Irina Podkorytova, M.D.

Peter O'Donnell Jr. Brain Institute

Neurology
Epilepsy & Seizures

Biography

Irina M. Podkorytova, M.D., is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Neurology at UT Southwestern Medical Center. She specializes in the surgical treatment of intractable epilepsy, stereoelectroencephalography, and neuromodulation.

Dr. Podkorytova earned her medical degree at Perm State Medical University in Perm, Russia. She completed a residency in child neurology at the Kurgan Municipal Children's Hospital in Russia, followed by a research fellowship in epilepsy and clinical neurophysiology at the Cleveland Clinic Epilepsy Center. She then received additional advanced training in neurophysiology and epilepsy through separate fellowships at UT Southwestern.

She joined the UT Southwestern faculty in 2019.

Dr. Podkorytova serves on the American Clinical Neurophysiology Society’s Stereo-EEG Consortium and on UT Southwestern’s Program Evaluation and Clinical Competency committees. She is a member of the Texas Neurological Society, the American Clinical Neurophysiology Society, and the American Epilepsy Society.

She has published several academic articles and contributed to the second edition of the book Operative Techniques in Epilepsy Surgery. In 2019, she earned the Victor Rivera/Leon Weisberg Research Manuscript Award.

Education & Training

Residency - Kurgan Municipal Children's Hospital - Russia (1989-1990), Child Neurology
Fellowship - UT Southwestern Medical Center (2018-2019), Epilepsy
Medical School - Perm State Medical Academy, Russia (1983-1989)
Research Fellowship - UT Southwestern Medical Center (2014-2016), Neurophysiology
Research Fellowship - Cleveland Clinic Foundation (2013-2014), Epilepsy/clinical Neurophysiology
Fellowship - UTSW (Research fellowship) (2014-2016)

Professional Associations & Affiliations

Texas Neurological Society
American Clinical Neurophysiology Society
American Epilepsy Society

Honors & Awards

Victor Rivera/Leon Weisberg Research Manuscript Award 2019
Research Poster Award 2019, UT Southwestern
Program Director’s Travel Scholarship 2019, American Clinical Neurophysiology Society
Third Prize Award, Poster Competition 2019, Texas Neurological Society

Books & Publications

Books
- Depth Electrodes in Operative Techniques in Epilepsy Surgery, Second Edition. Gordon Baltuch ed.
  Neely O, Podkorytova I, Lega BC (2019), Thieme
Publications
- Surgical decision-making in adult patients with epilepsy related to germline mutations: A single-center study
  Podkorytova I, Alick Lindstrom S, Ding K, Perven G, Hays R. Journal of International Medical Research. 2025;53(5) 2025
- Real-time seizure detection using behind-the-ear wearable system
  Lehnen J., Venkatesh P., Zhuoran Yao, Abdul Aziz, Phuc V.P. Nguen, Harvey J., Alick Lindstrom S., Doyle A., Podkorytova, I., Perven G., Hays, R., Zepeda R., Das, R., Ding, K. Journal of Clinical Neurophysiology 2025 42 118-125
- Prevalence of Temporal Lobe Epilepsy (TLE) Subtypes and Response to Resective Surgery in Patients with Presumed TLE Undergoing Limbic and Paralimbic Network Exploration with Stereo-Electrodes
  Podkorytova I, Alick-Lindstrom S, Ding K, Hays R, Perven G. Journal of Clinical Medicine 2025 7 14
- Real-Time Seizure Detection Using Behind-the-Ear Wearable System.
  Lehnen J, Venkatesh P, Yao Z, Aziz A, Nguyen PVP, Harvey J, Alick-Lindstrom S, Doyle A, Podkorytova I, Perven G, Hays R, Zepeda R, Das RR, Ding K, Journal of clinical neurophysiology : official publication of the American Electroencephalographic Society 2024 Feb
- Stereo-electroencephalographic seizure localization in patients with mesial temporal sclerosis: a single center experience
  Zhang B., Podkorytova I., Hays R., Perven G., Agostini M., Harvey J., Zepeda R., Alick-Lindstrom S., Dieppa M., Doyle A., Das R., Lega B., Ding K. Zhang B. and Podkorytova I. contributed equally to the preparation of this manuscript Clinical Neurophysiology Practice 2024 9 (2024) 9 (2024) 106-111
- Back to Basics: Care of the SEEG Implanted Patient
  Alick Lindstrom S., Venkatesh P., Perven G., Wabulya A., Yang QZ, Sirsi D., Podkorytova I. Journal of Clinical Neurophysiology 2024 41 5 415–422
- Pearls & Oy-sters: Two Cases of Stereotactic EEG-Proven Insular Epilepsy With Non-localizing Scalp EEG and Interesting Semiologies.
  Li D, Podkorytova I, Dieppa M, Perven G, Neurology 2022 Jun
- Temporal lobe interictal spikes disrupt encoding and retrieval of verbal memory: A subregion analysis.
  Camarillo-Rodriguez L, Leenen I, Waldman Z, Serruya M, Wanda PA, Herweg NA, Kahana MJ, Rubinstein D, Orosz I, Lega B, Podkorytova I, Gross RE, Worrell G, Davis KA, Jobst BC, Sheth SA, Weiss SA, Sperling MR, Epilepsia 2022 Jun
- Epilepsy surgery in patient with monogenic epilepsy related to SCN8A mutation.
  Podkorytova I., Hays R., Perven G., Alick Lindstrom S. Epilepsy and Behavior Reports 2022 18: 100536 18: 100536
- Single center outcomes of intracranial evaluation and surgical intervention in the elderly population.
  Dave H, Guerra A, Rodriguez M, Podkorytova I, Lega B, Epilepsy & behavior reports 2022 20 100569
- Emergency department visits and readmissions in patients with psychogenic nonepileptic seizures (PNES) at a safety net hospital.
  Ramamurthy S, Steven Brown L, Agostini M, Alick Lindstorm S, Dave H, Dieppa M, Ding K, Doyle A, Hays R, Harvey J, Perven G, Podkorytova I, Zepeda R, Das RR, Epilepsy & behavior : E&B 2021 Aug 122 108225
- Emergent Admissions to the Epilepsy Monitoring Unit in the Setting of COVID-19 Pandemic-related, State-mandated Restrictions: Clinical Decision Making and Outcomes.
  Zepeda R, Lee Y, Agostini M, Alick Lindstrom S, Dave H, Dieppa M, Ding K, Doyle A, Harvey J, Hays R, Perven G, Podkorytova I, Das RR, The Neurodiagnostic journal 2021 Jun 61 2 95-103
- Stereo-EEG Evaluation and Surgical Treatment in Patients With Drug-Resistant Focal Epilepsy Associated With Nodular Heterotopia.
  Durica SR, Caruso JP, Podkorytova I, Ding K, Hays R, Lega B, Perven G, Journal of clinical neurophysiology : official publication of the American Electroencephalographic Society 2021 Apr
- Non-lesional mesial temporal lobe epilepsy requires bilateral invasive evaluation.
  Perven G, Podkorytova I, Ding K, Agostini M, Alick S, Das R, Dave H, Dieppa M, Doyle A, Harvey J, Lega B, Zepeda R, Hays R, Epilepsy & behavior reports 2021 15 100441
- Non-lesional mesial temporal lobe epilepsy requires bilateral invasive evaluation
  Ghazala Perven, Irina Podkorytova, Kan Ding, Mark Agostini, Sasha Alick, Rohit Das, Hina Dave, Marisara Dieppa, Alexander Doyle, Jay Harvey, Bradley Lega, Rodrigo Zepeda, Ryan Hays Epilepsy & Behavior Reports 2021
- Stereo-EEG Evaluation and Surgical Treatment in Patients With Drug-Resistant Focal Epilepsy Associated With Nodular Heterotopia
  Durica S., Caruso J., Podkorytova I., Ding K., Hays R., Lega B., Perven G. Stereo-EEG evaluation and surgical treatment in patients with drug-resistant focal epilepsy associated with nodular heterotopia. Journal of Clinical Neurophysiology 2021 April 7, 2021 - Volume Publish Ahead of Print
- Utility of genetic testing in epilepsy surgery decision making (1678)
  Irina Podkorytova, Ryan Hays, Kan Ding, Mark Agostini, Sasha Alick, Rohit Das, Hina Dave, Marisara Dieppa, Alexander Doyle, Jay Harvey, Bradley Lega, Rodrigo Zepeda, Ghazala Perven Neurology 96 (15 Supplement) April 13, 2021 2021 15 Supplement 96
- Scalp-EEG negative events mimicking non-epileptic spells identified as insula seizures - Stereo-EEG study (2591)
  Denise Li, Irina Podkorytova, Ghazala Perven, Mark Agostini, Alex Doyle, Sasha Alick, Rohit Das, Hina Dave, Kan Ding, Jay Harvey, Ryan Hays, Bradley Lega, Rodrigo Zepeda, Marisara Dieppa Neurology 2021 Supplement 15 96
- Concordance between patient-reported and physician-reported seizure semiology (1890)
  Andrew Lin, Patrick Arraj, Irina Podkorytova, Ghazala Perven, Kan Ding, Jay Harvey, Ryan Hays, Mark Agostini, Rohit Das, Hina Dave, Marisara Dieppa, Rodrigo Zepeda, Sasha Alick, Alexander Doyle Neurology 2021 Supplement 15 96
- Stereo-EEG Seizure Localization in Patients with Medically Intractable Focal Epilepsy Associated with Schizencephaly (2505)
  Irina Podkorytova, Bradley Lega, Ryan Hays, Mark Agostini, Sasha Alick, Rohit Das, Hina Dave, Marisara Dieppa, Kan Ding, Alexander Doyle, Jay Harvey, Rodrigo Zepeda Garcia, Ghazala Perven Neurology 2020
- Combined Treatment of Bilateral Periventricular Nodular Heterotopia with Laser Ablation and Neuropace Leads Placement after Stereo-EEG Evaluation (P5.5-033)
  Irina Podkorytova, Mark Agostini, Bradley Lega, Rodrigo Zepeda Garcia, Ryan Hays, Ghazala Perven Neurology 2019
- Level Four Epilepsy Center Experience With Stereo-electroencephalography (P5.5-020)
  Irina Podkorytova, Ghazala Perven, Kan Ding, Mark Agostini, Ryan Hays, Sasha Alick, Marisara Dieppa, Rohit Das, Hina Dave, Jay Harvey, Rodrigo Zepeda Garcia, Bradley Lega Neurology 2019
- Patient selection and outcomes of placement of the Neuropace Responsive Neurostimulator for the treatment of intractable epilepsy: a single center experience (P5.5-029)
  Mark Agostini, Sasha Alick, Rohit Das, Hina Dave, Marisara Dieppa, Kan Ding, Jay Harvey, Ryan Hays, Ghazala Perven, Bradley Lega, Irina Podkorytova, Rodrigo Zepeda Garcia, Vijay Ram, Joseph Flay Neurology 2019
- Magnetoencephalography and ictal SPECT in patients with failed epilepsy surgery.
  El Tahry R, Wang ZI, Thandar A, Podkorytova I, Krishnan B, Tousseyn S, Guiyun W, Burgess RC, Alexopoulos AV, Clinical neurophysiology : official journal of the International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology 2018 08 129 8 1651-1657
- Aicardi syndrome: epilepsy surgery as a palliative treatment option for selected patients and pathological findings.
  Podkorytova I, Gupta A, Wyllie E, Moosa A, Bingaman W, Prayson R, Knight EM, Epileptic disorders : international epilepsy journal with videotape 2016 Dec 18 4 431-439
- Stereo-Encephalography Versus Subdural Electrodes for Seizure Localization.
  Podkorytova I, Hoes K, Lega B, Neurosurgery clinics of North America 2016 Jan 27 1 97-109

Clinical Focus

Epilepsy & Seizures