Prof
Kurupath Radhakrishnan, DM
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Professor and Head, Department of
Neurology, and Dean, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute Medical Sciences and
Technology. He established the Madhavan Nayar Center for Comprehensive
Epilepsy Care at the Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences &
Technology, Trivandrum, Kerala, the first of its kind southern India. He
has numerous publications and has delivered many prestigious lectures and
orations. He has been a pioneering force in developing structured epilepsy
program in India.
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Prof.
Kameshwar Prasad, DM
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Professor, dept of Neurology at All
India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi. He is a member of
McMaster-based International Evidence-Based Medicine Working Group,
Editor, Edinburgh-based Cochrane Stroke Group and Amsterdam-based Cochrane
ARI Group, Referee for many national and international journals including
the British Medical Journal, Founder Chairman of Department of Clinical
Neurosciences in the Ministry of Health, Bahrain
Ex-Chairman of the Department of
Medicine at The Arabian Gulf University, Bahrain, Former Scientific
Director of the International Gulf Reference Centre for Evidence-Based
Medicine at Bahrain. He was awarded a civilian honour “Padmashree” by the
Hon’ble President of India. His critical analysis of papers makes him an
excellent teacher of evidence-based medicine.
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Dr. Satish
Jain D.M
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Director, Indian Epilepsy Center, Sr
Consultant & Head of Neurology, FORTIS Hospitals, and former professor at
the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi. A
William G Lennox International
Clinical Research Fellow awardee worked at Duke Center for the Advanced
Study of Epilepsy, Duke University Medical Center, Durham. He described
the “Disease Expression of JME in Indian Population" which represents one
of the largest collection of systematically studied family data in
relation to JME. He had collaborative projects on “Linkage Analysis of
Juvenile Myoclonic Epilepsy (JME) and other Idiopathic Generalized
Epilepsies (IGEs)” point to “multiple loci” for the genetic predisposition
to JME. He also described the “Occurrence of epilepsies in family members
of Indian probands with different epileptic syndromes.” He is actively
involved with the WHO-ILAE-IBE Global Campaign against Epilepsy.
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Prof. Uma
Kant Mishra, D.M
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Head
of the dept of Neurology at the SGPGI institute, Lucknow. Prof. Misra’s
major contributions are in the field of neurotoxicology, tropical
neurology and clinical neurophysiology. He has published more than 157
scientific original papers. He is author of two books: Clinical
Neurophysiology published by BI Churchill Livingstone, India and Hand Book
of Tropical Neurology published by Landes Biosciences, Texas, USA. He is a
fellow of Academy of medical Sciences (FAMS), Indian Academy of Sciences,
Indian Academy of neurology, Indian Academy of Clinical Medicine, Indian
College of Physician and corresponding fellow of American Academy of
Neurology and corresponding member of American Association of
Electrodiagnostic Medicine and American Neurological Association. He has
delivered number of prestigious orations and invited lectures.
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