Susannah Cornes, MD
Professor
Neurology
School of Medicine

She served as a principal investigator for the Stress Management Intervention for Living with Epilepsy (SMILE) trial, a large multicenter trial for adults with epilepsy, and participates in the Epilepsy Genetics Initiative and the post-approval study for Deep Brain Stimulation. She is also a leader in medical education and the principal investigator for a study leading to the development of the “NeuroExam Tutor,” a mobile platform to teach neurologic examination skills.

Cornes is passionate about training the next generation of health care providers and is a member of the UCSF Haile T. Debas Academy of Medical Educators. From 2017 to 2022, she served as the Rowe Endowed Chair for Teaching in Neurology and, from 2019 to 2021, as curriculum director and governance chair for the first phase of the UCSF Bridges Curriculum. She co-directs the UCSF School of Medicine's foundational doctoring course and is the recipient of teaching awards from the Department of Neurology, the Academy of Medical Educators and has published in a variety of areas related to medical education.

Cornes earned her medical degree and completed a residency in neurology, serving as chief resident, at UCSF. When completing her epilepsy fellowship at UCSF, she was honored with an award for her teaching. She is a member of the American Epilepsy Society, American Academy of Neurology and Directors of Clinical Skills Education (a consortium of medical educators), as well as an active participant in the Epilepsy Foundation of Northern California.

• The Clinical Microsystems Clerkship at University of California, San Francisco: Integrating Clinical Skills and Health Systems Improvement for Early Medical Students.
  Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges 2022 Chang A, Pierluissi E, Cornes S, Ishizaki A, Teherani A, Davis JA, Hauer KE, Lucey CR
• Assessing Medical Student Readiness to Navigate Language Barriers in Telehealth: Cross-sectional Survey Study.
  JMIR medical education 2022 Yin L, Ng F, Rutherford-Rojas M, Williams M, Cornes S, Fernandez A, Garcia ME, Khoong EC
• Foundational Telemedicine Workshop for First-Year Medical Students Developed During a Pandemic.
  MedEdPORTAL : the journal of teaching and learning resources 2021 Cornes S, Gelfand JM, Calton B
• Analysis of morphological characteristics of IDH-mutant/wildtype brain tumors using whole-lesion phenotype analysis.
  Neuro-oncology advances 2021 Snyder JM, Huang RY, Bai H, Rao VR, Cornes S, Barnholtz-Sloan JS, Gutman D, Fasano R, Van Meir EG, Brat D, Eschbacher J, Quackenbush J, Wen PY, Lee JW
• Seizure self-prediction in a randomized controlled trial of stress management.
  Neurology 2019 Privitera M, Haut SR, Lipton RB, McGinley JS, Cornes S
• Current state of educational compensation in academic neurology: Results of a US national survey.
  Neurology 2019 Weber D, Sarva H, Weaver J, Wang F, Chou J, Cornes S, Nickels K, Safdieh JE, Poncelet A, Stern BJ
• Behavioral interventions as a treatment for epilepsy: A multicenter randomized controlled trial.
  Neurology 2018 Haut SR, Lipton RB, Cornes S, Dwivedi AK, Wasson R, Cotton S, Strawn JR, Privitera M
• Staff Response Times in the Epilepsy Monitoring Unit: A Study of Diurnal/Nocturnal Variability.
  The Neurodiagnostic journal 2017 Witek N, Cornes S, Hegde M
• Major and minor complications in extraoperative electrocorticography: A review of a national database.
  Epilepsy research 2016 Rolston JD, Englot DJ, Cornes S, Chang EF
• Epilepsy with temporal encephalocele: Characteristics of electrocorticography and surgical outcome.
  Epilepsia 2015 Panov F, Li Y, Chang EF, Knowlton R, Cornes SB
• Surgical management of medically refractory epilepsy in patients with polymicrogyria.
  Epilepsia 2015 Wang DD, Knox R, Rolston JD, Englot DJ, Barkovich AJ, Tihan T, Auguste KI, Knowlton RC, Cornes SB, Chang EF
• Electroencephalography of Seizure-Like Movements During General Anesthesia with Propofol: Seizures or Nonepileptic Events?
  A & A case reports 2015 Li Y, Flood P, Cornes S
• Reversible suppression of electrocerebral activity.
  The Neurohospitalist 2013 Broestl L, Cornes S, Dubal DB
• Seizures and epileptiform activity in the early stages of Alzheimer disease.
  JAMA neurology 2013 Vossel KA, Beagle AJ, Rabinovici GD, Shu H, Lee SE, Naasan G, Hegde M, Cornes SB, Henry ML, Nelson AB, Seeley WW, Geschwind MD, Gorno-Tempini ML, Shih T, Kirsch HE, Garcia PA, Miller BL, Mucke L
• Swaiman's Pediatric Neurology: Principles and Practice
  Genetics of Epilepsy. 2012 Cilio R and Cornes S.
• Evaluation of the patient with spells.
  Continuum (Minneapolis, Minn.) 2011 Cornes SB, Shih T
• Principles of Pharmacology: The Pathophysiologic Basis of Drug Therapy
  Pharmacology of abnormal electrical neurotransmission in the central nervous system. 2011 Cornes S, Griffin E, Lowenstein D.
• Electroconvulsive therapy for refractory status epilepticus: a case series.
  Neurocritical care 2010 Kamel H, Cornes SB, Hegde M, Hall SE, Josephson SA
• A case of enteroviral meningoencephalitis presenting as rapidly progressive dementia.
  Nature clinical practice. Neurology 2008 Valcour V, Haman A, Cornes S, Lawall C, Parsa AT, Glaser C, Yagi S, Tihan T, Bhatnagar J, Geschwind M, Vanderbilt Continuing Medical Education online
• Polarized targeting of peripheral membrane proteins in neurons.
  The Journal of biological chemistry 2001 El-Husseini Ael-D, Craven SE, Brock SC, Bredt DS
• A comparison of the patterns of migration and the destinations of homotopically transplanted neonatal subventricular zone cells and heterotopically transplanted telencephalic ventricular zone cells.
  Developmental biology 1996 Zigova T, Betarbet R, Soteres BJ, Brock S, Bakay RA, Luskin MB