Jieru Egeria
Lin
,
MD, PhD
707 North Broadway
Baltimore, MD 21205
United States
About
Jieru Egeria Lin, MD, PhD, is a pediatric neurologist and epileptologist at Kennedy Krieger Institute. She specializes in caring for children/young adults with epilepsy, particularly drug-resistant, genetic, metabolic, and developmental epileptic encephalopathies. Her clinical interests include epilepsy monitoring and presurgical evaluation, precision therapies, and neuromodulation for children with complex epilepsy.
Education
Dr. Lin received her PhD in Molecular Pharmacology and Structural Biology from Thomas Jefferson University and completed additional training in clinical pharmacology and clinical research. She received her medical degree from the University of Illinois College of Medicine and completed pediatrics and child neurology training at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Irving Medical Center, followed by fellowship training in clinical neurophysiology and pediatric epilepsy at Columbia.
Research Summary:
Dr. Lin’s research focuses on developing precision therapies for children with genetic, metabolic, and drug-resistant epilepsies. She is particularly interested in clinical trials of emerging disease-targeted therapies, identifying biomarkers to guide treatment selection and predict treatment response, and improving neuromodulation strategies for children with developmental and epileptic encephalopathies.