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Christopher Todd Anderson, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Clinical Neurology
Director, Epilepsy Monitoring Unit, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Medical director, Epilepsy Surgery Program, University of Pennsylvania
Department: Neurology
Contact information
3400 Spruce Street, 3 West Gates
Dept. of Neurology
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Dept. of Neurology
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Office: 215.349.5166
Fax: 215.349.5733
Fax: 215.349.5733
Email:
cand@mail.med.upenn.edu
cand@mail.med.upenn.edu
Links
An update on thalamic stimulation for epilepsy. (internet interview)
Why patients choose or defer epilepsy surgery (internet interview).
An update on thalamic stimulation for epilepsy. (internet interview)
Why patients choose or defer epilepsy surgery (internet interview).
Education:
B.A. (Psychology)
Columbia College, Columbia University, 1994.
NA (Premedical Sciences)
Columbia University, School of General Studies, 1998.
M.D. (Medicine)
Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons, 2002.
Cert. (Penn Medicine Leadership Forum)
Wharton / UBCL Conference, 2010.
B.A. (Psychology)
Columbia College, Columbia University, 1994.
NA (Premedical Sciences)
Columbia University, School of General Studies, 1998.
M.D. (Medicine)
Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons, 2002.
Cert. (Penn Medicine Leadership Forum)
Wharton / UBCL Conference, 2010.
Post-Graduate Training
PGY-1, St. Vincent's Hospital and Medical Center of New York, Manhattan, 2002-2003.
PGY-2 to PGY-4, Neurological Institute of New York, Columbia-Presbyterian, 2003-2006.
Fellow, Stanford University, Stanford California, 2006-2008.
PGY-1, St. Vincent's Hospital and Medical Center of New York, Manhattan, 2002-2003.
PGY-2 to PGY-4, Neurological Institute of New York, Columbia-Presbyterian, 2003-2006.
Fellow, Stanford University, Stanford California, 2006-2008.
Certifications
Diplomate, American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, Inc., 2008.
Diplomate, American Board of Clinical Neurophysiology, 2011.
Certification in the Subspecialty of Clinical Neurophysiology, ABPN, 2011.
Permanent linkDiplomate, American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, Inc., 2008.
Diplomate, American Board of Clinical Neurophysiology, 2011.
Certification in the Subspecialty of Clinical Neurophysiology, ABPN, 2011.
Description of Clinical Expertise
Intracranial devices for epilepsy. Brain stimulation. Epilepsy surgery.Description of Other Expertise
Quality control and risk managment in epilepsy and neurology.Description of Research Expertise
Intracranial devices for epilepsy. Interactions between devices for epilepsy and sleep (and circadian rhythms).Selected Publications
Poukas V, Pollard JR, Anderson CT: Rescue Therapies for Seizures. Current Neurology and Neuroscience Reports. Bazil CW (eds.). 2011.Jacobs J, Lega B, Anderson CT. : Explaining how brain stimulation can evoke memories. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. MIT press, 2011.
Jacobs J, Lega B, Anderson C. : Cortical Stimulation and Memory Retrieval: A Case Study. (abstract). Computational and Systems Neuroscience (Cosyne), 2011 meeting. 2011.
Jacobs J, Lega B, Anderson CT.: The neural basis of cortical-stimulation-induced memory retrieval in humans. Neuroscience Meeting Planner. San Diego, CA: Society for Neuroscience, 2010. Online.(413.7), Nov, 2010.
Musiek Erik S, Anderson Christopher T, Dahodwala Nabila A, Pollard John R: Facial tic associated with lamotrigine in adults. Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society 25(10): 1512-3, Jul 2010.
Anderson, CT: ‘Deep brain stimulation for seizure therapy’ The Health Care Channel (Internet. http://thehcc.tv/ and http://www.currentmedicine.tv/ or http://www.currentmedicine.tv/2010/neurosurgery/christopher-anderson-md-deep-brain-stimulation-for-epilepsy/ March 2010.
Pollard J, Brand E, Anderson CT, Baybis M, Ivaturi M, Lerario M, Eidelman O, Crino PB.: High CM-CSF Concentrations in Postictal Plasma: A possible temporal lobe seizure biomarker. Epilepsia 2010.
Anderson CT, Sun F, Tcheng T: Lobe of onset and circadian variation in epileptiform activity in 65 patients with an ambulatory intracranial EEG device. J Clin Neurophysiol 27(1), 2010.
Anderson CT, Mani R, Callanan M, Rizk M, Pollard J, Fisher RS: Stimulation of the anterior nucleus of the thalamus for epilepsy does not appear to promote adverse ventilatory changes during sleep. Epilepsia 2010.
Anderson Christopher Todd, Davis Kathryn, Baltuch Gordon: An update on brain stimulation for epilepsy. Current neurology and neuroscience reports 9(4): 327-32, Jul 2009.
