Professor, University of Pretoria Prof. Izelle Smuts is a registered paediatric neurologist and HOD in the Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Steve Biko Academic Hospital, and the University of Pretoria. The Paediatric Neurology Unit manages the entire spectrum of paediatric neurology and neurodevelopmental disorders, including autism, cerebral palsy, epilepsy, neuromuscular disorders, and other neurogenetic disorders. The Unit is also involved in pre- and postgraduate training of medical students in Paediatrics and paediatric neurologists. Prof. Smuts' Unit is a key participant in the International Centre for Genomic Medicine in...

Consultant Paediatric Neurologist & Professor of Paediatric Neurology, Royal Hospital for Children & University of Glasgoiw Sameer is Paediatric Neurologist at the Royal Hospital for Children and Honorary Professor, University of Glasgow. His interests include epilepsy, neurogenetics and innovation. He leads the Paediatric Neurosciences Research Group in the University of Glasgow and is clinical lead of the Scottish Genetic Epilepsy service. He is a Board Member & immediate past President of the European Paediatric Neurology Society (EPNS) and sits on the Board of the European Brain Council. Other roles have...

Dr. deVeber is a Paediatric Neurologist in the Children's Stroke Program and Division of Neurology, and a Senior Scientist in the Child Health Evaluation Sciences Program at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids).

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Dr Cheryl Hemingway has been a Consultant Paediatric Neurologist for over 20 years. She has worked and trained in paediatric neurology at Red Cross Children’s Hospital, South Africa; Johns Hopkins, USA and in the UK, and has been a full time Neurology Consultant at Great Ormond Street Children’s Hospital (GOSH) from 2006. Her PhD from Imperial College, London used RNA array technology to explore the host immune response to brain inflammation and infection, and she has used the expertise gained from this to provide specialised clinical care to children with rare neuro-inflammatory disorders. She leads...

Professor, Nemours Children's Health Dr. Scott is Division Chief of Neurology and Professor of Neurology and Pediatrics at Nemours Children’s Hospital in Delaware. He straddles the interface between basic and clinical science, with expertise on the care of children with epilepsy and additional cognitive and behavioral impairments. Over the last several years he has recognized the amazing opportunities afforded by conceptualizing the brain as a complex adaptive system and started research studies designed using these principles. He has published over 140 manuscripts and is the co-editor with Dr. Mahoney entitled “A...

Honorary Lecturer paeds , Makerere University Robert K Sebunya was born in Namugongo rural Uganda, current day Wakiso district to Mr Soul Kabuye and the late Deborah Nakalema in 1982. I had my senior secondary/college school from Uganda Martyrs Senior secondarily school Namugongo, from where I went to Mbarara University of Science and Technology for my bachelor’s degree of Medicine and Surgery. Following the completion of my Bachelor’s degree, I joined current day St.francis hospital Nsambya for my Internship training, under the mentorship of a very good paediatrician the late Dr....

Dr Kevin Jones is a pediatric neurologist, epileptologist and Associate Professor in the Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Neurology at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.

Consultant Paediatric Neurologist, University Of Colombo Dr. Jithangi Wanigasinghe is professor in paediatric neurology at University of Colombo, Sri Lanka and honorary specialist paediatric neurologist at the Lady Ridgeway Hospital. She is the lead of the paediatric task force in the International League Against Epilepsy-Asia- Oceanian region. She is also in the ILAE paediatric medical treatment Task Forces and Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Task Force. She has held the post of President, Epilepsy Association of Sri Lanka and is the current president of the Sri Lanka Association of Paediatric Neurologists.

Associate Professor, Pediatric Neurologist & Epileptologist, McMaster University Dr Rajesh RamachandranNair is pediatric epileptologist & neurologist at the McMaster Children's Hospital since 2006. He was the founding medical director of the Comprehensive Pediatric Epilepsy Program. His clinical care focus is medically refractory epilepsy, Ketogenic Diet and DEE/EE with Sleep Activation of Spike & Wave (SASW). Dr RamachandranNair is a program director for the International Child Neurology Teaching Network (ICNTN) by the International Child Neurology Association (ICNA), and the Canadian Epilepsy Teaching Network (CETN) by the Canadian League Against Epilepsy (CLAE). He...