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 Against Epilepsy and is the co-chair of the Medical Therapies Task Force and member of the Pediatrics Commission. She was the former co-chair of the Nosology Task Force. She is a member of the Medical Advisory Boards for both DSF and the Lennox-Gastaut Foundation. She led the 2022 International Working Group to establish best practices for diagnosis and management of Dravet syndrome.
