Epilepsia Open Editorial Board
Learn more about our Editorial Board, their positions and Epilepsy interests.
Editor-in-Chief
Merab Kokaia, Ph.D
Professor, Epilepsy Center Lund University
Lund, Sweden
Deputy Editor
Piero Perucca, M.D., Ph.D
Professor of Adult Epilepsy, Department of Medicine (Austin Health), The University of Melbourne, Director, Bladin-Berkovic Comprehensive Epilepsy Program, Department of Neurology, Austin Health
Melbourne, Australia
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Epilepsia Open Associate Editors
Eleonora Aronica, M.D., Ph.D
Professor of Neuropathology at the University of Amsterdam (Faculty of Medicine AMC-UvA). Amsterdam UMC, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Kathryn Davis, M.D., M.S.T.R.
Associate Professor of Neurology, Medical Director of the Epilepsy Monitoring Unit and Epilepsy Surgical Program Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Penn Epilepsy Center, Philadelphia PA, USA
Alon Friedman, M.D., Ph.D
Dennis Chair in Epilepsy Research, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada
Jan Gorter, Ph.D
Principal Investigator/ Assistant Professor, Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences, Netherlands.
Michael Hildebrand, Ph.D
Professor, University of Melbourne, Heidelberg VIC, Australia.
Yuwu Jiang, M.D., Ph.D
Chair, Professor of Department of Pediatrics, Director of Pediatric Epilepsy Center, Peking University First Hospital, Beijing, China
Simona Lattanzi, M.D., Ph.D
Associate Professor, Department of Experimental & Clinical Medicine, Marche Polytechnic University, Ancona, Italy
Nicola Marchi
Principal Investigator, Tenured Scientist. Cerebrovascular and Glia Research, Institute of Functional Genomics (University of Montpellier, CNRS, INSERM), Montpellier, France.
David McArthur, Ph.D, MPH
University of California Los Angeles (retired), Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Heidi M. Munger Clary, M.D, MPH
Associate Professor, Wake Forest University School of Medicine Winston-Salem, NC, USA.
Ronit M Pressler, M.D., Ph.D, MRCPCH
Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, Consultant in Clinical Neurophysiology, London, UK.
Caterina Stamoulis, Ph.D
Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School; Boston Children's Hospital, Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine. Boston, MA, USA.
Pasquale Striano, M.D., Ph.D
Pediatric neurologist, Full Professor of Pediatrics, Director of the Pediatric Neurology and Muscular Diseases Unit, IRCCS ‘G. Gaslini’ Institute and University of Genova, Genova, Italy.
Rainer Surges, M.D, MHBA
Adult neurologist, Professor of Epileptology and Chair of the Department of Epileptology, University Hospital Bonn, Germany.
Ye Wu, M.D., Ph.D
Director department of pediatric neurology Children's Medical Center, Peking University First Hospital, Beijing, China.
Johan Zelano, M.D., Ph.D
Professor, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sverige.
To learn more about our Associate Editors' Epilepsy interests, click here.
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Founding Editor
Aristea Galanopoulou
Tenure: 2016-2024
Epilepsia Open Editorial Board Members
Ozlem Akman RN, Ph.D.
Demiroglu Bilim University
Istanbul, Turkey
Melissa Barker-Haliski Ph.D.
University of Washington
Seattle, WA, USA
Carlos Cepeda Ph.D.
University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Elizabeth Donner M.D.
The Hospital for Sick Children
Toronto, ON, Canada
Bruce P. Hermann
University Of Wisconsin
Madion, WI, USA
Nigel Jones Ph.D.
Monash University
Parkville, VIC, Australia
Shilpa Kadam Ph.D.
Axonis Therapeutics, Inc
Boston, MA, USA
Kheng Seang Lim MD, PhD
University of Malaya
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Chou Ching Lin M.D., Ph.D.
National Cheng Kung University Hospital
Tainan, Taiwan
Iscia Lopes-Cendes M.D., Ph.D.
University of Campinas – UNICAMP
Campinas, Brazil
Marco Medina M.D., Ph.D.
National Autonomous University of Honduras
Tegucigalpa, Honduras
Cameron Metcalf Ph.D.
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, UT, USA
Wenzhu Mowrey Ph.D.
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
New York, NY, USA
Marco Mula Ph.D., FRCP, FEAN
St George's Hospital
London, United Kingdom
Rima Nabbout M.D., Ph.D.
APHP, Necker Enfants Malades Hospital,
Imagine institute, Paris University
Paris, France
Tomonori Ono M.D., Ph.D.
National Nagasaki Medical Center
Omura, Japan
Michele Simonato M.D.
University of Ferrara
Ferrara, Italy
Elaine Wirrell M.D.
Mayo Clinic
Rochester, MN, USA
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