program Director of the Clinical Neurophysiology Fellowship Program.

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.

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

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

• Epilepsy Surgery
• ICU EEG

Featured Publications

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

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 Pt 10 2679-2693

Coalescence and fragmentation of cortical networks during focal seizures.

Kramer MA, Eden UT, Kolaczyk ED, Zepeda R, Eskandar EN, Cash SS J. Neurosci. 2010 Jul 30 30 10076-85

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

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 10 95 16 e2259-e2270

Validation of a smartphone-based EEG among people with epilepsy: A prospective study.

McKenzie ED, Lim AS, Leung EC, Cole AJ, Lam AD, Eloyan A, Nirola DK, Tshering L, Thibert R, Garcia RZ, Bui E, Deki S, Lee L, Clark SJ, Cohen JM, Mantia J, Brizzi KT, Sorets TR, Wahlster S, Borzello M, Stopczynski A, Cash SS, Mateen FJ, Sci Rep 2017 04 7 45567

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 Behav 2016 Jun 59 122-7

Hearing loss in Wernicke encephalopathy.

Walker MA, Zepeda R, Afari HA, Cohen AB Neurol Clin Pract 2014 Dec 4 6 511-515

Periodic alternating gaze deviation and nystagmus in posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome.

Mackay DD, Zepeda Garcia R, Galetta SL, Prasad S, Neurol Clin Pract 2014 Dec 4 6 482-485

 Featured Books

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

• Brigham & Women’s Hospital Dunne Award for Outstanding Compassionate Care
  (2011)

• University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (2016)