Cormac O'Donovan, M.D.
Associate Professor
Clinical Interests: Epilepsy, Sleep disorders, Syncope, Spells, Pediatric Neurology, Stroke.
EDUCATION:
1982 B.S., University College, Galway, Ireland
1985 M.D., University College, Galway, Ireland
POST DOCTORAL TRAINING:
1993 Residency, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio
1995 Fellowship, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio
PROFESSIONAL LICENSURE:
1985 - Irish Medical Council
1989 - ECFMG 383-959-4
1992 - Ohio
1995 - North Carolina
SPECIALTY CERTIFICATIONS
1995 Diplomat in Neurology American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology Certificate
1999 Diplomat in Clinical Neurophysiology with Added Competency in Evoked Potentials, American Board of Clinical Neurophysiology
1999 Added Qualifications in Clinical Neurophysiology, American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology
BOARD ELIGIBILITY:
Sleep Medicine (American Board of Sleep Medicine)
EMG – American Board of Electrodiagnostic Medicine
Dr. O'Donovan is an assistant professor in the Department of Neurology at the Wake Forest University School of Medicine, where he specializes in epilepsy, sleep disorders and syncope. He completed his neurology residency and fellowship in clinical neurophysiology at the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio. He is a faculty member of the sections of epilepsy and stroke in the Department of Neurology. He clinical interests in epilepsy are on surgical treatments, quality of life, psychiatric issues, drug trials and genetics. He is also doing innovative research in autonomic dysfunction in patients with epilepsy with an emphasis on cardiac function and cerebral blood flow.
Web Presentations:
Management of the Acute Seizure
Vagal Nerve Stimulator in treatment of Epilepsy
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Book Chapters:
O'Donovan CA, Burgess RC, Lüders HO. "Autonomic Aura" in Epileptic Seizures: Pathophysiology and Semiology, H.O. Lüders and S. Noachtar (eds) Churchill Livingstone, Inc (in press).
Avasarala J, ODonovan CA, Roach S, Camacho F, Feldman S. Analysis of NAMCS data for Multiple Sclerosis, 1998-2004. BMC Med. 2007 Apr 5;5(1):6
O’Donovan CA, Chan A, Maxwell, S. Focal Akinetic Seizures as the only clinical manifestation of partial Epilepsy. Seizure, 2007, September; 16(6): 524-4
Meador KJ, Baker GA, Finnell RH, Kalayjian LA, Liporace JD, Loring DW, Mawer G, Pennell PB, Smith JC, Wolff, MC, the NEAD Study Group. In utero antiepileptic drug exposure – Fetal death and malformations. Neurology, 2006; 671(3): 607-12
McCall W, Harding D., O’Donovan CA, Correlates of Depressive Symptoms in Patients with Obstructive Sleep Apnea, Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine 2006;2:424-426
O’Donovan CA, Rissmiller R, Rinn A, Fleming S, White J, McCall V. Outcome of Patients With Sleep Complaints and Normal Polysomnograms. Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine. Vol. 2, No. 3, 2006 (325-327)
Luders HO, Acharya J, Alexopoulos A, Baumgartner C., Bautista J, Burgess R, Carreno M. Diehl B, Dinner D, Ebner A, Foldvary N, Godoy J, Hamer H, Ikeda A, Kallen K, Kellinghaus C, Kotagal P, Lachhwani D, Loddenkemper T, Mani J, Matsumoto R, Moddel G, Nair D, Noachtar S., O’Donovan CA, Rona S, Rosenow F, Schuele S, Szabo CA, Tandon N, Tanner A, Widdess-Walsh P., Are Epilepsy classifications based on epileptic syndromes and seizure types outdated? Epileptic Disord. 2006, Mar;8(1):81-5.
Corey SA, O’Donovan CA. Sturge-Weber Syndrome and Accompanying Dyke-Davidoff-Masson Syndrome. Archives of Neurology. 2005 Dec:62(12:1928-9.
Haffey S, Quinlivan L, O’Donovan CA. Images in Neurology:Intra-Operative Monitoring. Arch Neurol. 2005 Oct; 62:1636-1637.
Persinger MA, McKay BE, O’Donovan CA, Koren SA. Sudden death in epileptic rats exposed to nocturnal magnetic fields that stimulate the shape and intensity of sudden changes in geomagnetic activity: an experiment in response to Schnabel, Beblo and May. Int J Biometerol. 2005 Mar;49(4):256-261. Epub 2004 Nov 16.
Zhang C, Glenn D G, Bell WL, O’Donovan CA. Gabapentin-induced myoclonus in end stage renal disease. Epilepsia. 2005 Jan; 46(1): 156-8.
O’Donovan CA, Lancman ME, Luders HO. New-onset mesial temporal lobe epilepsy in a 90-year-old:Case report of Clinical and EEG features. Epilepsy Behav. 2004 Dec; 5(6):1021-3.
Gibbs TS, Fleischer AB Jr, Feldman SR, Sam MC, O'Donovan CA. Health care utilization in patients with migraine: demographics and patterns of care in the ambulatory setting.Headache. 2003 Apr;43(4):330-335.
Acharya VJ, Acharya JN, Tegeler CH, Morris P, Meads D, O'Donovan CA. Transcranial Doppler ultrasound: a new method of monitoring hemispheric anesthetization during the intracarotid amobarbital procedure. J Neuroimaging. 2002 Apr;12(2):153-7.
Bothwell S, Meredith G, Phillips J, Staunton H, Grigorenko E, Glazier S, Deadwyer S, O’Donovan C, Farrell M. “Neuronal hypertrophy in the neocortex of patients of patients with temporal lobe epilepsy.” 2001. Journal of Neuroscience July 2001; 21(13):4789-4800.
Sirven J, Sperling M, Naritoku D, Schachter S, Labar D, Holmes M, Wilensky A, Cibula J, Labiner D, Bergen D, Nadkarni M, Harvey J, Dasheiff R, Morris G, O’Donovan C, Ojemann L, Scales D, Ristanovic R, Richards B, Sanchez J. “Efficacy and Tolerability of Vagus Nerve Stimulation Therapy for Epilepsy in Older Adults” Neurology 2000, 54:1179-1182.