She is a neurologist and epilepsy specialist in the Columbia Neurology Division. Her research has focused on epilepsy genetics for the past 15 years. She is a translational scientist with expertise in both human epilepsy genetics and the genetics of mouse seizure susceptibility. Her human work has focused on comorbidities of epilepsy, phenotype definition in genetic studies of epilepsy, and the development of novel methods to determine the genetic contributions to specific epilepsy phenotypes.