Dileep Nair MD

Dr. Dileep Nair is the section head of adult epilepsy and director of intraoperative neurophysiologic monitoring at Cleveland Clinic. He received his medical degree in 1993 from Northeastern Ohio Medical University. He went on to do his neurology residency and clinical neurophysiology and epilepsy fellowship at Cleveland Clinic. He was previously fellowship director for clinical neurophysiology/epilepsy at Cleveland Clinic and course director for the year two neuroscience course at Cleveland Clinic Learner College of Medicine. He received the Kaiser Permanente Award in Excellence in Teaching in 2016 from Case Western Reserve School of Medicine.

Dr. Nair has over 90 peer-reviewed articles in journals such as Brain, Neurology, Epilepsia, and Human Brain Mapping.  His publications have been in the areas of human brain connectivity, invasive EEG recordings, brain stimulation, and clinical neurophysiology. Dr. Nair was a principal investigator for the NIH RO1 study on brain connectivity. This grant's main objective was to map abnormal brain connectivity in patients with focal epilepsy using a technique called cortico-cortical evoked potentials (CCEPs).

He and his colleagues are credited in the discovery of CCEPs as a method of measuring effective brain connectivity. This methodology uses low-frequency electrical stimulation applied directly to intracranial electrodes placed as a part of a surgical evaluation for the treatment of epilepsy.  This technique has now been adopted by numerous epilepsy centers across the world and has been validated methodology for exploring various pathological and functional brain networks.