 I'm Alexander Ksenzovsky. I'm an assistant professor of neurosurgery at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, and I'm a neurosurgeon at the University of Maryland Medical Center. I take care of patients with complex medical diseases, including epilepsy, Parkinson's essential tremor, and brain tumors. I perform epilepsy surgery, functional neurosurgery, and surgery for complex brain tumors. I treat my patients like family. I always say after the first visit that after this long, arduous process, you've not only gained a surgeon, you've also gained a friend. I trained in neurosurgery at the University of Virginia and the National Institutes of Health, and I trained in epilepsy and functional neurosurgery at Yale University School of Medicine. I received my PhD at the University of Virginia and the National Institutes of Health. I specifically studied how sugars are used in epilepsy, and this is the current focus of my lab. My lab is interested in understanding epilepsy networks and how sugars are used in nerve cells during seizures. So the thought is that during a seizure, neurons or nerve cells use sugars differently, and this would allow us to potentially target some of those pathways with medicines or use that information to better diagnose where seizures are coming from and where they're going. The best part of my day is the ability to see and treat an epilepsy patient one moment and then go into the research lab and better understand epilepsy the next. Right now, it's very hard to cure epilepsy. However, through the University of Maryland Epilepsy Centers research and clinical efforts, we hope that one day we can stop seizures.