Danielle Becker, MD

About Me

Danielle Becker, MD, MS, FAES is an Adult Epileptologist and the Division Director of Epilepsy and Associate Professor of Neurology at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center. She has managed a wide variety of patients with epilepsy, on both the inpatient and outpatient level. She is well versed in anti-seizure medication management, as well as surgical and neuromodulation management. She has an additional interest in epilepsy and women and has created specialty pregnancy clinics for patients who are pregnant with epilepsy. She also has an interest in Neuromodulation and is the Director of Neuromodulation for Epilepsy at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center.

Dr. Becker served as an Assistant Professor of Clinical Neurology at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania from 2014 - 2020. She completed 2 years of neurophysiology/epilepsy fellowship – first at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, second at the NYU Medical Center. She served as the Director of the Responsive Neurostimulation System (RNS) program for surgical management at the University of Pennsylvania as well as head of Epilepsy Education. She was also the associate program director of both the Neurology residency and Neurology medical student clerkship and assistant director of the Epilepsy Fellowship program. She then moved to become the Medical Director of Epilepsy at Metrohealth in Cleveland, Ohio where she started an epilepsy program for the underserved community from 2020-2023. She is boarded in both Neurology and Epilepsy subspecialty.

Dr. Becker is also an active member of the American Academy of Neurology and the American Epilepsy Society.

Procedures and Conditions I Treat

• Vagus Nerve Stimulation
• Electroencephalography
• Epilepsies, Partial
• Epilepsy, Generalized
• Seizures

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