[MUSIC PLAYING] My name is Todd Chatlos. I am a neurologist who focuses on epilepsy, so I primarily take care of patients who have seizures or related disorders. I chose to become a physician because I've always cared about helping people and been interested in science. And specifically, I chose to become a neurologist because I'm fascinated by how the human brain works. And I find that every day talking to my patients, I learn more about the brain, and I feel like I understand more about what makes us human. I chose UChicago Medicine because as an epileptologist, I wanted a large academic practice so that I would have access to all of the different surgical, or all of the different treatment options to help my patients with seizures. So as a larger practice, we have pretty much all of the surgical options that you would need for patients who aren't responding to anti-seizure medications. So I like being able to offer that to all of my patients. I also love that we are on the forefront, as we say, working on multiple trials for epilepsy drugs, and for surgical treatments for epilepsy. That might help patients in the future who aren't responding to medications that we have now. I take care of patients with seizures from the moment they first have an episode concerning for seizure all the way to needing surgery and post-operatively. So I oversee-- initially I'll take histories from them and get an idea of what their seizures could be. And then I do read EEGs. I send patients for EEG. And I will take care of them in the hospital when we're doing more prolonged studies to identify where their seizures are coming from. And then I also oversee the collection of other tests. We have lots of ancillary tests which can help us understand people's seizures. And if people do have seizures that are refractory to multiple medications, we can talk about surgical options for their seizures. And I work closely with our surgeons and our other epilepsy doctors to discuss the best options for that. So I will also take care of patients who are admitted to the hospital for intracranial EEG, where we do a surgery to place EEG electrodes. And then we monitor them to more eloquently identify where their seizures are coming from, and plan what surgery is best for them. Something I tell my patients frequently is that my goal of care is to have them seizure-free with the fewest side effects from their medication. So it's always a discussion with patients trying to make sure that they are comfortable on the medications that they're on, but also making sure that they have adequate seizure control so that they can take care. So that they can live their lives as normally as possible despite having seizures. [MUSIC PLAYING]