Zachary Grinspan

Dr. Zachary Grinspan is an Associate Professor in Pediatrics and in Population Health Sciences, Vice Chair of Pediatrics (Health Data Science), and Director of Pediatric Epilepsy at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York City, with board certifications in child neurology and epilepsy. His training includes a degree in biostatistics and a completed postdoctoral fellowship in quality of care and medical informatics. His published research draws from multiple disciplines (epilepsy, emergency medicine, critical care, health services research, informatics, biostatistics, machine learning, economics, and epidemiology). Dr. Grinspan has funded and currently leads several multi-institutional research initiatives including clinical trials.

He is the primary investigator for the Pediatric Epilepsy Learning Healthcare System, a consortium of more than 20 pediatric epilepsy centers that aims to reduce seizures and their consequences for children with epilepsy through cycles of health data collection and analysis, dissemination of new evidence, and practice change. He has published over 100 peer-reviewed articles, half as first or senior author. Dr. Grinspan is a practicing clinician and researcher with experience and publications using several quantitative and qualitative research methods. He holds leadership positions in several academic and professional societies. Sample citations demonstrate a strong track record of multi-institutional collaboration, and experience with large administrative datasets. For this grant, Dr. Grinspan’s experience with epilepsy epidemiology, prior work with CDC, work with large datasets, and track record of research leadership indicate that he is well qualified to conduct the proposed research.