Ambassador for Epilepsy Award 2015

Dr Elza Yacubian (Brazil) is a specialist in neurology, child neurology and neurophysiology in Brazil. In the 1990s, with colleagues she developed a program with the Ministry of Health establishing centers of excellence in the treatment of epilepsy. She is involved in the Latin American Summer School on Epilepsy (LASSE), and ALADE, which offers migrating courses in epilepsy, semiology, pharmacotherapy, EEG and epilepsy surgery in Venezuela, Guatemala, Cuba, Chile and Bolivia.