Erasmo Passaro, MD, FAAN

Dr. Erasmo A. Passaro, MD is the Director of the Comprehensive Epilepsy Center at Bayfront Health System in St Petersburg, Florida since its inception in June 2002. It is only one of five level IV adult epilepsy center in Florida designated by the National Association of Epilepsy Centers. He received his undergraduate degree in Biology from the University of Chicago with honors, and graduated from the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in New Jersey. He then served a one-year medical internship at UCLA-SFVP. He completed his neurology residency at UCLA followed by a two year epilepsy/clinical neurophysiology fellowship at UCLA with Jerome Engel MD, PhD. He then established the Tampa General Hospital Epilepsy Surgery Program in 1995, and in 1998 assumed the position of Assistant Professor of Neurology and Director of the Adult Epilepsy Laboratory at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, a position he held until 2002 when he accepted his current position. He is a diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology (ABPN), the ABPN with added qualification in Clinical Neurophysiology, Epilepsy and Sleep Medicine; the American Board of Clinical Neurophysiology; the American Board of Sleep Medicine; and diplomate in the subspecialty of Neuroimaging of the United Council of Neurologic Specialties.  He has been recognized by seven consecutive years by Castle Connolly’s “Best Doctors in America” for 2007-2013 and America’s “Top Doctors.”