Medical Advisory Board
Elaine Wirrell, MD – Mayo Clinic Dr. Elaine Wirrell is the director of pediatric epilepsy 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 the co-chair of the Nosology …
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 …
Ingrid Scheffer, AO MB BS PhD FRACP FAHMS FAA University of Melbourne Laureate Professor Ingrid Scheffer’s work has resulted in major paradigm shifts in epilepsy syndromology and classification over many years. Her work has formed the essential basis for successful gene discovery such that her larger collaborative group has been the leaders in epilepsy gene …
M. Scott Perry, MD – Cook Children’s Medical Center Dr. Perry is the Head of Neurosciences and Director of the Genetic Epilepsy Clinic at the Jane and John Justin Neurosciences Center of Cook Children’s Medical Center, Fort Worth, TX. He completed his MD at the University of Mississippi School of Medicine and general pediatrics and …
Sookyong Koh, MD, PhD – University of Nebraska Dr. Koh is the chief of the UNMC Division of Pediatric Neurology. Dr. Koh is board certified in neurology with a special qualification in child neurology, clinical neurophysiology and epilepsy. Dr. Koh earned her PhD in neurobiology from the University of Rochester in New York.
Kelly Knupp, MD, MSCS – Children’s Hospital Colorado Kelly Knupp is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Neurology at the University of Colorado. She received her medical degree from the University of New Mexico – School of Medicine, completed her residency in Pediatrics at Children’s Hospital of New York followed by Pediatric Neurology Residency at …
Danielle Andrade, MD, MSc, FRCPC – University of Toronto Dr. Andrade is a Professor of Medicine (Neurology) at the University of Toronto. She is the Medical Director of the Epilepsy Program of University Health Network, University of Toronto, and the founder and Director of Krembil Neuroscience Adult Epilepsy Genetics Program, where she studies the causes and …
Board Chair – Linda Laux, MD – Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital Dr. Laux is an Attending Physician in the Neurology and Epilepsy Center of the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital, as well as an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. She received her medical degree …
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