• Charlotte Dravet (July 14, 1936 – May 10, 2025)

    Dr. Charlotte Dravet (July 14, 1936 – May 10, 2025), the esteemed French pediatric psychiatrist and epileptologist, renowned globally for her pioneering contributions to epilepsy research, passed away, leaving behind a profound legacy in the field of child neurology. Her groundbreaking identification and description of Severe Myoclonic Epilepsy of Infancy in 1978, later named Dravet Syndrome, transformed the understanding and management of severe childhood epilepsies.

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