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Home / Team / Fabio Nascimento, MD

Fabio Nascimento, MD

Washington University, St. Louis

Dr. Nascimento is an Assistant Professor of Neurology at Washington University in St. Louis.

Originally from Brazil, he completed medical school at the Universidade Federal do Paraná (UFPR) and then spent two years at the University of Toronto working as a research fellow in epilepsy genetics.

Subsequently, he moved to Houston, Texas, to train as an adult neurologist at Baylor College of Medicine, followed by two years of clinical fellowship training in clinical neurophysiology and epilepsy at the Massachusetts General Hospital-Harvard Medical School.

Dr. Nascimento’s research focus includes epilepsy genetics, transition of care, EEG, and education.

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