Dr. Benke is the Research Director of the Neuroscience Institute which studies the mechanisms of early-life seizures to cause intellectual challenges and the role of CDKL5 on synaptic function. He initiated the multi-disciplinary Rett Clinic in 2011 at CHCO, where…
John Currier is a principal gifts fundraiser for MIT, and has held similar positions at Princeton University and the American Cancer Society. Prior to John’s role on the LGS Foundation’s Leadership Circle, he served as a member of the Foundation’s…
Dr. Zachary Grinspan is the Interim Chief of Child Neurology and Director of the Pediatric Epilepsy Program at Weill Cornell Medicine and the New York Presbyterian Komansky Children’s Hospital at Weill Cornell Medical Center. He is an Assistant Professor in…
Eric Marsh, MD, Ph.D., is an attending pediatric neurologist in the Division of Neurology at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP). He specializes in diagnosing and treating children with developmental epilepsies, epilepsy, infantile spasm, and malformations of cortical development. In addition…
Dr. Masino is the Vernon D. Roosa Professor of Applied Science at Trinity College and a joint appointment in Neuroscience and Psychology. Her research focuses on promoting and restoring brain health, with a particular interest in adenosine, and on the…
Heather Mefford is a Full Member of the Center for Pediatric Neurological Disease Research at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. She runs a research laboratory dedicated to gene discovery in pediatric disease, with a major focus on pediatric epilepsies. Her…
Dr. Patel is Section Chief of Pediatric Neurology at Nationwide Children’s and Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics and Neurology at The Ohio State University College of Medicine. He completed pediatric training at the University of South Florida, a child neurology…
Dr. Jeanne Paz, Ph.D. earned her undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University Pierre et Marie Curie in Paris. As a graduate student, she studied the role of basal ganglia in regulating absence epilepsy and received an award for the…
Brenda E. Porter, MD, Ph.D. is a Professor of Neurology and Pediatrics at Stanford University. She received her MD and Ph.D. from Washington University in St. Louis. She traveled east to complete her child neurology fellowship at the Children’s Hospital…
