Inna Vaisleib, MD

Research Interests

• Epilepsy in Children
• Development of new antiepileptic medications

View Dr. Vaisleib's full list of publications from PubMed.

Biography Summary

Dr. Inna Vaisleib is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Child Neurology in the Department of Pediatrics.

Dr. Vaisleib obtained her medical degree from Kharkov State Medical University, Kharkov, Ukraine. She completed a pediatric residency at the Children;s Hospital of Wisconsin, child neurology residency at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota and Clinical Neurophysiology and Childhood Epilepsy fellowship at the University of Minnesota and Minnesota Epilepsy Group and then joined the neurology staff at the University of Minnesota.

Dr. Vaisleib joined the faculty at UPMC and Children;s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC (CHP) in 2000 and now is one of seven CHP neurologists specially trained in epilepsy. She has particular interests in medically intractable epilepsy, VNS, pre-surgical evaluations and headaches in children. Dr. Vaisleib serves as a primary investigator in several multicenter clinical trials investigating new anticonvulsant medications, has directed the neurophysiology course for new neurology residents and leads the neurophysiology quality control effort. Dr. Vaisleib works closely with the Epilepsy Foundation of Western Pennsylvania in educating families and the public about epilepsy and devotes one week each summer to serving as the physician at their camp for children with epilepsy, Camp Frog.