Petr Marusič, MD, PhD
Current position: Head, Department of Neurology, Second Faculty of Medicine, Charles University
and Motol University Hospital, Prague
Education: 1984-1990 Charles University, Prague, First Faculty of Medicine (M.D.)
Ph.D. thesis: 2004 – Complex partial seizures animal models – electrophysiological and behavioural
correlation with seizures in epilepsy patients
Professional qualifications:
Neurology – 1st degree – 1993
Neurology – 2nd degree – 1996
Neurology – habilitation – 2009
Neurology – professorship – 2016
Main interest: epilepsy, epilepsy surgery, neuroimaging, EEG, neurophysiology, cognitive neurology,
human brain mapping
Awards: Czech Neurological Society Award for the best monograph in the year 2003 (The Atlas of
Epileptic Seizures) and in the year 2011 (The Pharmacoresistant Epilepsies)
Society membership:
Czech Neurological Society, president
Czech Society for Clinical Neurophysiology, committee member
Czech League against Epilepsy (ILAE chapter), committee member
Training courses:
1990 – 2 weeks Clinical pharmacology – Basel, Switzerland
1994 – 1 week Neurology and psychiatry (Cornell Seminar) – Salzburg, Austria
1995 – 2 months Dpt. of Neurology, Yale University, New Haven
2000 – 2 months Epilepsy and Sleep Disorders Center, Cleveland Clinic Foundation
2007 – 2 weeks Epilepsy and Sleep Disorders Center, Cleveland Clinic Foundation
2010 – 2024 International Training Courses in StereoElectroEncephalography
Teaching activities:
1991 – 1993 Institute of Physiology, Charles University, Prague, First Faculty of Medicine
1996 – ongoing Charles University, Prague, Second Faculty of Medicine
International activities:
European Reference Network EpiCARE – ExCo member, Neuroimaging WG co-chair
International epilepsy courses tutor – EPODES, Courses on StereoElectroEncephalography
SCORE – standardized computer organized reporting of EEG
Scientific writing:
84 primary papers in impacted journal, 4 monographs, 28 chapters in monographs
H-index: 24
Most cited publication: Marusic, P; Najm, IM; Ying, Z, et al. Focal cortical dysplasias in eloquent
cortex: Functional characteristics and correlation with MRI and histopathologic changes. Epilepsia.
2002, vol.43, iss.1, p.27-32. Citations (WoS): 130
