International Organising Committee

Ulrich Stephani (Germany) Co-Chair

Current Position:
Professor for Neuropediatrics, Director of the Department of Neuropediatrics Klinik für Neuropädiatrie
Medical Director of the North German Epilepsy Centre for Children and Adolescents (German Red Cross, Raisdorf) (together with Dr. Rainer Boor)

Education/Education at University/Medical School/Specialization (chronological order):
1971 - 1977: Study of Medicine, Universities of Hannover, Würzburg and Berlin.
1974 - 1977: Scholarship of “Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes”.
1977 - 1985: Education in Pediatrics, Childrens Hospital, University of Berlin.
1985 - 1989: Education in Pediatrics, Childrens Hospital, University of Göttingen.

Details of Medical License, Certification, etc.:
1977 Medical Licency, Berlin
1978 Promotion (thesis), Würzburg
1989 Licency for Pediatrics
1990 Habilitation and Venia legendi in Pediatrics, Göttingen

Previous Positions :
1989 - 1992 Senior Doctor, Departments of Neuropediatrics and Pediatrics, University of Göttingen
1990 Private docent, University Hospital Göttingen

Experience in Clinical trials(Institutes, indication, from-to):
Many teaching activities, organization of congresses and symposia, positions in scientific societies and institutions.
• 1992, 1994, 1996, 1998 - 2006: national neuropediatric courses and epilepsy seminars
• 1997: 37th Annual Conference of the German chapter of the International League against Epilepsy
• from 1998 - 2007: 1st secretary of the German chapter of the International League against Epilepsy
• 1999: International Symposium on Rolandic Epilepsy
• 1999 - 2000: President of the international, German speaking “Gesellschaft für Neuropädiatrie”
• 2000: 26th Annual Conference of the international, German speaking “Gesellschaft für Neuropädiatrie”
• Medical faculty of the University of Kiel: many positions (e.g. member of the faculty assembly, delegate of the faculty for international affairs, coordinator and member of many boards for calling professors to medical faculty of the University of Kiel)
• 2003 - 2004: commissionary director of the Department for General Pediatrics, University of Kiel

Publications:
More than 100 scientific articles in (inter-) national medical journals. Financial support by governmental and industrial funding.

Scientific Interests:
Epileptology, especially epilepsy and EEG-genetics, pediatric and adolescent epilepsy syndromes