Prof. Kristina A. Simeone is an Associate Professor at the Department of Pharmacology & Neuroscience, School of Medicine, Creighton University in Omaha, NE, USA. She earned a PhD in Neurobiology & Anatomy from the University of California - Irvine under the mentorship of Tallie Z. Baram, MD, PhD. Prof. Simeone further trained in epilepsy research as a Postdoctoral Fellow with Jack Kerrigan, MD, and Jong M. Rho, MD, at the Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix, AZ. Her research interests and expertise include Epilepsy, Sleep, Stress, Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy, Brain Bioenergetics and the Ketogenic Diet. To this end the experimental techniques Prof. Simeone's laboratory employs include immunohistochemistry, molecular biology, EEG, ECG, EMG, actigraphy and plethysmography in animal models of neurological disease. She has 44 publications with 2368 citations and an h-index of 26 (Scopus, 2 January 2024).