Barbara Dworetzky, MD, FAAN, FANA, FAES
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Dr. Barbara Dworetzky is a Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School and has served as Chief of the Brigham and Women’s Hospital Division of Epilepsy since 2009. She leads the Bromfield Epilepsy Center and the ACGME-accredited Clinical Neurophysiology and Epilepsy Fellowships.
She holds a ScB with Honors in Psychology from Brown University and earned her MD from Albert Einstein College of Medicine. She completed her internship at the affiliated Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx before returning to Boston for her neurology residency at Harvard (now Mass General Brigham). Following residency, she completed a two-year fellowship in clinical neurophysiology and epilepsy at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston Children’s Hospital, and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.
Her first faculty position was at the Boston VA Medical Center, affiliated with Boston University School of Medicine, where she directed several programs. Since returning to Brigham and Women’s Hospital, she and her division have trained 60 clinical and research fellows from around the world.
Dr. Dworetzky has received numerous awards for leadership, professionalism, mentorship, teaching, and clinical excellence, and has authored over 140 peer-reviewed publications. She has served on multiple boards for both patient and professional societies and is the current president of the Functional Neurological Disorder Society (FNDS). She is internationally recognized for her work on functional seizures (also known as psychogenic nonepileptic seizures, or PNES).