Pavel Klein

Dr. Pavel Klein is the Director of the Mid-Atlantic Epilepsy and Sleep Center in Bethesda, MD. He is also Clinical Professor in the Department of Neurology at George Washington University in Washington, DC.

Dr. Klein completed his medical degree at the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, UK, neurology residency and epilepsy fellowship at the University of Virginia, and neuroendocrinology and sleep fellowships at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center/Harvard medical school. He was the director of the epilepsy program at Georgetown University until 2003 when he founded a private epilepsy center, the Mid-Atlantic Epilepsy and Sleep Center where he has been the director since then. Dr. Klein’s clinical research includes novel treatments of epilepsy, prevention of epilepsy after traumatic brain injury, dietary treatments of epilepsy in adults, the effect of sex and stress hormones on epilepsy, and women with epilepsy. He has published >80 papers, and has received grants from the NIH, department of defense. CURE and American Epilepsy Society.

Dr. Klein is also a co-founder and the CEO of PrevEp Inc., a biotech start-up developing treatments to prevent epilepsy after acquired injury such as traumatic brain injury, stroke and infection.