Ambassador for Epilepsy Award

The Ambassador for Epilepsy Award is intended as a recognition of outstanding international contributions to activities advancing the cause of epilepsy, either internationally or with international impact. The award is given biannually at the IEC, and will celebrate 45 years of awards at the 30th IEC in Montreal in June, 2013.

Nomination instructions | Nomination form
Past awards by country (complete list)

Ambassador for Epilepsy Awards 2013

	Gretchen Birbeck USA	Alla Guekht Russian Federation	Dale Hesdorffer USA	Sunao Kaneko Japan	Byung-In Lee Korea	Li Li Min Brazil
	Daniel Lowenstein USA	Gary Mathern USA	Gay Mitchell Ireland	Jorge Rodríguez USA	Ingrid Scheffer Australia	Matthew Walker UK

Ambassador for Epilepsy Awards 2011

	Susan Axelrod USA	Hasan Aziz Pakistan	Lionel Carmant Canada	Jaime Fandino Colombia	Andres Kanner USA	Wei-Ping Liao China
	Wolfgang Löscher Germany	Eli M. Mizrahi USA	Rosemary Panelli Australia	Asla Pitkänen Finland	Steven Schachter USA	Walter Van Emde Boas The Netherlands

Ambassador for Epilepsy Awards 2009

	Ettore Beghi Italy	Anne T. Berg USA	Warren Blume Canada	Carol D'Souza India	Norman Delanty Ireland	Jacqueline A. French USA
	Shung-Ion Lai Taiwan	Shichuo Li China	Lilia Nuñez Mexico	Cigdem Ozkara Turkey	Ernest Somerville, Australia	William H. Theodore USA

Ambassador for Epilepsy Awards 2007

Eva Andermann, Canada
Alexis Arzimanoglou, France
Helen Cross, UK
Yukio Fukuyama, Japan
Pierre Genton, France
Gregory Holmes, USA

Reetta Kälviänen, Finland
Shih Hui Lim, Singapore
Fernando H. Lopez da Silva, Netherlands
MM Mehndiratta, India
Tomás Mesa, Chile
Paolo Tinuper, Italy

Ambassador for Epilepsy Awards 2005

Elinor Ben-Menachem, Sweden
Samuel Berkovic, Australia
John Bowis OBE, UK
Jaderson Costa da Costa, Brazil
John S Duncan, UK
Ch E Elger, Germany

Eric Hargis, US
Hilary Mounfield, Scotland
Amel Mrabet, Tunisia, France
Perrine Plouin, France
CT Tan, Malaysia

Ambassador for Epilepsy Awards 2003

Dr Athanasios Covanis, Greece
Dr Zenebe Gedlie Damtie, Ethiopia
Prof Dragoslav Ercegovac, Yugoslavia
Mr Mike Glynn, Ireland
Dr Renzo Guerrini, Italy
Dr Marshal Mo-Song Hsi, Taiwan

Dr Vladimír Komárek, Czech Republic
Dr Günter Krämer, Switzerland
Mrs Susanne Lund, Sweden
Prof Jeffrey Noebels, USA
Prof Claude Wasterlain, USA

Ambassador for Epilepsy Awards 2001

View brief biographies of all 2001 recipients.

	Carlos Acevedo Chile	Elving Anderson USA	Meier Bialer Israel	John Chaplin Sweden	Gallo Diop Senegal	Robert Fisher USA
	Satish Jain India	Philip Lee Great Britain	Hans Luders USA	Jing-Jane Tsai Taiwan	Federico Vigevano Italy

Ambassador for Epilepsy Awards 1999

View brief biographies of all 1999 recipients.

Cosimo Ajmone-Marsan, USA
S. Brown, UK
E.A. Cavalheiro, Brazil
P. Halasz, Hungary
M.D. Hills, New Zealand
A. Jacoby, UK
P. Jallon, France
E.H. Johnson, Norway

M.J. Morrell, USA
S.L. Moshe
S. Ohtahara, Japan
L.L. Prilipko, Switzerland
Ph.A. Schwartzkroin, USA
H. Stefan, Germany
T. Tomson, Sweden
S.D. Walker, USA