Epileptic Disorders^™ Educational Prize 2023

Mustafa Aykut Kural (Turkey) was awarded the Epileptic Disorders Educational Prize for his paper, The operational definition of epileptiform discharges significantly improves diagnostic accuracy and inter-rater agreement of trainees in EEG reading.

Kural MA, Aydemir ST, Levent HC, Ölmez B, Özer IS, Vlachou M, Witt AH, Yilmaz AY, Beniczky S. The operational definition of epileptiform discharges significantly improves diagnostic accuracy and inter-rater agreement of trainees in EEG reading. Epileptic Disorders. 2022 Apr 1;24(2):353-358. doi: 10.1684/epd.2021.1395.

Mustafa Aykut Kural completed his postgraduate degree at Ankara University in Ankara in 2014 and subsequently pursued a PhD at the Department of Clinical Neurophysiology at Aarhus University Hospital (AUH) from 2018 to 2022, after working as a research assistant at the beginning of 2014. Currently, he is working as an Associate Professor of Neurology and Clinical Neurophysiology at Mardin State Hospital in Turkey (Compulsory Service). His area of expertise is epilepsy and EEG, focusing on interictal EEG discharges and ICU EEG monitoring.

An interview with Mustafa Aykut Kural, the 2023 Epileptic Disorders prize winner