Most women with epilepsy are able to lead healthy, active lives with proper treatment and more than 90% of women with epilepsy have healthy babies without seizure disorders. 

Women with epilepsy face unique challenges due to the effects seizures and anti-seizure medications have on hormonal function, potentially affecting both sexual and reproductive health.

The Beaumont Women’s Epilepsy Clinic addresses the specific needs and concerns of women with epilepsy. This comprehensive program provides expert neurological clinical care, as well as psychological support and counseling, to women with epilepsy.

The clinic team collaborates with primary care, obstetrics and gynecology as needed to provide an individualized treatment plan to address the following different phases of a woman’s life and how epilepsy relates to them.

The Women’s Epilepsy Clinic is led by Nour Baki, MD, a fellowship trained epileptologist and board-certified neurologist and includes an epilepsy nurse practitioner (NP) and epilepsy nurse coordinator. Working with interdisciplinary experts in neuropsychology, neurosurgery and radiology, the clinic offers the following programs:

• pharmacologic management
• drug resistant epilepsy
• vagus nerve stimulator
• treatment
• collaborative, ongoing communication with primary care, obstetrics and gynecology
• surgical treatment options

As part of Beaumont’s level 4 comprehensive epilepsy center, Women’s Epilepsy Clinic patients have access to the most advanced EEG and imaging technologies available, including MEG (magnetoencephalography), a non-invasive diagnostic tool that safely explores the brain’s inner regions.

To schedule an appointment, call 855-863-8761.