Volume VIII, Uncommon Nerve Conduction Studies

Dr. Nicolas Gaspard is Professor and Head of the Department of Neurology, Université Libre de Bruxelles Hôpital, Erasme, Brussels, Belgium. He is also adjunct professor at Yale School of Medicine – Department of Neurology. Dr. Gaspard is chair of the Belgian Clinical Neurophysiology Society and a member of the EAN neurocritical care panel. He has more than 200 publications in high level journals, such as Neurology, Annals of Neurology, NEJM, JAMA Neurology, Nature and Intensive Care Medicine.

Dr. Birgit Frauscher is a clinician scientist whose career is dedicated to improving the diagnosis and prognosis of patients with epilepsy by developing new methods based on advanced EEG techniques to better localize the epileptic focus in order to improve epilepsy treatment outcomes and ultimately achieve the best possible quality of life. Dr. Frauscher is Director of the Duke Comprehensive Epilepsy Center and holds a secondary appointment with the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the Duke Pratt School of Engineering.Dr. Frauscher graduated from the Medical University of Innsbruck in Austria, where she completed her medical training, residency in neurology, and subspecialty training in electroencephalography, epilepsy and sleep medicine. She also completed specialized training in intracranial EEG and signal analysis at the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital, McGill University in Canada between 2013 – 2015 and subsequently, as an attending Epileptologist and Group Leader of Epilepsy and Professor of Neurology.Dr. Frauscher has over 170 peer-reviewed papers and her research interests include the development of novel seizure-independent EEG markers for the epileptogenic zone, investigation of the important interactions between sleep and epilepsy, and the use of invasive intracranial EEG for studying brain physiology during wakefulness and sleep in order to better delineate normal from abnormal intracranial EEG activity.Her scholarly endeavors have earned her several prestigious awards, including Clinician-Scientist award from the FRQS (2018-2023), the Michael Prize from the International League against Epilepsy (2019) and the Ernst Niedermeyer Prize from the Austrian Epilepsy Society (2015).

Nicola Specchio is Chair of Neurology, Epilepsy and Movement Disorders Unit at Bambino Gesù Children’s Hospital, and Director of Research Unit on Neurological and Neurosurgical Diseases in Rome, Italy, and Guest Professor in Pediatric Neurology at University of Leuven, Belgium.His main interest lies with seizure semiology and the classification of epileptic seizures and syndromes, drug resistant epilepsies, developmental and epileptic encephalopathies. Prof Specchio published more than 280 papers in many international journals and is principal investigator in different clinical trials in patients with rare and complex epilepsies and Developmental and Epileptic encephalopathies.Prof Specchio was recipient of the Young Investigator Award from the Commission of European Affair of the International League Against Epilepsy (2016) and of the “John Stobo Pritchard Award” from the International Child Neurology Association (ICNA) (2020). In 2021 he received the Ambassador for Epilepsy Award from the International Leagues Against Epilepsy.Prof Specchio is currently Past-Chair of the ILAE Terminology Commission, and since 2020 member of the Global Advocacy Council of the International League Against Epilepsy (ILAE). He is also Chair of the International League Against Epilepsy (ILAE) Europe, and board member of the of the International Child Neurology Association (ICNA), and of the Italian Chapter of the ILAE.