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Elaine Wirrell, MD PhD

Dr. Wirrell completed her medical school at the University of British Columbia, followed by a residency in Child Neurology at Dalhousie University in Canada. She is currently Professor and Chair of Child Neurology at Mayo Clinic in Rochester Minnesota.

She has integrally involved with the International Child Neurology Society for many years, serving as an ICNA Executive Board member since 2018, as Chair of the ICNA Research Committee from 2018-2022 and she is currently Co-Chair of the Bylaws and Constitution Committee. She served on the core Scientific Committee of the 2022 ICNC meeting in Antalya, Turkey and is Deputy Chair of the 2024 ICNC in Cape Town, South Africa.

Dr. Wirrell was the former Co-Chair of the Nosology and Definitions Task Force of the ILAE, and currently serves on both the Pediatrics and Surgical Therapies Commissions and the Terminology and the SNOMED Task Forces. She Co-Chairs the Pediatric Medical Therapies Task Force. She is Co-Editor-in-Chief of Epilepsy.com, the public education website for the Epilepsy Foundation of America.

Dr. Wirrell has a keen interest in Neurology Education and served as the Vice-Chair of the Neurology Examination Committee of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada from 2009-14. She currently is the Program Director of the Child and Adolescent Neurology Residency at Mayo Clinic and served as Co-Chair of the Pellock Epilepsy Symposium, an educational program offered to all North American final year Child Neurology trainees through the Child Neurology Society from 2016-2023. Her research interests include optimizing care for children with Developmental and Epileptic Encephalopathies, epidemiology and co-morbidities of pediatric epilepsy and she has published over 270 peer-reviewed articles and numerous book chapters.

She has been the recipient of several awards including the AES Kiffin Penry award for Excellence in Epilepsy Care and the Mayo Clinic Distinguished Clinician award.

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