Contributing Authors
Eric Abadie
Director
Therapeutic Evaluation, Agence Francaise de Secunte Sanitaire des Products de Sante, Paris, France
Carlos Acevedo MD, SCH
Professor of Pediatric Neurology
Universidad de los Andes, Department of Pediatric Neurology, Clinica Alemana de Santiago, Santiago, Chile
Keryma A. Acevedo MD
Assistant Professor
Department of Pediatrics, Northern Campus, University of Chile; Staff of Pediatric Neurology, Emergency Department, Clinica Alemana de Santiago, Santiago, Chile
Bola Adamolekun MD, FWACP
Director of Epilepsy
Department of Neurology, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee
Jean Aicardi MD, FRCP
Department, University Hospital Robert Debre, Epilepsy Unit, Children Neurology and Metabolic Disease, Paris, France
Fiorenzo Albani MD
Laboratory of Clinical Neuropharmacology, Department of Neurological Sciences, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
Albert P. Aldenkamp PhD
Professor of Epileptology
Department of Neurology, University of Maastricht, University Hospital Maastricht; Head Department of Behavioural Sciences, Epilepsy Centre Kempenhaeghe, Heeze, The Netherlands
Brian K. Alldredge Pharm.D
Professor of Clinical Pharmacy and Neurology
University of California, San Francisco, California
Abdul Aziz Al Semari MD
Director
Comprehensive Epilepsy Program; Chairman, Epilepsy Support and Information Center and Head, Section of Neurology, Department of Neurosciences, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Michael J. Aminoff MD, DSc, FRCP
Professor and Executive Vice Chair of Neurology
University of California School of Medicine; Attending Physician, Department of Neurology, University of Calfornia Medical Center, San Francisco, California
Eva Andermann MD, PhD
Professor of Neurology and Neurosurgery
Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
Frédérick Andermann MD, FRCPC
Professor of Neurology and Neurosurgery
Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
V. Elving Anderson PhD
Professor Emeritus
Department of Genetics, Cell Biology, and Development, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Santiago Arroyo MD, PhD
Clinical Discovery Neurosciences, Bristol-Myer-Squibb, Lawrenceville, New Jersey
Alexis Arzimanoglou MD
CTRS-IDEE, University of Lyon, Lyon, France; Head, Department of Neurology, University Hospital Robert Debré, Paris, France
Joan K. Austin DNS
Department of Environments for Health, Indiana University School of Nursing, Indianapolis, Indiana
Giuliano G. Avanzini MD
Professor of Neurology
Division of Clinical Epileptology and Experimental Neurophysiology, Istituto Nazionale Neurologico, Milano, Italy
Thomas L. Babb PhD
Professor of Pediatrics and Neurology
Children’s Hospital of Michigan, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan
Torbjörn Backström MD, PhD
Professor
Department of Clinical Sciences, Umeå University; Consultant, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Norrlands University Hospital, Umeå, Sweden
Gus A. Baker PhD, FBPsS
Professor of Clinical Neuropsychology, Consultant Clinical Neuropsychologist
Division of Neurosciences, University of Liverpool, Walton Centre for Neurology & Neurosurgery, Liverpool, United Kingdom
Poonam Nina Banerjee PhD
Department of Neurology and Sergievsky Center, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, New York
Tallie Z. Baram MD, PhD
Professor of Pediatrics, Anatomy/Neurobiology, and Neurology, Scientific Director
Comprehensive Epilepsy Program, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California
Amit Bar-Or MD, FRCPC
Associate Professor of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Associate
Microbiology and Immunology, McGill University; Director, Program in Experimental Therapeutics; Scientific Director, Clinical Research Unit, Montreal Neurological Institute, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
William B. Barr PhD
Comprehensive Epilepsy Center, New York University Medical Center, New York, New York
Shehzad Basaria MD
Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, Baltimore, Maryland
Agatino Battaglia MD
Stella Maris Clinical Research Institute for Child and Adolescent Neuropsychiatry, Calambrone, Pisa, Italy
Dina Battino MD
Division of Neurophysiology and Epileptology, Carlos Besta, National Neurological Institute, Milan, Italy
Michel Baulac MD
Professor
University Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI), INSERM Unit U739 Cortex and Epilepsy, CHU Pitie-Salpetriere; Physician and Chief of Department, Unit of Epileptology, Hôpital Salpêtrière, Batiment Paul Castaigne, Paris, France
Christoph Baumgartner MD
Associate Professor of Neurology, Head
Comprehensive Epilepsy Program, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Carl W. Bazil MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Neurology
Columbia University Medical Center; Attending Neurologist, New York-Presbyterian Hospital, New York, New York
Heinz Beck MD
Head
Laboratory of Experimental Epileptology; Professor, Department of Epileptology, University of Bonn Medical Center, Bonn, Germany
Ettore Beghi MD
Epilepsy Center, Ospedale “San Gerardo” Monza, Monza, Milan, Italy
Elinor Ben-Menachem MD, PhD
Sahlgren University Hospital, Department of Neurology, Institute of Clinical Neuroscience, Goteborg, Sweden
Roy G. Beran MD, FRACP, FRCP, FRACGP, FACLM, B Leg S, MHL
Conjoint Associate Professor
University of New South Wales; Professor School of Medicine, Griffith University, Chatswood, New South Wales, Australia
Anne T. Berg PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Biology, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois
Gregory K. Bergey MD
Professor of Neurology
Department of Neurology; Director, Johns Hopkins Epilepsy Center, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland
Samuel F. Berkovic MD, FRS
Professor
Epilepsy Reseach Centre, University of Melbourne; Director of Comprehensive Epilepsy Program, Austin Health, Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia
Christophe Bernard PhD
Professor
Inserm U751, Université de la Mediterranee, Marseille, France
Gianna Bertani MD
Physician
Child Neurology Unit, Arcispedale s. Maria Nuova, Reggio Emilia, Italy
Edward H. Bertram MD
Professor of Neurology
Department of Neurology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia
Frank M.C. Besag MB, ChB, FRCP, FRCPsych, FRCPCH
Visiting Professor of Neuropsychiatry, Faculty of Health and Social Sciences
University of Bedfordshire, Luton, Beds; Consultant Neuropsychiatrist, Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services, Bedfordshire and Luton Partnership NHS Trust, Bedford, Beds, United Kingdom
Tim Betts
Seizure Clinic and Epilepsy Liaison, Birmingham University, Edgbaston, Queen Elizabeth Psychiatric Hospital, Birmingham, United Kingdom
Ahmad A. Beydoun MD
Professor of Neurology
Department of Internal Medicine, American University of Beirut Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon
Nadir E. Bharucha MD
Bombay Hospital Medical Research, Department of Neuroepidemiology, Mumbai, India
Meir Bialer PhD, MBA
David H. Eisenberg Professor of Pharmacy
Department of Pharmaceutics, School of Pharmacy, Faculty of Medicine, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
Christian G. Bien MD
Senior Neurologist and Leading Assistant Medical Director
Department of Epileptology, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
Devin K. Binder MD, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Neurological Surgery, University of California, Irvine, Orange, California
Gretchen L. Birbeck MD, MPH, DTMH
Director and Associate Professor
International Neurologic and Psychiatric Epidemiology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Mississippi; Director, Epilepsy Care Team, Chikankata Health Services, Mazabuka, Zambia
Jonathan M. Bird MD
Burden Centre for Neuropsychiatry, Frenchay Hospital, United Kingdom
Angela K. Birnbaum PhD
Associate Professor
Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Peter F. Bladin MD, BS, BSc, FRACP, FRACPEd
Professor, Faculty of Medicine
Dentistry, Health Sciences, University of Melbourne, Neurologist, Comprehensive Epilepsy, Austin Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Thomas P. Bleck MD, FCCM
Professor of Neurology and Neurosurgery
The Ruth Cain Ruggles Chairman of Neurology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Evanston Northwestern Healthcare, Chicago, Illinois
Ingmar Blümcke MD
Department of Neuropathology, Friedrich Alexander University, Erlangen, Germany
Warren T. Blume MD
Professor of Neurology Emeritus
Clinical Neurological Sciences, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada
Hal Blumenfeld MD, PhD
Director of Medical Studies
Clinical Neurosciences; Associate Professor, Departments of Neurology, Neurobiology, Neurosurgery, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut
Dietrich Blumer MD
Professor of Psychiatry, Head of Neuropsychiatry
University of Tennessee, Memphis, Tennessee
Joshua L. Bonkowsky MD, PhD
Department of Pediatrics, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah
Harold E. Booker MD
Carolina Neurological Clinic, Charleston, South Carolina
Susan Y. Bookheimer PhD
University of California at Los Angeles Departmentof Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, Los Angeles, California
Paul Boon MD, PhD
Professor and Chairman
Department of Neurology, University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium
Carmel H. Bouclaous MD
Division of Neurosurgery, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon
Blaise F. D. Bourgeois MD
Professor of Neurology
Harvard Medical School; Director, Division of Epilepsy and Clinical Neurophysiology, Children’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
Martin J. Brodie MD, FRCP
Professor of Medicine and Clinical Pharmacology
Division of Cardiovascular and Medical Sciences, University of Glasgow; Consultant Physician and Clinical Pharmacologist, Division of Cardiovascular and Medical Sciences, Western Infirmary, Glasgow, United Kingdom
Eylert Brodtkorb
Department of Neurology and Clinical Neurophysiology, Trondheim University Hospital, Trondheim, Norway
Edward B. Bromfield MD
Chief
Division of Epilepsy and EEG, Division of Neurology, Brigham & Women’s Hospital; Associate Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
Richard J. Brown PhD, Clin. Psy. D
Lecturer in Clinical Psychology
University of Manchester; Clinical Psychologist, Department of Clinical and Health Psychology, Manchester, United Kingdom
Stephen W. Brown FRCPsych
The David Lewis Centre for Epilepsy, Cheshire, United Kingdom; Clinical Director, Learning Disabilities Service, Norwich Community Health, Norwich, Norfolk, United Kingdom
Thomas R. Browne MD
Boston University School of Medicine, Fairmouth, Massachusetts
John C. M. Brust MD
Professor of Clinical Neurology
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons; Director, Department of Neurology, Harlem Hospital Center, New York, New York
Michelle Bureau MD
Head of Neurophysiology (emer.)
EEG Laboratory, Centre Saint Paul, Marseille, France
György Buzsáki MD, PhD
Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Newark, New Jersey
Carol S. Camfield MD, FRCP(C)
Professor of Pediatrics
Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Peter R. Camfield MD
Professor of Pediatrics
Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Rochelle Caplan MD
Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Behavior, Los Angeles, California
Roberto Caraballo MD
Department of Neurology, Hospital de Pediatria, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Arturo Carpio MD
Professor of Neurology
School of Medicine, University of Cuenca, Neurologist, Comprehensive Epilepsy Center, Hospital “Vicente Corral M.”, Cuenca, Ecuador
Romeo Carrozzo MD
Medical Genetics and General Pediatrics, National Health Service, Milan, Italy
Gregory D. Cascino MD
Department of Neurology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota
Idil Cavus MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Neurosurgery, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry
Yale University School of Medicine, Connecticut Mental Health Center, New Haven, Connecticut
Jennifer Cavitt MD
Assistant Professor of Neurology
University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio
Fernando Cendes MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Neurology
University of Campinas, Campinas, Brazil
David W. Chadwick DM, FRCP, FMedSci
Professor of Neuroscience
University of Liverpool, Walton Centre, Liverpool, United Kingdom
Roukoz B. Chamoun MD
Division of Neurosurgery, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon
Gian-Emillio Chatrian MD
Professor Emeritus
Department of Neurology, University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle, Washington
Patrick Chauvel MD
Service de Neurophysiologie Clinique et Epileptologie, CHU Timone et Universite de la Mediterranee, Marseille, France
Catherine Chiron MD
Service de Neurologie et Metablolisme, Hopital Necker, Paris, France
Dan Chisholm
Department of Health Systems Financing, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
Harry T. Chugani MD
Children’s Hospital of Michigan, Detroit, Michigan
Maria Roberta Cilio MD, PhD
Attending Physician
Department of Neurology, Bambino Gesu Children’s Hospital, Rome, Italy
Robert R. Clancy MD
Professor of Neurology and Pediatrics
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine; Director, Pediatric Regional Epilepsy Program, Division of Neurology, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
David C. Clemmons PhD
Vocational Services, University of Washington Regional Epilepsy Center, Seattle, Washington
Mark S. Cohen PhD
Professor-in-Residence
Department of Psychiatry, Neurology, Radiology, Psychology, Biomedical Physics, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California
Youssef G. Comair MD, FRCP
Department of Neurosurgery, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio
Barry W. Connors PhD
Professor and Chair
Department of Neuroscience, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
Douglas A. Coulter PhD
Department of Pediatric Neruology, University of Pennsylvania, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Joyce A. Cramer BS
Associate Research Scientist
Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, West Haven, Connecticut
Peter B. Crino MD, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Neurology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
J. Helen Cross MB, ChB, PhD, FRCP, FRCPCH
Professor
Neurosciences Unit, UCL-Institute of Child Health; Honorary Consultant/Clinical Lead, Paediatric Neurology (Epilepsy), Great Ormond St Hospital for Children NHS Trust, London, United Kingdom
Patricia K. Crumrine MD
Professor of Pediatrics, Director of Pediatric Epilepsy and EEG
Department of Child Neurology, University of Pittsburgh, Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Bernardo Dalla Bernardina MD, PhD
Professor and Director
Service of Child Neuropsychiatry, University of Verona, Policlinico G.B. Rossi, Verona, Italy
Michael D. Daras MD, PhD
Clinical Professor of Neurology
Department of Neurology, Columbia University; Attending Neurologist, New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York, New York
Hanneke M. de Boer
Senior Officer International Relations
Epilepsy Centres of The Netherlands Foundation, Haarlem, The Netherlands
Nihal C. De Lanerolle DPhil, DSc
Associate Professor of Neurosurgery
Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut
Oscar H. Del Brutto MD
Department of Neurological Sciences, Hospital-Clínica Kennedy, Guayaquil, Ecuador
Robert J. DeLorenzo MD, PhD, MPH
Professor of Neurology
Biochemistry, Pharmacology and Toxicology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia
John De Toledo MD
International Center for Epilepsy, University of Miami, Miami, Florida
John A. Devereux BA, LLB, DPhil
Professor of Common Law
T.C. Beirne School of Law, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Orrin Devinsky MD
Professor of Neurology, Director
New York University Epilepsy Center, New York University Medical Center, New York University School of Medicine
Darryl C. De Vivo MD
Sidney Carter Professor of Neurology and Pediatrics
Neurological Institute of New York, New York, New York
Marc A. Dichter MD, PhD
Departments of Neurology and Pharmacology, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Salvatore DiMauro MD
Lucy G. Moses Professor of Neurology
H. Houston Merritt Clinical Research Center for Muscular Dystrophy and Related Diseases, Department of Neurology, College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, New York
Raymond Dingledine PhD
Professor and Chair
Department of Pharmacology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia
Amadou Gallo Diop MD, PhD
Clinique Neurologique, Hopital Universitaire de Fann, Dakar, Senegal
Aleksandra Djukic MD, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Neurology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine; Attending Physician of Neurology, Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, New York
W. Edwin Dodson MD
Professor of Neurology and Pediatrics
Washington University School of Medicine, Neurologist, Division of Pediatric Neurology, St. Louis Children’s Hospital, St. Louis, Missouri
Werner Doyle MD
Department of Neurosurgery, New York University Medical School, New York, New York
Charlotte Dravet MD
Honorary Consultant Ospedale A. Gemelli
Department of Child Neurology and Psychiatry, Catholic University School of Medicine, Rome, Italy; Honorary Consultant IRCCS, Stella Maris Foundation, Epilepsy, Neurophysiology, Neurogenetics Unit, IRCCS, Stella Maris Foundation, Calambrone, Pisa, Italy
Frank W. Drislane MD
Associate Professor of Neurology
Harvard Medical School, Neurologist, Comprehensive Epilepsy Center, Department of Neurology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts
Maurice L. Druzin MD
Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford, California
François Dubeau MD
Associate Professor of Neurology and Neurosurgery
McGill University; Staff and Chief of EEG, Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Montreal Neurological Hospital and Institute, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Michael S. Duchowny MD
Comprehensive Epilepsy Center, Miami Children’s Hospital, Miami, Florida
Olivier Dulac MD
Neuropediatric Department, Hôpital Necker, Paris, France
John S. Duncan MA, DM, FRCP
Professor of Neurology
Department of Clinical and Experimental Epilepsy, Institute of Neurology UCL, London, United Kingdom; Medical Director, National Society for Epilepsy, Chalfont Centre for Epilepsy, Bucks, United Kingdom
David W. Dunn MD
Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Departments of Psychiatry and Neurology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana
Mervyn J. Eadie AO, MD, PhD, FRCP, FRACP
Department of Medicine, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
John S. Ebersole MD
Professor of Neurology, Director
Adult Epilepsy Service; Co-Director, Comprehensive Epilepsy Center, Department of Neurology, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Orvar Eeg-Olofsson MD PhD
Professor of Neuropediatrics
Department of Women’s and Children’s Health, Uppsala University; Consultant of Neuropediatrics, University Children’s Hospital, Uppsala, Sweden
Jerome Engel Jr. MD, PhD
Jonathan Sinay Distinguished Professor of Neurology
Neurobiology and Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences; Director of the UCLA Seizure Disorder Center, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California
Leon Eisenberg MD
Professor of Child Psychiatry and Social Medicine
Emeritus, Department of Social Medicine, Harvard Medical Science; Honorary Psychiatrist, Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
Frances Elmslie MD, FRCP
Consultant Clinical Geneticist
Department of Medical Genetics, St. George’s University of London, London, United Kingdom
Charles M. Epstein MD
Professor of Neurology
Emory University School of Medicine; Attending Physician, Emory University Hospital, Atlanta, Georgia
Kai J. Eriksson MD, PhD
Chief
Department of Pediatric Neurology, Tampere University Hospital, Tampere, Finland
Alan B. Ettinger MD
Department of Neurology, North Shore-LIJ Comprehensive Epilepsy Centers, New Hyde Park, New York
Stanley Fahn MD
H. Houston Merritt Professor of Neurology
Department of Neurology, Columbia University Medical Center, Neurological Institute or New York, New York, New York
Johan Falk-Pedersen Esq.
A/S Forretningsadvokatene, Solli, Norway
Erika E. Fanselow PhD
Postdoctoral Associate
Department of Neuroscience, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
Kevin Farrell MB, ChB, FRCPC
Professor
Division of Neurology, Department of Pediatrics, University of British Columbia, British Columbia’s Children’s Hospital, Vancouver, Canada
Michael A. Farrell MB
Department of Neuropathology, Beaumont Hospital, Dublin, Ireland
Edward Faught MD
Professor and Vice Chairman
Department of Neurology; Director, Division of Epilepsy, University of Alabama at Birmingham Epilepsy Center, Birmingham, Alabama
Natalio Fejerman MD
Hospital de Pediatria “Juan P. Garrahan”, Beunos Aires, Argentina
Evan J. Fertig MD
Assistant Professor of Neurology
Neurosurgery, and Pediatrics, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut
Alexandra Finucane Esq.
Epilepsy Foundation of America, Landover, Maryland
Bruce J. Fisch MD
Professor of Neurology; Director
LSU Epilepsy Center of Excellance School of Medicine, Louisiana State University, New Orleans, Louisiana
Robert S. Fisher MD, PhD
Maslah Saul MD Professor of Neurology
Department of Neurology and Neurological Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California
Robert T. Fraser PhD, CRC
Department of Neurology, University of Washington Epilepsy Center, Harborview Medical Center, Seattle, Washington
Jeremy L. Freeman MBBS, FRACP
Honorary Lecturer of Pediatrics
Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Neurologist, Department of Neurology, The Royal Children’s Hospital, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
John M. Freeman MD
Lederer Professor of Pediatric Epilepsy Emeritus, Director
Pediatric Epilepsy Center Emeritus; Professor of Neurology and Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland
Jacqueline A. French MD
Professor, Assistant Dean for Clinical Trials
Department of Neurology, University of Pennsylvania; Chief, Epilepsy Section, Department of Neurology, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Itzhak Fried MD, PhD
Division of Neurosurgery, University of California Los Angeles School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California, Functional Neurosurgery Unit, Tel-Aviv Medical Center and Sackler School of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel
James D. Frost Jr. MD
Professor of Neurophysiology
Department of Neurology and Neuroscience, Baylor College of Medicine, St. Luke’s Episcepal Hospital, Houston, Texas
Steven J. Frucht MD
Associate Professor of Clinical Neurology, Associate Attending Neurologist
Department of Neurology, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, New York
Cheryl A. Frye PhD
Departments of Psychology, Biology, and Centers for Neuroscience and Life Sciences Research, The University at Albany-State University of New York, Albany, New York
Lucia Fusco MD, PhD
Section of Neurophysiology, Bambino Gesu Children’s Hospital, Rome, Italy
Eija Gaily
Associate Professor of Pediatric Neurology
Helsinki University; Chief of Epilepsy Unit, Pediatric Neurology, Hospital for Children and Adolescents, Helsinki, Finland
Karen Gale PhD
Department of Pharmacology, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC
Elena Gardella MD, PhD
Research Fellow
Department of Neurosciences, University of Bologna, Bellaria Hospital, Bologna, Italy
Pierre Genton MD
Neurologist, Centre Saint Paul Hospital, Marseille, France
Mark S. George MD
Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry
Radiologyand Neurosciences, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina
Barry E. Gidal PharmD
Professor
School of Pharmacy and Department of Neurology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin
Christopher Gillberg MD
Section of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Annedals Clinics, Göteborg, Sweden
Frank Gilliam MD
Caitlin Tynan Doyle Professor of Neurology, Director
Comprehensive Epilepsy Center, The Neurological Institute, Columbia University, NewYork, NewYork
Michael Glantz MD
University of Massachusetts, Berkshire Medical Center, Pittsfield, Massachusetts
Tracy A. Glauser MD
Professor of Pediatrics and Neurology
University of Cincinnati College of Medicine; Director, Comprehensive Epilepsy Program, Division of Child Neurology, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio
Giuseppe Gobbi MD
Chief of Child Neurology and Psychiatry
Ospedale Maggiore “Pizzardi” Hospital, Bologna, Italy
David B. Goldstein MD
Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolia
Jeffrey H. Goodman PhD
Research Scientist
Center for Neural Recovery and Rehabilitation Research, Helen Hayes Hospital, West Haverstraw, New York
Robert R. Goodman MD, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Neurological Surgery, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, New York
Jean Gotman PhD
Professor
Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, McGill University and Montreal Neurological Institute, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Salvatore Grosso MD, PhD
Researcher and Assistant
Department of Pediatrics, SS. Maria alle Scotte Hospital, University of Siena, Siena, Italy
Carlos A. M. Guerreiro MD, PhD
Professor of Neurology
State University of Campinas, Campinas, Brazil
Renzo Guerrini MD
Professor
University of Florence; Director of Child Neurology Unit, AOU Meyer, Florence, Italy
Robert J. Gumnit MD
Clinical Professor of Neurology
Neurosurgery and Pharmacy, University of Minnesota; President, MINCEP Epilepsy Care, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Houda Hachad PharmD
Senior Research Scientist
Department of Pharmaceutics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
Michael M. Haglund MD, PhD
Department of Neurosurgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina
Mark Hallett MD
Chief
Human Motor Control Section, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institute of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
Marla Hamberger PhD
Associate Professor of Clinical Neuropsychology
Department of Neurology; Chief Neuropsychologist, Comprehensive Epilepsy Center, The Neurological Institute, New York, New York
Cynthia L. Harden MD
Professor of Neurology
Weill Medical College of Cornell University; Attending Neurologist, New York-Presbyterian Hospital, New York, New York
A. Simon Harvey MD
Department of Neurology, Children’s Epilepsy Program, Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne, Australia
W. Allen Hauser MD
Professor of Epidemiology and Neurology
G. H. Dergievsky Center; Associate Director, College of Physicians and Surgeons and Mailman School ofPublic Health, Columbia University Medical Center; Attending Neurologist, Neurological Institute, New York, New York
Sheryl Haut MD
Associate Professor of Clinical Neurology, Director
Adult Epilepsy Service, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York
Philip G. Haydon PhD
Professor and Director
Silvio Conte Center for Integration at the Tripartite Synapse; Director, Center for Dynamic Imaging of Nervous SystemFunction, Department of Neuroscience, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Liyun He MD
Associate Professor
Clinical Evaluation Center, China Academy of Chinese Medicine Sciences, Beijing, China
Uwe Heinemann PhD
Head of Institute of Neurophysiology
Charite Medical University Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Christoph Helmstaedter PhD
Associate Professor of Clinical Neuropsychology
Department of Epileptology, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
Thomas R. Henry MD
Professor of Neurology
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Bruce P. Hermann PhD
Department of Neuropsychology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin
Dale C. Hesdorffer PhD
Assistant Professor
Gertrude H. Sergievsky Center, Columbia University, New York, New York
Andrew G. Herzog MD, MSc
Professor of Neurology
Harvard Medical School; Director of Neuroendocrine Unit, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts
Michio Hirano MD
Associate Professor of Neurology
H. Houston Merritt Clinical Research Center for Muscular Dystrophy and Related Diseases, Department of Neurology, College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University, New York, New York
Edouard Hirsch MD
Professor of Neurology
HUS Strasburg, IDEE, Strasburg, France
Lawrence J. Hirsch MD
Associate Clinical Professor
Department of Neurology, Columbia University Medical Center; Associate Attending Neurologist, New York-Presbyterian Hospital, New York, New York
Daryl Hochman PhD
Department of Neurosurgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina
Gregory L. Holmes MD
Professor of Neurology and Pediatrics
Neuroscience Center at Dartmouth, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, New Hampshire; Chief, Section of Neurology, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, New Hampshire
Mark D. Holmes MD
Professor of Neurology
University of Washington; Director, Clinical Neuropyhsiology, Regional Epilepsy Center, Harborview Medical Center, Seattle, Washington
Richard A. Hrachovy MD
Professor of Neurolgoy
Baylor College of Medicine; Associate Chief of EEG, Department of Neurophysiology, St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital, Houston, Texas
Yushi Inoue MD, PhD
Vice-director
National Epilepsy Center, Shizuoka Institute of Epilepsy and Neurological Disorders, Shizuoka, Japan
Graeme D. Jackson MD
Brain Research Institute, West Heidelberg, Australia
Ann Jacoby PhD
Professor of Medical Sociology
Division of Public Health, School of Population, Community and Behavioral Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
Satish Jain MD, DM
Director
Indian Epilepsy Center, New Delhi, India
Pierre Jallon MD
Epilepsy and EEG Unit, University Hospital, Geneva, Switzerland
Damir Janigro PhD
Professor
Molecular Medicine, Department of Neurosurgery and Molecular Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio
Prasanna Jayakar MD, PhD
Chair
Brain Institute, Miami Children’s Hospital, Miami, Florida
John G. R. Jefferys FMedSci
Professor of Neuroscience
Division of Neuroscience, School of Medicine, University Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
Frances E. Jensen MD
Professor of Neurology, Director of Epilepsy Research
Department of Neurology, Children’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
Svein I. Johannessen PhD
Director of Research
The National Center for Epilepsy, Sandvika, Division of Clinical Neuroscience, Rikshospitalet, Oslo, Sandvika, Norway
Marilyn Jones-Gotman PhD
Professor of Neurology and Neurosurgery
McGill University; Coordinator, Neuropsychology Epilepsy Service, Montreal Neurological Institute, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Philippe Kahane MD, PhD
Neurophysiopathologie de l’Epilepsie, Clinique Neurologique, Grenoble, France
Ellie Kalichi RN
Chikankata Epilepsy Care Team Coordinator
Reetta Kälviäinen MD, PhD
Docent/Associate Professor of Neurology
University of Kuopio Academic Institution; Director of Neurology, Kuopio Epilepsy Center, Kuopio University Hospital, Kuopio, Finland
Anna Kaminska
Department of Pediatric Neurophysiology, Groupe Hospitalier Cochin-Saint Vincent de Paul and Necker Enfant, Paris, France
Kousuke Kanemoto
Department of Neuropsychiatry, Aichi Medical University, Nagakute, Aichi, Japan
Andres M. Kanner MD
Department of Neurology, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois
Peter W. Kaplan MBBS
Professor of Neurology, Director of Epilepsy and Electrophysiology
Bayview Medical Center, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
Russell Katz MD
U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Division of Neuropharmacological Drug Products, Rockville, Maryland
Noojan J. Kazemi MBBS
Doctorial Student
Department of Surgery, University of Melbourne; Registrar, Department of Neurosurgery, The Royal Melbourne Hospital, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
Michael P. Kerr MBChB, MRCEP, MRCPsych, MSc in Psychiatry
Professor of Learning Disability Psychiatry
Psychological Medicine, Cardiff University School of Medicine, Cardiff, United Kingdom
Sonia Khan FRCP (Lond), FRCP (Edin)
Director and Consultant
Department of Neurosciences, Riyadh Military Hospital, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Negar Khanlou
Section of Neuropathology, UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, California
Eliane Kobayashi MD, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Steffi C. Koch-Stoecker MD
Head of Psychiatric Outpatient Clinic, Psychiatric Consultant of Epilepsy Center
Ev. Krankenhaus Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany
Barbara S. Koppel MD
Professor of Clinical Neurology
New York Medical College, Valhalla, New York; Chief, Neurology Service, Metropolitan Hospital, New York, New York
Maria D. Kostka-Rokosz Pharm D
Department of Pharmacy Practice, Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, Boston, Massachusetts
Prakash Kotagal MD
Head
Pediatric Epilepsy, Epilepsy Center, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio
Dimitri M. Kullmann DPhil, FRCP
Professor
Institute of Neurology, University College London; Consultant Neurologist, National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, London, United Kingdom
Wolfram S. Kunz PhD
Divison of Neurochemistry, Department of Epileptology, University of Bonn Medical Center, Bonn, Germany
Harvey J. Kupferberg PhD, PharmD
Kupferberg Consultants, LLC, Chief
Preclinical Pharmacology Section (retired), Epilepsy Branch, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
Ruben I. Kuzniecky MD
New York University Epilepsy Center, New York, New York
Patrick Kwan MB, BChir, MRCP, PhD
Division of Neurology, Department of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Prince of Wales Hospital, Hong Kong, China
W. Curt LaFrance Jr. MD
Departments of Psychiatry and Neurology, Rhode Island Hospital, Providence Rhode Island
Chi-Wan Lai MD
Professor of Neurology
Tzu Chi University Medical School, Hualien, Taiwan; Staff Neurologist, Department of Medicine, Sun Yat-Sen Cancer Center, Taipei, Taiwan
Frederick G. Langendorf MD
Associate Professor
Department of Neurology, University of Minnesota; Assistant Chief of Neurology, Hennepin County Medical Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
John T. Langfitt PhD
Associate Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry
University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York
Barbara W. LeDuc
Assistant Professor
Department of Pharmacology, Massachusetts College of Pharmacology and Health Sciences, Boston, Massachusetts
Gabriel Lee MBS (Hons), MS, FRACS
Consultant Neurosurgeon
Department of Neurosurgery, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Perth, Western Australia
Alan D. Legatt MD, PhD
Professor of Clinical Neurology
Department of Neurology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine; Director, EEG Laboratory, Department of Neurology, Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, New York
Cynthia Lehman Esq
Epilepsy Foundation of America, Landover, Maryland
Klaus Lehnertz PhD
Associate Professor of Physics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Science
Head Neurophysics Group, Department of Epileptology, University of Bonn Medical Center, Bonn, Germany
Matilde Leonardi MD
Head, Department of Neurology
Public Health and Disability Unit (HEADNET), Neurological Institute Carlo Besta IRCCS Foundation, Milan, Italy
Ilo E. Leppik MD
Professor of Neurology and Pharmacy
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Ronald P. Lesser MD
Professor of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Member
Zanvyl Krieger Mind/Brain Institute, Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland
Pierre LeVan M.Eng.
Graduate Student
Biomedical Engineering, McGill University, Department of Electroencephalogram, Montreal Neurological Institute, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Michel Le Van Quyen PhD
INSERM Researcher
French National Institute for Health and Medical Research, Laboratory of Brain Imaging and Cognitive Neuroscience, Hopital de la Salpetriere, Paris, France
René H. Levy PhD
Department of Pharmaceutics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
Darrell V. Lewis MD
Professor of Pediatrics
Division of Pediatric Neurology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina
Samden D. Lhatoo MD
Department of Neurology, Institute of Clinical Neurosciences, Frenchay Hospital, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
Shichuo Li MD
President
China Association Against Epilepsy, Beijing, People’s Republic of China
Weiping Liao MD
Professor
Neuroscience Institute, Guangzhou Medical College, Guangzhou, China
Jack J. Lin MD
Assistant Professor of Neurology, Director
Clinical Neurophysiology Fellowship, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California
Richard B. Lipton MD
Professor and Vice Chair of Neurology, Professor of Epidemiology and Population Health
Albert Einstein College of Medicine; Director, Montefiore Headache Unit, Innovative Medical AECOM, Bronx, New York
Brian Litt MD
Associate Professor
Department of Neurology and Bioengineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Iscia Lopes-Cendes MD, PhD
Associate Professor
Medical Genetics, University of Campinas, Campinas, Brazil
Fernando H. Lopes da Silva MD
Emeritus Professor
Center of Neuroscience, Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
David W. Loring PhD
Professor of Neurology
Department of Neurology, McKnight Brain Institute, Gainesville, Florida
Wolfgang Löscher
Department of Pharmacology, Toxicology & Pharmacy, University of Veterinary Medicine, Hannover, Hannover, Germany
Daniel H. Lowenstein MD
Professor of Neurology, Director
Epilepsy Center, Department of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco, California
Guoming Luan MD
Professor of Neurosurgery
San Bo Brain Sciences Institute of Beijing, Beijing, China
Hans O. Lüders MD
Professor of Neurology, Director
Epilepsy Center, Case Western Reserve Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio
Katarzyna Lukasiuk PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Molecular and Cellular Neurobiology, The Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, Warsaw, Poland
Robert L. Macdonald MD, PhD
Professor and Chair of Neurology
Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee
Mark W. Mahowald MD
Minnesota Regional Sleep Disorders Center, Hennepin County Medical Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Beth A. Malow MD, MS
Associate Professor
Department of Neurology; Medical Director, Vanderbilt Sleep Disorders Center, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee
Gary W. Mathern MD
Professor and Attending Physician
Department of Neurosurgery, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California
Richard H. Mattson MD
Department of Neurology, Yale Medical Center, New Haven, Connecticut
John C. Mazziotta MD, PhD
Chair
Department of Neurology; Pierson-Lovelace Investigator, Stark Chair in Neurology; Director, Brain Mapping Center; Associate Director, Neuropsychiatric Institute, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California
Dan C. McIntyre PhD
Chancellor’s Professor
Department of Psychology, Institute of Neuroscience, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Guy M. McKhann II MD
Florence Irving Associate Professor of Neurological Surgery
The Neurological Institute, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, New York
William McLin
Merriman and Co., Washington, DC
Kimford J. Meador MD
Professor of Neurology
Melvin Greer, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida
Harry Meinardi MD
Professor of Epileptology (Retired)
Department of Neurology; Medical Director, Instituut voor Epilepsiebestrijding, Heenstede, The Netherlands
Brian S. Meldrum MD, PhD
King College London, GKT School of Medicine, Hodgkin House, London, England
Roberto Michelucci MD, PhD
Director of Neurology Unit
Department of Neurosciences, Bellaria Hospital, Bologna, Italy
David Millett
Clinical Fellow
Department of Neurology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California
Hajime Miyata MD, PhD
Department of Neuropathology, Institute of Neurological Sciences; Faculty of Medicine, Totori University, Yonago, Tottori, Japan
Eli M. Mizrahi MD
Head
Peter Kellaway Section of Neurophysiology; Vice-Chairman, Department of Neurology, Professor of Neurology and Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine; Chief, Neurophysiology Services, St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital, Texas Children’s Hospital, Houston, Texas
Istvan Mody PhD
Professor
Departments of Neurology and Physiology, The David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California
Georgia D. Montouris MD
Assistant Professor
Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine; Director of Epilepsy Services, Boston Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts
Joan T. Moroney MD, MRCPI
Beaumont Hospital, Department of Neurology, Dublin, Ireland
Martha J. Morrell MD
Clinical Professor of Neurology
Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford, California
Solomon L. Moshé MD
Vice Chair and Professor of Neurology
Neuroscience and Pediatrics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University; Director of Child Neurology and Clinical Neurophysiology, Department of Neurology and Pediatric Neurology, Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, New York
Marco Mula MD, PhD
Research Fellow
Department of Clinical & Experimental Medicine, Section of Neurology, Amedeo Avogadro University, Novara, Italy, Department of Psychiatry, Neurobiology, Pharmacologyand Biotechnology, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
Karl O. Nakken MD, PhD
Chief Physician
Division of Clinical Neuroscience, The National Center for Epilepsy, Sandvika, Norway
Martha A. Nance MD
Adjunct Associate Professor
Department of Neurology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Lina Nashef MBChB, MRCP, MD, FRCP
Honorary Senior Lecturer
Department of Clinical Neuroscience, King’s College London, Institute of Psychiatry; Consultant Neurologist, Department of Neurology, King’s College Hospital, London, United Kingdom
Wassim M. Nasreddine MD
Chief and Head
Neurology Division, Beirut Governmental University Hospital, Jnah, Beirut, Lebanon
Ibrahima Pierre Ndiaye MD
Department of Neurology, University Hospital of Fann, Dakar, Senegal
Astrid Nehlig PhD
Research Director
French National Institute for Health and Medical Research; Faculty of Medicine, Strasbourg, France
Brian G. Neville MD
The Wolfson Centre, London, United Kingdom
Jeffrey L. Noebels MD, PhD
Professor of Neurology
Neuroscience and Molecular Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
Douglas R. Nordli Jr. MD
Associate Professor of Neurology and Pediatrics
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Lorna S. and James P. Langdon Chair of Pediatric Epilepsy; Director, Epilepsy Center, Children’s Memorial Hospital, Chicago, Illinois
Marc R. Nuwer MD, PhD
Professor of Neurology, Head
Department of Clinical Neurophysiology, Univeristy of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California
Terence J. O’Brien MBBS
St. Vincent Hospital, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Victoria, Australia
Shunsuke Ohtahara MD, PhD
Professor Emeritus
Department of Child Neurology, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Shikatacho, Okayama, Japan
Yoko Ohtsuka MD, PhD
Professor
Department of Child Neurology, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Shikatacho, Okayama, Japan
George A. Ojemann MD
University of Washington, Regional Epilepsy Center, Harborview Medical Center, Seattle, Washington
Ruth Ottman PhD
Professor of Epidemiology
Sergievsky Center, Columbia University, New York, New York
Christoph Pachlatko Dr. oec. Pfr.
Managing Director
Swiss Epilepsy Center, Zürich, Switzerland
Alison M. Pack MD
Assistant Professor of Clinical Neurology
Department of Neurology, Columbia University, New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York, New York
Chrysostomos P. Panayiotopoulos MD, PhD
Consultant Emeritus
Department of Clinical Neurophysiology and Epilepsies, St. Thomas’ Hospital, London, United Kingdom
Jack M. Parent MD
Associate Professor of Neurology
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Elena Parrini PhD
Molecular Biologist
Neurogenetics Lab, Child Neurology Unit, AOU Meyer, Florence, Italy
Philip N. Patsalos FRCPath, PhD
Professor
Department of Clinical and Experimental Epilepsy, Institute of Neurology, London, United Kingdom; Professor, Pharmacology and Therapeutics Unit, Chalfont Centre for Epilepsy, Chalfont St. Peter, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom
Timothy A. Pedley MD
Henry and Lucy Moses Professor of Neurology, Chairman
Department of Neurology, Columbia University; Neurologist-in-Chief, The Neurological Institute of New York, The New York-Presbyterian Hospital, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, New York
John M. Pellock MD
Division of Child Neurology, Medical College of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia
Jukka Peltola MD, PhD
Deputy Chief
Department of Neurology, Tampere University Hospital, Tampere, Finland
Emilio Perucca MD, PhD, FRCP(Edin)
Professor
Clinical Pharmacology Unit, Department of Internal Medicine and Therapeutics, University of Pavia; Director, Laboratories for Diagnostics and Applied Biological Research, Institute of Neurology IRCCS C. Mondino Foundation, Pavia, Italy
Ognen A. C. Petroff MD
Associate Professor of Neurology, Director of EEG and Attending Physician
Department of Neurology, Yale University, Yale-New Haven Hospital, New Haven Connecticut
Margarete Pfäfflin
Epilepsy-Center Bethel, Bielefeld, Germany
Fabienne Picard MD
Department of Neurology, University Hospital of Geneva, Geneva, Switezerland
Demetris K. Pillas MSc
PhD Candidate
Epidemiology and Public Health Department, Imperial College of London, London, United Kingdom
Antonella Pini MD
Physician
Child Neurology Unit, Ospedale Maggiore Ca Pizzardi, Bologna, Italy
Munir Pirmohamed PhD, FRCP, FRCP(E)
Professor of Clinical Pharmacology
Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, The University of Liverpool; Consultant Physician, The Royal Liverpool University Hospital, Liverpool, United Kingdom
Asla Pitkänen MD, PhD, DSc
Professor in Neurobiology
A.I. Virtanen Institute for Molecular Sciences, University of Kuopio, Kuopio, Finland
Perrine Plouin MD
Head of Clinical Neurophysiology
Necker Enfants Malades Hospital, Paris, France
Charles E. Polkey MD, FRCS
Professor Emeritus of Functional Neurosurgery
Department of Clinical Neurociences, Institute of Psychiatry, London, United Kingdom
Roger J. Porter MD
Adjunct Professor of Neurology
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Adjunct Professor of Pharmacology, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland
Tiziano Pramparo PhD
Molecular Biologist
Department of Biology and Medical Genetics, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy
Michael D. Privitera MD
Professor and Vice Chair Neurology, Director
Cincinnati Epilepsy Center, University of Cincinnati Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio
Mark Proctor MD
Department of Neurosurgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
Mark S. Quigg MD, MSc
Associate Professor of Neurology, Medical Director
EEG, Intensive Monitoring, Evoked Potential, and Neurological Sleep Laboratories, Health Sciences Center, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia
Kurupath Radhakrishnan MD
R. Madhavan Nayar Center for Comprehensive Epilepsy Care, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciencesand Technology, Trivandrum, Kerala, India
R. Eugene Ramsay MD
International Center for Epilepsy, Miami, Florida
Peter M. Rankin
D. Clin. Psych., Honorary Senior Lecturer
Institute of Child Health, University College London; Consultant Paediatric Neuropsychologist, Department of Psychological Medicine, Great Ormond Street Hospital For Children NHS Trust, London, United Kingdom
Lawrence D. Recht MD
Professor of Neurolgoy
Stanford University, Stanford, California
Jean Régis MD
Professor of Neurosurgery
Stereotatic and Functional Neurosurgery Department, Timone Hospital, Marseille, France
Trevor J. Resnick MD
Associate Professor, Chief of Neurology
University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine, Miami Children’s Hospital, Miami, Florida
Jong M. Rho MD
Associate Professor
Department of Neurology, University of Arizona College of Medicine, Children’s Health Center, St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center, Phoenix, Arizona
Kristen A. Richardson PhD
Postdoctoral Associate
Department of Neuroscience, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
David W. Roberts MD
Section of Neurosurgery
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, New Hampshire
Michael A. Rogawski MD, PhD
Epilepsy Research Section, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
Guido Rubboli MD
Attending Physician
Department of Neurosciences, Bellaria Hospital, Bologna, Italy
Zarya A. Rubin MD, FRCPC
Comprehensive Epilepsy Center, Neurological Institute of New York, Columbia University, New York, New York
Anne Sabers MD
Chief of the Epilepsy Unit
Department of Neurology, Glostrup University Hospital, Glostrup, Denmark
Ralph L. Sacco MD
Department of Neurology and the School of Public Healthin the Sergievsky Center, Columbia University, Neurological Institute of New York, New York, New York
Noriko Salamon MD, PhD
Department of Neuroradiology, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles Medical Center, Los Angeles, California
Josemir W. Sander MD, PhD, FRCP
Professor of Clinical and Experimental Epilepsy
Honorary Consultant Neurologist, Epilepsy Centre, National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, London, United Kingdom
Raman Sankar MD, PhD
Departments of Neurology and Pediatrics, University of California Los Angeles School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California
P. Satishchandra MBBS, DM (Neurology), FAMS, FIAN
Professor of Neurology
National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences (NIMHANS), Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Steven C. Schachter MD
Professor of Neurology
Harvard Medical School; Director of Research, Department of Neurology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts
Helen E. Scharfman PhD
Associate Professor
Helen Hayes Hospital Center, New York, New York; Associate Professor of Clinical Pharmacology (in Neurology), Department of Pharmacology and Neurology, Columbia University, New York, New York; Director, Center for Neural Recovery and Rehabilitation Research, Helen Hayes Hospital, New York State Department of Health, West Haverstraw, New York
Ingrid E. Scheffer MBBS, PhD, FRACP
Professor of Paediatric Neurology Research
Department of Medicine, Austin Health, Department of Paediatrics, Royal Children’s Hospital, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria; Director of Paediatrics, Department of Medicine, Austin Health Repatriation Hospital, Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia
Carlos H. Schenck MD
Department of Psychiatry, Hennepin County Medical Center, University of Minnesota Medical Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Mark S. Scher MD
Professor of Pediatrics and Neurology
Department of Pediatrics; Division Chief, Pediatric Neurology; Director, Pediatric Sleep/Epilepsy & Fetal/Neonatal Neurology Program, Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital, University Hospital Case Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio
Bernd Schmidt MD
Head
Neurology and Psychiatry Outpatient Clinic, Wittnau, Germany
Dieter Schmidt MD
Emeritus Professor of Neurology
Epilepsy Research Group, Berlin, Germany
Bettina Schmitz
Professor
Charite Neurologie, Berlin, Germany
Donald L. Schomer MD
Maslah Saul MD Professor of Neurology
Department of Neurology and Neurological Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, Comprehensive Epilepsy Program, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts
Stephanie Schorge PhD
Assistant Professor
Institute of Neurology, University College London, London, United Kingdom
Johannes Schramm
Professor and Chairman
Department of Neurosurgery, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
Robert Schwarcz PhD
Professor of Psychiatry
Maryland Psychiatric Research Center, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
Philip A. Schwartzkroin PhD
Department of Neurological Surgery, University of California–Davis, Davis, California
Michael Seidenberg PhD
Department of Psychology, Finch University of Health Sciences, The Chicago Medical School, Chicago, Illinois
Masakazu Seino MD*
National Epilepsy Center, Shizuoka Medical Institute of Neurologic Diseases, Shizuoka, Japan
Caroline E. Selai BA(Hons), MSc, PhD, DipPsych, CPsychol.
Senior Lecturer in Clinical Neuroscience
University College London, Institute of Neurology, National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, London, United Kingdom
Patricia O. Shafer RN, MN
Division of Public Health, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
Volney L. Sheen MD, PhD
Department of Neurology, Harvard Medical School, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts
D. Alan Shewmon MD
Department of Neurology, Olive View-UCLA Medical Center, Sylmar, California
Hiroshi Shibasaki MD, PhD
Consultant
Takeda General Hospital, Kyoto, Japan
W. Donald Shields MD
University of California Los Angeles Medical Center, Department of Pediatric Neurology, Mattel Children’s Hospital, Los Angeles, California
Hideo Shigematsu MD
Chief
Department of Pediatrics, National Epilepsy Center, Shizouka Medical Institute of Neurological Disorders, Shizouka, Japan
Shlomo Shinnar MD, PhD
Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, New York
Simon D. Shorvon MD, FRCP
Professor in Clinical Neurology and Clinical Subdean Consultant Neurologist
University College of London, National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, London, United Kingdom
Margaret N. Shouse PhD
Professor
Department of Neurobiology, University of California Los Angeles School of Medicine, Los Angeles, Californina; Chief, Sleep Disturbance Research, VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, North Hills, California
Stephen D. Silberstein MD
Professor of Neurology
Jefferson Medical College; Director, Jefferson Headache Center, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Sanjay M. Sisodiya MBBChir, MA, PhD, FRCP
Professor
Department of Clinical and Experimental Epilepsy, UCL Institute of Neurology; Honorary Consultant Neurologist, Division of Neurology, National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, London, United Kingdom
Mary Lou Smith PhD
Professor of Psychology
University of Toronto Mississauga, Mississaugo, Ontario; Psychologist, Department of Psychology and Neurology, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Michael C. Smith MD
Department of Neurological Sciences, Rush Epilepsy Center, Chicago, Illinois
Dee Snape
Division of Public Health, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
O. Carter Snead III MD
Head
Division of Neurology, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Elson L. So MD
Professor of Neurology, Consultant and Director of Neurology
Section of Electroencephalography, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota
Luigi Specchio MD
Clinic of Nervous System Diseases, University of Foggia, Foggia, Italy
Nicola Specchio MD
Section of Neurophysiology, Bambino Gesu Children’s Hospital, Rome, Italy
Sarah J. Spence MD, PhD
UCLA Department of Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences; Medical Director UCLA Autism Evaluation Clinic, Medical Director of the Autism Genetic Resource Exchange, Los Angeles, California
Dennis D. Spencer MD
Yale University, School of Medicine Neurosurgery, New Haven Connecticut
Susan S. Spencer MD
Professor of Neurology
Yale University School of Medicine; Attending Director, Epilepsy Unit, Department of Neurology, Yale New Haven Hospital, New Haven, Connecticut
Michael R. Sperling MD
Professor of Neurology
Thomas Jefferson University; Director, Jefferson Comprehensive Epilepsy Center, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Carl E. Stafstrom MD, PhD
Professor of Neurology and Pediatrics, Chief
Section of Pediatric Neurology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin
Hermann Stefan Prof.Dr.Med.
Professor
Epilepsy Center, University Erlangen; Director of Epilepsy Center, University Hospital Erlangen, Erlangen, Bavaria, Germany
Christian Steinhäuser PhD
Professor and Director
Institute of Cellular Neurosciences, University of Bonn Medical School, Bonn, Germany
Ortrud K. Steinlein MD
Head of Department
Institute of Human Genetics, University of Munich, Munchen, Germany
Linda J. Stephen MBChB
Honorary Senior Lecturer
Division of Cardiovascular and Medical Sciences, University of Glasgow; Associate Specialist, Division of Cardiovascular and Medical Sciences, Western Infirmary, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
John B. P. Stephenson MA, DM
Honorary Professor in Pediatric Neurology
University of Glasgow, Fraser of Allander Neurosciences Unit, Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
John M. Stern MD
Associate Professor of Neurology
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California
Mark Stewart MD, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Physiology and Pharmacology Neurology, State University of New York Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York
John W. Swann PhD
Professor
Department of Pediatric and Neuroscience, Baylor College of Medicine; Scientific Director, The Cain Foundation Laboratories, Texas Children’s Hospital, Houston, Texas
Chong Tin Tan MD, FRCP
University of Malaya; Chair of the Commission on Asian and Oceanian Affairs, International League Against Epilepsy, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Carlo Alberto Tassinari MD
Professor of Neurological Sciences
University of Bologna; Consultant, Department of Neurosciences, Bellaria Hospital, Bologna, Italy
David C. Taylor MD, MSc, FRCP, FRCPsych
Institute of Child Health and Great Ormond Street Hospital, The Wolfson Centre, London, United Kingdom
Joanne Taylor BSc
Postgraduate Research Student
Department of Neurological Science, The University of Liverpool, Clinical Science Centre for Research and Education, Liverpool, United Kingdom
Ludger Tebartz van Elst MD, PhD
Professor of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Consultant Psychiatrist
University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
Nancy R. Temkin PhD
Professor
Departments of Neurological Surgery and Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
Kiyohito Terada MD, PhD
Chief
Department of Neurology, National Epilepsy Center, Shizuoka Institute of Epilepsy and Neurological Disorders, Shizuoka, Japan
William H. Theodore MD
Chief
Clinical Epilepsy Section, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institute of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
Pierre Thomas MD, PhD
Professor of Neurology
Department of Medicine, University of Nice-Sophia-Antipolis; Chief, Department of Epileptology and Clinical Neurology, Hopital Pasteur, Nice, France
Rupprecht Thorbecke
Epilepsy Center Bethel, Klinik Mara, Bielefeld, Germany
Arthur W. Toga PhD
Professor of Neurology
University of California Los Angeles School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California
Torbjörn Tomson MD
Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
Roger D. Traub MD
Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, and Neurology, SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York
David M. Treiman MD
Newsome Chair in Epileptology; Vice Chair, Neurology; Director, Epilepsy Program, Barrow Neurological Institute, Phoenix, Arizona; Research Professor, Harrington Department of Bioengineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona
Andrew J. Trevelyan MD
Department of Biological Sciences, Columbia University, New York, New York
Michael R. Trimble MD
Professor of Behavioral Neurology
Institute of Neurology, London, United Kingdom
John D. Van Horn PhD, MEng
Assistant Professor
Department of Neurology, University of California Los Angeles School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California
Paul C. Van Ness MD
Associate Professor of Neurology
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center; Director, UT Southwestern Epilepsy Center, Department of Neurology, Parkland Memoral Hospital, Dallas, Texas
Faraneh Vargha-Khadem PhD
Professor of Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience/Head of Unit
Institute of Child Health, University College London; Consultant Paediatric Neuropsychologist, Department Neuropsychology, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust, London, United Kingdom
Jana Velíšková MD, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Neurology and Neuroscience, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Rose F. Kennedy Center, Bronx, New York
Paul M. Vespa MD
Associate Professor of Neurology in Neurosurgery
University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles California
Annamaria Vezzani PhD
Head of Experimental Neurology Laboratory
Department of Neuroscience, Mario Negri Institute for Pharmacological Research, Milano, Italy
Barbara G. Vickrey MD, MPH
Professor and Vice Chair
Department of Neurology, University of California, Los Angeles; Physician of Neurology, VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, Los Angeles, California
Federico Vigevano MD
Professor of Neurology
Departments of Neurology and Neurophysiology, Bambino Gesu Children’s Hospital, Rome, Italy
Flavio Villani MD
Staff Neurologist
Division of Clinical Epileptology and Experimental Neurophysiology, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale Neurologico “C. Besta”, Milano, Italy
Eileen P. G. Vining MD
Professor of Neurology and Pediatrics
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
Harry V. Vinters MD
Section of Neuropathology, Brain Research Institute, Mental Retardation Research Center, University of California Los Angeles Medical Center, Los Angeles, California
Kenneth Vives MD
Chief of Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery
Department of Neurosurgery, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut
Charles Vorkas MD
New York University Epilepsy Center, New York, New York
Thaddeus S. Walczak MD
Adjunct Professor
Department of Neurology, University of Minnesota; Director, Clinical Neurophysiology, MINCEP Epilepsy Care, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Nicole Walley
Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy, Center for Population Genomics and Pharmacogenetics, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
Christopher A. Walsh MD, PhD
Bullard Professor of Neurology
Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard Medical School; Chief of Genetics, Children’s Hospital Boston, Boston, Massachusetts
Wenzhi Wang MD
Professor
Neuroepidemiology Department, Beijing Neurosurgical Institute, Beijing, China
Braxton B. Wannamaker MD
Clinical Professor
Department of Neurosciences, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina
Claude G. Wasterlain MD
Chair
Department of Neurology, VA Greater Los Angeles Health Care System; Professor and Vice-Chair, Department of Neurology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, West L.A. VA Medical Center, Los Angeles, California
Kazuyoshi Watanabe MD, PhD
Faculty of Medical Welfare
Aichi Shukutoku University, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya, Japan
Donald F. Weaver MD, PhD
Departments of Medicine, Chemistry and Biomedical Engineering, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Peter J. West MD
Anticonvulsant Drug Development Program, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah
H. Steve White PhD
Anticonvulsant Drug Development Program, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah
Samuel Wiebe MD, MSc(Epidemiol.), FRCPC
Professor of Clinical Neurosciences
University of Calgary; Head, Division of Neurology, Foothills Medical Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Heinz Wiendl MD
Department of Neurology, University of Wuerzburg, Wuerzburg, Germany
Heinz Gregor Wieser MD
Professor of Neurology, Chief
Department of Epileptology and Electroencephalography, Neurology Clinic, University Hospital, Zurich, Switzerland
Karen S. Wilcox PhD
Department of Pharmacology & Toxicology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah
Alan J. Wilensky MD
Regional Epilepsy Center, Harborview Medical Center, Seattle, Washington
Peter D. Williamson MD
Department of Neurology, Dartmouth Medical School, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, New Hampshire
L. James Willmore MD
Professor of Neurology and Pharmacologyand Physiology Neurology
Saint Louis University School of Medicine; Attending Neurologist, Saint Louis University Hospital, St. Louis, Missouri
Charles L. Wilson PhD
Professor Emeritus
Department of Neurology, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California
Melodie R. Winawer MD, MS
Assistant Professor, Attending Physician
Department of Neurology, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, New York
Peter Wolf MD, PhD
Professor of Neurology
Copenhagen University, Copenhagen, Denmark; Physician, Danish Epilepsy Hospital, Dianalund, Denmark
Peter K. H. Wong B.Eng, MD
Professor of Pediatrics
University of British Columbia; Director, Department of Diagnostic Neurophysiology, Children’s Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Clinton B. Wright MD
Assistant Professor of Neurology
Columbia University; Assistant Attending, Department of Neurology, New York Presbyterian Hospital, Columbia University Medicine Center, New York, New York
Jianzhong Wu MD
Professor
Beijing Neurosurgical Institute, Beijing, China
Liwen Wu MD
Professor of Neurology
Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Beijing, China
Elaine Wyllie MD
Departments of Neurology and Pediatrics, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio
Yoel Yaari PhD
Faculty of Medicine
The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
Kazuichi Yagi MD
Shizuoka Higashi Hospital, National Epilepsy Center, Shizuoka, Japan
Yasuko Yamatogi MD
Faculty of Health and Welfare Science of Okayama
Prefectural University, Soja-shi, Okayama, Japan
E. Ann Yeh MA, MD
Assistant Professor of Neurology
SUNY at Buffalo; Attending in Child Neurology, Clinical Co-Director, Pediatric MS and Demyelinating Disorders Center, Division of Child Neurology, Women and Children’s Hospital of Buffalo, Buffalo, New York
Mark S. Yerby MD
North Pacific Epilepsy Research; Associate Clinical Professor of Public Health, Neurologyand Obstetrics and Gynecology, Oregon Health Sciences University; Director, Epilepsy Program Providence St. Vincent’s Medical Center, Portland, Oregon
Rafael M. Yuste MD, PhD
HHMI Investigator; Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Columbia University, New York, New York
Benjamin G. Zifkin MD, CM, FRCPC
Epilepsy Clinic, Montreal Neurological Hospital, Montreal, Canada
Orsatta Zuffardi PhD
Professor
Department of Biology and Medical Genetics, University of Pavia; Director of Medical Genetics, IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo, Pavia, Italy
