Ambassador for Epilepsy Award 2017

Dr Makiko Osawa (Japan) is Professor Emeritus, Tokyo Women’s Medical University, Tokyo, Japan. She has contributed to medicine as a paediatric neurologist and has engaged in the care of children with epilepsy for 44 years. She was elected the first woman president of Japan Epilepsy Society. She has been a member of the ILAE Pediatric Commission, and established the Infantile Seizure Society with late Dr Yukio Fukuyama, of which is Chair.