David King-Stephens, MD, chief, comprehensive epilepsy program, and neurohospitalist Masaki Nagamine, MD discuss their shared vision for the future of neurological and epilepsy care at UCI Health.
So uh my name is Masaki Nagamine. I'm a neurohospitalist at UCI. I am also a stroke attending and uh I'm also the associate program director for the residency. It's a lot of fun here. I get to do a lot of teaching uh seeing patients making sure that they have the highest standard of care. How big is the group right now? Oh, we have so many II I can't give you a number because I feel like we're always uh hiring and uh the best minds like yourself, Doctor King Stevens, perhaps you could tell us about yourself. So I'm brand new to UC I, I've been here three months. Very happy to be here working with these guys who are so talented and passionate and uh I'm the chief of the Epilepsy Division. And uh we really want to offer our services to the community, help expand the group. We're looking forward to having the new hospital, new clinic, which I think opens in a couple of weeks, right? The outpatient clinic and then the inpatient side in 2025 I'll be there helping my patients. It will be a lot of fun and you were a of UC. You've been here when I did, I was a intern here. I did my residency here and then a stroke fellowship and I couldn't leave. It was just too nice here. So I love this community, the patients, the colleagues I have. It's wonderful, great, great. So, uh yes, I think it's good times. Um The, the system is expanding, I think uh there's a lot of uh uh interest in research education. We have really good residents, fellows. And so we're happy to be here. A lot of excited people. Um and we collaborate a lot with the School of Medicine and the undergrad teams. I remember when I was in training, I did some research on artificial intelligence and we had the, the very excited uh undergraduates working on some very amazing programs that helps us with our clinical research. Uh And we got some good data out of it. So a lot of collaboration between different departments, different teams and different schools. So we have a new stroke director, right? Doctor Akbari, uh critical care care. Yeah. And, and, and als also very interested in research. So we're going to try to see if uh we can use uh focus ultrasound to not ablate, but neuro modulate seizures, maybe even help open the blood brain barrier to deliver, you know, targeted therapy to brain tumors or maybe, you know A B MS. So a lot of exciting things going on and the stroke department which I am lucky to be a part of. We have so many clinical trials looking at different ways to help with acute stroke and also preventing stroke. There is some very interesting work with stem cells as well, not just in stroke but also Parkinson's disease als. We have a lot of interesting stuff, not just gene therapy but stem cells cutting edge. Yeah, great. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
