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Associate Professor Jo Wilmshurst is Head of Paediatric Neurology at the Red Cross Children's Hospital, University of Cape Town, in South Africa.
She attained specialisation in paediatrics and sub-specialisation in paediatric neurology in the United Kingdom and South Africa.
Her areas of interest, and peer reviewed publications, include epilepsy in childhood, neurophysiology of childhood disorders, neuromuscular disorders of childhood and neuroinfectious diseases.
Her MD thesis was on peripheral neuropathies in children.
She is a member of the executive board of the Paediatric Neurology and Development Association of Southern Africa (PANDA-SA) and the African Child Neurology Association (ACNA).
She is Secretary of the International Child Neurology Association.
She is a member of the Commission on Paediatrics for the International League Against Epilepsy (ILAE). She is chair of the ILAE task force for infantile seizure guidelines and co-chair of the Guidelines Task Force.
She is chair of the African Paediatric Fellowship Program - a training program under the auspices of the University of Cape which aims at developing skills in paediatric disciplines of doctors from across Africa.