Amar B. Bhatt, MD

Amar Bhatt, MD, is a strong advocate for resident and fellow education. He devotes significant time to teaching in formal lectures and clinical settings. He has authored several book chapters and spoken at national courses regarding neurology and epilepsy education.

His practice includes clinical epilepsy and general neurology (inpatient and outpatient), including video-EEG monitoring, surgical planning and invasive EEG, ICU EEG, and intra-operative monitoring.

Bhatt earned his M.D. from Drexel University College of Medicine in Philadelphia, PA in 2007. He completed his neurology residency at University of Pittsburgh Medical Center in 2011, where he served as chief resident. He completed clinical neurophysiology and epilepsy fellowships at Vanderbilt University in 2013, also serving as chief fellow.

He was then recruited as full-time epilepsy faculty at Vanderbilt, where he served as the Epilepsy Fellowship Program Director and the Clinical Neurophysiology Fellowship Associate Program Director. He was responsible for recruiting, training and graduating more than forty epilepsy and clinical neurophysiology fellows during his time at Vanderbilt. He was subsequently recruited to Rush University in 2017.

He is board certified in Neurology, Epilepsy, and Clinical Neurophysiology through the ABPN, as well as in Clinical Neurophysiology / Critical Care EEG through the ABCN.