A new EPNS Board has been elected in December 1997, with the following members:
Prof. Peter G. BARTH
[Current positions in Pediatric Neurology] Professor; Head, Unit Paediatric Neurology.
[Address at the Hospital] Division of Paediatric Neurology, Emma Children's Hospital AMC, University of Amsterdam, Meibergdreef 9, P.O. box 22700, N-100 DE Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
[e-mail address] p.g.barth@amc.uva.nl
[Fax at the Hospital] 31.20.691 77 35
[Former positions] Positions in Paediatric Neurology and Neuropathology at Free University Hospital, Amsterdam.
[Training] Paediatrics, Amsterdam.
[Main Interests] Inherited Neurometabolic and Neurodegenerative Disorders, Foetal and Neonatal Neuropathology
Prof. Eugen BOLTSHAUSER
[Pos Ped Neur] Professor; Head, Division of Paediatric Neurology. President Swiss Society for Paediatric Neurology.
[A-Hosp] Department Neurology, University Children's Hospital, Steinwiesstrasse 75, CH-8032 Zürich, Switzerland. [Secretary]: Ms. V. Umiker.
[e-mail] boltshau@kispi.unizh.ch
[Fax-Hosp] 41.1.266 71 63
[Training] Paediatrics, Neurology, Zürich; Paediatric Neurology, London, Zürich.
Prof. Jaime CAMPOS-CASTELLO
[Pos Ped Neur] Chief, Section of Neuropaediatrics, Department of Paediatrics, University Complutense, Madrid.
[A-Hosp] Servicio de Neurologia Pediatrica, Hospital Universitario San Carlos, Martin Lagos s/n, 28040 MADRID, Spain
[e-m] lalimariscal@mcdusa.cs
[Fax-Hosp] 34.1.330 31 08
[Telephone numbers at the Hospital] 34.1.330 35 55 or 330 30 00 est. 3552
[Formerly] Chief, Neuropaediatrics, Gran Hospital del Estado, Madrid; Consultant Neurologist, Hospital Santa Christina, Madrid. President of the Spanish Society for Neuropaediatrics; President, Société Européenne de Neurologie Pédiatrique; Vice-President Academia Iberoamericana de Neurologia Pediatrica. [Training] Paediatrics and Neurology: Madrid; Paediatric Neurology: Paris, Barcelona, Madrid.
Prof. Paul CASAER
[Pos Ped Neur] Professor, Chairman, Department of Paediatrics, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium.
[A-Hosp] Department of Paediatrics, University Hospitals Leuven, Gasthuisberg, Herestraat 49, B-3000 Leuven, Belgium. [Secretary] Mrs. Paula Trappers-Herman (paula.herman@uz.kuleuven.ac.be)
[e-m] paul.casaer@uz.kuleuven.ac.be
[Fax-Hosp] 32.16. 34 39 71 or 32.16.34 38 42 or 32.16.34 55 00
[Tel-Hosp] 32.16.34 39 72
[Formerly] Head, Section Paediatric Neurology, KUL, Leuven, Belgium. Founder and Head, Paediatric Rehabilitation and Epilepsy Unit Antwerpen. Secretary General, President, ICNA.
[Training] Paediatrics: Leuven; Child Neurology: Groningen, Zürich, Belgium.
[Other positions] Member of the board of Directors University Hospitals KU Leuven.
[Main Interests] Early human development and its disorders.
Prof. Paolo CURATOLO
[Pos Ped Neur] Professor, Tor Vergata University, Rome. Chief, Department Paediatic Neurology, Ospedale San Eugenio. Chairman, Section Child Neurology of the International School of Neurological Sciences in Venice.
[A-Hosp] Pediatric Neurology and Psychiatry, Ospedale San Eugenio, Universita di Roma « Tor Vergata », Piazzale Umanesimo 10, I-00144 ROMA, Italy
[e-m] curatolo@utovrm.it
[Fax-Hosp] 39.6.591 74 15
[Tel-Hosp] 39.6.51 00 28 01 or 39.6.51001
[Training] Rome.
[Main Interests] Epilepsy, Behavioral Neurology, Tuberous Sclerosis.
Prof. Linda DE MEIRLEIR
[Pos Ped Neur] Paediatric Neurologist, Akademisch Ziekenhuis, Vrij Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium. President, Belgian Pediatric Neurology Society.
[A-Hosp] Paediatric Neurology, AZK-VUB, 101 Laarbeeklaan, B-1090 Brussels, Belgium.
[e-m] peddmrl@az.vub.ac.be
[Fax-Hosp] 32.2.477 60 74
[Formerly] Secretary, Belgian Society of Pediatric Neurology.
[Training] Neuropsychiatry: Brussels; Paediatric Neurology: Brussels, Toronto.
[Main Int] Neurometabolic Diseases.
Prof. Victor DUBOWITZ
[Pos Ped Neur] Professor and Chief, emeritus, Department of Paediatrics & Neonatal Medicine, Imperial College School of Medicine and Hammersmith Hospital, London
[A-Hosp] Department of Paediatrics & Neonatal Medicine, Imperial College School of Medicine, Hammersmith Hospital, Du Cane Road, London W12 ONN, UK
[e-m] v.dubowitz@rpms.ac.uk
[Fax-Hosp] 44.181.740 82 81
[Tel-Hosp] 44.181.383 32 95
Prof. Orvar EEG-OLOFFSON
[Pos Ped Neur] Associate Professor, Head Child Neurology, University of Uppsala, Sweden
[A-Hosp] Child Neurology, University Children's Hospital, S-751 85 Uppsala, Sweden
[e-m] orvar.eeg-olofsson@pediatrik.uu.se
[e-m] pedoeo@strix.its.uu.se
[Fax-Hosp] 46.18.66 58 53
[Formerly] Head Child Neurology, University of Linköping; Professor Child Neurology Kuwait; 2nd Head Clinical Neurophysiology, National Centre for Epilepsy, Sandvika, Norway. Chairman, Section Child Neurology and Rehabilitation of the Swedish Medical Association.
Prof. Philippe EVRARD[Pos Ped Neur] Professor, Faculté de Médecine Xavier-Bichat (Université de Paris VII Denis-Diderot); Chief, Service de Neurologie Pédiatrique, Hôpital Robert-Debré (Assistance Publique de Paris); Director, Laboratoire de Neurologie du Développement (CRI INSERM 97-01). Honorary Professor, University of Louvain Medical School, Brussels, Belgium. ICNA Board member.
[A-Hosp] Pediatric Neurology Service, Hôpital Robert-Debré, 48 Boulevard Sérurier, F-75019 PARIS, France. [Secretary] Ms. Brigitte Tricot (brigitte.tricot@rdb.ap-hop-paris.fr) & Mrs. Josiane Brami (josiane.brami@rdb.ap-hop-paris.fr)
[e-m] philippe.evrard@rdb.ap-hop-paris.fr
[e-m] philippe_evrard@compuserve.com
[Fax-Hosp] 33.1.40 03 47 74
[Tel-Hosp] 33.1.40 03 47 73
[Formerly] Founder, Chief, Pediatric Neurology Service, University of Louvain Medical School at Brussels, Belgium. Founder, President, Société Européenne de Neurologie Pédiatrique. Founder, President, Belgische Vereniging Kinderneurologie / Association Belge Neurologie Infantile. Secretary General, Founding EPNS Board. Fogarty Fellow (NIH); Visiting Professor, Harvard Medical School.
[Other Pos] Member, Royal Academy of Medicine, Belgium.
[Training] Louvain, Paris, Boston.
[Main Interests] Clinical Developmental neurology and developmental neurosciences.
Prof. Folker HANEFELD
[Pos Ped Neur] Professor, Chief of the Department of Paediatrics and Child Neurology. Doctor medicinae honoris causa, University of Göteborg.
[A-Hosp] Abteilung Kinderheilkunde/Neuropediatrie, Zentrum 12, Georg-August-Universitat Gottingen, Robert-Koch-Strasse 40, D 37075 Gottingen, Germany.
[Fax-Hosp] 49.551.39 62 52
[Tel-Hosp] 49.551.39 80 35
[Formerly] Assistent Professor Berlin; Professor of Paediatrics; Chief Department Paediatric and Child Neurology, Berlin. President Gesellschaft für Neuropaediatrie.
[Training] Max Planck Institute, Cologne; Paediatrics: Berlin, London.
Prof. Shaul HAREL
[Pos Ped Neur] Professor, Paediatric Neurologist; Director Institute for Child Development and Paediatric Neurology, Tel Aviv; Professor of Paediatrics, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University. Chairman Israel Paediatric Neurology Society; Secretary General ICNA.
[A-Hosp] Institute for Child Development and Pediatric Neurology Unit, Tel-Aviv Medical Center, 14 Balfur Street, TEL AVIV 65211, Israel. [Secretary] Mrs. Sheina Henigman (henigman@post.tau.ac.il)
[e-m] child@netvision.net.il
[Fax-Hosp] 972.3.620 31 77
[Tel-Hosp] 972.3.525 05 98
[Training] Israel, USA
[Main Int] Intrauterine Growth Retardation, Neurodevelopmental Disabilities.
Prof. Colin R. KENNEDY
[Pos Ped Neur] Consultant Paediatric Neurologist. Secretary, British Paediatric Neurology Association.
[A-Hosp] Mail point 21, Department of Chold Health, Southampton, General Hospital, Tremona Road, Southampton, Hants, SO16 6YD, UK.
[e-m] crk1@soton.ac.uk
[Fax-Hosp] 44.1703.79 49 62
[Training] Paediatrics and Paediatric Neurology: London, Southampton, Baltimore (USA).
[Main Int] Hydrocephalus, Hearing Loss, Neuro-oncology, Encephalitis.
Prof. Marten KYLLERMAN
[Pos Ped Neur] Senior Paediatric Neurologist, Chief Neuropaediatric Section, Children's Hospital Göteborg
[A-Hosp] Department of Paediatrics, Göteborg University, Sahlgrenska, Universitetssjukhuset, SU/Östra, Smörslottsg 1, S-416 85 Göteborg, Sweden.
[e-m] marten.kyllerman@pediat.gu.se
[Fax-Hosp] 46.31.25 79 60
[Tel-Hosp] 46.31.37 40 00
[Training] Paediatrics and Neuropaediatrics, Uppsala.
[Main Int] Neuropaediatric Themes, a.o. static and progressive dyskinetic disorders, epilepsy, Angelman Syndrome, muscle disorders.
Prof. Brian G.R. NEVILLE
[Pos Ped Neur] Professor of Paediatric Neurology, Head Neurosciences Unit, Institute of Child Health, University College London, and Honorary Consultant Paediatric Neurologist, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children
[A-Hosp] The Wolfson Centre, Mecklenburgh Square, London WC1N, 2AP, UK. [Secretary]: Mrs. A. Lovell (a.lovell@ich.ucl.ac.uk) and Mrs. Carrie Wasserman
[e-m] b.neville@ich.ucl.ac.uk
[Fax] 44.171.833 94 69 (hospital)
[Formerly] Director Newcomen Centre, Guy's Hospital. Chairman of European Academy of Childhood Disability. Secretary and President BPNA. Director Medical Education and Information Unit of the Spastic Society.
[Main Int] Epilepsy, Motor Disorders, Disability.
Prof. Dietz RATING
[Pos Ped Neur] Professor, Head Department of Paediatric Neurology, Children's Hospital, University of Heidelberg. President German Section ILAE.
[A-Hosp] Ruprecht Karls Universitat, Universitatsklinikum, Kinderklinil, Abt. Paediatrische Neurologie, Im Neuenheimerfield 150, D-69120 Heidelberg 1, Germany.
[e-m] dietz_rating@krzmail.krz.uni-heidelberg.de
[Fax-Hosp] 49.6221.56 57 44 or 49.62.21.56 33 44
[Tel-Hosp] 49.62 21.56 23 34 or 56 23 27
[Formerly] President German Society for Neuropaediatrics.
[Training] Paediatrics, Paediatric Neurology: Berlin/Göttingen.
Prof. Jan ROTTEVEEL
[Pos Ped Neur] Paediatric Neurologist, Attending Head Interdisciplinary Center for Paediatric Neurology (IKNC), University Hospital Nijmegen. Consulting Paediatric Neurologist Institutes and Youth Health Care.
[A-Hosp] IKNC, University Hospital Nijmegen, Sind Radboud Ziekenhuis, Geert Groteplein 20, P.O. Box 9101, NL-6500 HB Nijmegen, Netherlands.
[e-m] j.rotteveel@cksiknc.azn.nl
[Fax-Hosp] 31.24.361 70 18 or 31.80.54 05 76
[Formerly] Neuropaediatrician, dept. Paediatrics, Nijmegen. Head section Neuropaediatrics. Dutch Society for Paediatric Neurology: Secretary, President.
[Training] Paediatrics: Nijmegen; Paediatric Neurology: Boston CHMC.
[Main Int] Neonatal Neurology and Neurophysiology; Echoencephalography.
Prof. John B.P. STEPHENSON
[Pos Ped Neur] Professor, Consultant Paediatric Neurology
[A-Hosp] Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Yorkhill, Glasgow, G3 8SJ, Scotland, UK.
[Fax-Hosp] 44.114.267 82 96
[Formerly] Founder of the British Paediatric Neurology Association
Prof. Henri B. SZLIWOWSKI
[Pos Ped Neur] Professor, Head Department Paediatric Neurology, Hôpital Erasme, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium. Président, Société Européenne de Neurologie Pédiatrique (SENP).
[A-Hosp] Service de neurologie pédiatrique, Faculté de Médecine, Université Lbre de Bruxelles, Hôptal Erasme, 808 route de Lennik, B-1070, Brussels, Belgium.
[e-mail] henri.szliwowski@ulb.ac.be
[Fax-Hosp] 32.2.555 39 42 (hospital)
[Tel-Hosp] 32.2.526 31 11
[Formerly] Founder, President of the "Association Belge de Neurologie Infantile". Secretary General, Société Européenne de Neurologie Pédiatrique. [Training] Paediatrics, Neurology, Paediatric Neurology: Brussels and London.
Prof. Marc TARDIEU
[Pos Ped Neur] Professor, Chief of Service, Paediatric Neurology, Hôpital Bicêtre, Paris, France. Chief, Laboratoire "Virus, Neurone et Immunité", INSERM and Université de Paris Sud.
[A-Hosp] Service de Neurologie Pédiatrique, CHU de Bicêtre, 78 avenue du Général Leclerc, F-94275 LE KREMLIN-BICETRE Cedex, FRANCE
[e-m] marc.tardieu@kb.u-psud.fr
[e-m] tardieu@pop.u-psud.fr
[Fax-Hosp] 33.1.45 21 32 31
[Tel-Hosp] 33.1.45 21 31 12
[Training] Paediatrics and Neuropaediatrics: Paris, Bruxelles, Boston.
[Main Int] Neurovirology, Neuro-Immunology, Metabolic Diseases.
Prof. Onno van-NIEUWENHUIZEN
[Pos Ped Neur] Professor, Attending Head Paediatric Neurology, Coordinator Epilepsy. President Dutch Society for Paediatric Neurology Surgery Netherlands.
[A-Hosp] Academisch Ziekenhuis voor Kinderen en Jeugdigen, Department of Paediatric Neurology, De Uithof AZU, P.O. Box 85500, N-3508 GA Utrecht, Netherlands
[e-m] o.vannieuwenhuizen@neuro.azu.nl
[Fax] 41.30.251 87 68 (hospital)
[Training] Paediatrics: Amersfoort; Neurology: Utrecht.
[Main Int] Cerebral Visual Impairment; Epidemiology Cerebral Palsy; Epilepsy/Surgery.
Prof. Sheila J. WALLACE
[Pos Ped Neur] Consultant Paediatric Neurologist, University Hospital; Honorary Teacher, College of Medicine, University of Wales, Cardiff. European Vice-President ICNA.
[A-Hosp] Department of Child Health, University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff, CF4 4XW, UK
[Fax-Hosp] 44.1222.74 63 22
[Formerly] Treasurer British Paediatric Neurology Association. [Training] Paediatrics: Cambridge, Ipswich; Paediatric Neurology: Edinburgh.
[Main Int] Epilepsy, Items Paediatric Neurology.
At its last meeting, held in Paris in January 1998, the new Board elected the following officers : Paul Casaer, President ; Jan Rotteveel, Secretary General ; Dietz Rating, Treasurer ; Colin Kennedy, Associate Secretary.