Dr. John Phamnguyen

Dr. John Phamnguyen is an Australian neurologist and subspecialist epileptologist with expertise in drug-resistant epilepsy, presurgical evaluation, EEG, and epilepsy neuroimaging.

He is currently undertaking a Clinical Fellowship in Epilepsy Surgery and SEEG at the Claudio Munari Epilepsy Surgery Centre, ASST Grande Ospedale Metropolitano Niguarda, Milan, Italy. His advanced training includes stereoelectroencephalography (SEEG) evaluation, cortical stimulation and functional mapping, and SEEG-guided radiofrequency thermocoagulation.

Dr. Phamnguyen holds substantive clinical appointments in the Comprehensive Epilepsy Service at the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital and the Epilepsy Unit at Mater Hospital Brisbane, and also provided private epilepsy consultations and EEG evaluations at Brisbane Clinical Neuroscience Centre (BCNC).

Dr. Phamnguyen completed his medical degree at Griffith University and undertook specialist neurology training at Nepean, Blacktown, and Westmead hospitals in Sydney. He subsequently completed an epilepsy fellowship at Westmead Hospital, where he gained advanced experience in drug-resistant epilepsy, video-EEG monitoring, presurgical evaluation, SEEG, electrocorticography, and the technical evaluation of epilepsy neuroimaging, including MRI, PET, and SPECT.

He is accredited by the Australian and New Zealand Association of Neurologists as a Level 3 EEG supervisor, the highest level of specialist EEG accreditation, and teaches at the annual ANZAN and Epilepsy Society of Australia Clinical Epilepsy and EEG Course since 2021.

Dr. Phamnguyen’s PhD research at the Centre for Advanced Imaging, University of Queensland, examines the network organisation and circuitry of tonic-clonic seizures, including mechanisms relevant to sudden unexpected death in epilepsy. His research has been published in peer-reviewed epilepsy and neuroimaging journals and presented at national and international conference

He is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Queensland, a member of the Research and Education Committee of the Epilepsy Society of Australia, and Co-Lead of the SUDEP and Mortality Theme within the Epilepsy and Other Neurological Disorders Alliance (ENDA).

Although Dr. Phamnguyen is currently undertaking further training in Milan, the EEG service at the Brisbane Clinical Neuroscience Centre continues to provide routine EEG, sleep-deprived EEG, and home-based video-ambulatory EEG monitoring. Further details are available on the BCNC EEG information page. Referring clinicians may download the routine and sleep-deprived EEG referral form or the video-ambulatory EEG referral form.