Investigators' Workshop
MChair
Heinz Beck, M.D., Chair
University of Bonn Medical Center
Dept. of Epileptology
Sigmund-Freud-Str 25
Bonn, 53105
Germany
(p) 011-228-6885-215
(f) 011-228-6885-294
(e) heinz.beck@ukb.uni-bonn.de
Mission: Organize sessions geared to the basic science and clinical investigator. Both workshops and poster sessions are intended as interactive forums that provide a window onto novel and exciting developments of basic science that promise to be of high relevance to the field of epilepsy.
Investigators' Workshops Committee Members
Beck, H. (Chair) 2010
Baraban, S. 2011
Baram, T. 2011
Brenner, R. 2010
Coulter, D. 2010
Goodman, J. 2009
Huguenard, J. (exofficio) 2009
Huntsman, M. 2010
Patel, M. 2009
Petrou, S. 2011
Poolos, N. 2010
Powell, E. 2010
Sanchez, R. 2009
Vezzani, A. 2010
Zaveri, H. 2010
Schachter, S. (Board Liaison)
Tubby, C. (Staff Liaison)
Specific Responsibilities:
The Investigators' Workshop committee recruits proposals for Workshops from the AES membership. The committee is dependent on these proposals to select eleven workshops for the following year's Annual Meeting. Workshops are 90 minutes and normally feature three speakers, a chairperson and one or two discussants. In addition, particularly noteworthy poster presentations that fit topics of the Investigators' Workshops are selected for a designated Investigators' Workshop Poster Session. The purpose of both the workshops and the poster session is to promote discussion and interaction on novel and timely concepts in epilepsy research. In addition, the Investigators' Workshops have traditionally included high-profile speakers from outside the AES, bringing new impulses to epilepsy research within the AES.
Suggestions for IWs are solicited from the AES membership in November. Proposals are discussed in the weeks leading up to the Annual Meeting and are selected during the Annual Meeting at the joint Investigators' Workshop and Clinical Investigators' Workshop Committee meeting for the following year.
Goal/Strategy
- Develop meetings and programs to facilitate information exchange between researchers.
- Identify hot areas of research; highlight one benchmark a year.