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Kameel M Karkar, MD

Professor/Clinical

Dr. Kameel Karkar is a clinical associate professor in the department of Neurology of the UT Health San Antonio School of Medicine. Dr. Karkar graduated from the University Of Chicago Pritzker School Of Medicine in 1997 and subsequently completed six years of post-graduate medical training: a Neurology residency at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and clinical neurophysiology and epilepsy fellowships at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) School of Medicine.
Since his joining UT Health San Antonio in 2009, Dr. Karkar has served patients with neurological disease, particularly those with epilepsy, through his clinical work, administrative leadership of the UHS Seizure Clinic, as well as his volunteer activities with the Texas Chapter of the Epilepsy Foundation. Dr. Karkar has also served the University in other capacities of grant review and committee work, especially the Institutional Review Board (IRB), where he has been a member since 2014. At the national level, Dr. Karkar has been active at the American Epilepsy Society (AES), serving on the Practice Management Committee (PMC) and the Scientific Program Committee (SPC). While a PMC member, he served on the “Choosing Wisely” subcommittee and authored and contributed to several practice recommendations. Most recently, and through his PMC committee work, Dr. Karkar played a leading role in producing an AES statement related to the performance of EEGs during the COVID-19 crisis.
Dr. Karkar has been active in research. His current research interests have focused on the brain’s recovery from postictal suppression in the aftermath of focal to bilateral tonic/clonic seizures using stereotactic EEG. Dr. Karkar has also been committed to teaching activities of his peers and trainees of the Neurology department.