IBE/ILAE Awards and IBE/ILAE Award Winners |
Ambassadors
Awards
The Ambassador or Epilepsy Award is intended as a recognition
of outstanding international contributions to activities advancing the
cause of epilepsy, either internationally or with international impact. |
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Carlos Acevedo from Chile is the current Chairperson of the IBE Latin
American Committee. He has been President of the Liga Chilena contra la
Epilepsy and the Asociación Ligas contra la Epilepsia. The “drugsbank”
of this association is a world famous initiative that has grown under
his leadership.
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 Prof
Elving Anderson from the USA has spent much of his career investigating
familial epilepsies and has developed a world-wide network of contacts
with physicains and clinicians who deal with epilepsy. His commitment
to the human genetics community in general and to the epilepsy research
community in particular is beyond doubt.
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 Prof
Meier Bialer, Israel, is President of both the Israeli chapter of
ILAE, and the Israeli Society of Clinical Pharmacy and Biopharmaceutics.
He is currently a member of the ILAE Subcommission on Therapeutic Drug
Monitoring and Pharmacokinetics and is on the Scientific Advisory Board
of EUREPA.
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 Dr John Chaplin, Sweden, has been a member of the IBE Employment
Commission since 1993. He has been extremely active in the organisation
of courses on employment for professionals and for people with epilepsy.
He was project leader on a course for young people under the Youth for
Europe’s framework of the European Social Fund and is a member of the
ILAE Sub-commission on the Classification of Epilepsy.
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 Prof Gallo Diop is a University Professor of medicine and neurology
at the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Dakar, Senegal, whilst
his scientific publications show his commitment to research. He organised
the 13th Congress of the Pan-African Association of Neurological Sciences
in 1998, the 4th Congress of the Society of Neuroscientists in 1999, and
a Regional Conference on Public Health in 2000.
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 Dr Robert Fisher, USA, is an accomplished investigator and
clinician. He has also devoted considerable time to the activities
of the American Epilepsy Society and the Epilepsy Foundation. Dr
Fisher has been Supplements Editor for “Epilepsia”. Internationally
he contributes to epilepsy care through membership of the ILAE Commission
on Diagnostic Strategies and the IBE Commission on Driving Regulations.
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 Prof Satish Jain, India, has been active in the epilepsy movement
since 1986 and was actively involved in the organisation of several international
congresses including the 18th International Epilepsy Congress, 1989 and
the 3rd AOEO Epilepsy Congress 2000, both of which were held in Delhi.
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 Mr Philip Lee, as Chief Executive of the British Epilepsy Association
(BEA), has been a powerful force in modernising BEA. The current membership
is 23,000. Under his leadership BEA has developed the specialist epilepsy
nurse, with 45 “Sapphire” nurses now appointed. He also developed the
BEA Website, which had 2 million “hits” in 2000. He has been IBE President
since 1999.
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 Prof Hans Luders, USA, established an training centre for international
epilepsy fellows at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation over 20 years ago.
His areas of expertise include epilepsy surgery, evoked potentials, classification
of seizures and epilepsy, semiology of seizures and basic clinical neurophysiology.
He began organising annual international epilepsy meetings in Cleveland
12 years ago-these meetings now alternate between Cleveland and Bethel,
Germany.
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|  Dr Jing-Jane Tsai is devoted to the epilepsy movement, not
only in Taiwan, but also at an international level. He is founder
of the Taiwan Epilepsy Society and was instrumental in the application
of this organisation for membership of IBE and ILAE. He was involved
in the organisation of the 2nd AOEO Congress, held in Taiwan in
1999. Dr Tsai has published over 50 scientific papers on epilepsy
research and presents regularly at international meetings.
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|  Dr Federico Vigevano, Italy, has focussed on studies of childhood
epilepsy, with particular attention to seizures in the first year of life,
using video-EEG monitoring systems. He is a member of ILAE commissions
for seizure classification, epileptic syndromes classification and diagnostic
strategies. Dr Vivegano was elected Secretary of the Liga Italiana contro
l’Epilessia and became President in 1999.
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