EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

Aatif M. Husain, MD, is a Professor in the Department of Neurology and Chief of the Division of Epilepsy, Sleep and Clinical Neurophysiology at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina. He also is the National Director of the Veterans Affairs Epilepsy Centers of Excellence. Dr. Husain is currently the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Clinical Neurophysiology and the Treasurer of the International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology. He is a Past President of the American Clinical Neurophysiology Society and the American Board of Registration of the EEG and EP Technologists. Dr. Husain is the author of more than 100 publications and nine books, including landmark studies on the treatment of refractory seizures and non-convulsive status epilepticus. His clinical interests include treatment of acute seizures and status epilepticus, neurophysiologic intraoperative monitoring, and general clinical neurophysiology.

Renato J. Verdugo, MD, is a Professor of neurology at Clinica Alemana-Faculty of Medicine within the Universidad del Desarrollo in Santiago, Chile. He received his MD from the University of Chile, where he did his specialization in neurology. From 1989 to 1992, he did a fellowship in neuromuscular disorders at the Oregon Health and Sciences University. Later, he was Director of the Department of Neurological Sciences in the University of Chile. In 2015, he was President of the World Congress of Neurology in Santiago. From 2011 to 2019, he was Director of the Service of Neurology at Clinica Alemana-Faculty of Medicine within the Universidad del Desarrollo. At present, he oversees the neurology program in the same center.

Ryusuke Kakigi, MD, PhD, received a degree in medicine from the Faculty of Medicine of Kyushu University in Japan in 1978. He served as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Internal Medicine at Saga Medical School in Japan between 1981 and 1993. In between, he worked as an invited researcher at the Institute of Neurology of London University in London, United Kingdom, between 1983 and 1985. He served as a Professor and Chairperson at the Department of Integrative Physiology in Okazaki, Japan, from 1993. His research interests include neuroimaging studies, mainly electroencephalography and magnetoencephalography. He is now focusing on face perception in humans.

Jonathan Cole, MA, MSc, DM (Oxon), FRCP, is a consultant in Clinical Neurophysiology at Poole Hospital and Professor at Bournemouth University. He qualified from Oxford and the Middlesex Hospital in London and undertook research in Oxford and Southampton. He studied with Oliver Sacks as a medical student and has written six books on the subjective experience of chronic neurological impairment related to deafferentation, spinal cord injury, and facial difference. He is a Past President of the British Society for Clinical Neurophysiology, chaired the 2006 ICCN in Edinburgh, and is Chair of the Europe, Middle East and Africa Chapter of the IFCN and sits on the IFCN Executive Committee. His main areas of interest have been in sensory loss and motor control.

Professor Jorge Gutierrez, MSc, MD, is a specialist in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation from the Universidad del Valle and has a master’s degree in computer sciences. He served as an Assistant Professor in the Department of PM&R of the Universidad del Valle in Cali, Colombia. He is a Past President of the Colombian Association of PM&R and of the Colombian Association of Electrodiagnostic Medicine. He chaired the Latin America Chapter of the IFCN and now sits on the IFCN Executive Committee. His clinical interests include peripheral nerve injuries, neurophysiologic intraoperative monitoring, and evoked potentials of cutaneous sensory nerves.

Donald B. Sanders, MD, is a Professor of neurology and Director of Neuromuscular Research at Duke University Medical Center. He received his medical degree from Harvard Medical School and trained in neurology at the University of Virginia and in electromyography and neuromuscular physiology with Edward Lambert at Mayo Clinic. He has served as President of the Board of Directors of the American Association of Neuromuscular and Electrodiagnostic Medicine and of the Medical/Scientific Advisory Board of the Myasthenia Gravis Foundation of America. Dr. Sanders has written extensively on the diagnosis and treatment of neuromuscular disorders, including early work on experimental autoimmune MG, the development of computer-assisted analysis of neurophysiologic signals, single-fiber EMG, and the development and management of clinical trials in myasthenia gravis and Lambert-Eaton myasthenia. He is currently Chair of the North America Chapter of the IFCN.

Margitta Seeck, MD, is the Director of the EEG & Epilepsy center since 1995, which became a reference center for difficult-to-treat epilepsies in adults and children on both a national and an international level. Her main interests are scalp and intracranial EEG, imaging in epilepsy, epilepsy surgery, corticography and cognitive evoked potentials in epilepsy patients. She is author of more than 180 papers on epilepsy in national and international journals. In 2018, she was awarded with the Hans Berger Preis of the American Society of Clinical Neurophysiology and IFCN. She is currently on the board of the Swiss national science foundations and expert for other national science agencies. She is Past President of the Swiss Neurophysiology Society and is still actively involved in teaching activities of the Society. She is the Editor-in-Chief of Clinical Neurophysiology Practice of the International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology.

Professor Ulf Ziemann is Director of the Department Neurology & Stroke and Co-Director of the Hertie-Institute for Clinical Brain Research in the University of Tübingen in Germany. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Clinical Neurophysiology of the International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology, Deputy Editor of Brain Stimulation, and Associate Editor of Journal of Neuroscience. He has received the following awards: Richard-Jung Prize of the German Society of Clinical Neurophysiology and Functional Neuroimaging (DGKN), National Institutes of Health (NIH, Bethesda, US) Merit Award, and NIH Fellowship Award for Research Excellence. His research expertise includes human motor cortex, excitability, plasticity, motor learning, TMS, brain state–dependent stimulation, neuropharmacology, and TMS-EEG.