Neurosurgeon Demitre Serletis, M.D., Ph.D., Joins UAMS
| LITTLE ROCK — Neurosurgeon and epilepsy specialist Demitre Serletis, M.D., Ph.D., has joined the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) and will see patients at the Jackson T. Stephens Spine & Neurosciences Institute.
In conjunction with the UAMS Department of Neurology, Serletis will be developing an Epilepsy Surgery Program at UAMS. Serletis, an assistant professor in the Department of Neurosurgery in the UAMS College of Medicine, also is an accomplished scientist, who has published extensively in the field of epilepsy research.
In 2003, he received his medical degree from the University of Calgary in Alberta, Canada. Serletis earned his doctorate in physiology and biomedical engineering in 2010 from the University of Toronto in Ontario, Canada. He completed his residency training in neurosurgery in 2012 at the University of Toronto. Earlier this year, he completed an epilepsy surgery fellowship at the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio.
He is a Fellow of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons and of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. He also is an active member of the American Epilepsy Society, the Canadian League Against Epilepsy, the Congress of Neurological Surgeons, the Canadian Neurosurgical Society and the American Society for Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery. In 2012, he was named one of Greek America Foundation’s top “Forty Under 40,” in large part because of his innovative neuroengineering research on epilepsy and related seizure dynamics.
UAMS is the state’s only health sciences university, with colleges of Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, Health Professions and Public Health; a graduate school; a hospital; a main campus in Little Rock; a Northwest Arkansas regional campus in Fayetteville; a statewide network of regional campuses; and eight institutes: the Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute, Jackson T. Stephens Spine & Neurosciences Institute, Harvey & Bernice Jones Eye Institute, Psychiatric Research Institute, Donald W. Reynolds Institute on Aging, Translational Research Institute, Institute for Digital Health & Innovation and the Institute for Community Health Innovation. UAMS includes UAMS Health, a statewide health system that encompasses all of UAMS’ clinical enterprise. UAMS is the only adult Level 1 trauma center in the state. UAMS has 3,275 students, 890 medical residents and fellows, and five dental residents. It is the state’s largest public employer with more than 12,000 employees, including 1,200 physicians who provide care to patients at UAMS, its regional campuses, Arkansas Children’s, the VA Medical Center and Baptist Health. Visit www.uams.edu or uamshealth.com. Find us on Facebook, X (formerly Twitter), YouTube or Instagram.###