Mirela V. Simon MD

Dr. Simon received her Medical degree from Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bucharest, Romania, and a Master of Science degree in Epidemiology from Harvard School of Public Health. She did her Neurology residency training at Boston University Medical Center followed by a two-year clinical neurophysiology/epilepsy fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Simon joined the faculty at MGH in 2003 and served as the Medical Director of the Intraoperative Neurophysiology Unit until 2020. She is currently an Associate Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School.

Dr. Simon's main research interests include improving and developing new methods of neurophysiologic mapping of the central nervous system (CNS) as well as the neurophysiology of increased cortical excitability and CNS ischemia. She has a broad clinical interest in clinical neurophysiology, particularly its intraoperative applications for the prevention of postoperative neurologic deficits and for epilepsy surgery.