Faculty:
Sasha Alick-Lindstrom, MD, MPH, FAAN, FACNS, FAES (she/her/hers)
Dr Sasha Alick-Lindstrom is an Associate Professor of Radiology, with a secondary appointment in Neurology, at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, Texas. She serves as Clinical Epilepsy Director of the Magnetoencephalography (MEG) Center of Excellence at the Peter O'Donnell Jr. Brain Institute.
She was born and raised in Puerto Rico. She pursued undergraduate studies at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY. She went on to earn her medical degree and complete an internship in internal medicine at UCC School of Medicine back home in Puerto Rico (UCCEM). She completed her residency in neurology at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston and then received advanced training in clinical neurophysiology and in epilepsy through separate fellowships at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. Her clinical expertise centers on the evaluation and management of complex, drug-resistant epilepsy, with particular interests in advanced neurodiagnostic techniques, multimodal neuroimaging, epilepsy surgery, and neuromodulation. Her work integrates magnetoencephalography (MEG) and magnetic source imaging with comprehensive epilepsy evaluation to advance seizure localization and improve outcomes for patients with medically refractory epilepsy.
Dr Alick-Lindstrom is also actively engaged in national epilepsy leadership, clinical research, and education. Her professional interests extend to epilepsy in women throughout the lifespan, reproductive health, sexual and gender minorities living with epilepsy and neurologic conditions, neuropsychiatric comorbidities, and health equity, with a particular commitment to improving access to comprehensive epilepsy care. She has contributed to national professional initiatives, clinical guidelines, and educational programs through leadership and service within the American Academy of Neurology, American Epilepsy Society, and Epilepsy Foundation.
A dedicated clinician, educator, and advocate, Dr. Alick-Lindstrom is committed to advancing the field of epilepsy in an equitable manner, through innovative diagnostics, multidisciplinary care, and efforts to improve the lives of all individuals living with epilepsy.
Moderator:
Shilpa Klocke, PharmD, BCPS
Shilpa Klocke, PharmD, BS Pharm, BCPS has been a clinical pharmacy specialist for Kaiser Permanente in Colorado for more than 20 years where she has specialized in Neurology for than 17 years. In this role, she provides multiple sclerosis (MS) disease modifying therapy - related patient counseling, helped to create an MS population management safety monitoring program that utilizes a collaborative drug therapy management protocol and trains and provides mentorship to pharmacists throughout Kaiser Permanente who will become specialists in MS. She publishes research activities in MS and epilepsy, and precepts pharmacy students and residents. She is also employed as a part-time consultant on the Editorial Advisory Panel for Wolters Kluwer Health, Clinical Effectiveness Division and is an appointed member of the Health First Colorado (Colorado’s Medicaid Program) Drug Utilization Review board. In addition to MS, her clinical practice interests include epilepsy, headache, movement disorders, as well as, designing patient safety and medication cost-effectiveness processes. Dr. Klocke earned her Doctor of Pharmacy degree at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and completed PGY1 and PGY2 pharmacy practice residencies at Parkland Health & Hospital System in Dallas, Texas.