Professor, Bambino Gesu' Children's Hospital Nicola Specchio is Chair of Neurology, Epilepsy and Movement Disorders Unit and Director of Research Unit on Neurological and Neurosurgical Sciences at Bambino Gesù Children’s Hospital, Rome, Italy. Within his role, he is responsible for the diagnosis and treatment of patients with pediatric epilepsy. Dr Specchio’s main interest lies with seizure semiology and the classification of epileptic seizures and syndromes, drug resistant epilepsies, developmental and epileptic encephalopathies. He has published more than 200 papers in many international journals. He is also a principal investigator on different...

Dr. Dlamini first joined SickKids in 2008 as a Clinical Research Fellow in the Stroke Program. Prior to this she had earned her medical degree at the University College of London, Master’s in Pediatrics, and completed her specialist training in Pediatrics and Pediatric Neurology. She worked as a Staff Neurologist at the Evelina Children's Hospital, Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital, London, UK specializing in stroke, neuromuscular diseases and complex neurofibromatosis prior to returning to SickKids in September 2014 as an Assistant Professor and Staff Physician in Neurology and Stroke. She recently completed her PhD examining...

Paediatric Neurologist, Pauline Samia Prof. Pauline Samia is a Paediatric Neurologist and Chair, Department of Paediatrics at Aga Khan University in Nairobi. She has research interest in Epilepsy, Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, Autism spectrum disorder, preterm birth and cerebral palsy. Prof. Pauline Samia is a recipient of the Sheila Wallace award of the International child neurology Association (ICNA) for her contributions to Paediatric neurology in Africa. Prof. Samia has provided a consistent clinical service that caters for referrals with various neurology conditions from the Eastern African region for over a decade. This...

Phillip L. Pearl, M.D. is Director of Epilepsy and Clinical Neurophysiology at Boston Children’s Hospital and William G. Lennox Chair and Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Pearl, originally from Baltimore, attended Johns Hopkins University and Peabody Conservatory of Music and University of Maryland School of Medicine. He did his residency at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston and fellowship at Boston Children’s Hospital. He was Division Chief of Neurology at Children’s National Medical Center and Professor of Neurology, Pediatrics, and Music at the...

Associate Professor, Makerere University College of Health Sciences Dr Richard Idro is an Associate Professor of Paediatrics and Child Health at Makerere University and Consultant Paediatrician and Paediatric Neurologist at Mulago National Referral hospital in Kampala, Uganda. He leads a Paediatrics Neurosciences Research Group in Uganda. His research interest is around brain injury in children living in resource poor settings and in particular the; i) Pathogenesis and outcomes of acute central nervous system infections, risk factors for and mechanisms underlying poor outcomes and interventions to improve both short and long-term outcomes;...