Member, Scientific and Clinical Advisory

Before founding Mid-Atlantic Epilepsy and Sleep Center, Dr. Klein was Instructor in Neurology at Harvard Medical School (1996-99), and Director of the Epilepsy Program, of the Clinical Neurophysiology Laboratory and of the Neuroendocrine Unit at the Georgetown University Hospital (1999-2003). Dr. Klein is currently Clinical Professor of Neurology at George Washington University. Dr. Klein’s clinical research includes novel treatments of epilepsy, dietary treatments of epilepsy in adults, prevention of epilepsy after traumatic brain injury, the effect of sex and stress hormones on epilepsy, and women with epilepsy. He has received grants from the National Institutes of Health, from the American Epilepsy Society and from CURE/Department of Defense. Dr. Klein has published more than 50 peer-reviewed articles and has contributed chapters to several books on epilepsy. He acts as a reviewer for a number of neurological, epilepsy and endocrinological journals. He  has served on numerous American Epilepsy Society committees, including  the Scientific Program Committee, the Treatment Committee, the Health Reform Task Force. He is currently the Chair of the American Epilepsy Society Corporate Advisory Committee. He is the  co-founder and co-chair of the North American Consortium of Private Epilepsy Centers, and serves on the executive committee of The Epilepsy Study Consortium. Dr. Klein received his medical degree from Cambridge University, UK