Peter Wolf MD (President. ILAE) - Dr Wolf graduated from Heidelberg University, Germany, in 1963. He obtained his PhD in Berlin in1977 with a thesis on Psychoses in Epilepsy. He became Associate Professor of Neurology at Berlin University and between 1985- 2003 served as Medical Head of the Epilepsy Centre Bethel, Bielefeld.

In October 2003, he was appointed Professor of Neurology / Epilepsy Research at Copenhagen University/ National Hospital, Copenhagen, and Epilepsy Centre Filadelfia, Dianalund, Denmark.

Dr Wolf was President of the German Chapter of the ILAE, 1987‑1989 and served as President of the German EEG Society, 1994-1995. He was Chairman of the Commission on Classification and Terminology of the Interna­tional League Against Epilepsy, 1981‑1986 and was Chair of the European Epilepsy Academy (Eurepa) from 1996 to 2004. He was Secretary General of the International League Against Epilepsy between 1993 – 2001 and is the current President of the ILAE for the 2005-2009 term.

He has received several honours including as Ambassador for Epilepsy (1982); European Epileptology Award (2002); Dr.h.c. of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences (2005).

His present research interests include the reflex epilepsies; dynamics of the therapeutic threshold; nosology of the epilepsies and the cultural history of epilepsy.

Dr Amza Ali - Dr Ali trained in Neurology at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square, London. He held a Research Fellow’s position in the Retrovirus Research Group at the Clinical Research Centre, Harrow, England and then obtained his Clinical Fellowship training in Epilepsy in New York at the Comprehensive Epilepsy Center, Neurological Institute, Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center.

He is the founding and current President of the Jamaican League Against Epilepsy (JLAE) and Medical Director of the Epilepsy Centre of Jamaica. He is a member of the North American Regional Commission of the ILAE and of the International Affairs Commissionof the AES. In May 2007 he was elected to the ‘Faculty of 1000’ of the ILAE.

Dr Ali was elected Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of London (FRCP, London) in 2003.

He is the task force co-chair (with Professor Robert Fisher MD) of this, the First North American Regional Caribbean Congress on Epilepsy.

Martin J. Brodie, MD, FRCP - Martin J. Brodie is Professor of Medicine and Clinical Pharmacology at the University of Glasgow in Scotland.  He directs the Epilepsy Unit in the Western Infirmary, which provides a range of services for people with epilepsy across the West of Scotland.  Professor Brodie is Treasurer of the International League Against Epilepsy and a member of its Management Committee.  He chairs the Management Group and Scientific Advisory Board of European Concerted Action and Research in Epilepsy (EUCARE), and is a founding member of the executive committee of the European Epilepsy Academy (EUREPA). His research interests include antiepileptic drug neuropharmacology, the management of epilepsy, and factors affecting prognosis.  Professor Brodie has been appointed “Ambassador for Epilepsy” on behalf of the International League Against Epilepsy and the International Bureau for Epilepsy.

Dr Dave Clarke - Dr. Dave Clarke is a graduate of The University of the West Indies. He completed his Pediatric Neurology Training at the University of Michigan Medical Center and Neurophysiology (Epilepsy and Sleep) at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, CA.

Dr. Clarke is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis, TN. He is Co-Director of Neurophysiology for the Le Bonheur’s Children Medical Center Comprehensive Epilepsy program. He has a special interest and does research in Pediatric Epilepsy, sleep related disorders in patients with epilepsy, and the neurological complications of Sickle Cell Disease. He has published in peer reviewed Epilepsy and sleep journals, is an active member of the AES and Child Neurology Society, and has been an editor for distinguished scientific journals.

David OC Corbin -  Dr Corbin is Consultant Neurologist at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Bridgetown, Barbados since 1988.  A graduate of the University of Cambridge, UK, he completed postgraduate neurology training in Birmingham, UK and the Hospital for Nervous Diseases, London, UK.  He is a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, London and an overseas member of the American Academy of Neurology and the American Association of Neuromuscular and Electrodiagnostic Medicine.  He is a Senior Associate Lecturer in Neurology at the University of the West Indies.

Dr O’Neill F. D’Cruz, MD, MBA, FAAN - Dr.  D’Cruz is a Professor of Neurology and Pediatrics at University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. His areas of professional interest and expertise include child neurology, epilepsy and sleep disorders.

He is a native of India. He graduated from St John’s National Academy of Health Sciences in Bangalore, India. Following a Pediatrics residency at Rush University in Chicago, he completed Neurology and Child Neurology training at Medical College of Wisconsin. He is board-certified in Pediatrics, Neurology with Special competence in Child Neurology, Neurophysiology and Sleep Medicine.

Dr. D’Cruz is listed among the Best Doctors in America and America’s Top Physicians. He has an MBA from the Kenan-Flagler Business School, serves on the Legislative Affairs Committee for the American Academy of Neurology, Finance Committee for the Child Neurology Society and is a graduate and advisor for the AAN Palatucci Advocacy and Leadership Forum.  He is an invited speaker and reviewer at numerous national scientific meetings.

Robert Fisher, M.D., Ph.D. - Dr. Fisher is Maslah Saul MD Professor of Neurology and Director of the
Stanford Comprehensive Epilepsy Center. He received his Ph.D. in the Neurosciences in 1976 and M.D. in 1977, both from Stanford University. He then trained in internal medicine at Stanford and in neurology at Johns Hopkins, where he was Co-Director of the Epilepsy Program for eleven years.

Formerly, he was Chairman of the Department of Neurology, Chief of the Epilepsy Center at Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix, and Newsome Professor of Clinical Neurology at the University of Arizona.
He is author or co-author of over 130 peer-reviewed articles, 42 chapters, 139 abstracts, two books on epilepsy and two monographs.

Dr Fisher has won several research awards including from the Klingenstein Foundation, the Epilepsy Foundation of America and the National Institutes of Health. He has been named from 1996-2003 in Best Doctors in America. He was given the Ambassador Award from the International League Against Epilepsy and was Past-President of the American Epilepsy Society.

Dr Fisher is co-chair of the taskforce of this, the First North American Regional Caribbean Congress on Epilepsy.

Dr. Sean Marquez MBBS, FRCPC, FAANEM.
Dr. Marquez is a consultant neurologist in Barbados, where he is the medical director of The Diagnostic Clinic Neurology Center and runs a Neurophysiology Lab there.  He is a medical graduate of the University of the West Indies.  He completed a Neurology residency followed by an Epilepsy/EEG fellowship, both at the University of Toronto.  He became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Canada (Neurology) in 1993.

Dr. Marquez is an active member of the American Academy of Neurology and The Canadian Neurological Society.  He is also a Fellow of the American Association of Neuromuscular and Electrodiagnostic Medicine and is board-certified in electromyography by the American Board of Electrodiagnostic Medicine.  He is an Associate Lecturer in Neurology at the University of the West Indies School of Clinical Medicine and Research, Barbados.

Kimford J. Meador, M.D. - Dr. Meador is the Melvin Greer Professor of Neurology and Neuroscience at the University of Florida, where he serves as Director of Epilepsy Program and Director of the Clinical Alzheimer Program.  Dr. Meador graduated from the Georgia Institute of Technology in Applied Biology (with high honor) and received his MD from the Medical College of Georgia.  After an internship at the University of Virginia and service as an officer in the Public Health Corps, he completed a residency in Neurology at the Medical College of Georgia and a fellowship in Behavioral Neurology at the University of Florida.

Dr. Meador joined the faculty at the Medical College of Georgia (1984-2002) where he became the Charbonnier Professor of Neurology. He was the Chair of Neurology at Georgetown University (2002-2004) and joined the faculty of the University of Florida in 2004.

Dr. Meador has authored over 250 publications. His honors include research and teaching awards, Fellow of the American Neurological Association, past Chair of the Section of Behavioral Neurology of the American Academy of Neurology, past President of the Society for Behavioral & Cognitive Neurology, and past President of the Southern EEG & Epilepsy Society.

Jeffrey L Noebels MD - Jeffrey L. Noebels, M.D., Ph.D. is Professor of Neurology, Neuroscience, and Molecular and Human Genetics at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas. He is the Director of the Blue Bird Circle Developmental Neurogenetics Laboratory and a member of the Epilepsy Research Center at Baylor/St Lukes Hospital.

Dr. Noebels obtained his PhD from Stanford University and his MD degree from Yale University. He trained in Neurology at Massachusetts General Hospital, and completed William G. Lennox and Klingenstein Fellowships at Children’s Hospital in Boston.

Dr Noebels’ major research focus has been to identify genes that cause epilepsy and trace their cellular expression in the developing nervous system in order to discover new targets for therapy. He has spoken and written widely in this area, and serves on the scientific organizing committees of academic, NIH, and international organizations directed at genetics and epilepsy. He is past President of the AES, and is current Chair of the AES International Committee. He has received numerous awards for his research on genes and epilepsy, including the Novartis Award.

R. Eugene Ramsay, MD - R. Eugene Ramsay, MD is Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry and Director of the International Center for Epilepsy at the University of Miami School of Medicine; Staff Neurologist and Director of Clinical Neurophysiology Laboratory at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center; and Director, EEG Laboratory, Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami, FL.

Dr. Ramsay earned his MD at the University of Florida in Gainsville, FL. He completed his internship in the Department of Surgery at Shands Teaching Hospital, University of Florida, and also did a clinical fellowship in neurology at the University of Florida's Shands Teaching Hospital. His fellowship in epilepsy and electroencephalography was conducted in the Department of Neurology at Veterans Administration Medical Center in Gainesville.

Dr. Ramsay has authored and coauthored more than 250 articles, abstracts, book chapters, and invited lectures concerning neurology and epilepsy. He is the recipient of numerous honors and awards and was listed in The Best Doctors in America for four years in a row.

Roberto Emilio Rico - Dr Rico obtained his medical training at the Catholic University of Nijmegen, the Netherlands. He trained in Psychiatry at the Psychiatric Clinic “Veldwijk” in Ermelo and then in Neurology and Neurophysiology training in the Haaglanden, The Hague.
Since 1982 he has been in active practice as a Neurologist and Clinical Neurophysiologist on the islands of the Netherlands Antilles, Curacao, Bonaire, Saba, Sint Eustatius and Sint Maarten.

He is the current Chief of the department of Neurology and Neurophysiology at Sint Elisabeth Hospital on the island of Curacao and Chairman of the Partnership of neurologists “Neurocenter Sta. Rosa” on Curaçao. He is also an Associate Lecturer at the Rijks University of Groningen, The Netherlands.

In 1999 he founded the Foundation against Epilepsy Netherlands Antilles with Mr. Philip Moen, nurse clinician and remains the medical advisor and member of the board of this Foundation.

Dr William Theodore MD - Dr Theodore is Chief of the Clinical Epilepsy Section, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke and Professor of Neurology at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences

He received his BA degree from Harvard College and MD degree from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. After Internal Medicine training at Roosevelt Hospital, and Neurology at Mount Sinai Hospital, he came to the National Institutes of Health for a fellowship in Epilepsy and Clinical Neurophysiology. He is board certified in Internal Medicine, Neurology, and Clinical Neurophysiology.

He received the American Epilepsy Society Outstanding Clinical Investigator Award in 1991.  He has served on numerous editorial boards, and is co-editor designate of Epilepsy Research. A past Chair of the ILAE North American Commission, he participated in international projects with PAHO and WHO SEARO.  His recent research focuses on fMRI for language and memory mapping, PET imaging of 5HT1A receptors in patients with epilepsy and depression, and imaging genetic epilepsy syndromes. 

Dennis D. Spencer, MD - Dr. Spencer is the Harvey and Kate Cushing Professor and Chair of the Department of Neurosurgery at Yale University School of Medicine.  He is a graduate of Washington University School of Medicine and completed his neurosurgical residency at Yale in 1977.  He joined the Yale neurosurgery faculty following his residency, and became Chief of neurosurgery in 1987.  He has an international reputation in the surgical treatment of neurological diseases causing epilepsy and developed a widely used neocortical sparing surgical approach for patients with temporal lobe epilepsy.

His research has brought together basic scientists and clinicians around a program concerning energetics, glutamate metabolism and the neurobiological study of human epileptogenic tissue.

Dr. Spencer was the 1999 recipient of the American Epilepsy Society’s Research Award in Clinical Investigation, and the 2006 Society of Neurological Surgeons’ Grass Award for Excellence in Research.  He is past Chairman of the American Board of Neurological Surgery, Vice Chairman of the Neurosurgery Residency Review Committee, incumbent President of both the American Epilepsy Society (2008) and the Society of Neurological Surgeons, and he served as interim dean of the Yale School of Medicine 2003-2004.

Dr. Uthman earned his B.Sc. in biology and chemistry at the American University of Beirut and his MD at the American University of Beirut School of Medicine in Lebanon. He completed his internship in medicine at the American University of Beirut Medical Center and his residency in neurology at the University of Cincinnati in Cincinnati, Ohio. His fellowships in clinical neurophysiology, epilepsy, neurophysiology and neuropharmacology were conducted at the University of Cincinnati and the University of Florida and the Veterans Health System. Dr. Uthman’s postdoctoral training also includes elective studies in endocrinology at Women’s Hospital and St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital Center, University Hospital of Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City.

Dr. Uthman’s research interests include the treatment of epilepsy and status epilepticus and the pharmacology of antiepileptic drugs. Dr. Uthman is the recipient of the J. Kiffin Penry Eagle Award for pioneering new therapies in epilepsy. He is listed in Best Doctors in America, Who’s Who in America, Who’s Who in the World, and Who’s Who in Science and Engineering.

Samuel Wiebe, MD, MSc FRCPC - Samuel Wiebe is a Professor and Head Division of Neurology in the Department of Clinical Neurosciences at the University of Calgary in Canada and Director of the Comprehensive Epilepsy Programme, as well as the Clinical Research Director of the Hotchkiss Brain Institute in Calgary, Canada.  His areas of academic interest include surgical trials in epilepsy, epidemiological studies, outcome assessment, and economic analyses.  Dr Wiebe is past-president of the Canadian League Against Epilepsy and currently chairs the International League Against Epilepsy North American Region Commission on Epilepsy.

Rainford Wilks - Is Professor of Epidemiology and Director of Epidemiology Research Unit (ERU) at the Tropical Medicine Research Institute (TMRI), University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona, and Consultant Physician to the UHWI

He graduated from the UWI (MBBS) in 1978 and completed training in internal medicine (DM-UWI) in 1983. He graduated from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (MSc in Epidemiology) 1985.

His research portfolio includes the epidemiology of the Human T- lymphotropic Virus Type- 1(HTLV1), the burden of cardiovascular disease and its risk factors in developing countries. He teaches epidemiology and internal medicine to students pursuing MBBS, MSc Nutrition, MPH and MSc Epidemiology at the UWI and supervises PhD candidates in Nutrition and Epidemiology.

He has been a technical consultant to the Governments of Jamaica, Barbados, and Trinidad and Tobago and to the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO)