Reflex Epilepsies for the Practicing Clinician

Charuta Joshi, M.D., is a Professor in the Departments of Pediatrics and Neurology and the Roy D. and Ragen S. Elterman Distinguished Chair in Pediatric Epilepsy at UT Southwestern Medical Center. She specializes in developmental and epileptic encephalopathies and surgical and nonsurgical therapy for medically intractable epilepsy in children. Dr Joshi is the Program Director of Intracranial EEG Fellowship. An investigator on several clinical trials, her clinical research focuses on surgical and nonsurgical therapies for medically intractable epilepsy in children. In 2021, Dr. Joshi received the Exceptional Women in Medicine Award from Castle Connolly. Prof. Renzo Guerrini is Director of the Neuroscience Department at the Meyer Children's Hospital IRCCS, University of Florence, Italy. His previous Academic positions include Professorships at University of Pisa, King's College London and University College London. He has coordinated the ILAE Commission of Pediatrics and DESIRE, a major EU research project on Development and Epilepsy. He received the Ambassador for Epilepsy ILAE Award, 2003, the American Epilepsy Society Clinical Research Recognition Award, 2012 and the Elisa Frauenfelder Prize on Research and Innovation, 2019. He has co-authored over 600 peer reviewed papers and 15 books. His H-Index is 117.