William Sutherling

Dr. William Sutherling is the medical director at Epilepsy and Brain Mapping Program. He is known internationally for evaluating difficult-to-manage seizure disorders, brain mapping of seizures, tumors, and eloquent cortex and noninvasive techniques to diagnose and localize epilepsy for surgery. Dr. Sutherling has 25 years experience in epileptology and invasive monitoring studies. He is board-certified in neurology by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology and in EEG, Evoked Potentials and Intensive Monitoring by the American Board of Clinical Neurophysiology. Before moving to Huntington Memorial Hospital, he directed the Adult and Pediatric Epilepsy Subdural Grid and Brain Mapping Programs at UCLA. As the principal investigator on a National Institutes of Health (NIH) research grant studying the use of magnetoencephalography (MEG), Dr. Sutherling continues to seek new noninvasive techniques to diagnose and localize epilepsy for surgery. He has written more than 30 publications on the treatment of epilepsy.