Top Doctor in Denver, 5280 Magazine
(2012)
Voted a 5280 best doctor by my peers in response to the question, "Which physician would you trust to treat you and your family?"
Spitz Mark C., Bainbridge, Jacquelyn L, Wong, Pei-Shieen, Phenobarbital and Primidone. In: Wyllie E. Wyllie's treatment of epilepsy: principles and practice: Wolters Kluwer Health. 2020: 698-692
Lewine JD, Plis S, Ulloa A, Williams C, Spitz M, Foley J, et al. Quantitative EEG Biomarkers for Mild Traumatic Brain Injury. J Clin Neurophysiol. 2019
D. McDermott, S. DeStefano, S. Sillau, R. Pierce, C. Baca, C. Drees, M. Spitz, M. Brown; What is a Fill Time Academic Epileptologist? Results of a National Survey in the United States. American Epilepsy Society Annual Meeting. December 2019
Harden C, Tomson T, Gloss D, Buchhalter J, Cross JH, Donner E, French JA, Gil-Nagel A, Hesdorffer DC, Smithson WH, Spitz MC, Walczak TS, Sander JW, Ryvlin P. Practice Guideline Summary: Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy Incidence Rates and Risk Factors: Report of the Guideline Development, Dissemination, and Implementation Subcommittee of the American Academy of Neurology and the American Epilepsy Society. Epilepsy Curr. 2017 May-Jun;17(3):180-187. PubMed PMID: 28684957
Harden C, Tomson T, Gloss D, Buchhalter J, Cross JH, Donner E, French JA, Gil-Nagel A, Hesdorffer DC, Smithson WH, Spitz MC, Walczak TS, Sander JW, Ryvlin P. Practice guideline summary: Sudden unexpected death in epilepsy incidence rates and risk factors: Report of the Guideline Development, Dissemination, and Implementation Subcommittee of the American Academy of Neurology and the American Epilepsy Society. Neurology. 2017 Apr 25;88(17):1674-1680. PubMed PMID: 28438841
Williams CS, Spitz MC, Foley JF, Weaver LK, Lindblad AS, Wierzbicki MR. Baseline EEG abnormalities in mild traumatic brain injury from the BIMA study. Undersea Hyperb Med. 2016 Aug-Sept;43(5):521-530. PubMed PMID: 28768071
Clinical Interests
Dr. Spitz is the head of the Adult Comprehensive Epilepsy Program, which consists of nine full-time adult epileptologists and a two fellows. The Epilepsy Program has a busy 12-bed epilepsy monitoring unit. The program meets the highest standards for size and sophistication set by the National Association of Epilepsy Centers. Dr. Spitz interprets EEGs, evoked potentials, video-EEG monitoring and corticography.
Specialty clinics: Epilepsy Monitoring Unit (EMU), Clinical Trials
General Information
Medical Schools:
MD, University of Arizona College of Medicine
(1979)
Undergraduate Schools:
BA, Arizona State University (AZ)
(1975)
Internships:
Baylor College of Medicine Program
(1980)
Residency Programs:
Baylor College of Medicine Program, Neurology (1983)
Fellowships:
Stamford Hospital/Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons Program, Clinical Neurophysiology and Epilepsy
(1985)