About
Dr. Pegah Afra is a neurologist in Worcester, Massachusetts, board certified in Clinical Neurophysiology, Epilepsy and Neurology. She practices at UMass Memorial Medical Center, UMass Memorial Med CTR-Memorial Camp, UMass Memorial Medical Group and New York Presbyterian Hospital, and speaks English. Dr. Afra is an Interim Assistant Professor of Neurology at Weill Cornell Medical College and an Attending Physician in Neurology at New York Presbyterian Hospital. She completed her medical degree from Albert Szent Gyorgyi Medical University in Hungary, followed by internship in internal medicine at Southern Illinois University, neurology residency at University of Wisconsin, and fellowship in epilepsy and clinical neurophysiology at Johns Hopkins Hospital. Before joining Weill Cornell Medicine, she spent a decade at the University of Utah treating adults and adolescents with intractable epilepsy, including presurgical and surgical evaluations, and directing EEG and Epilepsy Fellowship Programs. Her clinical focus is on diagnosis and treatment of seizures and epilepsy, with particular interest in intractable epilepsies, evaluation for seizure surgery, and neurostimulation devices. She also conducts clinical trials in epilepsy involving novel neurostimulation devices and pharmacologic agents.
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