To better your understanding of non-clinical career options and/or facilitate your physician career change, today we introduce you to Martha J. Morrell, MD. Dr. Morrell became Chief Medical Officer of NeuroPace, Inc. in July 2004, as well as a Clinical Professor of Neurology at Stanford University.
Prior to July 2004, she was the Caitlin Tynan Doyle Professor of Clinical Neurology at Columbia University and Director of the Columbia Comprehensive Epilepsy Center at New York Presbyterian Hospital in New York City. Previously she was on the faculty of the Stanford University School of Medicine where she served as Director of the Stanford Comprehensive Epilepsy Center.
A graduate of Stanford Medical School, she completed residency training in Neurology at University of Pennsylvania, as well as fellowship training in EEG and epilepsy.
Dr. Morrell’s clinical and research work has been directed entirely to the care of people with epilepsy. She has more than 100 publications on epilepsy and has spoken extensively on epilepsy nationally as well as internationally. She served as an advisor on epilepsy to the National Institutes of Health, to the Centers for Disease Control and as a member of the Board of Directors of the American Epilepsy Society.
She serves on the national Board of Directors of the Epilepsy Foundation and as head of the research committee and is a past Chair of the Board. She currently sits on the Council of the American Neurological Association and is Chair of the Epilepsy Section of the American Academy of Neurology. She is an elected Ambassador for Epilepsy of the International League Against Epilepsy and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Neurology.
For more information about Dr. Morrell, please visit the NeuroPace website.
