Edward Maa, MD

At the end of my formal training, I joined a group of highly skilled doctors and nurses and allied health professionals who believed tha we provided "Level One Care for All". And while the notion may be considered old fashioned in today's widgetized healthcare business models, it is still the motto that I use to approach each and every patient in my practice. Patients are the sum of their own experiences, and they bring their own unique set of circumstances to each encounter... to each interaction. To best help a patient, it is my duty to first understand where they are in the diagnostic/therapeutic journey, and then to provide the best possible care tailored to each individual. Period.

Dr. Edward H. Maa is double boarded in Neurology and Epilepsy and is accepting patients with all neurological problems, but has special expertise in medication resistant epilepsies, epilepsy surgical evaluations, and neuromodulation for epilepsy including VNS, RNS, and DBS.

Dr. Maa hails from the Gulf South and graduated from Rice University in Houston, and Louisiana State University School of Medicine in New Orleans. He completed his Neurology residency and Epilepsy fellowship at the University of Colorado and became Associate Professor in the Department of Neurology and established what was to become the Brooke Gordon Comprehensive Epilepsy Center at Denver Health in 2007.

During his fellowship, he identified a tremendous unmet need in the care of epilepsy patients at the affiliated county hospital, and through a partnership with University of Denver's Daniels School of Business, he worked with a team of graduate students to complete and present the business plan that was eventually accepted by the CEO of Denver Health, Patty Gabow. This business plan created his positions as the Chief of the Comprehensive Epilepsy Program at Denver Health Medical Center, and the Medical Director of the Neurodiagnostic Laboratory. He transformed the small two-EEG technologist service to become a National Association of Epilepsy Centers (NAEC) LEVEL 4 center by 2012. And by 2019, continued growth along with the most-generous, single-individual donation in Denver Health history, resulted in the program's complete modernization to offering cutting-edge epilepsy surgical services regardless of a patient's ability to pay.

On the heels of this accomplishment, he now joins HealthONE as the Director of Epilepsy Services over HCA Colorado. Housed at Swedish Medical Center, he will be streamlining and coordinating epilepsy monitoring and epilepsy surgical evaluations within the HCA network of hospitals, including Rose Medical Center and Sky Ridge Medical Center.

Dr. Maa has been a 5280 “Top Doc” for both Epileptology and Neurology since 2012. His service oriented affiliations include memberships in the American Epilepsy Society and the Epilepsy Foundation of Colorado and Wyoming, the latter of which he is an Emeritus Executive Board Member and Past President and current member of the EFC&W Professional Advisory Board. He is married to Skye Barker Maa, a serial entrepreneur in the Denver and Aurora Arts scene, and father to Sebastian, Sloane, and Nicholas who are all equally amazing.

ACTIVE RESEARCH AREAS

• Canine scent detection of human epileptic seizures and related topics: seizure prediction window, development of medical device, use in PNES

• Auricular acupuncture for the treatment of non-epileptic seizures (PNES)

PUBLISHED WORK

1. Maa EH, Arnold J, Bush CK (2021). Epilepsy and the smell of fear. Epilepsy & Behavior. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.yebeh.2021.108078.

2. Maa EH, Arnold J, Ninedorf K, Olsen HA (2021). Canine detection of volatile organic compounds unique to human epileptic seizure. Epilepsy & Behavior, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.yebeh.2020.107690

3. Maa EH, Applegate M, Keniston A (2020). Auricular acupuncture for the treatment of nonepileptic seizures: A pilot study. Epilepsy & Behavior. 111:107329.

4. Masataka Y, Takumi I, Maa EH, Yamamoto H. (2020). Report of a 6-month old Asian infant with early infantile epileptic encephalopathy whose seizures were eliminated by cannabidiol. Epilepsy Behavior Reports. 14:100373.

5. Deuel L, Collins AE, Maa EH, Barr JP, Kern DS (2019). Dravet Syndrome and parkinsonism: A case report investigating the dopaminergic system. Neurology. 2019 09 24; 93(13): 595-96.

6. Davis C, Reno E, Maa E, Roach R (2016). History of Migraine Predicts Headache at High Altitude. High Alt Med Biol. 17(4):300-304.

7. PS Wong, J Bainbridge, M Spitz, L Frey, C Drees, C O’Brien, L Strom, A Shrestha, S Benbadis J Sirven, S Chung, E Maa, B Phillips (2015). Retrospective Study of Lacosamide in the Elderly (≥ 60 Years of Age). Clinical Therapeutics. 37(8 ) suppl: e134.

8. Gloss DS, Maa EH (2015). Medical marijuana: Between a plant and a hard place. Neurol Clin Pract. Published online August 6, 2015.

9. Maa EH, Figi P (2014). The Case for Medical Marijuana in Epilepsy. Epilepsia. 55(6):783-6.

10. McConnell BV, Applegate M, Keniston A, Kluger B, Maa EH (2014).Use of complementary and alternative medicine in an urban county hospital epilepsy clinic. Epilepsy Behav. 34:73-6.

11. Maa EH (2013). Diuretics as Antiepileptics. In: Diuretics. Editor: Lars Wouters (pp. 111-120). Nova Science Publishers, Inc.

12. Cerdan-Trevino M, Umyarova E, Maa E, Nugent K (2012). Sudden Unexplained Death in Epilepsy. Neurology: Clinical Practice. 2:265-266.

13. Wortzel HS, Strom LA, Anderson CA, Maa EH, Spitz M (2012). Disrobing Associated with Epileptic Seizures and Forensic Implications. J Forensic Sci. 57(2).

14. Maa EH, Kahle KT, Walcott BP, Spitz MC, Staley KJ (2011). Diuretics and Epilepsy: Will the Past and Present Meet? Epilepsia. 52(9):1559-69.

15. Maa EH (2011). How Do You Approach Seizures in the High Altitude Traveler? High Altitude Medicine & Biology. 12(1):13-19.

16. Maa EH, Earnest MP, Spitz MC, Bainbridge J (2011). Severity of Seizures as a Forensic Risk and Case Reports. In: Sudden Death in Epilepsy: Forensic and Clinical Issues. Editors: Lathers CM, Schraeder PL, Bungo MW, and Leestma JE. (pp. 209-220). Boca Raton: CRC Press Taylor & Francis Group.

17. Maa EH (2010). Hypobaric hypoxic cerebral insults: The neurological consequences of going higher. NeuroRehabilitation 26(1):73-84.

18. Spitz M, Winston K, Maa E, Ojemann S, (2010). Insulation discontinuity in vagus nerve stimulator lead:a treatable cause of intolerable stimulalation-related symptoms. Journal of Neurosurgery. 112:828-831.

19. Maa EH (2007). “Status Epilepticus”. Available online: http://www.emedicine.com/neuro/topic417.htm. Accessed February 23, 2007.

20. Maa EH, Hughes RL. (2006). Chapter 38: Seizures. In Albert RK, et al. Clinical Critical Care Medicine (pp. 415-430). Philadelphia: Mosby-Elsevier.

Please contact me for interest in

1. Medical Legal Consulting.

2. Site evaluation and planning for developing an Epilepsy Monitoring Unit.