Dr. Maria Bruzzone is the Medical Director of Precision Ketogenic Therapy (PKT) for the adult patients. She received her medical degree from the Universidad de la República, Uruguay. She pursued a neurology residency at Loyola University Medical Center, Maywood, Illinois, which she completed in 2016. She then completed a fellowship training in Neurophysiology/Epilepsy at the University of Chicago Medical Center in 2017.
She started working at UF neurology in 2018 and completed a master's degree in clinical research in 2021. She has experience in the treatment of patients with medication resistant epilepsy and has special interest in the dietary treatment of epilepsy. She has been working with Dr. Borum since 2020 in the development of the adult Precision Ketogenic Therapy clinic at UF, the only clinic in the state of Florida that offers specialized dietary therapy for adults with medication resistant epilepsy.
Dr. Bruzzone is board certified in neurology and epilepsy. She is fluent in Spanish (native speaker).
