Guest Speaker: Dr. Suzette LaRoche

Dr. Suzette LaRoche, MD is a professor of Neurology and interim chief of the Epilepsy division at the University of North Carolina and serves as the current president of the American Clinical Neurophysiology Society. She established the ICU EEG monitoring program at Emory University Hospital and more recently, created the Epilepsy and EEG monitoring program at Mission Hospital in Asheville, North Carolina. Dr. LaRoche was a founding member as well as past Chair of the Critical Care EEG Monitoring Research Consortium and contributed to the creation of standardized critical care EEG terminology, clinical guidelines and a multicenter database. More recently, Dr. LaRoche has been focusing her career efforts on improving healthcare delivery to patients with seizures and epilepsy in rural areas which includes development of tele-EEG and tele epilepsy resources.