Organising Committee - 12th Symposium ATP1A3 in Disease

The Organising Committee of the 12th Symposium on ATP1A3 in Disease is made of up of physicians and scientists who have been working on ATP1A3 related diseases for many years, as well as representatives of the Spanish AHC patient organisation, AESHA.

Carmen Fons, MD, PhD

Chair

Head, Pediatric Neurology and Neurophysiology Department

Hospital Sant Joan de Déu (Barcelona, Spain)

Associate Professor, Barcelona University

Member, International Consortium for Research on AHC (IAHCRC)

Alfred L. George, Jr., MD

Professor and Chairman, Department of Pharmacology

Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine (Chicago, US)

Research Focus: Pathophysiology of Alternating Hemiplegia of Childhood (AHC) using human neuron and mouse models

Current Work: Developing potential gene therapies

Host: ATP1A3 in Disease Symposium, Chicago (2018, 2023)

Eleni Panagiotakaki, MD, PhD

Lyon University Hospital (Hospices Civils de Lyon, France)

Department of Clinical Epileptology, Sleep Disorders, and Functional Neurology in Children

Deputy Co-Ordinator, International Consortium for Research on AHC (IAHCRC) (since April 2022)

Hanne Poulsen, PhD

Molecular Biologist

Aarhus, Denmark

Research Focus: Molecular effects of disease-causing mutations on Na,K-ATPase function

Primary Methodology: Electrophysiology

Mrs. Bridget Vranckx

President of AESHA (AHC Spain)

Mr. Marc Gambús Moro