David Treiman, MD, is the Newsome chair of epileptology and director of the Epilepsy Program, the clinical neurophysiology laboratories, the Clinical Neurophysiology/Epilepsy Fellowship Program, and the Laboratory for Translational Epilepsy Research at Barrow Neurological Institute at Dignity Health St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center in Phoenix. He is a professor of neuroscience and bioengineering at Arizona State University, a clinical professor of neurology at the University of Arizona College of Medicine, and a professor of neurology at Creighton University School of Medicine. He is also editor-in-chief of Epilepsy Research. Dr. Treiman is board certified in neurology with a subspecialty certification in epilepsy & clinical neurophysiology by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology.

Dr. Treiman completed his undergraduate degree at the University of California – Berkeley, graduated from Stanford University School of Medicine in Palo Alto, California, and then trained in internal medicine and neurology at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina. After service in the United States Navy Medical Corps he joined the faculty at the University of California – Los Angeles, where he rose to the rank of professor. In 1997 he became chair of neurology at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey – Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in Piscataway Township, but returned to the West after four years.

Dr. Treiman’s research focuses on treatment issues in epilepsy including mechanisms and treatment of status epilepticus, development of new drugs and novel nonpharmacological interventions for the treatment of epilepsy, and the prediction and prevention of epileptogenesis after status epilepticus and traumatic brain injury.