I am currently preparing a manuscript to report the findings of this multi-center study. IFCN fellowship award will be acknowledged in the paper. During this fellowship, I have built strong collaboration networks and have advanced my clinical investigation skills. This experience has laid a strong foundation for achieving my goals as a clinician-scholar. This project aimed to utilize an EEG data repository gathered from five major academic epilepsy centers involving 10 patients with Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy (SUDEP) and 40 matching living controls with focal to bilateral tonic-clonic seizures (FBTCS, also known as GTCS) captured on intracranial EEG with the goal of uncovering SUDEP risk markers and SUDEP mechanisms in drug-resistant epilepsy. The Institutional Review Board at Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School approved the study with a waiver of informed consent due to the retrospective study. 69 patients aged 12-65 years who were studied with intracranial (depth and/or subdural) electrodes at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Massachusetts General Hospital, New York University, Yale University, and George Washington University between 2005 and 2019.
