About the HF Comprehensive Epilepsy Program
- NAEC Level 4 Epilepsy Center providing the highest level of medical and surgical Epilepsy care
- Nearly 35 years of experience managing all Epilepsy types
- Multidisciplinary team of epileptologists, neurosurgeons, neuropsychologists, APPs, and specialized EEG staff
- Care focused not only on seizure control, but on improving quality of life
Clinical & Diagnostic Excellence
Henry Ford’s Epilepsy team is one of the most experienced and active programs in the Midwest:
- 10 fellowship-trained epileptologist
- Pediatric epileptologist
- Clinical neuropsychologist
- 3 dedicated Epilepsy neurosurgeons
- Annual Clinical Volume
- 10,000+ Epilepsy clinic visits
- 5,500+ EEG studies
- More than 300 EMU admissions per year across two state-of-the-art Epilepsy Monitoring Units
- Expanding long-term EEG program across multiple sites
HFCEP has been a leader in advanced neurodiagnostic, including:
- Magnetoencephalography (MEG) — over 20 years of experience, among few U.S. programs with dedicated expertise
- Advanced multimodal neuroimaging integrated into Epilepsy evaluation
Advanced Epilepsy Surgery Program
Our surgical program, established nearly 35 years ago, offers the full spectrum of modern Epilepsy surgery:
- Presurgical Evaluation
- Advanced robotic precision stereo-EEG (SEEG) with ROSA-assisted electrode placement
- Among the early U.S. adopters of modern intracranial monitoring techniques
- Surgical & Device Therapies offered include
- Resective Epilepsy surgery
- Laser interstitial thermal therapy (LITT)
- Vagus Nerve Stimulation (VNS)
- Responsive Neurostimulation (RNS)
- Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS)
- Corpus callosotomy and other palliative procedures