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.

Associate Professor , Sindh institute of child health and neonatology, Karachi

Professor Paediatric Neurology Department of Paediatrics & Child Health Aga Khan University Karachi, Pakistan Pediatric Neurologist by training and my main interest is in Child development and disability. I did my basic training in Pediatrics in Pakistan and did my fellowship in Pediatric Neurology from Hospital for Sick children Toronto. I have a diverse experience not only in general pediatrics and pediatric neurology, and my main interest is in pediatric neurological disorders especially epilepsy and early childhood development and childhood disability.

Professor Sorbonne University Paris Brain Institute Salpêtrière hospital Paris, France Emmanuel Flamand-Roze, M.D., Ph.D., is a professor of neurology at Sorbonne University in Paris. He is consultant neurologist at the movement disorders clinic of the Salpêtrière hospital with special expertise in children with movement disorders. He devised a transition program (JUMP) for adolescent and young adults living with chronic neurological illness. He is the head of a research group at the Paris Brain institute, where his main research interests are neurodevelopmental disorders of the motor system, especially dystonia/dyskinesia. He studies clinical aspects, genetic causes, pathogenesis...

Professor University of Cape Town Description Petrus de Vries is the Struengmann Professor of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry and Founding Director of the Centre for Autism Research in Africa (CARA) at the University of Cape Town. He trained in Medicine at Stellenbosch University in South Africa before moving to the UK where he completed his clinical training in Psychiatry and Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, and a PhD in Developmental Neuroscience at the University of Cambridge. He returned to South Africa in 2012. Since his return to Africa, his research has focused on...