Sima Patel, MD

Dr. Sima. I. Patel is an Assistant Professor in Neurology at the University of Minnesota. Since 2012, she has been a full-time clinician focusing on complex epilepsy management with surgical interventions and pharmacological treatments at the University of Minnesota Physicians/MINCEP Epilepsy Care. She earned her undergraduate degree in community health and health administration from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and her medical degree from Rush Medical College in Chicago. She completed her neurology residency training at the Medical College of Wisconsin, and a 2-year epilepsy fellowship at Cleveland Clinic Foundation in Cleveland, Ohio. She is passionate about resident education, female physician empowerment, epilepsy research pertaining to women with epilepsy, and epilepsy clinical drug trials. Outside of work she enjoys traveling, baking, and theatre with her two young daughters and husband.

1.Patel SI, Pennell PB. Management of epilepsy during pregnancy: an update. Therapeutic Advances in Neurological Disorders. 2015 Dec

2.Patel SI,Brinbaum AK, Cloyd JC, Leppik IE. Intravenous and Intramuscular Formulations of Antiseizure Drugs in the Treatment of Epilepsy. CNS Drugs. 2015 Dec

3.Leppik IE, Patel SI. Intramuscular and rectal therapies of acute seizures. Epilepsy & Behavior. 2015 Dec

4.Rathore JS, Jehi LE, Fan Y, Patel SI, Foldvary-Schaefer N, Ramirez MJ, Busch RM, Obuchowski NA, Tesar GE. Validation of the Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9) for depression screening adults with epilepsy. Epilepsy and Behavior. 2014 Aug; 37: 215-20.

5.Patel SI, Foldvary N. Hormones and Seizures Chapter. Women with epilepsy: a practical management handbook. Publisher: Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press, 2014.