Alexis D. Boro
<p>Dr. Boro’s primary interest is providing clinical care for adolescents and adults with epilepsy, including those who are potential candidates for epilepsy surgery and in diagnosing "spells" of uncertain etiology. His research interests include photosensitive epilepsy, the autonomic effects of seizures and EEG monitoring in the critically ill.</p>
Dr. Boro’s primary interest is in providing care for adolescents and adults with epilepsy. His practice focuses on tailoring the evaluation and the treatment of epilepsy to meet the needs of the individual, from the diagnosis of "spells" of uncertain etiology, addressing quality-of-life issues in epilepsy, to medical and surgical therapies.
<p class="MsoNormal">Boro A, Lado F, Shinnar S, Moshé S. Heart Rate Modulation in Temporal Lobe Seizures. Abstract. American Epilepsy Society Annual Meeting, 2005.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Boro A, Moshé S. Brain Death. In: Clinical Neurophysiology of Infancy, Childhood and Adolescence, Holms GL, Moshé S, Jones HR, eds. In Press.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Ettinger, A, Boro A, Moshé S. Basic Principles of Electroencephalography. In: Clinical Neurophysiology of Infancy, Childhood and Adolescence, Holms GL, Moshé S, Jones HR, eds. In Press.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Kepecs M, Boro A, Haut S, Kepecs G, Moshé S. A novel non-pharmacologic treatment for photosensitive epilepsy: a report of three patients tested with blue cross-polarized glasses. Epilepsia 2004;45:1158-62.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Haut S, Boro A. Emerging and Alternative treatments for Epilepsy: Epilepsy. Continuum: Lifelong Learning in Neurology 2004;10(4).</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Boro A, Haut S. Medical comorbidities in the treatment of epilepsy. Epilepsy Behav. 2003;4 Supp.2:S2-12.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Boro A, Vidaurre J, Kepecs M, Ballaban-Gil K, Legatt A, Moshé S. An Electrographic Signature of Nocturnal Dystonic Movements of Epileptic Origin. Abstract. Muscle and Nerve 2003;28:S27.</p>
<p>Kepecs M, Vidaurre J, Boro A, Haut S, Moshé S. Blue cross-polarized glasses in photosensitive epilepsy. Abstract. Muscle and Nerve 2003;28:S28.</p>
<p>Dr. Alexis D. Boro coordinates the Epilepsy Surgery program at Montefiore Medical Center and oversees epilepsy fellowship education and the epilepsy clinical trials program. He has been an Investigator for studies involving the safety, tolerability and efficacy of a variety of epilepsy drugs. He is a co-investigator (EEG Core) of the Epilepsy Phenome/Genome Project, an international NIH funded project investigating the causes and inheritance of epilepsy and the determinants which anti-seizure medications will work best for a given individual.</p><p>Dr. Boro’s primary interest is in providing care for adolescents and adults with epilepsy. His practice focuses on tailoring the evaluation and the treatment of epilepsy to meet the needs of the individual, from the diagnosis of "spells" of uncertain etiology, addressing quality-of-life issues in epilepsy, to medical and surgical therapies. </p><p>Dr. Boro completed medical school and internship at SUNY Stony Brook. He was resident and chief resident of Neurology at the the Mt. Sinai Medical Center. He joined the faculty at Montefiore Medical Center /Albert Einstein College of Medicine in 2003 after completing a fellowship in Epilepsy and Neurophysiology there.</p>