Jeanne Ann King, M.D.

Clinical Associate Professor 

 

Dr. King is Clinical Associate Professor of Neurology, having rejoined the faculty in August, 2007, after a nine year absence.  She was previously a full-time faculty member from 1982-1998. 

 

Dr. King  graduated from Vanderbilt University with a BA in biology in 1974.  She subsequently got her medical degree (1978) and residency training in neurology at the University of Oklahoma School of Medicine. 

 

Following completion in 1982, she joined the faculty of the University of Oklahoma Department of Neurology and was involved in the creation and development of the Comprehensive Oklahoma Program for Epilepsy (C.O.P.E.) and the Richard E. Carpenter Neuroscience Library. 

 

In the past, her research interests involved antiepileptic drug (AED) development, and she participated in numerous AED trials prior to FDA approval of several of the current "new" drugs for epilepsy.  A special interest is epilepsy in developmental disabilities.  While in Louisiana she was neurological consultant to the Hammond Developmental Center, and has now resumed  consulting for the Southern Oklahoma Resource Center (formerly known as the Paul's Valley State School) and the Northern Oklahoma Resource Center in Enid. 

 

She has a strong interest in medical education and is a board member and faculty of the J. Kiffen Penry Epilepsy Minifellowship Program based at Wake Forest University.  She is Board-Certified in Neurology by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology and has been listed in the national data base of Best Doctors in America..  She is a member of the American Academy of Neurology and the American Epilepsy Society.

 

Email - Jeanne-King@ouhsc.edu