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Address
630 W. 168th Street, P&S; Box 16
New York, 10032
Phone:212-305-9188
Fax: 212-305-2526
Email:[email protected]
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Education and Training
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| University of California at Berkeley
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Professor of Epidemiology (in the Sergievsky Center), Mailman School of Public Health
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The Gertrude H. Sergievsky Center, College of Physicians and Surgeons
Deputy Director for Research, G.H. Sergievsky Center, College of Physicians and Surgeons
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| Dr. Ruth Ottman’s research addresses the role of inherited factors in susceptibility to neurologic disorders, primarily focusing on seizure disorders. Her work on epilepsy has included assessment of familial aggregation, phenotype definition, linkage analysis and gene identification. She is currently conducting three different studies of the genetic epidemiology of epilepsy. Dr. Ottman and her colleagues were the first to recognize a syndrome of temporal lobe epilepsy known as autosomal dominant partial epilepsy with auditory symptoms (ADPEAF), and to identify a gnee, LGI1, that causes it. Currently they are performing additional studies to learn more about this gene’s role in ADPEAF and other forms of epilepsy.
Dr. Ottman developed and teaches the course in genetic epidemiology required of epidemiology doctoral students at Columbia, and she co-founded the Columbia University Seminar on Genetic Epidemiology, a forum for discussion of issues of interest to genetic epidemiologists throughout the New York area, which has been active since 1982. Dr. Ottman is the biological sciences core leader for the Robert Wood Johnson Health & Society Scholars Program, and the pre-doctoral training director of the Genetics of Complex Diseases Training Program, both at the Mailman School.
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