Alexander Rotenberg

Alexander Rotenberg, M.D., Ph.D. is a practicing neurologist and epileptologist at Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, where he heads the transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) service within the department of Neurology. He received his undergraduate degree from Johns Hopkins University and combined graduate degrees from State University of New York, Downstate Medical Center, before completing the residency in Child Neurology and fellowship in Epilepsy and Clinical Neurophysiology at Children's Hospital. Dr. Rotenberg leads local efforts to adapt methods for TMS and other forms of noninvasive brain stimulation to the pediatric population, particularly to children with epilepsy. He also heads a basic science laboratory where experiments focus on translational applications of noninvasive brain stimulation in animal models of epilepsy and brain injury.