Dr. Robert S. Fisher
M.D., Professor of Neurology
Stanford University
Dr. Fisher is a Professor of Neurology and Director of the Stanford Comprehensive Epilepsy Center. He received his Ph.D. in theNeurosciences in 1976 and aM.D. in 1977, fromStanford University. He then took specialty training in internal medicine at Stanford and in neurology at Johns Hopkins, where he was Co-Director of the Epilepsy Program for eleven years. He formerly was Chairman of the Department of Neurology, Chief of the Epilepsy Center at Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix, and Newsome Professor of Clinical Neurology at the University of Arizona.
Dr. Fisher’s professional goal is to derive new treatments for previously untreatable seizure disorders by merging information from research laboratories with clinical practice. He is author or co-author of over 120 peer-reviewed publications in medical journals, two books on epilepsy and two monographs. He frequently chairs symposia and meetings, speaks at national or international conferences on subjects related to seizure disorders, has been on review boards for national grant applications, and currently serves on the editorial board of several epilepsy and EEG-related journals. He has won research awards from the Klingenstein Foundation, the Epilepsy Foundation of America and the National Institutes of Health. His peers named him to be listed 1996-2003 in Best Doctors in America. He was given the Ambassador Award from the International League Against Epilepsy.
Dr. Fisher has served as President of the Epilepsy Society of Arizona; founding chair of the AES Public Education Committee and of the Research Committee; chair of the EFA Research Initiative Campaign, EFA Research Grants and Fellowships Committee, and the EFA Advocacy Committee; EFA Executive committee and as a member of the AES Research Awards Committee and AES Secretary for three years. He is Past-President of the American Epilepsy Society, and currently serves on the Board of the International League Against Epilepsy and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal, Epilepsia.
