Michael P. Macken, MD MRCPI
Assistant Professor of Neurology

675 N. St. Clair, Galter 20-100
Chicago, Il 60611
(312) 695-7950



Background
Fellowship Cleveland Clinic Foundation 1998-2000
Residency Cleveland Clinic Foundation 1995-1998
University College Hospital, Galway, Ireland 1993-1998
University College Hospital, Galway, Ireland 1990-1993
Internship  
Medical Degree National University of Ireland Galway 1990
Clinical
Interests
Video-EEG monitoring for seizures, Ambulatory EEG monitoring, Pre-Surgical Evaluation of patients with intractable epilepsy, Medical/Pharmacological Treatment of Epilepsy, Vagus Nerve Stimulation, Surgical Treatment of Epilepsy, Medical co-morbidities in epilepsy: epilepsy and migraine, treatment of epilepsy in special populations (epilepsy in pregnancy), Undergraduate medical education in clinical neurosciences, Bioethics and professionalism in medical education.
Research Interests  
Biography

Dr. Macken graduated from the National University of Ireland, Galway and trained in Internal Medicine in University College Hospital Galway obtaining Membership of the Royal College of Physicians in Ireland in 1994. He then completed a Neurology residency followed by a two-year fellowship program in Clinical Neurophysiology and Epilepsy at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation in Cleveland, Ohio. Subsequently, he worked at Loyola University Medical Center as an attending neurologist in the Loyola Comprehensive Epilepsy Center and as Assistant Professor of Neurology in the Stritch School of Medicine.

In 2008, he moved to the Department of Neurology at Northwestern Memorial Hospital working as an attending neurologist at the Comprehensive Epilepsy Program with an appointment as Assistant Professor of Neurology in the Feinberg School of Medicine of Northwestern University.
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