Kenneth D. Laxer, M.D. is a neurologist and epileptologist. In 1986 he started the Epilepsy Program at the University of California, San Francisco building an internationally recognized center of excellence for tertiary care of patients with medically refractory epilepsy. In 2002 he became Director of the Pacific Epilepsy Program, California Pacific Medical Center, San Francisco, CA and Professor Emeritus of Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery, University of California San Francisco.  He has an 20+ year collaboration with the Center of Imaging of Neurodegenerative Diseases at the SF VA Medical Center. He was PI of a RO1 NIH grant for the last 16 years and was the first to demonstrate ³¹P MRS, ³¹P MRSI, and ¹H MRSI provided lateralizing and localizing information beyond that provided by traditional MRI, PET and SPECT imaging techniques. He was also a co-investigator in several national multi-site projects, e.g., ROSE.