Professional background
Dr Torzillo (pronouns she/her) is a locum consultant neurologist and neurophysiologist at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery. Dr Torzillo graduated with a Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery from the University of Sydney Medical School in 2011.
She previously obtained a Bachelor of Arts Advanced degree in History and Philosophy.
She completed her neurology training at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital and Austin Health in Australia, and the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford. Dr Torzillo obtained her FRACP as a Neurologist in 2018. She undertook specialist training in epilepsy as the Epilepsy Fellow at the Austin/Melbourne Brian in 2018, Clinical Research Fellow in Epilepsy at the John Radcliffe Hospital in 2019-2020, and Fellow in Complex Epilepsy at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery 2020-2022.
Dr Torzillo has a special interest in epilepsy, and complex epilepsy that is refractory to medications. She has expertise in the work up of patients with refractory epilepsy for consideration of epilepsy surgery.
Specialties
Research interests
- Epilepsy
- EEG
Publications
- Torzillo E, Sen A, Schachter S. “Epilepsy and co-morbidity in later life”, Chapter accepted for publication in - Comorbidities and Social Complications of Epilepsy and Seizures: The Cognitive, Psychological and Psychosocial Impact of Epilepsy, ed. Arjune Sen and Ian Brown, Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2023
- McGinty RN, Handel A, Moloney T, Ramesh A, Fower A, Torzillo E, Kramer H, Howell S, Waters P, Adcock J, Sen A, Lang B, Irani SR. Clinical features which predict neuronal surface autoantibodies in new-onset focal epilepsy: implications for immunotherapies. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 2021 Mar;92(3):291-294
- Torzillo E, Thompson E 'Acute Horner's syndrome and lymphadenopathy: Differential Diagnosis' Journal of Clinical Neuroscience 61 (2019) 258-259
- Kunchock A, Castley H, Aldous L, Hawke S, Torzillo E, Parker G, Halmagyi G M. 'Fatal reversible cerebral vascoconstriction syndrome' Journal of the Neurological Sciences February 15, 2018, Volume 385, 146-150