M. Brandon Westover, MD, PhD

Professor, Department of Neurology and Neurological Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine
Director, Stanford Epilepsy Center
Director, Neurologic Artificial Intelligence Center
Associate Vice Chair for Biostatistical and Bioinformatics Neurosciences
PI, Clinical Data Animation Center (CDAC)
Office: Center for Academic Medicine (CAM), 453 Quarry Road, Floor 2, Room 221B, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA

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Affiliations

Stanford Medicine, Department of Neurology and Neurological Sciences
Beacon Biosignals, co-founder

Affiliate appointments
Department of Biomedical Data Science
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences / Sleep Medicine

Bio

M. Brandon Westover, MD, PhD is Professor of Neurology at Stanford University and Director of the Stanford Epilepsy Center. He earned his PhD in Physics working in the field of information theory. He is a board-certified Neurologist and Clinical Neurophysiologist. His research group, the Clinical Data Animation Center, develops machine learning approaches to improve medical care for patients with neurological problems including anoxic brain injury, seizures, cerebral ischemia, delirium, and sleep disorders. He is a co-producer of EEGTalk, author of Pocket Neurology and Atlas of Intensive Care Quantitative EEG, and co-founder of Beacon Biosignals.

Research funding

CDAC research is funded by the following grants:
RF1NS120947 Establishing a Brain Health Index from the Sleep Electroencephalogram
R01AG073410 Comparative Safety of Seizure Prophylaxis within the Medicare Program.
R01HL161253 Data-Driven Sleep Biomarkers of Brain Health, Heart Health, and Mortality (“CAISR”).
R01NS126282 Prospective Validation of Neurophysiologic Outcome Prediction in Acute Brain Injury (“ABIEE”).
R01AG073598 Low Neurophysiologic Resistance to Anesthetics as a Marker of Preclinical/Prodromal Alzheimer’s Disease and Neurovascular Pathology, Delirium risk and Inattention.
R01NS131347 Comparative effectiveness of EEG-guided anti-seizure treatment in acute brain injury (“PKPD”)
R01NS130119 Late-onset unexplained epilepsy as a risk factor for dementia (“ELUCID”)
AWS HEI grant

Past CDAC funding:
R01NS102190 Investigation of Sleep in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU-SLEEP).
R01NS102574 Multimodal network connectivity architecture (MOCA) of the brain and its role in the recovery of consciousness in comatose cardiac arrest patients.
R01NS107291 Big Data and Deep Learning for the Interictal-Ictal-Injury Continuum.
RF1AG064312 Integrated motor activity biomarker for the risk of Alzheimer’s dementia (ADVANCE).
NSF 2014431 Collaborative Research: DeepSense: Interpretable Deep Learning for Zero-effort Phenotype Sensing and Its Application to Sleep Medicine.

Short version: Dr. Westover’s laboratory is supported by grants from the NIH (R01AG073410, R01HL161253, R01NS126282, R01AG073598, R01NS131347, R01NS130119, and AWS. Back to Top

Disclosures

Disclosures / COI statement: Dr. Westover is a co-founder, serves as a scientific advisor and consultant to, and has a personal equity interest in Beacon Biosignals. He receives royalties for authoring Pocket Neurology from Wolters Kluwer and Atlas of Intensive Care Quantitative EEG by Demos Medical.