 Hi, my name is Dr. Brian McFalla and I'm a neurologist at MidMichigan Health. As a system stroke director for all of MidMichigan's medical centers, I work collaboratively with the stroke team and accrediting stroke agencies as well as Michigan Medicine to ensure excellent care and better outcomes. My goal is to improve the overall quality of health care the patient receives by implementing a consistent standard of stroke care across the health system. By doing this, my hope is to reduce the length of stay and get patients on the road to recovery more quickly and reduce the overall cost in the process. In addition to being the system stroke director, I also see patients in the clinic. My philosophy on patient care is one in which I like to partner with the patients. I don't like to tell them what to do, but I do like to educate them on the disease process to help them better decide what the best plan of care is for them. I may help steer them or direct them if I feel a decision is not in their best interest, but I always want them to understand that they do have options. In addition to special interest in sports neurology, concussions, and stroke, I have specialized training in the treatment of epilepsy. I find treating epilepsy to be fascinating. If we get someone with epilepsy on the right treatment plan, we can give them back their independence. I see patients with epilepsy at their most vulnerable. These treatments allow them to be better controlled and more independent with things like driving or holding down a job. Things that most of us take for granted. There are surgical interventions for the treatment of epilepsy as well. And for those who are good candidates, we typically see an 80% curative rate. This is one of the few neurologic disease processes that can be curative. I really enjoy what I do because the brain is the body's most important organ. It's the last and final frontier of medicine and we are quickly finding out things we could only once dream about. And hopefully we'll soon have better treatments or cures for neurologic diseases that we once thought impossible.