Dr. King-Stephens earned his medical degree from the Escuela Mexicana de Medicina at the Universidad La Salle in Mexico City, Mexico. He completed a residency in neurology at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center in New York City and a fellowship in epilepsy/electroencephalography at the Yale University School of Medicine in New Haven, Connecticut. Dr King-Stephens is board certified in neurology. Dr King-Stephens is currently Professor of Clinical Neurology in the Department of Neurology at Yale School of Medicine and Codirector for the Center for Neuromodulation in Epilepsy at Yale Medicine. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Neurology and American Epilepsy Society and a member of the Professional Advisory Board of the Epilepsy Foundation of America.