Dr. Serini Murugasen Early-Career Child Neurologist, Cape Town, South Africa Paediatric Neurologist, Tertiary Public & Private Hospitals Senior Lecturer, University of Cape Town Dr. Serini Murugasen is an early-career child neurologist based in Cape Town, South Africa. She holds multiple positions within the province and nationally, including paediatric neurologist at tertiary public and private hospitals, specialist paediatrician at a district hospital and senior lecturer at the University of Cape Town. In addition, she is involved in research and education projects in child neurology nationally, with a special interest in genetic epilepsies. Dr Murugasen has a...

Claire Nolan Head of Engagement, International Bureau for Epilepsy (IBE) UK Claire joined the health charity sector in the UK in 2011, where she worked on building a bowel cancer community awareness initiative, a research network for people affected by Parkinson’s disease, and a national Patient and Public Involvement (PPI) programme in research. She later worked as a freelancer with several UK and European patient organisations, the Charities Research Involvement Group (CRIG) in the UK, and a patient-centred research company, MediPaCe, developing expertise in supporting collaboration between pharmaceutical companies, patient organisations, and people living with...

Dr George Ibrahim, MD, PhD Abe Bresver Chair in Functional Neurosurgery, Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids), Toronto Associate Professor, University of Toronto Dr. George Ibrahim is a pediatric neurosurgeon and the Abe Bresver Chair in Functional Neurosurgery at the Hospital for Sick Children. He is an Associate Professor at the Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering, the Institute of Medical Sciences and the Department of Surgery at the University of Toronto. He is also a Senior Scientist in the Neurosciences and Mental Health program at the SickKids Research Institute and Co-leads the Posluns Centre for...

Dr. Aniruddha K. Purohit, MS, MCh Senior Consultant Neurosurgeon, Aster Prime Hospital, Hyderabad Former Professor & Head of Neurosurgery, NIMS, Hyderabad Dr Aniruddha K Purohit a Senior Consultant Neurosurgeon at Aster Prime Hospital, Hyderabad, and Former Professor & Head of the Department of Neurosurgery at Nizam’s Institute of Medical Sciences (NIMS), Hyderabad, where he served with distinction from 1988 to 2017. He completed his undergraduate and postgraduate medical education at RNT Medical College, Udaipur, Rajasthan (1974–1983), and pursued super-specialty training in Neurosurgery at SCTIMST, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, in 1988. With more than five decades of academic,...

Prof. Maria Roberta Cilio, MD, PhD Professor of Pediatric Neurology, University of Louvain School of Medicine, Brussels, Belgium Maria Roberta Cilio, MD, PhD, is a Professor of Pediatric Neurology at University of Louvain School of Medicine, Brussels, Belgium. She serves a neonatal and pediatric epileptologist at Saint-Luc University Hospital in Brussels, Belgium. She is the former director of Pediatric Epilepsy Research and director of Neonatal Neuromonitoring at the Benioff Children’s Hospital, University of California San Francisco, where she received the Presidential Chair award in 2011. Before joining UCSF, she was the Director of...

Mahesh Kale MS: Mahesh Kale is an Indian American classical vocalist and playback singer renowned for his specialization in Indian Classical (Hindustani), Semi-Classical, Devotional music including Natya Sangeet. Mahesh Kale won India's 63rd National Film Award as the Best Playback Singer, from the President of India. He is a disciple of Pandit Jitendra Abhisheki a prominent singer from Agra Gharana. He has played a key role in bringing Hindustani Classical Music into the mainstream with a touch of modern glamor and is one of the most prominent Indian Classical musicians of the new generation.  ...

Dr Sara Makkeyah Assistant Professor of Pediatric Hematology Oncology and BMT Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University Cairo, Egypt Dr. Sara Makkeyah: She graduated from the Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University, Egypt, and completed the internship program in Pediatrics. She was assigned a post of assistant lecturer then a lecturer and a consultant of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology at Faculty of Medicine, ASU in 2011. She was appointed as an associate Professor in March 2022. She obtained the MRCPCH certificate from the Royal college of Paediatrics and Child Health in 2016. Sara’s work includes both academic...

  Dr Iman El Agouza Professor of Pediatric Neurology Faculty of Medicine Ain Shams University Cairo, Egypt Dr. Iman El Agouza graduated from Ain Shams University, Faculty of Medicine in Cairo, Egypt. She completed her Pediatrics Residency at Ain Shams University, Faculty of Medicine Pediatrics Department. She was assigned a post of a consultant of Pediatric Neurology at Faculty of Medicine, ASU in 2007. She was appointed as a Professor in Jan 2018. She has worked as a pediatric neurologist in various private and public institutions across Cairo, capital of Egypt. She...

Dr. Emna Farhat, MD, PhD Student Neurologist & Myologist, Tunis, Tunisia Dr. Emna Farhat is a neurologist and myologist with extensive experience in neuromuscular disorders, muscle pathology, and neurodegenerative diseases. She completed her Doctor of Medicine degree in 2012 with a thesis investigating phenotype–genotype correlations in 300 Tunisian patients with autosomal recessive limb-girdle muscular dystrophy (LGMDR). From 2012 to 2016, she served as a neurologist at the Mongi Ben Hamida National Institute of Neurology in Tunis, working within the neuro-muscular biopsy unit of the pathology and molecular neurobiology laboratory. During this period, her scientific work focused primarily on...

Dr Konrad Wagsty Senior Lecturer in Biomedical Computing, King’s College London Honorary Associate Professor, Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health Lead, IMAGINE Lab Co-Founder, MELD Project Konrad Wagstyl is a Senior Lecturer in Biomedical Computing at KCL and Honorary Associate Professor at UCL's Great Ormond Street Institute for Child Health. He leads the IMAGINE lab working on Imaging, Machine learning and Genetics in Neurodevelopmental Epilepsies. As part of his work, Konrad co-founded the Multicentre Epilepsy Lesion Detection project (MELD), an international consortium creating the MRI datasets and AI tools to better understand, diagnose and...