Elizabeth Gerard MD, FACNS

Dr. Elizabeth Gerard is an Associate Professor of Neurology at the Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine where she also directs the clinical neurophysiology fellowship. Her clinical and academic interests are the intersection of reproductive health and epilepsy care and epilepsy genetics. She is the founder of the Women with Epilepsy Program and Adult Epilepsy Genetics Clinic at Northwestern.

Her research interests include gene discovery and variant interpretation in adult patients with epilepsy. She also studies pregnancy and contraception in women with epilepsy. She is the site-PI of the MONEAD (maternal outcomes and neurodevelopmental effects of anti-epileptic drugs). Finally, She is also interested in the use and understanding of continuous EEG monitoring in the critically ill and is the site-PI for the Critical Care EEG Consortium.