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Anthony G Marson
Anthony G Marson is a British neurologist and epilepsy researcher who is Professor of Neurology at the University of Liverpool, known for leading the SANAD trials of antiseizure drugs.
Chrysostomos P. Panayiotopoulos
Chrysostomos P. Panayiotopoulos, known as Tomis, was a Greek-born neurologist at St Thomas' Hospital in London who described Panayiotopoulos syndrome, a benign childhood autonomic epilepsy.
Daniel Friedman (American neurologist)
Daniel Friedman is an American neurologist and epileptologist, Professor of Neurology at NYU Grossman School of Medicine, who directs the Division of Epilepsy at NYU Langone and researches cannabinoids, seizure-detection wearables, and SUDEP.
Daniel H. Lowenstein
Daniel H. Lowenstein is an American neurologist and epileptologist at the University of California, San Francisco, known for research on status epilepticus, large-scale epilepsy genetics programs, and medical education reform.
Dennis D. Spencer
Dennis D. Spencer is an American neurosurgeon and epilepsy researcher at Yale School of Medicine, known for developing the most commonly used temporal lobe epilepsy surgery technique.
Frances Elizabeth Jensen
Frances Elizabeth Jensen is an American neurologist and Chair of Neurology at the University of Pennsylvania, known for research on epilepsy, the developing brain, and authoring The Teenage Brain.
Herbert Jasper
Herbert Henri Jasper (1906–1999) was a Canadian neuroscientist who helped found clinical neurophysiology, confirmed the human EEG in North America, and led the Montreal Neurological Institute's EEG laboratories.
Ingrid E. Scheffer
Ingrid E. Scheffer, also known as Ingrid Scheffer, is an Australian pediatric neurologist and epileptologist who helped identify the first epilepsy gene in 1995 and led the 2017 revision of the international classification of the epilepsies.
Jacqueline French
Jacqueline A. French is an American epileptologist, professor of neurology at NYU Grossman School of Medicine, and founder of the Epilepsy Study Consortium, known for novel epilepsy trial designs.
Jerome Engel
Jerome Engel Jr. is an American neurologist and neuroscientist at UCLA, where he directs the Seizure Disorder Center and studies why epilepsy surgery is underused.
Joan K. Austin
Joan Kessner Austin is an American epilepsy nursing scientist and Indiana University distinguished professor emerita who studied epilepsy in children, led the American Epilepsy Society in 2005, and joined the National Academy of Medicine in 2000.
John Hughlings Jackson
John Hughlings Jackson (1835–1911) was an English neurologist known as the father of English neurology, who defined epilepsy as a local discharge of gray matter.
John S. Duncan
John S. Duncan, born 1955, is a British neurologist specializing in epilepsy, a consultant at Queen Square since 1989 and Professor of Neurology at UCL since 1998.
Josemir W. Sander
Josemir W. Sander (雷 桑德), known as Ley Sander, is a Brazilian-born British neurologist, professor of neurology and clinical epilepsy at UCL, known for research on epilepsy epidemiology and global epilepsy care.
Kimford J. Meador
Kimford J. Meador, also published as Kimford Meador, is an American epileptologist and Professor of Neurology at Stanford University whose NEAD study showed fetal valproate exposure lowers childhood IQ.
Lucio Bini
Lucio Bini (1908–1964) was an Italian physician and engineer who co-invented electroconvulsive therapy with Ugo Cerletti at the University of Rome, building the first ECT apparatus and patenting it.
Martin J. Brodie
Martin J. Brodie is a Scottish epileptologist and clinical pharmacologist who founded the Epilepsy Unit at Glasgow's Western Infirmary and co-authored the ILAE definition of drug-resistant epilepsy.
O. Carter Snead
O. Carter Snead is a Canadian pediatric neurologist who led neurology at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto and created the GHB rat model of absence epilepsy.
Orrin Devinsky
Orrin Devinsky is an American neurologist and epileptologist who directs the NYU Comprehensive Epilepsy Center and led the trials behind the first FDA-approved cannabidiol epilepsy therapy.
Patrick Kwan
Patrick Kwan is an Australian neurologist and epileptologist, Professor of Neurology at Monash University in Melbourne, who chaired the International League Against Epilepsy task force that produced the first consensus definition of drug-resistant epilepsy in 2010.
Richard H. Mattson
Richard H. Mattson, born in 1931, is an American neurologist and epileptologist at Yale School of Medicine who directed the two largest VA antiepileptic drug trials.
Rodney Craig Scott
Rodney Craig Scott (Rod C. Scott) is a pediatric epileptologist and physician-scientist who leads the NLSTEPSS childhood status epilepticus study and a 2025 NIH neurostimulation award.
Rosalind W. Picard
Rosalind W. Picard is an American scientist and engineer at the MIT Media Lab who founded the field of affective computing and co-founded the companies Affectiva and Empatica.
Samuel Livingston
Samuel Livingston (1908–1984) was an American physician and epilepsy researcher who directed the Johns Hopkins Epilepsy Clinic from 1946 to 1973, supervising treatment of more than 33,000 patients with epilepsy.
Sanjay Sisodiya
Sanjay M. Sisodiya is a British neurologist, Professor of Neurology at UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, known for research in epilepsy genetics and drug-resistant epilepsy.
Shlomo Shinnar
Shlomo Shinnar is an American child neurologist and epilepsy researcher, Professor Emeritus at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, known for leading the FEBSTAT study of prolonged febrile seizures in children.
Simon Shorvon
Simon David Shorvon is a British neurologist and emeritus professor of clinical neurology at UCL, known for epilepsy research and prize-winning histories of epilepsy, receiving the ILAE Lifetime Achievement Award in 2025.
Torbjörn Tomson
Torbjörn Tomson is a Swedish neurologist and epileptologist, senior professor at Karolinska Institutet, who leads the EURAP pregnancy registry and studies SUDEP and antiepileptic drug safety in pregnancy.
W. Allen Hauser
W. Allen Hauser (1937–2026) was an American neurologist and epilepsy epidemiologist, Professor Emeritus at Columbia University, whose seizure recurrence studies shaped the ILAE's definition of epilepsy.
William Gordon Lennox
William Gordon Lennox (1884–1960) was an American neurologist at Harvard and a founder of modern epilepsy research, pioneering clinical EEG, the ketogenic diet, and Lennox–Gastaut syndrome.