Archana Shrestha, MD

Professional Titles

• Director, Epilepsy Service

Publications

• Kluger BM, Drees C, Wodushek TR, Frey L, Strom L, Brown MG, Bainbridge JL, Fischer SN, Shrestha A, Spitz M. Would people living with epilepsy benefit from palliative care? Epilepsy Behav. 2020 Nov 24:107618. doi: 10.1016/j.yebeh.2020.107618. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 33246892.
• Domen CH, Shrestha A, Chapman K, Drees C. The Impact of Cannibus Use on Intracarotid Amobarbital Test. Epilepsy Behav Rep. 2019 Jun 24;12:100328. doi: 10.1016/j.ebr.2019.100328.
• Domen CH, Shrestha A, Chapman K, Drees C. The impact of cannabis use on intracarotid amobarbital testing. Epilepsy Behav Rep. 2019 Jun 24;12:100328. doi: 10.1016/j.ebr.2019.100328. PMID: 31497755; PMCID: PMC6719280.
• Makelky M, Bainbridge J, Shrestha A, Changes in lamotrigine and levetiracetam serum concentrations throughout individual weeks in pregnancy. American Epilepsy Society 2018 Abstract 3.230.
• Process improvement to decreased time to epilepsy surgery and increase number of surgeries. American Epilepsy Society
• Diagnostic Usefulness of Tilt Table Testing with Concomitant Video EEG Monitoring in Select Patients with Intractable Loss of Consciousness Events. American Epilepsy Society
• A. Shrestha, T. Larabee, L. Frey, K. Polovitz, J. Campbell. Deterioration in the EEG Following Rewarming in Cardiac Arrest Patients After mild Therapeutic Hypothermia. Abstract 3.078. American Epilepsy Society Annual Meeting.
• A. Shrestha, J. Campbell, T. Larabeee. Abnormal Continuous Electroencephalography Recordings are not Predictive of Survival Outcomes Following Cardiac Arrest. American Heart Association Annual Meeting.
• Prognostic Value of Continuous Video EEG in Cardiopulmonary Arrest Patients Undergoing the Cooling Protocol
• Spitz M, Moreland S, Frey L, O’Brien C, Shrestha A, Strom L: Ablative Temporal Lobe Epilepsy Surgery Should be considered in Patients with a Pre-existing Liver Transplantation. American Epilepsy Society Abstract 3.125
• Frey LC, Strom LA, Shrestha A, Spitz MC. End-of-dose emergent psychopathology in ambulatory patients with epilepsy on stable-dose lamotrigine monotherapy: a case series of six patients. Epilepsy Behav. 2009 Aug;15(4):521-3. PubMed PMID: 19643671

Professional Memberships

• American Epilepsy Society, Member
• American Academy of Neurology, Member

Practice Locations

• University of Colorado Hospital
• Denver Health Medical Center

Specialty Information

• Neurology, Board Certification (2000)
• Epilepsy

• Brain and Nervous System
• Brain and Nervous System - Epilepsy