Western University (Epilepsy)

Fellowship Program Director: David A. Steven MD, MPH, FRCSC, FACS
Program Faculty: Dr. David Steven, Dr. Jonathan Lau, Dr. Keith MacDougall
Length of Fellowship: 1 Year
CAST/SNS Approval:  N/A

Program’s goals and objectives

The Epilepsy Surgery Fellowship is meant to provide sub-specialty training in the surgical treatment of adult epilepsy to fully trained neurosurgeons. The fellow will receive training in the pre-surgical workup of patients being considered for epilepsy surgery as well as the decision-making process for planning invasive electrode studies and surgical procedures. The fellow will obtain substantial surgical training in stereoelectroencephalography (SEEG), resective and disconnective techniques as well as neuromodulatory approaches to epilepsy surgery, such as vagus nerve stimulation. At the end of the fellowship, the neurosurgeon will be prepared for independent practice as an epilepsy surgeon.

Neurosurgical procedure exposure

• Surgery for Movement Disorders: No
• Epilepsy Surgery: Yes
• Pain Procedures: No
• Surgery for Spasticity: No
• Stereotactic Radiosurgery: No
• Psychosurgery
• Other (please indicate): No

Contact Information

David A. Steven, MD, MPH, FRCSC, FACS
London Health Sciences Centre, University Hospital
339 Windermere Road
London, Ontario, Canada N6A 5A5
Phone: (519) 663-3297
Fax: (519) 663-3296
Email: david.steven@lhsc.on.ca
URL: Web page