About me
Gholam K. Motamedi, MD, is a professor and director of the Comprehensive Epilepsy Center in the Department of Neurology at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital. Dr. Motamedi chose his specialty because he feels that neuroscience is at the frontier of science. His philosophy of care involves undertaking a comprehensive work-up, making the correct diagnosis and administering the most efficient treatment possible for the patient.
Dr. Motamedi has published numerous original research studies, reviews and has contributed several book chapters to works in the fields of epilepsy and sleep disorders. Some of his research studies include investigating potentially therapeutic effects of direct brain stimulation in patients with epilepsy, potentially therapeutic effects of direct brain stimulation and brain cooling (hypothermia) in animal models of epilepsy, basic cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying the development of epilepsy, particular genetic forms of epilepsy mimicking sleep disorders, sleep apnea, monitoring cardiac telemetry and pulse oximetry in patients with epilepsy undergoing continuous video-EEG monitoring and retrospective study of in utero antiepileptic drug effects on neurodevelopment. Dr. Motamedi has also received several awards for excellence in patient treatment, teaching and research.
Professional Association Memberships
- American Epilepsy Society
- American Academy of Sleep Medicine
- American Neurological Association
Clinical areas of focus
- Brain Mapping
- Eeg Monitoring
- Epilepsy
- Epilepsy Surgery
Conditions and procedures
Procedures I perform
- Brain Mapping
- Eeg Monitoring
- Epilepsy Surgery
Practice locations
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3800 Reservoir Rd NW
Pasquerilla Healthcare Center
Washington, DC, 20007
Insurance
MedStar Health accepts most major health insurance plans. If you are uncertain as to whether your individual health insurance plan is accepted at MedStar Health, please call your insurance company.
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List of insurance plans we accept
- Aetna HMO
- CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield Advantage Core/Enhanced
- CIGNA HMO Open Access
- UnitedHealthcare Medicare Adv. Special Needs Plans
- Fee-for-Service (FFS) District of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia Medicaid
- Health Services for Children with Special Needs
- Select HMO/HealthFund/Health Network
- Anthem BCBS of VA HealthKeepers (POS & POS OA)
- CareFirst Blue Card Program
- IH-Open HMO Option
- Kaiser Permanente HMO Plus and DHMO Plus Member
- Johns Hopkins Advantage MD HMO
- Choice POS II
- Tricare Reserve Select
- Options PPO Cardiac Global
- Sentara Health
- IH-Open POS Plus
- IH-Open POS II
- Aetna Student Health Insurance
- Aetna Elect Choice/ EPO (Aetna Health Fund)
- Police and Fire Clinic
- Optima Family Care MCO - VA Medicaid MCO
- Aetna Traditional Choice (PPO)
- CareFirst MedStar Select PPO
- CareFirst Blue Preferred PPO
- Johns Hopkins Advantage MD PPO
- CIGNA HMO & Network (HMO)
- Coventry of Delaware HMO/PPO
- Aetna Managed Choice (POS)
- CIGNA SureFit (HMO)
- Private Health Care Systems (PPO)
- United Healthcare Navigate Cardiac Global
- Blue Choice Advantage
- IH-POS Plus
- Kaiser Permanente Medicare Advantage Signature and Select
- IH-HMO
- Aetna Better Health of MD
- AMERIVANTAGE/Amerigroup Community Care
- MD IPA (HMO) & MD IPA Preferred Cardiac Global
- Aetna Premier 200PD
- Mamsi Life & Health (Indem./PPO)
- Cigna True Choice Plus Medicare (PPO)
- First Health PPO
- Cigna True Choice Medicare (PPO)
- Kaiser Permanente Select - Added Choice
- Kaiser Permanente Medicare Plus
- United Healthcare Choice Plus Cardiac Global
- AmeriHealth Caritas DC Healthcare Alliance
- Kaiser Permanente Signature - Added Choice
- Kaiser Permanente Flexible Choice POS Cardiac Global
- Optimum Choice & Optimum Choice Preferred (POS) Cardiac Global
- DC/MD SHOP QHP Small Business Plans
- Uniformed Services Family Health Plan
- MedStar Family Choice - Maryland Health Choice
- United Medicare Private Fee-for-Service (PFFS) plans
- Magellan Complete Care of VA - VA Medicaid MCO
- CIGNA Connect EPO
- Kaiser Permanente Flexible Choice 3-tier POS
- Aetna Basic
- Choice POS
- Cigna TotalCare (HMO D-SNP)
- HumanaChoice PPO
- United Healthcare Select HMO - EPO/NPP
- CareFirst EPO
- CareFirst BlueChoice HMO
- HumanaChoice Honor's plan PPO
- IH-Indemnity
- Coventry Health Care National Network PPO
- Humana Gold Plus HMO
- Lasso Healthcare - Medicare Medical Savings Account
- Aetna Medicare Advantage PFFS Plan
- MedStar Family Choice DC Healthy Families
- United HealthCare Community Plan - Maryland Health Choice Program
- United Healthcare Options (PPO)
- IH-Open EPO Plus
- Anthem BCBS Medi Blue Plus
- CIGNA PPO
- IH-POS
- Anthem BCBS of VA HealthKeepers Plus
- Choice Fund PPO
- Aetna Managed Choice Open Access (POS)
- Private Fee-for-Service Plans (PFFS)
- CareFirst FEP Blue Focus
- Aetna Elect Choice/ Open Access (POS)
- Navigate
- UnitedHealthcare Individual Exchange Plans
- CareFirst Blue Choice Opt Out Open Access
- Kaiser Permanente Signature
- Core Essential (HMO)
- Optimum Choice
- Choice POS II Open Access
- Mamsi Life & Health (Indem./PPO) Cardiac Global
- Beech Street PPO
- Optimum Choice Preferred (POS)
- BCBS of Michigan (BCN Advantage,Security Blue, Freedom, Medicare PLUS Blue Group PPO)
- IH-PPO
- CareFirst Federal Employee Program (Std. & Basic PPO)
- Aetna Signature Administrator PPO/TPA
- Humana Medicare Advantage - HMO Open Access
- United Healthcare Community Plan - VA Medicaid MCO
- Anthem Federal Employee Program Standard
- CareFirst Maryland Indemnity or PPO
- UHC Passport
- Healthy Blue (HMO, POS)
- United Student Resources
- Alterwood Advanatge HMO & DSNP Plans
- Aetna Quality Point of Service (POS)
- Aetna Medicare Advantage HMO & PPO Plans
- Advantra Platinum (PPO)
- CareFirst Maryland Point of Service Plan
- HUMANA/Choice Care Medicare Plans (Choice, Gold Choice)
- CareFirst Group Medicare Advantage prescription drug benefit (PPO)
- Cigna Preferred Medicare (HMO)
- Anthem BCBS of VA HealthKeepers (HMO)
- Cigna Alliance Medicare (HMO)
- Maryland Physicians Care MCO
- TRICARE for Life East
- UnitedHealthcare Medicare Advantage DSNP District of Columbia
- CareFirst MedStar PPO
- CareFirst Dual Prime HMO-SNP
- OA Plus
- Aetna Classic 5000
- HealthyBlue PPO
- Humana Medicare Advantage - PPO
- WellPoint Maryland - Maryland Health Choice
- HighMark
- Aetna Worker's Compensation Network
- Employee Health Plan
- Anthem BCBS of VA Key Care POS/PPO/Indemnity
- UHC Group Medicare Advantage Plans (HMO, POS, PPO)
- Priority Partners - Maryland Health Choice
- IH-EPO Plus
- Medicare Advantage - Advantra Value (PPO)
- AmeriHealth Caritas DC Healthy Families
- Aetna HMO-Open Access/Select OA/HealthFund/Health Network Option OA
- Choice Care Network/HUMANA (PPO)
- United Healthcare Select HMO-EPO/NPP Cardiac Global
- Aetna Advantage 6350PD
- Anthem Federal Employee Program Basic
- Great-West Healthcare POS/CIGNA
- United Healthcare Choice
- Medicare Direct
- IH-Open HMO
- TriWest Healthcare Alliance
- Aetna Advantage 6350
- Amerigroup DC Alliance
- TRICARE East Prime
- Medicare FFS
- IH-Open Network Only Plus
- Amerigroup DC Healthy Families
- CareFirst Group Medicare Advantage
- CareFirst NASCO
- Aetna Classic 5000PD
- Network OA
- Aetna Better Health of VA
- CIGNA Indemnity
- Aetna Classic 3500
- CIGNA POS/Network POS
- United Healthcare Choice Plus
- NYC Medicare Advantage Plus
- Aetna VA Exchange
- CareFirst (NCA) Indemnity
- CIGNA EPO
- Cigna Achieve Medicare (HMO C-SNP)
- Veterans Affairs Community Care Network
- Johns Hopkins Advantage MD PLUS PPO
- United Healthcare Choice Cardiac Global
- Coventry Health Care of Virginia
- Jai Medical Systems - Maryland Health Choice
- Aetna Advantage 5750
- IH-Network Only Plus
- MultiPlan, Inc
- M.D. IPA (HMO)
- M.D. IPA Preferred (POS)
- Kaiser Permanente Select
- Kaiser Maryland Medicaid MCO
- United Healthcare Select Plus (POS)
- Aetna Open Choice (PPO)
- CareFirst Blue Choice Opt Out Plus Open Access (POS)
- CareFirst Administrators
- CareFirst Community Health Plan of MD
- Anthem BCBS Medi Blue SNP
- POS OA
- First Health PPO
- UnitedHealthcare and AARP Medicare Complete Plans
- Kaiser Permaenete Signature - Added Choice Cardiac Global
- TRICARE East Select
- BlueChoice Open Access
- Erickson Advantage Plans
- Geisinger Medicare Advantage
- OCI Direct (HMO)
- Kaiser Permanente Select Cardiac Global
- Anthem BCBS Medi Blue Dual Adv
- CIGNA PPO Plus
- MedStar Family Choice DC Healthcare Alliance
- BCBS Out-of-State Medicare Plans (Blue Advantage)
Education
Board Certification: American Board of Psychiatry & Neurology, Epilepsy
Board Certification: American Board of Psychiatry & Neurology, Neurology
Board Certification: American Board of Psychiatry & Neurology, Clinical Neurophysiology
Board Certification: American Board of Psychiatry & Neurology, Sleep Medicine
Fellowship: Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (1999)
Residency: Baylor College of Medicine-Surgical Critical Care Fellowship (1998)
Internship: Yale-New Haven Hospital (1995)
Medical School: Tehran University of Medical Sciences (1990)
Awards
- Excellence in Teaching Medical Students, Georgetown 2006-7
- National Epifellow Foundation (NEF) research award 1999
- American Epilepsy Society meeting Topscholar fellow award Dec. 1998
- American Academy of Neurology Annual Meeting Scholarship Apr. 1998
- World Health Organization (WHO) Scholarship on Epidemiology, Bangalore, India Jan-Mar. 1990
- Best Doctors in greater DC area; Washington Post, 2011-2013
- Fellow of American Neurological Association (FANA), 2012
- Castle Connolly Top Doctors, 2016-2025
- Fellow of the American Epilepsy Society (FAES), 2017