Dale Hesdorffer is Associate Professor of Clinical Epidemiology in the Sergievsky Center and the Department of Epidemiology at the Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University. She received her MPH and Ph.D. in Epidemiology from Columbia University. Dr. Hesdorffer is the Co-Chair of the Commission on Epidemiology for the International League against Epilepsy. She serves on the editorial boards of Epilepsy Research and Epilepsia, as contributing editor for Epilepsy Currents, on the professional advisory board of the Epilepsy Foundation of America, and consultant to a WHO committee on the ICD-11 codes for epilepsy. Dr. Hesdorffer’s work in epilepsy has focused upon the co-morbidity of epilepsy and psychiatric disorders through case-control studies of incident epilepsy in Rochester, Minnesota , in Iceland and in the UK. She is currently investigating epilepsy comorbidities in collaboration with Dr. Berg in the Conneticut study of childhood epilepsy, in a study of prevalent epilepsy in children in rural Kansas, in the FEBSTAT study in collaboration with Dr. Shinnar and in a new study in Harlem, New York City. She has also had funding to study the epidemiology of brain abnormalities among children with febrile seizures, and currently leads a subcontract for a related NIH-funded study of outcomes following febrile status epilepticus.
