DanielJoseCorreaMD

Summary

• Daniel J. Correa, MD, MSc, is a member to the research team for the Public Engagement Core of The Epilepsy Bioinformatics Study for Antiepileptogenic Therapy (EpiBioS4Rx), working with a consortium of researchers, clinicians, patient organization representatives, patients, and caretakers in TBI and Epilepsy to improve public involvement for future treatment trials. His clinical work at Montefiore Medical Center includes inpatient general neurology and epilepsy services, inpatient epilepsy monitoring, long term EEG monitoring of acutely ill patients. Additionally, he supports the NYC Health Hospitals (Jacobi and North Central Bronx) as an epilepsy attending in their clinical neurophysiology lab. Administratively, he serves as the Deputy Chief of Neurology at the Montefiore Medical Center. After Neurology residency at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, he served in the US Army Medical Corps advancing to the rank of Major and received numerous decorations and awards throughout 8 years of active duty service. His military assignments included the Deputy Chief and later Chief of the Neuroscience & Rehabilitation Center, Dwight Eisenhower Army Medical Center (EAMC). At the EAMC he also participated in the clinical education of medical students, residents, and post-doctoral trainees; Neuroscience representative on the Institutional Review Board, and participated in growing a program of neuroscience research. His academic and research interests focus on the areas of traumatic brain injury and epileptogenesis in post-traumatic epilepsy. Under the mentorship of Drs. Solomon L. Moshé and Nathalie Jetté, in 2019 he completed a Master of Science in Clinical Research Methods through the Albert Einstein College of Medicine Clinical Research Training Program. His present work focuses on developing solutions for barriers in the recruitment and implementation of critical care and epilepsy clinical research.