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COMING SOON
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Board Certified, Neurology — American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology (Certificate No. 51326)
Board Certified, Clinical Neurophysiology — American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology (Certificate No. 3319)
Board Certified, Epilepsy — American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology (Certificate No. 266)
Diplomate, Advanced Central Clinical Neurophysiology — American Board of Clinical Neurophysiology (valid through 2030)
Diplomate, Intra-Operative Neurophysiologic Monitoring — American Board of Clinical Neurophysiology (valid through 2029)
Diplomate, Critical Care EEG Monitoring — American Board of Clinical Neurophysiology (valid through 2030)
Diplomate, Epilepsy Monitoring — American Board of Clinical Neurophysiology (valid through 2030)
MRCPI: University College Hospital, Galway, Ireland (1994)
Neurology Residency: Cleveland Clinic Foundation (Chief Resident, 1997–1998)
Fellowship in Clinical Neurophysiology and Epilepsy: Cleveland Clinic Foundation (Chief Fellow, 1999–2000)
MB, BCh, BAO: University College Galway, Ireland
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A.B. Baker Teaching Award, American Academy of Neurology, 2012
Nicholas Vick Award for Excellence in Medical Student Teaching, Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine (2011, 2014, 2019)
Outstanding Teacher Award, Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine (2011, 2012, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021)
Schuele SU, Afshari M, Afshari ZS, Macken MP, Asconape J, Wolfe L, Gerard EE. “Ictal central apnea as a predictor for sudden unexpected death in epilepsy.” Epilepsy and Behavior. 2011;22(2):401-3.
Fisher RS, Afra P, Macken M, et al. “Automatic Vagus Nerve Stimulation Triggered by Ictal Tachycardia: Clinical Outcomes and Device Performance — The U.S. E-37 Trial.” Neuromodulation. 2016;19(2):188-195.
Sen-Gupta I, Schuele SU, Macken MP, Gerard EE. “Ictal lateralized periodic discharges.” Epilepsy and Behavior. 2014;36:165-170.
King A, Bachman E, Macken MP, Lee J, Gerard EE. “Contraceptive vaginal ring reduces lamotrigine levels.” Epilepsy Behav. 2020;111:107162.
Macken MP, Sweeney PJ, Hanson M. “The Cranial Nerves.” Chapter 74 in Neurology in Clinical Practice, 3rd Ed. (Bradley, Daroff, Fenichel, eds.)
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American Academy of Neurology
American Neurological Association
American Epilepsy Society
American Clinical Neurophysiology Society
Neurocritical Care Society
Committee Member, American Board of Clinical Neurophysiology, Examinations Committee
Member, Epic Adult Neurology Steering Group (2024–2026)
Member, Board of Directors, Howard Brown Health Center, Chicago (2001–2007)
Member, Board of Trustees, Chicago House and Social Services, Chicago (2009–2015)
Mícheál P. Macken, MD, MRCPI
Board Certified Neurology
Board Certified Clinical Neurophysiology
Board Certified Epilepsy
Intraoperative Neuromonitoring
(626) 598-3770
Dr. Mícheál Macken has spent more than two decades treating complex epilepsy as an epileptologist, clinical neurophysiologist, and Associate Professor of Neurology at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine. He is board certified in Neurology, Clinical Neurophysiology, and Epilepsy, and has served as an attending neurologist in Northwestern Medicine’s Division of Epilepsy and Clinical Neurophysiology since 2008.
Dr. Macken’s medical training began in Ireland, where he earned his medical degree and completed postgraduate training in internal medicine and neurology. He then trained at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, one of the country’s leading epilepsy centers, completing his neurology residency and a fellowship in clinical neurophysiology and epilepsy, where he was chosen to lead as Chief Resident and later Chief Fellow. A visiting fellowship in electrophysiology at King’s College Hospital in London rounded out his training.
His clinical expertise spans the management of medically refractory epilepsy, epilepsy surgery evaluation, status epilepticus, and complex neuromodulation therapies including vagus nerve stimulation. He has extensive experience in intraoperative neurophysiologic monitoring, with more than 5,000 cases to date, and in advanced EEG techniques including stereo-EEG and invasive brain mapping for epilepsy surgery.
Dr. Macken has served as an investigator on numerous clinical trials in epilepsy and neuromodulation and has authored or co-authored dozens of peer-reviewed publications and conference presentations throughout his career.
Dr. Macken is also recognized as one of Northwestern’s top medical educators, training the next generation of neurologists and epileptologists. For this work, he has received Northwestern’s Nicholas Vick Award for Excellence in Medical Student Teaching three times, multiple Outstanding Teacher Awards, and the American Academy of Neurology’s A.B. Baker Teaching Award.
