Scientific Advisory Board

Gaia Colasante, PhD – IRCCF Ospendale San Raffaele Dr. Gaia Colasante earned her degree in Biotechnology at University of Milan and her PhD in Neuroscience and Molecular Medicine at University Vita-Salute San Raffaele working in the lab of Dr. Vania Broccoli. She was interested in forebrain development, and in particular, she dissected the contribution of […]

Sarah Weckhuysen, MD, PhD – University of Antwerp in Belgium Sarah Weckhuysen MD, PhD is an Assistant Professor at the University of Antwerp in Belgium with interest in both clinical epilepsy and genetic research. As a neurologist she worked in several tertiary epilepsy centers, including the Epilepsy Center Kempenhaeghe in the Netherlands, the Hôpital Pitié

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

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

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

Ethan Goldberg, MD, PhD – Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Ethan Goldberg, MD, PhD, is a pediatric neurologist in the Division of Neurology at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and Director of the Epilepsy NeuroGenetics Initiative (ENGIN). He sees patients in the Neurogenetics Clinic at CHOP. Dr. Goldberg specializes in the diagnosis and care of children

Dennis Dlugos, MD, MSCE – Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Dennis J. Dlugos, MD, MSCE, is a professor of neurology and pediatrics at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. He is Director of the Section of Clinical Neurophysiology and the Epilepsy/Clinical Neurophysiology Fellowship. He holds the Catherine D. Brown

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

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 at the University of Michigan Medical School. Prior to becoming Chair of Pharmacology she served as Director of the

Jack Parent, MD – Board Co-Chair University of Michigan Medical Center Jack M. Parent, MD, is a professor of neurology, director of the Neurodevelopment and Regeneration Laboratory, and co-director of the Comprehensive Epilepsy Center in the University of Michigan Medical School. His current research interests include neural stem cell transplantation to treat brain injury and