[IE-02] New frontier abroad in epilepsy treatment

[IE-02-1] Chronic brain stimulation for treatment of epilepsy

Lawrence J. Hirsch (Yale University, USA)

Dr. Hirsch completed medical school and internship at Yale University, neurology residency at Columbia University, and a two-year fellowship in Epilepsy and EEG at Columbia. He created and directed the Continuous EEG Monitoring Program at New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center for 10 years, and became Professor of Clinical Neurology at Columbia University in 2010. He moved to Yale University in 2011 as Professor of Neurology, Director of Epilepsy/EEG, Co-Director of Critical Care EEG Monitoring, and Co-Director of the Yale Comprehensive Epilepsy Center.
Dr. Hirsch has published more than 150 original research manuscripts and more than 120 invited reviews, editorials or chapters. His research interests and publications are on topics such as brain monitoring with EEG in the critically ill, status epilepticus, epilepsy surgery, electrocorticography, brain mapping, brain stimulation for epilepsy and seizure clusters. Dr. Hirsch is the founder and former chair of the Critical Care EEG Monitoring Research Consortium, which now includes >50 centers in North America and Europe. He is lead author of the American Clinical Neurophysiology Society's guideline on critical care EEG terminology. He has won multiple teaching awards, and is co-author of the first-ever Atlas of EEG in Critical Care.