2^nd International Conference on Epilepsy & Treatment October 20-21, 2016 Rome, Italy

Patricio F. Reyes, MD is a board certified Neurologist and Neuropathologist, and director Barrow Neurological Institute’s Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and Cognitive Disorders Program, and Neuropathology Research Laboratory. Before joining BNI he was professor of Neurology, Pathology and Psychiatry and director of Creighton University’s Center for Aging, Alzheimer’s disease and Neurodegenerative Disorders, and Brain Bank and held similar positions at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia. He is the American Academy of Neurology advocate for Minority Americans with AD and other dementias. His interests include characterizing the clinical manifestations of Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias, and investigating the structural, anatomical and neurochemical substrates of neurobehavioral symptoms. He is involved in clinical trials for AD and has established clinical programs for Hispanic patients and minority caregivers. These programs are important in identifying ethnic related risk factors for AD, understanding the vulnerability of brain regions affected in AD, and verifying the safety, tolerability and efficacy of pharmacologic agents in various races. In the laboratory, he is currently involved in verifying the histological, immunohistochemical, electronmicroscopy, and metabolic changes in the brain parenchyma of triple transgenic mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease and Acetylcholinesterase knockout mouse. We expect to determine early physiologic and ultrastructural alterations that lead to neuronal loss and formation of neuritic plaques, and neurofibrillary tangles, and hope that our data will be relevant to the development of more effective therapies in AD.

Neurology

Dr. Patricio Espinosa is a neurologist in Boca Raton, Florida and is affiliated with Boca Raton Regional Hospital. He received his medical degree from Universidad Central del Ecuador School of Medicine and has been in practice between 11-20 years. Dr. Espinosa accepts several types of health insurance, listed below. He is one of 23 doctors at Boca Raton Regional Hospital who specialize in Neurology.

Epilepsy, Neurology, Sleep Disorders, Telemedicine, International Health, Public Health, Clinical Trials, Neuroepidemiology

Rosalind Picard completed the BS from Georgia Tech and the SM and ScD from MIT. She is a full tenured professor at the MIT Media Lab and Faculty Chair of MIT’s Mind+Hand+Heart initiative. She is co-founder, chief scientist, and chairman of the board of Empatica, Inc, a company with an office in Milan making wearables for clinical and medical research and to directly serve patient needs. She has published more than 200 peer-reviewed scientific articles and holds many patents. Picard and her team have received multiple “top ten” invention awards including from Popular Science and from the New York Times.

Her current research aims at creating technology that improves the interaction between emotion and health - especially social-emotional communication, autism, learning & decision-making, affective disorders such as anxiety and depression, autonomic disturbances, and health behavior change

Dr. Julio Sanchez Albisua is the President of Spanish Brain Council and Professor of Department of Surgery in Universidad Autonóma de Madrid. And also he is the Head of Department of Neurosurgery in Jimenez Diaz Foundation Hospital.

Neurosurgery,Epilepsy, Stroke and other Cerebrovascular diseases

Dr. Rodriguez is assistant professor of Neurology at New York University School of Medicine and Co-Director of the New York Sleep Institute. He graduated with honors from the University of Panama Medical School. After his Internal Medicine training at St. Vincent's Hospital in New York he completed a neurology residency at Tufts-New England Medical Center, in Boston, MA. Subsequently, he completed two years of subspecialty fellowship in EEG/Epilepsy and Sleep Disorders Medicine at Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN. Dr. Rodriguez is Board certified in Neurology, Internal Medicine, Sleep Medicine and clinical Neurophysiology.

Epilepsy, Neurology, Sleep Medicine

Dr. Topçu graduated from Hacettepe Faculty of Medicine in 1977. She started her specialty education on pediatrics in Hacettepe Children’s Hospital and became a specialist of pediatrics in 1981. She worked in Hacettepe Pediatric Pathology Unit as a fellow between 1981 and 1984. She started her subspecialty on Child Neurology in 1985. She became a specialist of Child Neurology in 1988. In the same year, she became an associate professor of Pediatrics. In 1988, she received education on pediatric neurology, EEG, and evoked potentials in Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children in London and Southampton Wessex Neurology Center Clinical Neurophysiology department. Between the years of 1991 and 1994, she completed the doctorate program of Neurological Sciences Institute clinical electrophysiology and gained a doctoral competency. She became a professor of pediatrics in 1995. She is the founding member of the Turkish Association for Child Neurology, the Turkish Foundation for Child Neurology and the Association for Protecting the Families with Rett Syndrome.

Neurometabolic and neurodegenerative diseases, epilepsy, autistic spectrum diseases, and neurogenetics

Dr. Gilliam is Professor of Neurology and Director of The Regional Epilepsy Program and Epilepsy Research at Penn State University School of Medicine. He was previously Director of the Epilepsy Programs at Washington University and Columbia University. He completed his clinical epilepsy and neurophysiology training at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard University, as well as the Cleveland Clinic. His research has focused on patient-oriented health outcomes, neuroimaging of epileptic brain injury, novel therapeutic strategies, and genomics of human epilepsy. His research projects have been funded by the National Institutes of Health, the American Epilepsy Society, and the Epilepsy Foundation. His Mid-Career Mentor Award from the NINDS supported collaboration with many junior investigators, an opportunity for which he is immensely grateful. He has co-authored more than 150 papers and chapters. He has served on the editorial boards of Epilepsy and Behavior and Epileptic Disorders, and was a prior Co-Editor for Epilepsy Research.

Epilepsy, Neurology and Neurophysiology

Carl W. Bazil, MD, PhD, is the Caitlin Tynan Doyle Professor of Neurology, College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University. He is the Director of the Division of Epilepsy and Sleep at the Neurological Institute in New York City. Dr. Bazil received his undergraduate degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and his PhD (pharmacology) and medical degree from Emory University. He was a Neurology Resident and Chief Resident at New York University and a Clinical Fellow in Epilepsy/EEG at the Neurological Institute of Columbia University. He is board certified in Neurology, Epilepsy, Clinical Neurophysiology, and Sleep Medicine.

Epilepsy, Neurological Disorders and Sleep disorders

Dr. Michel Baulac is a Professor of Neuroanatomy and Neurology at Univ Paris VI. Heads a clinical department at the Pitie-Salpetriere Hospital. Chairman of the Commission on European Affairs of the International League against Epilepsy. Prof. Baulac has developed a comprehensive epilepsy programme over 20 years which now includes EEG video-monitoring, in- and out-patient clinics, epilepsy surgery and clinical pharmacology of antiepileptic drugs. He coordinates research at the Pitié-Salpêtrière on seizure anticipation based on non-linear mathematical models, genetics of epilepsy, and neuroimaging and neuroanatomical characteristics of epilepsy.

Neurology, Epileptology and Antiepileptic drugs

Dr.Federico Zara is the Head of Laboratory of Neurogenetics. Working in the field since 1994. Research interests are Genetics and Pharmacogenomics of Epilepsies (Severe Myolonic epilepsy of Infancy autosomal dominat cortical tremor and epilepsy, Idiopathic generalized epilepsies, febrile seizures) - Genetics of Muscular and Neurodegenerative disease (Dystrophinopathies, Limb-girdle muscular dystrophies, Muscular glyocogenosis, Leukoencephalo- pathies). Epileptogenesis (electrophysiology of ion-channels, in collaboration with other groups)

Epilepsy, Genetics and Pharmacogenomics and Epileptogenesis

Dr.Jera KRUJA is a Member of Scientific Committee at European Academy of Neurology and Professor of Neurology at Mother Theresa University Hospital Center. Since 2014 she is (European representative) at Teaching Course Committee, World Federation of Neurology. During 2013-2014 she is a Rector of University of Medicine, Tirana and Member of editing board of OA Publishing London, WebMed Central Brain Editor, Albanian Medical Journal, Bulletin of Medical Sciences, University of Medicine, Tirana. She worked at Health National Contact Point, European Commission, CORDIS Fp7 programme(2010-2013). From 2003, she is a reviewer of European Journal of Neurology, Clinical Epidemiology, Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment, Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, Journal of Pediatric Epilepsy. She is a Trainer of European Academy of Epilepsy since February 2003. She is the President of Albanian Society of Neurology (ASN) during 1998-2007.

Neurology, Neuroradiology, Epidemiology

Dr. Edoardo Ferlazzo got Degree in Medicine and Surgery at the Faculty of Medicine and Surgery, University of Messina, Italy, in 1999. He got his specialization in Neurology at the University of Messina, Italy, in 2004. He had his PhD in Psychiatric Sciences at the Faculty of Medicine and Surgery, University of Messina, in 2008. From 2010 till now, he is Assistant Professor of Neurology at Magna Graecia University of Catanzaro, Italy.

Neurology, Psychiatric Sciences, Epilepsy, Medicine and Surgery