Speakers

Prof. Dr. Paul A.J.M. Boon, MD, PhD, FEAN
Chairman of the Division of Head, Movement and Senses-Ghent University Hospital
Director 4Brain Research Group- Ghent University
Professor of Neuromodulation
Eindhoven University of Technology
Eindhoven, Belgium

Paul Boon is the President of the European Academy of Neurology and a senior full professor of neurology and Director of 4Brain at Ghent University, Belgium. Prof. Boon is Chair of the Division of Head, Movement and Senses, as well as professor of Neuromodulation, at Eindhoven University of Technology.
He obtained his medical degree and PhD from Ghent University and was a postdoctoral fellow at Yale University. He is a Fellow of the European Academy of Neurology (FEAN). Prof. Boon’s main neurological interests are clinical epilepsy, neurological sleep disorders, quantitative EEG and MEG analysis and basic mechanisms of neuromodulation.
He founded the Institute for Neuroscience at Ghent University and the 4Brain Laboratory for Clinical and Experimental Neurophysiology, Neurobiology and Neuropsychology at Ghent University.
Professor Boon has published more than 650 scientific manuscripts mainly in the field of drug resistant epilepsy, epilepsy surgery, neuromodulation and translational and experimental epileptology. In the past 3 decades Prof. Boon has trained a large number of residents and PhD students and has more recently set up a master's programme for Neurology in Subsaharan Africa. 

Beate Diehl, MD PhD FRCP
Professor of Neurophysiology applied to epilepsy
Consultant Neurologist and Clinical Neurophysiologist
UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology and
National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, London
London, GB

John Duncan MA DM FRCP FMedSci
Professor of Neurology, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology
& Consultant Neurologist, National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, London
London, GB

John Duncan MA DM FRCP FMedSci

John Duncan is a Consultant Neurologist specialising in epilepsy, practicing at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square, London and at Chalfont Centre for Epilepsy, His personal research focus is neuroimaging applied to epilepsy surgery.

He was appointed Professor of Neurology at the UCL Institute of Neurology in 1998. From 2012 to 2018 he was Clinical Director of the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery. He is NIHR Senior Investigator and Governor of UCL Hospitals.

From 2021: Honorary Professor of Neurology, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.

Visiting Professor, Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine, Kings College London.

In 2004 he received the annual Clinical Research recognition award of the American Epilepsy Society. He is past-President and past treasurer of the UK chapter of ILAE. In 2005 he was elected Ambassador for Epilepsy and to be a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences.

Prof. Christian Grefkes-Hermann, MD MBA

Director
Center of Neurology and Neurosurgery
Department of Neurology
Frankfurt University Hospital
Schleusenweg 2-16
60528 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Past President of the German Society for Clinical Neurophysiology
Main research field: Brain Reorganisation, Neuroimaging, Non-invasive Brain Stimulation

Prof. Dr. Hajo Hamer, MHBA
Head of the Epilepsy Center
Senior Physician at the Clinic for Neurology
University Hospital Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany

H. Hamer is an board certified neurologist and spent 2 years as epilepsy follow at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation/US. Currently he serves as chair of the epilepsy center of the department of Neurology/University of Erlangen-Nürnberg;Germany. His main research areas comprise invasive EEG during encoding/retrieval including single unit activity in persons with focal epilepsy, epilepsy surgery and field research regarding the care of persons with epilepsy.

Director of the department of Neuroradiology
University Clinics
Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Theodor-Stern Kai 7, 60590 Frankfurt am Main
Germany

Research Areas: advanced MR imaging techniques, quantitative MRI, MR spectroscopy and metabolic imaging, functional MR imaging, cerebral blood perfusion, MR-measurements of blood-brain barrier dysfunction and microstructural damage. Research focus: MR imaging in epilepsy, translational research in brain cancer medicine; brain inflammation, autoimmune diseases of the CNS.

Prof. Dr. Martin Holtkamp
Epilepsy-Center Berlin-Brandenburg
Department of Neurology
Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany

Martin Holtkamp ist Medical Director of the Epilepsy-Center Berlin-Brandenburg, he holds the von Bodelschwingh-Professorship for Clinical and Experimental Epileptology at the Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin. His research focuses on pharmacological and surgical treatment of epilepsies, on epidemiological projects, e.g., epileptogenicity of white-matter-lesions, and on electrophysiological studies in human tissue from epilepsy surgery. He has been Head of the Training Academy of the German Society for Epileptology for many years. Furthermore, he is Coordinator of the National Guideline „First epileptic seizures and epilepsies in adulthood“ of the German Society for Neurology. He has been Associate Editor of the journal Epilepsia since 2023

Andres M. Kanner, MD, FAAN, FANA, FAES
Comprehensive Epilepsy Center, Department of Neurology
University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine
Miami, Florida
USA

Dr. Andres M. Kanner is Professor of Clinical Neurology, Head of the Epilepsy Section and Director of the Comprehensive Epilepsy Center at the University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine, which he joined on January 1st 2013.

Dr. Kanner was born in Mexico City, where he grew-up and attended Medical School at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. After graduating from medical school, he moved to the USA where he completed a residency in Psychiatry, Neurology and a fellowship in Epilepsy and Clinical Neurophysiology.

Dr Kanner has long-standing research interests in the areas of pharmacology of epilepsy, psychiatric aspects of epilepsy and surgical treatment of treatment-resistant focal epilepsy.

Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
Department of Medical Genetics, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
Department of Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
Alberta Children's Hospital Research Institute, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
Hotchkiss Brain Institute, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada

Dr. Karl Martin Klein, MD PhD FRCPC, is an Adult Epileptologist and Associate Professor in the Departments of Clinical Neurosciences, Medical Genetics and Community Health Sciences at the Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary. He is also a member of the Hotchkiss Brain Institute and Alberta Children's Hospital Research Institute. Dr. Klein‘s research focuses on the genetics of epilepsy including multiplex families with epilepsy, developmental and epileptic encephalopathy, precision medicine and somatic variants causing epilepsy. He has a particular interest in novel methods to obtain brain DNA, for example using stereo EEG electrodes.

Prof. Dr. Alexandra Klotz
Director
Department of Neuropaediatrics and Social Pediatric Center (SPZ)
Center for Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine
University Hospital Bonn
Bonn, Germany

Professor Kerstin Alexandra Klotz is the Director of the Department of Paediatric Neurology at the University Hospital Bonn in Germany. With a primary focus on managing rare and challenging epilepsies in children, her work encompasses both clinical practice and scientific research. Her research encompasses among other topics epilepsy and comorbidities in patients with hypothalamic hamartoma, cannabidiol therapy and the prognostic value of high frequency oscillation. As a member of the European Reference Network EpiCARE and the Bonn Center of Rare Diseases, Professor Klotz collaborates on initiatives to enhance care for patients with complex neurological disorders.

Prof. Dr. Susanne Knake
Head of Epilepsy Center Hesse
Deputy Director Clinic for Neurology
University Hospital Giessen and Marburg GmbH,
Marburg, Germany

Dr. Catrin Mann
Oberärztin
Universitätsklinikum Frankfurt
Zentrum der Neurologie und Neurochirurgie Klinik für Neurologie Epilepsiezentrum Frankfurt

Department of Neurology
Medical Faculty and University Hospital
Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Düsseldorf, Germany

Dr. Melzer is interested in mechanisms of immune-inflammatory epileptogenic neurodegeneration which he investigates in human patients and animal models. He received is training in neuroimmunology with Prof. Klaus Toyka, Prof. Heinz Wiendl and Prof. Sven Meuth and his training in epileptology with Prof. Christian Elger. He is founding member and member of the steering committee of the GErman NEtwork for Research on AuToimmune Encephalitis (https://en.generate-net.de/).

Prof. Soheyl Noachtar, M.D., FEAN
Epilepsy Center, Dept. of Neurology
Ludwig-Maximilians-University
Munich, Germany

Department of Neuropediatrics
University Children's Hospital Zurich and University of Zurich
Zurich, Switzerland

Professor Georgia Ramantani directs the EEG & Epilepsy Unit and the Pediatric Epilepsy Surgery Program at the Department of Neuropediatrics at University Children's Hospital Zurich, Switzerland’s foremost tertiary pediatric center. She also leads the Pediatric Epilepsy Surgery Taskforce for the International League Against Epilepsy and serves on the boards of the Swiss League Against Epilepsy and the Swiss/German/Austrian group for presurgical evaluation and surgical therapy. An author of over 100 research articles focused on pediatric epilepsy, her work specializes in surgery for treatment-resistant epilepsies, integrating EEG, MRI, and cognitive studies. Her research is supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation and various private foundations.

1. Department of Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery , Medical Center - University of Freiburg, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, Germany
2. Department of Neurosurgery, Kantonsspital St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland.
3. Fraunhofer Institute for Laser Technology (ILT), Aachen, Germany

PR studied in Homburg, Heidelberg and Baltimore. He has been working since 2013 in the Department of Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery in Freiburg. His special interests include directional Deep Brain Stimulation, Stereo-EEG including modern visualization and Augmented Reality, the treatment of Hypothalamic Hamartomas and the prevention of delayed cerebral infarction in aneurysmatic subarachnoid hemorrhage by lavage via stereotactic ventriculo-cisternostomy. Since 2019, he has been additionally working as a group leader at the Fraunhofer Institute for Laser Technology and he is appointed member of the Ethics Committee of the University of Freiburg. Since 09/2023 he is head of Functional Neurosurgery in the Department of Neurosurgery of the Kantonsspital in St. Gallen, Switzerland.

Jan Rémi is the head of the Epilepsy Center Munich and Vice-Chair of the Department of Neurology of the University of Munich.
His clinical focus is on presurgical epilepsy evaluation, stimulation techniques and pharmacotherapy.
His research areas are EEG, seizure semiology, sleep, status epilepticus and DICOM-EEG.

Prof. Dr. med. Felix Rosenow

MHBA Head of Epilepsy Center Frankfurt Rhine-Main
Clinic for Neurology Center of Neurology and Neurosurgery
University Hospital Frankfurt
Goethe University Frankfurt am Main
Frankfurt am Main, Germany
2nd Chairman of the DGfE

1. Goethe University Frankfurt, Epilepsy Center Frankfurt Rhine-Main, Department of Neurology, University Hospital Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
2. Goethe University Frankfurt, Department Pediatric Epileptology, University Hospital for Children and Adolescents, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

University professor for pediatric epileptology, president of the german society of neurophysiology and functional imaging, DGKN, head of pediatric epileptology of the epilepsy center Frankfurt Rhine-Main, focus on rare epilepsy syndromes, including DEEs, epidemiology, treatment concepts, burden of illness in DEES, presurgical epilepsy evaluation, conceptualising transition of epilepsy patients, especially in rare epilepsy syndromes.

Epilepsy Center
University Medical Center
University of Freiburg
Germany

Andreas Schulze-Bonhage is Professor of Neurology and Clinical Neurophysiology at the University of Freiburg and head of the Epilepsy Center Freiburg. The epilepsy center offers epilepsy diagnostics including presurgical monitoring, resective and stereotactic surgical approaches as well as neurostimulation for epilepsy treatment. Research interests include electrophysiology of epilepsies and of cognition, brain connectivity, and new approaches for epilepsy monitoring and neuromodulation. Andreas Schulze-Bonhage has published more than 450 pubmed-listed publications with an H index of 85.

Prof. Dr. Adam Strzelczyk
MHBA FEAN
Senior Consultant
Deputy Director Epilepsy Center Frankfurt Rhine-Main
Goethe University Frankfurt
University Hospital Frankfurt
Clinic for Neurology
Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Prof. Dr. Rainer Surges, MHBA
Director of
Clinic and Polyclinic for Epileptology
University Hospital Bonn
Bonn, Germany

Laurent M. Willems, MD, MHBA
Epilepsy Center Frankfurt Rhine-Main & Department of Neurology
University Hospital, Goethe University Frankfurt