Neurology Grand Rounds

Kinne Auditorium

Monday January 11, 2016 at 12:15 PM

Video-conferenced to Nemours 1 North & Mayo Clinic Health System in Waycross

William Tatum, D.O., presents “Mobile Neurophysiologic Monitoring in Epilepsy”  at Neurology Grand Rounds 12:15 PM on January 11, 2016 .

Dr. William O. Tatum IV is a professor in the Department of Neurology in the Mayo College of Medicine.  He is the director of the epilepsy monitoring unit at the Mayo Clinic in Florida.  He completed his medical training at the College of Osteopathic Medicine and Surgery in Des Moines, Iowa and a post graduate neurology residency at Loyola University Medical Center in Chicago, Illinois.  He then completed a two-year epilepsy fellowship at the Graduate Hospital Comprehensive Epilepsy Center in Philadelphia, affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania.  After his training, he relocated to Tampa, Florida and in conjunction with Tampa General Hospital, pioneered the Tampa General Hospital-University of South Florida Comprehensive Epilepsy Center before joining the Mayo Clinic in 2009.

He is board certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology (ABPN), the ABPN with added qualifications in neurophysiology, epilepsy, and the American Board of Clinical Neurophysiology.  He is currently a fellow in the American Academy of Neurology and the American Clinical Neurophysiology Society.  He has served on the board of directors for the American Board of Registration of EEG Technologists and Evoked Potentials, and serves on the board of directors for the Epilepsy Foundation of America. He is president of the board of the American Board of Clinical Neurophysiology and incoming president of the board for the American Clinical Neurophysiology Society.  He actively lectures in the field of epilepsy, and has authored or co-authored multiple abstracts, peer-reviewed editorials and journal articles, book chapters and has edited/co-edited several books in the field of clinical epilepsy and neurophysiology.  His research interests include seizure semiology, drug-resistant epilepsy, and EEG/clinical neurophysiology.

Learning Objectives:

Define areas of new neuroscience knowledge and research

Understand Clinicopathologic (CPC) correlations of neurologic disease

Illuminate areas of practice-based improvement within the neurosciences based on advancing scientific research or Practice-based improvement projects.

The speaker does not have a relevant financial relationship, and does not intend to discuss off label/investigative use of a commercial product or device.

College of Medicine, Mayo Clinic, is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

College of Medicine, Mayo Clinic, designates this live CME activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits^RM .  Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

This program is supported in part by an educational grant from the following companies in accordance with ACCME Standards:  NONE