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...

Pediatric Movement Disorders Neurologist , Prince Sultan Military Medical City Dr. Wejdan Hakami is a neurologist specializing in Pediatric Movement Disorders at Prince Sultan Military Medical City in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Completed a Pediatric Movement Disorders Fellowship at Phoenix Children's Hospital in the United States. Research and clinical work primarily revolve around genetic and autoimmune movement disorders, genetic cerebral palsy, and movement disorders linked to neurodegenerative and metabolic conditions.

Professor And Consultant Pediatric Neurology, Prince Sultan Military Medical City, Riyadh, Saud Arabia Dr. Tabarki completed his medical school at University of Tunisia and his residencies in pediatrics, pediatric neurology, and neurophysiology at Paris V University, France, and UCL-Brussels, Belgium. He is currently consultant pediatric neurology at Prince Sultan Military Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, clinical tutor pediatric neurology residency program, and Professor at the university of Sousse, Tunisia. His fields of clinical and research interest include epilepsy, movement disorders, and neurometabolic disorders. Academic teaching contributions include international courses and...

Paediatric Neurologist Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital

Associate Professor , Red Cross Children’s Hospital Neurosurgeon Nico Enslin is a paediatric neurosurgeon with a special interest in functional neurosurgery and epilepsy surgery. He is an associate professor at University of Cape Town and does part – time functional neurosurgery in private sector as well in Cape Town. His main research interest is spasticity-surgery. Nico has a keen interest in teaching and leads the functional neurosurgery firm at UCT Neurosurgery and the registrar teaching program of neurosurgical correlative anatomy and examination techniques in the department of neurosurgery at UCT. He...

Pediatric Neurology Fellow, Northwestern University

Dr Alina Esterhuizen is a professionally registered medical scientist specialising in Human Genetics, with a dual work profile of a translational researcher and head of the molecular diagnostic service at the University of Cape Town (UCT) and the National Health Laboratory Service. She has extensive experience in clinical testing, as well as translation of research into diagnostic practice. Alina’s main research interests lie in genetics of neurodevelopmental and neurodegenerative disease, especially the genetics of paediatric epilepsies (PhD thesis) and neuromuscular disease (MSc. thesis). She is actively involved in teaching, training and student supervision, and is...

Professor, Senior Principal Research Fellow, Laboratory Head, University of Melbourne I am a senior neurogenetics researcher who heads the Translational Neurogenetics Laboratory and was promoted to Professor of Medicine at The University of Melbourne in 2023 at age 42 years. My research program has driven major advances in the field of epilepsy through integrated research arms focused on solving developmental and epileptic encephalopathies, detecting mosaicism in focal epilepsies, and trialling drug therapies for vascular malformations. I have authored 152 articles mostly in leading journals (e.g. Brain, Neurology, Am J Hum...

Consultant, Mayo Clinic Dr. Starnes is a pediatric epileptologist at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. His research and clinical interests are primarily in applying neuromodulation to the pediatric epilepsy population, and particularly in developing techniques of noninvasie brain stimulation.