Miriam Meisler, PhD – University of Michigan Medical Center Dr. Meisler is the Myron Levine Distinguished University Professor, Professor of Human Genetics and Professor of Neurology at the University of Michigan Medical School. She earned her PhD at The Ohio State University in Physiological Chemistry and carried out postdoctoral training funded by a NSF Postdoctoral […]
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Heather C. Mefford, MD, PhD – St. Jude’s Research Hospital Dr. Mefford is a physician scientist with training in pediatrics and human genetics. She works for the Center for Pediatric Neurological Disease Research at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, and has a research laboratory devoted to the discovery of novel genetic and genomic causes of pediatric
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Jennifer Kearney, PhD – Northwestern University Jennifer Kearney, PhD, associate professor of Pharmacology, focuses her research on studying the genetic modifiers that influence the clinical severity of epilepsy. She received her Ph.D. in Neuroscience from The University of Michigan in 1997. She remained at The University of Michigan for postdoctoral training in Genetics and joined the faculty
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Ethan Goldberg, MD, PhD – Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Ethan M. Goldberg, M.D., Ph.D., is a pediatric neurologist and neurogeneticist in the Division ofNeurology at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and Departments of Neurology,Neuroscience, and Pediatrics at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. He is Director of the Epilepsy Neurogenetics Initiative
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Dennis J. Dlugos, MD, MSCE, is Professor of Neurology and Pediatrics at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and the Perelman School of Medicine (PSOM) at the University of Pennsylvania. He is Director of the Epilepsy Program at CHOP, holds the Tristram C. Colket, Jr. Endowed Chair in Pediatric Neurology, and is Associate Dean for the
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Scott Baraban, PhD – University of California San Francisco Scott C. Baraban, PhD is a Professor of Neurological Surgery and William K. Bowes Jr. Endowed Chair in Neuroscience Research at the University of California, San Francisco. Dr. Baraban’s lab studies the cellular and molecular basis of epilepsy, specifically catastrophic epilepsies of childhood. While some seizures can
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Lori Isom, PhD – Board Co-Chair University of Michigan Medical Center Dr. Isom is the Maurice H. Seevers Professor and Chair of the Department of Pharmacology, Professor of Molecular and Integrative Physiology, and Professor of Neurology, and Faculty Chair for Women’s Careers at the University of Michigan Medical School. Prior to becoming Chair of Pharmacology
Jack Parent, MD – Board Co-Chair University of Michigan Medical Center Jack M. Parent, MD, is the William J. Herdman Professor of Neurology and Research Professor of the Michigan Neuroscience Institute at the University of Michigan. Dr. Parent received an M.D. from Yale University and completed neurology residency, clinical fellowship and postdoctoral research fellowship training
Elaine Wirrell, MD – Mayo Clinic Dr. Elaine Wirrell is the Chair of Child Neurology and Professor of Neurology at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. She completed medical school at the University of British Columbia and her pediatric neurology training at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. She is active in the International League
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Joseph Sullivan, MD University of California San Francisco Dr. Joseph Sullivan, is a Professor of Neurology & Pediatrics and Director of the UCSF Pediatric Epilepsy Center of Excellence, where he specializes in the evaluation and treatment of children with epilepsy, in particular the treatment of refractory epilepsy that does not respond to medications. He also
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