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Home / Team / Elizabeth E. Gerard, MD

Elizabeth E. Gerard, MD

Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine

Dr. Gerard is an Associate Professor of Neurology at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine. Her clinical and academic interests focus on the care of women with epilepsy and epilepsy genetics.

Inspired by patients seeking to understand the causes of their epilepsy, she developed an adult epilepsy genetics clinic and has co-directed Northwestern’s Adult Epilepsy Genetics Program since 2017.

She currently leads the Genetic Epilepsy in Adults Network (GEAN). Dr. Gerard has expertise in clinical trials and epilepsy education.

She is committed to training the next generation of adult epileptologists and to advancing care and research for adults with genetic epilepsies, developmental and epileptic encephalopathies (DEE) and Lennox–Gastaut syndrome (LGS), with a particular emphasis on improving their inclusion in clinical trials.

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