Written By Torie Robinson

Idiopathic Generalised Epilepsies & People's Needs - Brad Kamitaki, Rutgers RWJ Medical School, USA

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Award-winning epileptologist Brad Kamitaki explains his research into and the needs of people affected by complex, refractory Idiopathic Generalised Epilepsies, plus thoughts on honesty & clarity with both People with Epilepsy & caregivers.

    • Meet Brad

    • Value of families & caregivers of those with epilepsy

    • Award-winning (ILAE) paper re refractory epilepsy in Idiopathic Generalised Epilepsies (IGEs)

    • Catamenial epilepsy

    • Clinical & EEG factors, process, analysis, discovery of the study

    • Fabulous feedback on & use of paper

    • Further research required for IGE

    • Use of paper to improve communications and life planning with PwE

    • Honesty and clarity with PwE and caregivers

  • Brad Kamitaki is an assistant professor of neurology at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. He was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii, and graduated from Pomona College, where he majored in Japanese language and literature. He obtained his medical degree from the University of Hawai’i John A. Burns School of Medicine

    Brad completed both his neurology residency and two-year clinical neurophysiology and epilepsy fellowship at Columbia University Medical Center in New York City.

    Since joining Rutgers medical school in 2018, Brad has published on several clinical epilepsy and EEG topics, including patient safety in the epilepsy monitoring unit, drug-induced liver injury due to anti-seizure medications, and quantitative EEG for ischemia detection in the intensive care unit and the operating room.

    Brad’s multi-center observational study examining factors that predict a refractory outcome in patients with idiopathic generalised epilepsy was recently published in Epilepsia.

    Brad has a particular interest in health services research and health disparities in research. His project aimed at addressing barriers to comprehensive epilepsy care using a mixed-methods, multi-stakeholder approach was funded by grants from the American Epilepsy Society and New Jersey Health Foundation.

  • Twitter: BKamitaki

    Comprehensive Epilepsy Center of New Jersey (CECNJ): Brad J Kamitaki

    Rutgers Health: brad-k-kamitaki

    ResearchGate: Brad-Kamitaki

    ILAE: epilepsia-prize

 
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