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Contributors
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Annapurna Poduri, MD, MPH
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.
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Wolfgang Muhlhofer, MD, MSHS, FAES
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.