William Lynn Bell MD

William L. Bell, MD was Professor of Neurology at Georgetown University School of Medicine and Director of the Comprehensive Epilepsy Center at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital. He was also Director of the Clinical Neurophysiology Fellowship Program at Georgetown. His major interests are the expansion of epilepsy and neurodiagnostic services in the Washington, DC area. Georgetown has a Level 4 epilepsy center with a new epilepsy monitoring unit that opened in 2013. The center uses the latest techniques for the mapping and identification of seizure foci for the planning of epilepsy surgery.

Dr. Bell’s research interests including clinical drug and device trials for the treatment of epilepsy. He remains interested in the use of ictal semiology to localize seizure foci for epilepsy surgery. Over the years he has published translational research in collaboration with basic scientists. Another published interest has been in the concept of consciousness in certain types of seizures.

Dr. Bell earned his undergraduate degree at Baylor University and his medical degree at Wake Forest University. He stayed at Wake Forest to complete an internal medicine residency and then returned to Texas to do a neurology residency at the University of Texas Southwestern in Dallas. After four years in the US Air Force, he went to Duke University Medical Center for a fellowship in electroencephalography, epilepsy and sleep medicine.