Mary Andriola, M.D. Professor of Neurology and Pediatrics MD Degree Awarded By: Duke University School of Medicine Residency: Shands Hospital at the University of Florida Board Certification: Pediatric Neurology with Special Qualifications in Child Neurology, Clinical Neurophysiology Special Interests/Training: Epilepsy, Clinical Neurophysiology Website: Long Island Comprehensive Epilepsy Center

Biographical Sketch:

Dr. Mary R. Andriola is Professor of Neurology and Pediatrics and Chief of the Divisions of Child Neurology and Clinical Neurophysiology. She attended John Hopkins University School of Medicine after two years at Vassar College. She received her M.D. degree and completed her internship in pediatrics at Duke University School of Medicine. Subsequent pediatric and neurology training was completed at the University of Florida in 1970. Dr. Andriola was then on the faculty of Louisiana State University in New Orleans at Charity Hospital. She returned to Florida in 1972 to practice. She was director of Neurology at All Children's in St. Petersburg, Florida. She was also on the part-time faculty of the University of South Florida in Tampa and the University of Florida in Gainesville. In Gainesville, she directed clinical neurophysiology. In 1983, she co-authored "Introduction to EEG and Evoked Potentials" a very popular book for teaching EEG to neurology residents and EEG fellows. In 1988, Dr. Andriola came to Stony Brook. She has established a training program in clinical neurophysiology and built the Stony Brook Epilepsy Management Program. She has carried out multiple studies of the anti-epileptic drugs and the vagal nerve stimulator with presentations at the "American Epilepsy Society" and puplications in medical journals.