Pegah Afra, MD
Visiting Assistant Professor of Neurology
Dr. Pegah Afra received her medical training in Albert Szent Gyorgyi Medical University in Szeged, Hungary. She then completed her internship in internal medicine in Southern Illinois University, neurology residency in University of Wisconsin, and fellowship in epilepsy and clinical neurophysiology in Johns Hopkins Hospital.
She is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor in Department of Neurology of the University of Utah. She focuses on diagnosis and treatment of seizures and epilepsy. Her specific interests include presurgical evaluation and treatment of intractable epilepsies, invasive intracranial EEG monitoring and Magnetoencephalography (MEG).
Dr. Afra is investigating the use of MEG in presurgical evaluation of intractable and surgically amenable epilepsies. She also uses magnetoencephalography to investigate the basis of variations of human cognitive function including synesthesia.
Certifications:
- ECFMG certification
- American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology
- Canadian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology (EEG)
Selected Publications:
- Afra P, Jouny CC, and Bergey GK. Duration of Complex Partial Seizures: An Intracranial EEG Study. Epilepsia. 2008 Apr; 49 (4):677-84
- Afra P, Funke M, Matsuo F: Acquired auditory-visual synesthesia: A window to early cross-modal sensory interactions. In press PRBM
