Barbara Dworetzky, MD, is chief of the BWH Division of Epilepsy and leads the Bromfield Epilepsy Program and the ACGME-accredited Clinical Neurophysiology Fellowship. A graduate of Brown University, she obtained her medical degree from Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York in 1990. Dr. Dworetzky completed her residency at the Harvard Longwood Neurology Residency and became BWH’s first epilepsy fellow to help Dr. Bromfield with the building blocks of the program. After completing her fellowship, she was recruited to Boston University to become the clinical director of the Aphasia Research Center and the Epilepsy/EEG program at the Boston VAMC.
In 2001, Dr. Bromfield invited her back to BWH to assist in the administration and growth of the BWH Epilepsy program. Dr. Dworetzky is on the board of directors of the American Epilepsy Society, and is the president-elect of the Functional Neurological Disorders Society. She also serves on the professional advisory board of Epilepsy Foundation of New England for decades. Her interests include epilepsy safety and prevention, disparities in epilepsy care, diagnosis and treatment of epilepsy and suspected seizures especially functional (non-epileptic) seizures.
