Epilepsy Center

Our Team

As Suffolk's only Level 4 Comprehensive Epilepsy Center, our team of highly skilled adult and pediatric epileptologists, neurologists, radiologists and neurosurgeons enable Stony Brook Medicine to provide the highest quality care for patients, no matter how complex their epilepsy condition.

Neurology/Epilepsy

Lourdes Bello-Espinosa, MD

Pediatric Neurology/Epilepsy

Elizabeth M. Cruz, MD

Epilepsy Fellowship Director, Epilepsy Neurology, Pediatric Neurology, Neurology/Epilepsy

Ferhat Erol, MD

Epilepsy Associate Fellowship Director, Neurology/Epilepsy

Yana Krutoshinskaya, MD

Clinical Neurophysiology, Epilepsy Neurology, Neurology/Epilepsy

Bridget Leone, MD

Neurology/Epilepsy, Clinical Neurophysiology

Jill Miller-Horn, MD

Epilepsy Neurology, Neurology/Epilepsy, Pediatric Neurology

Galyna Pushchinska, MD

Vascular Neurologist, Clinical Neurophysiology

Olga Selioutski, DO

Clinical Neurophysiology

Rebecca Spiegel, MD

Chief of EEG/Epilepsy, Epilepsy Neurology, Sleep Medicine, Neurology, Professor

Neurosurgery

Charles Mikell, MD

Neurosurgeon

Alexander Winkler-Schwartz, MD, PhD

Co-Director, Pediatric Neurosurgeon

Epilepsy Nurse Practitioners

Barbara Fuentes, NP

Neurology

Patricia M. Melville, NP

Neurology

Heidy Merius, DNP

Neurology

Neuro-Radiology

Robert Peyster, MD

Diagnostic Radiology, Neuroradiology

Steven F. West, DO

Neuroradiology

Neuropsychology

Kelly Coulehan Crotty, PhD

Neuropsychology

Brian K. Lebowitz, PhD

Neuropsychology

Thomas Preston, PhD

Pediatric Psychology, Neuropsychology

Social Work

Geoffrey O'Connell, LCSW

Social Worker

Physical Therapy

Joseph Giglio, DPT

Physical Therapy

Karen Fitterer, DPT

Physical Therapy

Jennifer Kreppein, PT

Physical Therapy

Occupational Therapy

Clarissa Buencamino,

David Lavan, MS, OTR

Occupational Therapy

Cheryl Rooney, OT

Occupational Therapy

Speech Therapy

Craig Beale, M.A. CCC-SLP

Speech-Language Pathologist

Research

Alfredo Fontanini, MD, PhD

Co-Director, Neurosciences Institute Chair, Department of Neurobiology And Behavior

Shennan Weiss, MD, PhD

Neurology, Director of the Computational Neurology Lab