Catherine V. Kulick-Soper, MD
Assistant Professor of Clinical Neurology
Collaborating Clinician, Center for Neuroengineering and Therapeutics
Head of Clinical Neurophysiology, RECOVER Program, University of Pennsylvania
Quality & Implementation Lead, Epilepsy & Intraoperative Monitoring Programs, University of Pennsylvania
Department: Neurology
Contact information
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Department of Neurology, Penn Epilepsy Center
3400 Spruce Street, 3 West Gates Building
Philadelphia, PA 19104-4283
Department of Neurology, Penn Epilepsy Center
3400 Spruce Street, 3 West Gates Building
Philadelphia, PA 19104-4283
Publications
Education
BS (Neurobiology)
Georgetown University, 2014.
MD
New York University School of Medicine, 2018.
BS (Neurobiology)
Georgetown University, 2014.
MD
New York University School of Medicine, 2018.
Post-Graduate Training
Medicine Intern, Pennsylvania Hospital, 2018-2019.
Neurology Resident, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, 2019-2022.
Epilepsy Fellow, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, 2022-2023.
T32 Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Pennsylvania, 2023-2024.
Medicine Intern, Pennsylvania Hospital, 2018-2019.
Neurology Resident, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, 2019-2022.
Epilepsy Fellow, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, 2022-2023.
T32 Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Pennsylvania, 2023-2024.
Certifications
American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology - Neurology, 2022.
American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology - Epilepsy, 2024.
American Board of Clinical Neurophysiology - Intraoperative Monitoring, 2025.
Permanent linkAmerican Board of Psychiatry and Neurology - Neurology, 2022.
American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology - Epilepsy, 2024.
American Board of Clinical Neurophysiology - Intraoperative Monitoring, 2025.
ORCID identifier 
0000-0002-8541-5912
Selected Publications
Ojemann WKS, Xu Z, Shi H, Walsh K, Pattnaik A, Sinha N, Lavelle S, Aguila C, Gallagher R, Revell A, LaRocque JJ, Korzun J, Kulick-Soper CV, Zhou DJ, Galer PD, Sinha SR, Shinohara RT, Davis KA, Litt B, Conrad EC: Unsupervised seizure annotation and detection with neural dynamic divergence. medRxiv 2026.Ojemann WKS, Zhou DJ, Kulick-Soper CV, Korzun J, LaRocque JJ, Armstrong C, Kennedy BC, Kessler SK, Marsh ED, Sinha N, Litt B, Conrad E: Multi-expert consensus annotations of spontaneous and stimulation-induced seizures in stereotactic EEG. medRxiv 2026.
Josyula M, Bustamante G, Davis KA, Kulick-Soper CV: Impact of multidisciplinary epilepsy surgical conference on data interpretation and surgical plan. 2025 AES Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA Dec 2025.
Ojemann WKS, Xu Z, Aguila C, Pattnaik A, Sinha N, Gallagher R, Revelle A, Lavelle S, LaRocque J, Korzun J, Kulick-Soper CV, Zhou D, Davis KA, Litt C, Conrad E: Neural dynamic divergence: an unsupervised machine learning approach to modeling seizure onset and spread. 3rd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Epilepsy and Neurological Disorders, Breckenridge, CO Mar 2025.
Ojemann WKS, Armstrong C, Pattnaik AR, Petillo N, Josyula M, Daum A, Zhou DJ, LaRocque J, Korzun J, Kulick-Soper CV, Cornblath E, Damaraju S, Shinohara R, Marsh ED, Davis KA, Litt B, Conrad EC: Can electrical stimulation replace spontaneous seizures in epilepsy surgery? medRxiv 2025.
Gugger JJ, Kulick-Soper CV, Sinha N, Jaskir M, Hadar P, Josyula M, Petillo N, Raghupathi R, Shinohara RT, Das S, Stein J, Davis KA: Evaluation of limbic microstructural abnormalities in temporal lobe epilepsy: A NODDI study. Epilepsia 2025.
Fischer D, Abella BS, Bass GD, Charles J, Hampton S, Kulick-Soper CV, Mendlik MT, Mitchell OJL, Narva AM, Pino W, Sikandar M, Sinha SR, Waldman GJ, Ware JB, Levine J: The Recovery of Consciousness Via Evidence-Based Medicine and Research (RECOVER) Program: A paradigm for advancing neuroprognostication. Neurol Clin Pract 14(6): e200351, Dec 2024.
Ojemann WKS, Pattnaik A, Revell A, Cornblath E, LaRocque J, Korzun J, Kulick-Soper CV, Zhou D, Davis KA, Litt B, Conrad E: Stimulation-induced seizures map spontaneous seizure spread networks. 2024 AES Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, CA Dec 2024.
Zhou D, Woodson Smith S, Emmert B, Kornspun A, Larocque J, Kulick-Soper CV, Qiu M, Ellis C, Gugger J, Conrad E, Waldman G, Ganguly T, Sinha S, Davis K, Stein J, Liu G, Gelfand M, Raghupathi R: Clinical characteristics and surgical outcomes of epilepsy associated with temporal encephalocele: A systematic review. Epilepsy Behav 158: 109928, Sep 2024.
Lucas A, Vadali C, Mouchtaris S, Arnold TC, Gugger JJ, Kulick-Soper CV, Josyula M, Petillo N, Das S, Dubroff J, Detre JA, Stein JM, Davis KA: Enhancing the diagnostic utility of ASL imaging in temporal lobe epilepsy through FlowGAN: An ASL to PET image translation framework. medRxiv May 2024.