Alan B. Ettinger, M.D. is Chief of the Division of Epilepsy and Electroencephalography, Department of Neurology, at Long Island Jewish Medical Center in New Hyde Park, New York, and director of the Huntington Hospital Seizure Monitoring Program in Huntington, New York. He is Professor in the Department of Clinical Neurology at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Vice-Chairman of Neurology at Long Island Jewish Medical Center. Dr. Ettinger has focused his research activities on the topic of psychiatric issues in epilepsy. He has been a principal investigator in numerous investigational antiepileptic drug trials and is currently performing epidemiological research on the topic of depression in community-based epilepsy patients.

Dr. Ettinger has directed several national and regional epilepsy symposia. He has published widely in peer-review journals on depression in epilepsy and psychogenic non-epileptic seizures, has edited a journal supplement and two textbooks. He is on the editorial board of several epilepsy journals, serves on national committees of the American Academy of Neurology and American Epilepsy Society and is the moderator at the psychiatric interest group sessions at the annual American Epilepsy Society meetings.

The Comprehensive Epilepsy Center at LIJMC is comprised of a multidisciplinary team of specialists who care for patients with seizures and related disorders. The team includes a staff of epileptologists, neurosurgeons specializing in epilepsy, EEG technologists, a social worker from the Epilepsy Foundation of Long Island, an epilepsy pharmacist, a neuroradiology physicist, a psychiatrist with special expertise in epilepsy management, a nurse practitioner and a team of neuropsychologists. Services include outpatient and inpatient consultative services, an inpatient epilepsy-monitoring unit, brain mapping, epilepsy surgery, and intraoperative electrocorticography. The center places great attention upon meeting the comprehensive needs of individuals with seizure disorders.