I grew up in Alabama and attended undergraduate, graduate and medical school at The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). Prior to medical school, I did research and published in virology, studied business administration and public health, and taught aerobics. Early in my medical training I chose neurology based on my fascination with the brain and nervous system. Having seen the effects of neurologic disorders in my family and friends, I was interested in helping people with these conditions. I have now lived in the Atlanta area over ten years and consider it home. I love getting to know my patients and helping them understand and control their neurologic conditions so that they may have a better quality of life. I manage and treat patients with many neurological disorders, and my special area of interest is epilepsy. I find it extremely satisfying that with proper diagnosis and treatment it is possible to give someone who has been experiencing a poor quality of life - for example, due to undiagnosed or untreated seizures, strokes, or headaches - the opportunity to work, drive, function in society and get the most out of life. I am interested in studying how neurologic conditions such as epilepsy affect learning, memory, and cognitive function. In my free time I enjoy spending time with family, exercising, enjoying nature and the outdoors, listening to music, reading, writing stories, poems, song lyrics, and watching movies.

Dr. Lisa B. Rivera graduated from The University of Alabama School of Medicine, Birmingham, Alabama in 2008. After, she completed an intership in Internal Medicine at The University of Alabama School of Medicine hospital system in 2009, followed by a residency in Neurology at Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia in 2012. Dr. Rivera then, completed a fellowship in Clinical Neurophysiology with emphasis in Epilepsy at Emory Univeristy in 2013.