Faculty | Professors
Michael A. Rogawski, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor
Specialty: Neurology
Department of Neurology
Lawrence J. Ellison Ambulatory Care Center
4860 Y Street, Suite 0100
Sacramento, California 95817
(916) 734-3588
Clinical Focus
Epilepsy, Headache
Research Interests
Cellular neurophysiology of ion channels; neurological therapeutics, with an emphasis on antiepileptic drugs and other epilepsy treatment approaches; treatment of traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic epilepsy.
Education
Yale University School of Medicine
New Haven, Connecticut
M.D. 1980
Yale University
New Haven, Connecticut
Ph.D. 1980
Amherst College
Amherst, Massachusetts
B.A., magna cum laude 1974
Internship
Yale University School of Medicine, Waterbury Hospital
Waterbury, Connecticut
1980-1981
Internal Medicine
Residency
The Johns Hopkins Hospital
Baltimore, Maryland
1982-1985
Neurology
Fellowships
The Johns Hopkins Hospital
Baltimore, Maryland
1982-1985
Neurology
National Institute of Neurological and Communicative Disorders and Stroke
Bethesda, Maryland
1981-1984
Neurophysiology
Honors and Awards
NIH Director's Award
Epilepsy Research Award, American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics
Killam Lecture, Montreal Neurological Institute
Certificate of Appreciation, American Epilepsy Society
Certificate of Appreciation, Society for Neuroscience
William G. Lennox Lecture, American Epilepsy Society
UC Davis Affiliations
Pharmacology and Toxicology Graduate Group
Professional Memberships
American Epilepsy SocietyAmerican Neurological Association
American Society for Experimental Neurotherapeutics
American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics
Society for Neuroscience
Teaching
Dr. Rogawski lectures in the second year School of Medicine courses Principles of Pharmacology
(PHA 400B) and Neurosciences (NEU 420).
With Heike Wulff and Richard Horuk, Dr. Rogawski teaches the graduate-level course
Drug Discovery and Development (PHA 207), which is offered yearly in the Winter quarter.
Publications
A listing of Dr. Rogawski's publications and links to the full-text of many of the articles is available here.
Recent research publications, reviews and book chapters can be downloaded here.

