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;...

GOSH, London Ronit is Consultant in Clinical Neurophysiology at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, London and at Cambridge University Hospital. She is also Associate Professor of Clinical Neuroscience at the UCL-Institute of Child Health. Her research interests focus on neonatal seizures, particularly their diagnosis and treatment, as well as neonatal and paediatric EEG. She currently severs as honorary secretary on the council of the British Society for Clinical Neurophysiology (BSCN). She has been chairing a number of international task forces and workshops on neonatal seizures including the ILAE neonatal seizure classification...