Lifetime Achievement Award 2025

Simon Shorvon (b1948) qualified in medicine from Cambridge University in 1973. He specialized in neurology and epilepsy in Oxford, Manchester and London, and in a stint in Virginia USA. His current affiliation is as Honorary Consultant Neurologist at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery and Emeritus Professor of Clinical Neurology at UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology in London. He has served inter alia as Chair of the UCL University Department of Clinical Neurology, Medical Director at the Chalfont Centre for Epilepsy, President of ILAE British Branch, Vice-President of ILAE and co-Editor-in-Chief of Epilepsia. He has devoted his career to a large epilepsy clinical practice, teaching and an extensive research portfolio into the epidemiology, causes, investigation, treatment and history of epilepsy. His latest book, The Idea of Epilepsy: a medical and social history of epilepsy in the modern era (1860-2020), was published by Cambridge University Press in 2023.