Ruben Kuzniecky

Ruben Kuzniecky, M.D. (b1957) is a professor of Neurology specializing in the field of epilepsy and Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI). He was the first to recognize and prove that mesial temporal sclerosis, a common cause for difficult to control temporal lobe epilepsy, can be identified with MRI.

Bio

Dr. Kuzniecky was born and raised by his parents Betzalel and Sara Kuzniecky in Panama City, Panama, graduating from the University of Buenos Aires Medical School in Argentina in 1981. After 2 years of medical/surgical internship, he did a year of internal medicine at McGill University hospitals followed by residency training in Neurology at McGill University, Montreal, Canada between 1983–1987 and epilepsy EEG fellowship at the Montreal Neurological Institute in 1988. Dr. Kuzniecky has co-directed epilepsy research at the New York University (NYU) Comprehensive Epilepsy Center since 2003. Prior to arriving at NYU, he directed the Epilepsy Center at the University of Alabama at Birmingham from 1992 to 2003.UAB Publications, Dale Short (from UAB Magazine, Winter 1999, Volume 19, Number 1),When Neurons Misfire: Exploring Epilepsy

His research is centered on the use of Magnetic Resonance Imaging and its applications to epilepsy and on unraveling the major developmental brain malformations in epilepsy. He was the first to recognize and prove that mesial temporal sclerosis, a common cause for difficult epilepsy, can be identified...
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