Elaine Wirrell, MD – Mayo Clinic
Dr. Wirrell completed her medical school at the University of British Columbia, followed by a residency in Child Neurology at Dalhousie University in Canada. She is currently Professor and Chair of Child Neurology at Mayo Clinic in Rochester Minnesota.
She serves on the Medical Advisory Boards of the Dravet Syndrome and Lennox Gastaut Foundations and is the Chair of the Pediatric Commission of the International League Against Epilepsy. She led work on the International Consensus for Optimizing Diagnosis and Management of Persons with Dravet syndrome, which was published in 2022.
Her research interests include optimizing care for children with Developmental and Epileptic Encephalopathies, epidemiology and co-morbidities of pediatric epilepsy and she has published over 300 peer-reviewed articles and numerous book chapters.
She has been the recipient of several awards including the AES Kiffin Penry award for Excellence in Epilepsy Care and the Mayo Clinic Distinguished Clinician award.