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Erik J. Kobylarz, MD, PhD

Title(s)
Professor of Neurology
Director of MD/PhD Program

Additional Titles/Positions/Affiliations
Adjunct Professor, Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College
Former Director, Clinical Neurophysiology Fellowship Program
Director, MD-PhD Program
Former Director, Intraoperative Neurophysiologic Monitoring Service

Department(s)
Neurology

Education
PhD (Biomedical Engineering), Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth, Hanover, NH
MD, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, NH
BS (Chemical Engineering), Columbia University, New York, NY
Neurology Residency, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, DC
Neuro-Ophthalmology Fellowship, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, DC
Clinical Neurophysiology (Intraoperative Neurophysiology and Epilepsy) Fellowship, NYPH Weill-Cornell Medical Center + Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY

Programs
Neuroscience Center at Dartmouth
Program in Experimental and Molecular Medicine
Other

Curriculum Vitae
Kobylarz_E_CV_2025-04-07.pdf

NIH Biosketch
Kobylarz_E_BIO_2025-04-07.pdf

Websites
http://geiselmed.dartmouth.edu/faculty/facultydb/view.php/?uid=4300
https://engineering.dartmouth.edu/people/faculty/erik-kobylarz

Contact Information

Medicine Service, Section of Neurology
Veterans Affairs Medical Center
163 Veterans Drive
White River Junction VT 05001

Office: 802-295-9363
Email: Erik.J.Kobylarz@Dartmouth.edu


Professional Interests

I am an adult neurologist and biomedical engineer with subspecialties in clinical neurophysiology, epilepsy and neuro-ophthalmology with related research and clinical interests. Specifically, I am interested in the application of engineering methods and techniques, as well as the development and utilization of medical devices and technology to study brain function, and also to evaluate and treat neurologic diseases. I have participated in a broad range of research projects, including the quantitative analyses of neurophysiologic signals intraoperatively, and from patients with epilepsy, brain injuries, and other neurologic diseases, medical device trials for the treatment of refractory epilepsy, as well as the development and testing of multiple devices, including a seizure detection device utilizing extra-cerebral physiologic recordings, a realistic EEG simulator, an EEG-NIRS recording cap, and also a portable brain recording device and app. I currently serve as Director of the MD-PhD Program, and previously as Director of the Clinical Neurophysiology Fellowship Program, as well as the Intraoperative Neurophysiologic Monitoring Service. My clinical experience and training, in addition to my technical educational background make me well suited to participate as an investigator in such endeavors, particularly serving the bridging role between my engineering and physician colleagues. As a faculty member at the medical, engineering and graduate schools I have actively participated in teaching, training and mentoring graduate, medical and pre-medical students, as well as fellows and residents.


Selected Publications

 

Prediction of seizure outcome with presurgical intracarotid amobarbital procedure, mesial temporal sclerosis on MRI, and PET in surgical candidates with temporal lobe epilepsy.
Moncrief GG, Aita SL, Roth RM, Lee J, Jacobson B, Thomas GP, Andrew AS, Bujarski KA, Thadani V, Kobylarz E, Guerin SJ, Roberts DW, Jobst BC
Epileptic Disord. 2025 Dec;27(6):1168-1177. doi: 10.1002/epd2.70080. Epub 2025 Aug 23.
PMID: 40847792

AI-Driven Electrographic Seizure Classification and Seizure Onset Detection Using Image- and Time-Series-Based Approaches.
Afzal MF, Desai SA, Barry W, Kuo J, Benard SW, Traner CB, Kobylarz EJ, Tcheng TK, Greene D, Seale C, Morrell MJ
IEEE Trans Biomed Eng. 2025 Jul 31;PP doi: 10.1109/TBME.2025.3594592. Epub 2025 Jul 31.
PMID: 40742866

Evaluating EIT, hdEEG, and iPhone Electrode Localization for Stroke Applications.
Murphy EK, Everitt AC, Richards H, Song Y, Kobylarz E, Lukovits T, Rojas-Soto DM, Halter RJ
Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2024 Jul;2024:1-4. doi: 10.1109/EMBC53108.2024.10782263.
PMID: 40039417

EEG electrode localization with 3D iPhone scanning using point-cloud electrode selection (PC-ES).
Everitt A, Richards H, Song Y, Smith J, Kobylarz E, Lukovits T, Halter R, Murphy E
J Neural Eng. 2023 Dec 20;20(6) doi: 10.1088/1741-2552/ad12db. Epub 2023 Dec 20.
PMID: 38055968

Variables associated with cortical motor mapping thresholds: A retrospective data review with a unique case of interlimb motor facilitation.
Song Y, Surgenor JV, Leeds ZT, Kanter JH, Martinez-Camblor P, Smith WJ, Boone MD, Abess AT, Evans LT, Kobylarz EJ
Front Neurol. 2023;14:1150670. doi: 10.3389/fneur.2023.1150670. Epub 2023 Apr 11.
PMID: 37114230

Longitudinal Evaluation of Brain Plasticity in Low-Grade Gliomas: fMRI and Graph-Theory Provide Insights on Language Reorganization.
Pasquini L, Peck KK, Tao A, Del Ferraro G, Correa DD, Jenabi M, Kobylarz E, Zhang Z, Brennan C, Tabar V, Makse H, Holodny AI
Cancers (Basel). 2023 Jan 29;15(3) doi: 10.3390/cancers15030836. Epub 2023 Jan 29.
PMID: 36765795

Intraoperative neurophysiological monitoring of T9-T10 fracture in a patient with morbid obesity and ankylosing spondylitis: A case report with literature review.
Streltzov NA, Evans LT, Dustin Boone M, Root BK, Calnan DR, Kobylarz EJ, Song Y
Clin Neurophysiol Pract. 2021;6:115-122. doi: 10.1016/j.cnp.2021.02.004. Epub 2021 Mar 26.
PMID: 33948523

Assessing the feasibility of detecting epileptic seizures using non-cerebral sensor data.
Hamlin A, Kobylarz E, Lever JH, Taylor S, Ray L
Comput Biol Med. 2021 Mar;130:104232. doi: 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2021.104232. Epub 2021 Jan 21.
PMID: 33516072

Balance and reaction time do not rapidly improve off antiseizure drugs.
Hartshorn A, Kobylarz E, Andrew AS, Jobst BC, Bujarski K
Epilepsy Behav. 2019 Aug;97:158-160. doi: 10.1016/j.yebeh.2019.05.001. Epub 2019 Jun 25.
PMID: 31252272

The implantation effect: delay in seizure occurrence with implantation of intracranial electrodes.
Lane MA, Kahlenberg CA, Li Z, Kulandaival K, Secore KL, Thadani VM, Bujarski KA, Kobylarz EJ, Roberts DW, Tosteson TD, Jobst BC
Acta Neurol Scand. 2017 Jan;135(1):115-121. doi: 10.1111/ane.12662. Epub 2016 Aug 16.
PMID: 27531652

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