Erin Conrad, MD, MA
Assistant Professor of Neurology at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Department: Neurology
Contact information
3400 Spruce Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Education:
BS (Physics, Math, French)
University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2009.
MA (Philosophy, Politics, and Economics of Health)
University College London, 2011.
MD
University of Michigan, 2015.
BS (Physics, Math, French)
University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2009.
MA (Philosophy, Politics, and Economics of Health)
University College London, 2011.
MD
University of Michigan, 2015.
Post-Graduate Training
Medicine Internship, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, 2015-2016.
Neurology Residency, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, 2016-2019.
Epilepsy Fellowship, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, 2019-2020.
Medicine Internship, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, 2015-2016.
Neurology Residency, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, 2016-2019.
Epilepsy Fellowship, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, 2019-2020.
Certifications
American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology - Neurology certification, 2019.
American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology - Epilepsy certification, 2020.
Permanent linkAmerican Board of Psychiatry and Neurology - Neurology certification, 2019.
American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology - Epilepsy certification, 2020.
Selected Publications
Galer PD, McKee JL, Ruggiero SM, Kaufman MC, Ojemann WKS, McSalley I, Ganesan S, Gonzalez AK, Cao Q, Litt B, Helbig I, Conrad EC.: Quantitative EEG Biomarkers in the Genetic Epilepsies and Associations With Neurologic Outcomes. Neurology 105: e214148, Oct 2025.Ojemann WKS, Armstrong C, Pattnaik A, Petillo N, Josyula M, Daum A, Zhou DJ, LaRocque J, Korzun J, Kulick-Soper CV, Cornblath EJ, Damaraju S, Shinohara RT, Marsh ED, Davis KA, Litt B, Conrad EC.: Can electrical stimulation replace spontaneous seizures in epilepsy surgery? medRxiv Sep 2025.
Ghosn NJ, Walsh K, Xie K, Aguila C, Pattnaik A, Ma D, Krieger A, Conrad E, Litt B.: Inter-ictal spike rates are not modulated by anti-seizure medication taper in the epilepsy monitoring unit: a tale of two confounders. J Neural Eng Sep 2025.
Acharya G, Conrad E, Davis KA, Nozari E.: Multiscale predictive modeling robustly improves the accuracy of pseudo-prospective seizure forecasting in drug-resistant epilepsy. bioRxiv Sep 2025.
Sheybani L, Vivekananda U, Sinha N, Conrad E, Litt B, Burgess N, Bush D, Walker MC.: Dynamic Interplay Between Wake Slow Waves and Epileptiform Discharges in the Epileptogenic Zone. Neurology 105: e214001, Sep 2025.
Patel SA, Brinyark H, Coyne C, Tasnia N, Chatfield R, Conrad EC, Cox B, Nakhmani A, Smith RJ.: Cortico-cortical evoked potentials: Automated localization and classification of early and late responses. J Neurosci Methods 424: 110571, Sep 2025.
Xu Z, Scheid BH, Conrad EC, Davis KA, Ganguly T, Gelfand MA, Gugger JJ, Jiang X, LaRocque JJ, Ojemann WKS, Sinha SR, Waldman GJ, Wagenaar J, Sinha N, Litt B.: Annotating neurophysiologic data at scale with optimized human input. J Neural Eng 22: 046003, Jul 2025.
Aguila CA, Lucas A, Lavelle S, Pattnaik AR, Kim J, Ojemann WKS, Ma D, Josyula M, Petillo N, LaRocque JJ, Sinha SR, Ellis CA, Parashos A, Gleichgerrcht E, Davis KA, Litt B, Conrad EC.: Mesial-to-lateral gradients of epileptiform activity to localize mesial temporal lobe epilepsy. Epilepsia May 2025.
Halliday AJ, Gillinder L, Lai A, Seneviratne U, Fontenot H, Cameron T, McLean K, Niemiec A, Raghupathi R, Ganguly TM, Ellis C, Conrad EC, Briggs R, Bulluss K, Kwan P, Perucca P, O'Brien TJ, McGonigal A, Gutman M, Papacostas J, Fong MWK, Lee A, Crompton DE, Laing J, Wijayath M, Morokoff AP, Murphy M, D'Souza WJ, Cook MJ.: The UMPIRE study: A first-in-human multicenter trial of bilateral subscalp monitoring for epileptic seizure detection. Epilepsia 2025.
Galer PD, McKee JL, Ruggiero SM, Kaufman MC, McSalley I, Ganesan S, Ojemann WKS, Gonzalez AK, Cao Q, Litt B, Helbig I, Conrad EC.: Quantitative EEG Spectral Features Differentiate Genetic Epilepsies and Predict Neurologic Outcomes. medRxiv Oct 2024.