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Annapurna Poduri, MD, MPH is Professor of Neurology at
Harvard Medical School and Director of the Neurogenetics and Epilepsy Genetics
Programs at Boston Children’s Hospital, where she serves as Associate Chief for
Academic Development in the Department of Neurology and holds the Diamond
Blackfan Chair in Neuroscience. A physician-scientist with a focus on epilepsy
genetics, her goals include contributing to the genetic landscape of epilepsy, creating
models of human epilepsy, and developing novel treatments for genetic
epilepsies. Dr. Poduri’s research includes seminal discoveries of somatic
mutations as the cause of the malformations hemimegalencephaly and focal
cortical dysplasia. In collaboration with international epilepsy genetics
consortia and colleagues, she has reported inherited and de novo forms
of early onset epilepsy, and her team continues with gene discovery in epilepsy
while modeling epilepsy genes in the zebrafish system. She has been a recipient
of the American Neurological Association’s Derek Denny-Brown Young Neurological
Scholar Award (Physician-Scientist Basic Science Award), the American Academy
of Neurology’s Dreifuss-Penry Epilepsy Award, and the 2020 Harvard Club of
Boston Influential Women designation.
Wolfgang Muhlhofer,
MD, MSHS, FAES is an Associate Professor in the Department of Neurology at the
University of Washington (UW) School of Medicine and Vice-Chair of the AES
Online Education Committee. Dr. Muhlhofer graduated from Heidelberg Medical
School in Germany, completed his neurology residency at the University of
Rochester Medical Center and a two-year fellowship in clinical neurophysiology
and epilepsy at the University of California San Francisco. Following his
training, he was on faculty at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB)
for six years, during which obtained a Master of Science in Healthcare Simulation
at the UAB School of Health Professions. Dr. Muhlhofer’s areas of professional
interest are to provide excellent care to patients with epilepsy and to relate
his passion for clinical neurology through interactive and engaging teaching
strategies to patients, caregivers, and a diverse population of healthcare
providers.