Stéphane Auvin is epileptologist and Child Neurologist. Full professor at Robert Debré University Hospital & Université de Paris, Paris, France.

He is conducting the Epilepsy program and the center for rare epilepsies at Robert Debré University Hospital, APHP, Paris. He is also conducting experimental research works in the INSERM U1141, Paris.

His clinical and research activities are focused on pediatric epilepsy and its treatments and his research team is working on inflammation-epilepsy, on the ketogenic diet and antiepileptic drugs in the developing brain. The Epilepsy program at Robert Debré Children Hospital, Paris, is involved in antiepileptic drugs development and clinical trials (PK, Phase II, Phase III and Phase IV). He is the author of more than 150 peer-reviewed papers or book chapters.

He also serves on the ILAE (International League Against Epilepsy) as the chair of the Pediatric commission (2017-2021) and as Associate Editor for Epilepsia (Journal of ILAE, IF: 5.295) (2017-2021). He is a member of the board of the ILAE French Chapter and the president (2019-2022) of the French Pediatric Neurology Society.

Colin Doherty holds the Ellen Mayston Bates Chair in Epileptology at Trinity College Dublin. He trained in Medicine and Neurology at St Vincent’s and Beaumont Hospitals, Dublin and later at the Partners Neurology Residency Programme at Harvard Medical School, Boston (Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital) where he was Chief Resident in 2001. He completed Fellowships in Epilepsy and Cognition at MGH (2001-2003).

He has been a consultant neurologist at St James’s hospital for 15 years from 2005 until the summer of 2020 when he joined the staff of TCD in the Academic Unit of Neurology. He has clinical and research interests in the areas of brain imaging, clinical epileptology, Traumatic Brain Injury and Digital Health. He is also a Principal investigator at the SFI FutureNeuro Research Centre in Dublin. Professor Doherty’s epilepsy service host the only adult Ketogenic Diet Programme in Ireland which is led by Senior Dietitian Laura Healy PhD. Established in 2016 with the help of seed funding from Matthew’s Friends, the programme accepts referrals from all over Ireland for patients with refractory epilepsy and is the only hospital using KD for refractory Status Epilepticus.