Pediatric Epilepsy Surgery Techniques: Controversies and Evidence

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Dr. Fallah is a paediatric neurosurgeon at UCLA Mattel Children's Hospital. He is the Director of Pediatric Neurosurgery at UCLA Mattel Childrens Hospital and an Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery and Pediatrics at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA as well as an Assistant Professor in Health Policy & Management in the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health.? He is also a member of the Brain Research Institute at UCLA. His clinical practice is devoted to the surgical management of children with medically intractable epilepsy.? His research mission is to establish high-quality clinical evidence to use towards the development of guidelines and decision-making tools that can standardize decisions and improve the surgical care to treat childhood medically refractory epilepsy.?Dr. Fallah is the lead author of several multi-center studies focused on pediatric epilepsy surgery and serves as a professional advisory board member of the Tuberous Sclerosis Alliance and a Regulatory Advisory Board Member of the Global Pediatric Epilepsy Surgery Registry. Dr. George Ibrahim is the Abe Bresver Chair in Functional Neurosurgery at the Hospital for Sick Children and Associate Professor in Surgery Biomedical Engineering and Medical Science at the University of Toronto. He is a Scientist in the Program in Neuroscience and Mental Health at the Hospital for Sick Children Research Institute. He is the Surgical Director of the pediatric DBS program. Dr. Weil is a paediatric neurosurgeon at Sainte-Justine University Hospital and an Assistant Professor?in?both the Department of Surgery and Neuroscience at the University of Montreal. He is also a?Surgeon-Scientist in the Brain and Child Development Axis?at?the CHU Sainte-Justine Research Institute. He leads a robust pediatric epilepsy surgery program at the Sainte-Justine University Hospital where he provides surgical treatment of medically intractable epilepsy in children. His clinical and research interests focus on reducing morbidity associated with pediatric epilepsy surgery through novel surgical approaches and evidence-based medicine. Dr. Weil is the co-principal investigator of several ongoing multi-center studies focused on comparing surgical approaches in pediatric epilepsy surgery.