Med School Café - Expert Advice for the Community

Dr. George Rusyniak, associate professor of neurosurgery at the USA College of Medicine presents the September Med School Café lecture, "Surgical Treatment of Epilepsy."

This week, Dr. George Rusyniak, associate professor of neurosurgery at the University of South Alabama College of Medicine, presented the September Med School Café lecture. The lecture, "Surgical Treatment of Epilepsy," had a total of 49 attendees.

At the lecture, Dr. Rusyniak discussed epilepsy, a brain disorder in which a person has repeated seizures over time. He also explained available epilepsy treatments, including epilepsy surgery, an operation on the brain that can control seizures.

The next Med School Café lecture will be held on Oct. 20, 2011, at the Mobile Museum of Art. If you are interested in attending, email kepartridge@usouthal.edu for details.

To view last month's lecture on concussion, click here.