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Currently serves as the Executive Director of the University Hospital for Active Treatment in Neurology and Psychiatry “St. Naum” – Sofia, a position he held from 2001 to 2010 and resumed in 2012 to the present. He commenced his tenure at the University Hospital in 1988. During his career, he assumed the role of Deputy […]

Ruta Mameniskiene is a board-certified neurologist, clinical neurophysiologist, and epileptologist. She is a professor and senior researcher at Vilnius University, and she is responsible for Epilepsy unit at Vilnius University hospital Santaros Clinics. She is editor-in-chief of “Seminars in Neurology”, the cover-editor of European Journal of Epilepsy Seizure, elected president of the Lithuanian Society for

Dr. Boleslav L. Lichterman graduated (MD) from the S.M. Kirov State Medical Institute in Gorky (USSR) in 1982. He specialized in neurosurgery at Gorky Research Institute for Traumatology, Orthopedics, and the N.N.Burdenko Neurosurgery Institute. In 1988, he defended his Ph.D. dissertation on calculated outcome prediction after severe head injury and moved to Central Postgraduate Institute

Dr Chapman graduated from the Sackler Faculty of Medicine at Tel Aviv University in 1986 and continued studies at the department of Biochemistry, Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University receiving a PhD in Biochemistry in 1991. In 1994 he completed his residency in Neurology at the Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center. In the

Robert Perneczky was appointed in 2016 Professor of Translational Dementia Research at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) Munich and Head of the Division of Mental Health in Older Adults at the University Hospital of LMU. He also serves as principal investigator and group leader at German Center for Neurodegenerative Disorders (DZNE) and associate investigator at the Cluster

Michael R. Sperling, M.D., is Baldwin Keyes Professor of Neurology and Vice Chair for Research at the Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University, and Director of the Jefferson Comprehensive Epilepsy Center.  He is an internationally recognized clinician-scientist in the field of epilepsy, known particularly for his work in clinical neurophysiology, epilepsy surgery, and

Dr. Lea Tenenholz Grinberg is a neuropathologist specializing in brain aging and associated disorders, most notably, Alzheimer’s and neurological basis of sleep disturbances in neurodegenerative diseases. Currently, she is a Full Professor and a John Douglas French Alzheimer’s Foundation Endowed Professor at the UCSF Memory and Aging Center, part of the Executive Board of the

Neurologist, psychiatrist • 1981-83, visiting scientist in the Max-Planck Institute for Neurological Research in Cologne • 1986-87, visiting scientist, one year in Kure City, Japan • 1991, visiting scientist, half year in Toulouse (INSERM, France). • between 1992-2017 chairman of the Department of Neurology at the University of Debrecen, Hungary, since 2017 professor of the

Gavin Giovannoni holds the Chair of Neurology, Blizard Institute, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University London and the Department of Neurology, Barts Health NHS Trust in November. Gavin did his undergraduate medical training at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. His clinical interests are multiple sclerosis and other inflammatory disorders of the

Jesse Dawson is a Professor of Stroke Medicine at the Institute of Cardiovascular and Medical Sciences and Associate at the School of Medicine, Dentistry and Nursing, University of Glasgow. Professor Dawson is a Consultant Physician in the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital, Glasgow. He is Clinical Lead for the Scottish Stroke Research Network and recently chaired