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Andrew Blum, MD, PhD
Andrew Blum, MD, PhD is a board-certified neurologist at Rhode Island Hospital and an assistant professor in clinical neurosciences at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. Blum specializes in seizures and epilepsy in adults. He is the director of adult epilepsy, director of the EEG laboratory and co-director of the Comprehensive Epilepsy Program at Rhode Island Hospital. He also is the neurology residency program director at the hospital.
His recent academic interests involve psychiatric aspects of epilepsy, including the arena of non-epileptic seizures (NES), as well as issues pertinent to special populations within epilepsy, including women and the elderly. Ongoing research includes participation in clinical trials of new anticonvulsant therapeutics, recognition and treatment of NES, and studies of anticonvulsant—hormone interactions in women with epilepsy. Blum has recently co-edited a textbook entitled, A Clinical Neurophysiology Primer, published in 2007 by Springer/Humana Press.
He has served as president of the Greater Boston Epilepsy Society, and is currently a member of the board of directors of the Epilepsy Foundation of MA & RI and a member of the executive committee of the Neurology Foundation in Providence. He has served as an ad hoc editor for the publications Annals of Neurology and Epilepsia.
Blum received his bachelor's degree from Yale University, his medical degree from Cornell University Medical College and his PhD from The Rockefeller University. He completed internship training at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston and residency training in neurology at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, and fellowships in neuromuscular diseases at Johns Hopkins and in clinical neurophysiology and epilepsy at Beth Israel Hospital, Boston. He is a three-time recipient of the Dean’s Award for Excellence in Teaching at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University.
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