Adam Numis

Associate Professor of Neurology & Pedaitrics, University of California, San Francisco

Dr. Adam L. Numis is a pediatric neurologist and specialist in epilepsy. He focuses on evaluating and caring for children with early onset epilepsy, particularly those with epileptic encephalopathies.

His research includes evaluating the connection between inflammation and epilepsy. His work attempts to understand how inflammatory markers in the blood could help predict which patients might respond best to a particular anti-seizure medications, in particular children with infantile epileptic spasms syndrome. Additionally, his work seeks to understand the role inflammation and genetics may play in epilepsy development in certain at-risk populations, including children with neonatal encephalopathy due to hypoxia-ischemia, stroke, or infection.

Dr. Numis received his medical degree from Harvard Medical School. He completed a residency in pediatrics at Boston Children's Hospital, a residency in child neurology at UCSF, and fellowships in clinical neurophysiology and epilepsy at the University of California, Los Angeles.