FACULTY

David Burke

David Burke is Professor of Neurology at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital and the University of Sydney. Previously he held Chairs of Clinical Neurophysiology and of Neurology at the University of New South Wales and was Chairman of the Department of Neurology, Prince Henry and Prince of Wales Hospitals. From 2002 to 2008, he was Dean of Research for the Health Faculties at the University of Sydney and from 2008-2013 Bushell Professor of Neurology. He is a member of the Executive Committee of IFCN, immediate past Editor of Clinical Neurophysiology, and currently inaugural Editor of Clinical Neurophysiology Practice.

Jonathan Cole

Jonathan Cole is a consultant in Clinical Neurophysiology at Poole Hospital and professor at Bournemouth University. He qualified from Oxford and The Middlesex Hospital, London and also undertook research in Oxford and Southampton. His main areas have been in sensory loss and motor control.

He studied with Oliver Sacks as a medical student and has written five books on the subjective experience of chronic neurological impairment, related to deafferentation, spinal cord injury and facial difference.

He is a past-President of the British Society of Clinical Neurophysiology, chaired the 2006 ICCN in Edinburgh and chair of the Europe-Middle East-Africa Chapter of the IFCN and sits on the IFCN ExCo.

Mark Hallett

Speaker

Dr. Hallett is the Chief of the Human Motor Control Section, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, NIH, Bethesda. He is past President of the International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology and the President of the newly founded Functional Neurological Disorder Society. Dr. Hallett is also remote past President of the Movement Disorder Society and past Editor-in-Chief of Clinical Neurophysiology. His work mainly deals with principles of motor control and the pathophysiology of movement disorders.

Aatif M Husain

Speaker

Aatif M. Husain, M.D. is Professor, Department of Neurology, and Chief, Division of Epilepsy, Sleep and Clinical Neurophysiology at Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina. He is also the National Director of the Veterans Affairs Epilepsy Centers of Excellence. After completing medical school in Pakistan, he did an internship at the Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, Michigan. He then completed a Neurology residency at the Medical College of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. After residency, Dr. Husain did fellowships in Clinical Neurophysiology, Epilepsy and Sleep Medicine and EMG/Neuromuscular Disorders at Duke University Medical Center. Since his fellowships, he has stayed at Duke University as faculty. His clinical interests include treatment of acute seizures and status epilepticus, neurophysiologic intraoperative monitoring and general clinical neurophysiology. He has written many articles, chapters and books on these topics. Dr. Husain is currently the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Clinical Neurophysiology and the Treasurer of the International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology. He is a past President of the American Clinical Neurophysiology Society and the American Board of Registration of EEG and EP Technologists.

Ryusuke Kakigi

Prof. Ryusuke Kakigi, M.D., Ph.D, received a degree in Medicine from the Faculty of Medicine, Kyushu University, Japan, in 1978. He served as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Internal Medicine, Saga Medical School, Japan, between 1981 and 1993. In between, he worked as an invited researcher at the Institute of Neurology, London University, London, U.K., between 1983 and 1985. He has served as a Professor and Chairperson of the Department of Integrative Physiology, Okazaki, Japan, since 1993. His research interests include the neuroimaging studies, mainly electroencephalography and magnetoencephalography. He is now focusing on face perception in humans.

Walter Paulus

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Walter Paulus is Professor and Chair and Clinical Director of the Department of Clinical Neurophysiology, University Medical Centre Göttingen, Germany since 1992. He is also a member of the supervisory board of the University Medical Centre. He started his career in neurology at the University Hospital for Neurology in Düsseldorf in 1978, spent 6 months at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery in London and worked at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich from 1984 to 1992. He mainly investigated motor cortex physiology by means of transcranial stimulation, further refined by co-application of CNS-active drugs in altogether some 632 publications with ~ 40.000 citations. He was involved in the development of new stimulation methods for induction of neuroplasticity such as tDCS, tACS and tRNS. His clinical focus encompasses Parkinson’s disease, restless legs syndrome, epilepsy and pain. Two years ago, he was awarded with the Hans Berger Preis of the German Society of Clinical Neurophysiology. Since 2018, he is President of the International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology.

Jun Kimura

Speaker

Dr. Kimura received a Bachelor of Technology degree in 1957 and MD in 1961 both from Kyoto University in Japan. He moved to the United States as a Fulbright scholar in 1962 for residency training in neurology and fellowship in electrophysiology at the University of Iowa. He has served as Editor in Chief of Muscle & Nerve (1988-1997), President of American Association of Neuromuscular and Electrodiagnostic Medicine (AANEM 1985-1986), International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology (IFCN 1990-1993) and the World Federation of Neurology (WFN 2002-2005). His book “Electrodiagnosis in Diseases of Nerve and Muscle” has appeared in four editions.

Margitta Seeck

Dr Margitta Seeck is a professor of Neurology at the University of Geneva, Switzerland. She is director of the presurgical epilepsy program Geneva-Lausanne, which became a reference center for difficult-to-treat epilepsies in adults and children. She also heads the in- and outpatient unit of the EEG and Epilepsy Unit of the University Hospital of Geneva. She is past president of the Swiss Neurophysiological Society but she is still actively involved in teaching of EEG and epileptology.

She received her medical and doctoral degrees at the Ludwigs-Maximilians-University of Munich, where she also received her neurology training. After her medical studies, she did a postdoctoral fellowship at the Free University of Berlin and moved then to the United States where she was trained in EEG and epileptology at the Beth Israel Hospital, Harvard University. Her main interests are epilepsy surgery, EEG and EEG-based imaging in epilepsy, neurophysiology of intracranial EEG recordings. She is author of more than 170 papers on epilepsy in national and international journals, serves on several editorial boards of epilepsy journals, and is expert for the Swiss national science foundation and research agencies of other European and non-European countries. Furthermore, she is also actively involved in the Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences and in the International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology.

Claudia Trenkwalder

Claudia Trenkwalder, MD, started her clinical education in neurology and movement disorders at the Dept. Neurology of the University Hospital in Munich in 1988, moved to the Max- Planck Institute of Psychiatry from 1993-2000, before continuing at the University of Goettingen. Since 2003 she is Medical Director of the Paracelsus-Elena Klinik in Kassel, center for Parkinsonism and Movement Disorders. She is Full Professor of Neurology at Dept. of Neurosurgery, University Medical Center Goettingen, Germany.

She has published more than 390 peer reviewed articles and is currently President-Elect of IPMDS, and was President of WASM (World Association of Sleep Medicine) from 2011-13 and is an active member of many national and international scientific societies and committees.