Nigel P. Pedersen

Nigel P. Pedersen, MBBS, FAES, FANA is Vice Chair of Research and Associate Professor at the Department of Neurology, University of California at Davis. His specialties are Neurology, Epilepsy and Neurophysiology. His laboratory uses a variety of techniques to research large scale neural networks in the context of epilepsy, sleep and cognition in our valued patient volunteers and preclinical models. Particular interests are the circuit mechanisms of sleep-wake and epilepsy interaction, the sleep-exacerbated cognitive comorbidities of epilepsy, and the neural circuits of memory in our human volunteers. Dr. Pedersen studied cognitive science and neuroscience at Flinders University, then undertook medical studies at the University of Sydney, both in Australia. He then completed post-doctoral training at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) and Harvard Medical School (HMS), studying the neurobiology of sleep and wakefulness. This was followed by an Internship and Residency at BIDMC and Boston Children's Hospital. Dr. Pedersen then undertook research training at BIDMC while completing clinical neurophysiology, epilepsy, and epilepsy and neurobiology fellowships at Massachusetts General Hospital. He has served on the faculty at BIDMC/HMS, and Emory University, where he remains as adjunct faculty, before joining the University of California as an epileptologist, laboratory director, and vice chair of research.