Gates Vascular Institute

This is a training site that will deeply enrich your knowledge of epilepsy surgeries. Here, you’ll have numerous learning experiences in the operating room.

You may have opportunities to strengthen your knowledge of procedures such as:

• corpus callosotomy
• focal resection
• frontal lobe resection
• laser ablation surgery
• lesionectomy
• multiple subpial transections
• parietal and occipital lobe resection
• temporal lobe resection

At Gates Vascular Institute, you’ll gain experience with stereotactic EEG (sEEG) electrodes. You will learn how they are placed and connected, we’ll familiarize you with stereotactic frames, and you’ll work with patients who:

• have focal epilepsy and seizures (complex partial seizures) that do not respond to anti-convulsant medications or medical treatment
• are a potential candidate for epilepsy surgery
• have seizures with origin sites that cannot be found with other tests

You’ll also learn about managing patients after sEEG electrodes are placed. 

Training at Gates Vascular Institute will enable you to experience how cortical mapping is performed on awake craniotomy patients. 

You’ll see firsthand why monitoring patients in the awake state allows more aggressive resection of epileptogenic foci in functionally important brain regions. 

We’ll make sure you have a solid understanding of current pharmacologic agents and techniques used by neuroanesthesiologists.

Our faculty at this site include:

• two full-time adult epileptologists
• one full-time neurosurgeon
  

You’ll be exposed to patients with a range of conditions at this site. Conditions may include:

• hypothalamic hamartoma
• tuberous sclerosis
• mesial temporal lobe epilepsy
• cortical dysplasia