International League Against Epilepsy

International League Against Epilepsy ; (ILAE)
purpose	International medical society for neurology
Chair:	Sam Wiebe
Establishment date:	1909
Seat :	West Hartford, USA
Website:	ilae.org

The International League Against Epilepsy , English International League Against Epilepsy (ILAE) is an international medical professional society to combat epilepsy . It was founded in 1909 in Budapest with initially 10 national sections (Algeria, Germany, England, France, Holland, Italy, Austria, Russia, Hungary and the USA). 114 national professional societies are now members. The German-speaking sections of the ILAE are the German Society for Epileptology , the Austrian Society for Epileptology and the Swiss Epilepsy League .

membership

Membership in the ILAE requires membership in a national section or specialist society. In the German-speaking countries these are the German Society for Epileptology, the Austrian Society for Epileptology and the Swiss Epilepsy League.

Activities and goals

Society's purpose is to ensure that health workers, patients, governments, and the global public have the education and research resources necessary to understand, diagnose, and treat people with epilepsy. Its aims are to promote and disseminate knowledge about epilepsy, to promote research, education and training and to improve patient care, in particular through prevention, diagnosis and treatment.

In addition to the board of directors of the ILAE, there are 6 regional commissions that deal with issues specific to the respective regions and organize regional congresses (see below). The members of the regional commissions are elected by the national sections or professional associations belonging to the respective region, as is the ILAE board, for a term of office of 4 years (currently; 2017–2021).

Congresses

After it was founded, only five international meetings of the ILAE took place until 1946, also due to the two world wars. Since then, regular meetings have been organized, both at international and regional level.

Since 1981 the ILAE has organized the International Epilepsy Congress (IEC) together with the International Bureau for Epilepsy (IBE), initially annually and since 1983 every two years . The 32nd IEC took place in Barcelona from September 2nd to 6th, 2017 , the 33rd will be held in Bangkok from June 22nd to 26th, 2019 .

Since 1994, a European Epilepsy Congress has been held every two years in Europe by the Commission on European Affairs of the ILAE in cooperation with the IBE, the 12th 2016 in Prague, the 13th from 26th to 30th August 2018 in Vienna and the 14. 2020 in Geneva.

Awards

Various ILAE awards are presented every two years as part of the International Epilepsy Congress. In addition, a prize is awarded every year for an article in the journal Epilepsia .

Lifetime Achievement Award

The Lifetime Achievement Award 'Life Achievement Award ' is the highest honor given every two years by the joint Executive Committee of the ILAE and the International Bureau for Epilepsy ( IBE ). It honors extraordinary personalities with a proven track record of working against epilepsy. Chosen people will be honored with two silver candle holders engraved with the ILAE and IBE logos, the name of the award and the winner.

Previous winners are:

2019 W. Allan Hauser, USA
2017 Charlotte Dravet , France
2015 Frederick Andermann , Canada
2013 Juhn A. Wada, Canada
2011 Jerome ("Pete") Engel Jr, USA;
2009 Jean Aicardi, France, (1926-2015); Hanneke M. de Boer, Netherlands (1946–2015)
2007 no award
2005 no award
2003 no award
2001 Kalyanasundaram Subra Mani, India (1928–2001); Harry Meinardi, Netherlands (1932–2013)
1999 Ellen Grass, USA (1914-2001); Dieter Janz , Germany (1920–2016)
1997 George S. Burden, England (1911–1999)
1995 Johannes (Joop) N. Loeber, Netherlands (1928–1998)

Ambassador for Epilepsy Award

The Ambassador for Epilepsy Award 'Ambassador for Epilepsy Award' recognizes outstanding international contributions to clarifying the cause of epilepsy. It is also awarded every two years during the International Epilepsy Congress.

Previous winners are:

2019 Amza Ali (Jamaica), Sandor Beniczky (Denmark), Carol Camfield (Canada), Peter Camfield (Canada), John Dunne (Australia), Sheryl Haut (USA), Matthias Koepp (England), Marco Medina (Honduras), Janet Mifsud (Malta), Osman Miyanji (Kenya), Tatsuya Tanaka (Japan), Sanjeev Thomas (India)
2017 Michel Baulac (France), Giuseppe Capovilla (Italy), Nathalie Jetté (Canada); Jaideep Kapur (USA), Astrid Nehlig (France), Terence OʼBrien (Australia), Makiko Osawa (Japan), Galo Pesántez Cuesta (Ecuador), Ivan Rector (Czech Republic), Parthasarathy Satishchandra (India), Eugen Trinka (Austria), Sameer Zuberi (England)
2015 Edward Bertram III (USA), Ingmar Blümcke (Germany), Roberto Caraballo (Argentina), Denise Chapman (Australia), Aristea Galanopoulou (Greece / USA), Jean Gotman (Canada), Michael Kerr (England), Steve White (USA ), Philippe Ryvlin (France / Switzerland), Dennis D. Spencer (USA), Frank Vajda (Australia), Elza Marcia Yacubian (Brazil)
2013 Gretchen Birbeck (USA), Alla Guekht (Russia), Dale Hesdorffer (USA), Sunao Kaneko (Japan), Byung-In Lee (South Korea), Lin Min Li (Brazil), Daniel Lowenstein (USA). Gary Mathern (USA), Gay Mitchell (Ireland), Jorge Rodriguez (USA), Ingrid Scheffer (Australia), Matthew Walker (England)
2011 Susan Axelrod (USA), Hasan Aziz (Pakistan), Lionel Carmant (Canada), Jaime Fandiño (Colombia), Andrés Kanner (USA), Wieping Liao (China), (Germany), Eli Mizrahi (USA), Rosemary Panelli ( Australia), Asla Pitkänen (Finland), Steven C. Schachter (USA), Walter van Emde Boas (Netherlands)
2009 Ettore Beghi (Italy), Anne Berg (USA), Warren Blume (Canada), Carol D'Souza (India), Norman Delanty (Ireland), Jacqueline French (USA), Shunglon Lai (Taiwan), Shichuo Li (China) , Lilia Nuñez (Mexico), Çiğdem Özkara (Turkey), Ernest Somerville (Australia), William Theodore (USA)
2007 Eva Andermann (Canada), Alexis Arzimanoglou (France), Helen Cross (England), Yukio Fukuyama (Japan), Pierre Genton (France), Gregory L. Holmes (USA), Reetta Kälviäinen (Finland), Shih Hui Lim (Singapore ), Fernando H. Lopes da Silva (Netherlands), Man Mohan Mehndiratta (India), Tomás Mesa (Chile), Paolo Tinuper (Italy)
2005 Elinor Ben-Menachem (Sweden), Samuel F. Berkovic (Australia), John Bowis (England), J. Costa da Costa (Brazil), John S. Duncan (England), Christian E. Elger (Germany), Eric R Hargis (USA), Istvan Mody (USA), Hilary Mounfield (England), Amel Mrabet (Tunisia), Perrine Plouin (France), Chong-Tin Tan (Malaysia)
2003 Athanasios Covanis (Greece), Zenebe Gedlie Damtie (Ethiopia), Dragoslav Ercegovac (Serbia), Mike Glynn (Ireland), Renzo Guerrini (Italy), Marshal Mo-Song His (Taiwan), Vladimir Komárek (Czech Republic), Günter Krämer (Germany / Switzerland), Susanne Lund (Sweden), Jeffrey L. Noebels (USA), Claude Wasterlain (USA)
2001 Carlos E. Acevedo (Chile), V. Elving Anderson (USA), Meir Bialer (Israel), John E. Chaplin (England / Sweden), Amadou Gallo Diop (Senegal), Robert ("Bob") Fisher (USA) , Satish Jain (India), Philip Lee (England), Hans O. Lüders (USA), Jing-Jane Tsai (Taiwan), Federico Vigevano (Italy)
1999 Cosimo Ajmone-Marsan (USA), Gus A. Baker (England), Stephen W. Brown (England), Esper A. Cavalheiro (Brazil), Peter Halász (Hungary), Michael D. Hills (New Zealand), Ann Jacoby ( England), Pierre Jallon (France), Eva H. Johnson (Norway), Martha J. Morrell (USA), Solomon L. ("Nico") Moshé (USA), Shunsuke Ohtahara (Japan), Leonid L. Prilipko (Switzerland ), Philip A. Schwartzkroin (USA), Hermann Stefan (Germany), Torbjörn Tomson (Sweden), Steven D. Walker (USA)
1997 Catherin Bugler (England), Greti Haldemann (Switzerland), Louise Jilek-Aall (Canada), Christoph Pachlatko (Switzerland), Emilio Perucca (Italy), Maria Popovic (Serbia), Heinz-Gregor Wieser (Switzerland)
1995 Agostino Baruzzi (Italy), Gertrud Beck-Mannagetta (Germany), Eddie Bharucha (India), Martin Brodie (Scotland), Joyce A. Cramer (USA), Nelly Dekker (Kenya), Siebe Dijkgraaf (Netherlands), Natalio Fejerman ( Argentina), Leena Hyvärinen (Finland), José Keating (Portugal), Pavel Mareš (Czech Republic), John P. Mumford (England), Robert Naquet (France), Sandra Parks-Trusz (USA), Timothy A. Pedley (USA ), Marijke de Puit (Netherlands), Igor Ravnik (Slovenia), Jim Troxell (USA), Susan Usiskin (England)
1993 Marc Beaussart (France), David Chadwick (England), Judy Cochrane (Scotland), Olivier Dulac (France), Johan Falk-Pedersen (Norway), Peter Fenwick (England), Uwe Heinemann (Germany), Richard Holmes (Ireland) , Josemir ("Ley") WAS Sander (England), Nancy Santilli (USA), Nimal Senanayake (Sri Lanka), Matti Sillanpää (Finland), Michael R. Trimble (England)
1991 Albert ("Bert") P. Aldenkamp (Netherlands), Paulo RM de Bittencourt (Brazil), Peter F. Bladin (Australia), Bernardo Dalla Bernardina (Italy), Carl B. Dodrill (USA), Jerome ("Pete" ) Engel Jr (USA), Allan W. Hauser (USA), Olaf Henriksen (Norway), Victoria Lieb-Jückstock (Germany), Yngve Løyning (Norway), Vinod S. Saxena (India), Pamela J. Thompson (England)
1989 Frederick Andermann (Canada), Charlotte Dravet (France), Ben Hamida (Tunisia), Bonnie Kessler (USA), René H. Levy (USA), Manjula C. Maheshwari (India), Richard H. Mattson (USA), Robert J. Mittan (USA), Jolyon Oxley (England), André Perret (France), Rupprecht Thorbecke (Germany)
1987 Tim (othy) A. Betts (England), Hanneke M. de Boer (Netherlands), Hans Dengler (Switzerland), Ray Kerr (New Zealand), Harvey J. Kupferberg (USA), John Laidlaw (England), Pierre Loiseau ( France), Judith Manelis (Israel), Carlos Medina-Malo (Colombia), Brian Meldrum (England), Claudio Munari (Italy), Simon Shorvon (England)
1985 Alec Aspinall (England), Colin D. Binnie (England), James J. Cereghino (USA), Robert WP Gourley (Australia), Lennart Gram (Denmark), William M. McLin (USA), Bruce Schoenberg (USA), Masakazu Seino (Japan)
1983 Giuliano Avanzini (Italy), Harold E. Booker (USA), Matti V. Iivanainen (Finland), Niall V. O'Donohoe (Ireland), Benjamin O. Osuntokun (Nigeria), Dieter Schmidt (Germany), Arthur EH Sonnen (Netherlands)
1982 Svein I. Johannessen (Norway), Joan Kent (Canada), Elio Lugaresi (Italy), Charles E. Pippenger (USA), Roger J. Porter (USA), Peter Wolf (Germany)
1981 Nyrma Hernandez (USA), Cesare T. Lombroso (USA), Jacob WA Meijer (Netherlands), Heinz Penin (Germany), Marcus Turner (Argentina), Robert Urich (USA), Juhn A. Wada (Canada)
1980 Harou Akimoto (Japan), Jean Bancaud (France), Reginald Beasly (England), Robert Gumnit (USA), Erik Kiørboe (Denmark), Johannes (Joop) N. Loeber (Netherlands), Joseph Roger (France), Donald B . Tower (USA)
1979 James A. Autry (USA), Nelly Chiofalo (Chile), Mogens Dam (Denmark), Winifred Dawson (England), Ansgar Matthes (Germany), Paolo L. Morselli (France), Theodore B. Rasmussen (Canada), Edward ("Ted") H. Reynolds (England), Ernst A. Rodin (USA), Carlo Alberto Tassinari (Italy)
1978 Jean Aicardi (France), Dora Bethencourt da Silva (Portugal), Francesco Castellano (Italy), Fritz ("Fred") E. Dreifuss (USA), Richard H. Gibbs (Switzerland), Maria de Lourdes-Levy (Portugal) , Patsy McCall (USA), J. Preston Robb (Canada), Manuel Velasco-Suarez (Mexico), Toyijo Wada (Japan)
1977 Margreet Brandsteder (Netherlands), Raffaele Canger (Italy), Raimo Lehtovaara (Finland), Ann Scherer (USA)
1976 Liana C. Bolis (Switzerland), Bent Johansen (Denmark), Jack Lyons (Ireland), Jerzy Majkowski (Poland), Richard L. Masland (USA), Karol Matulay (Czechoslovakia), Alan Richens (England), Renato F. Ruberti (Kenya), Zdenĕk Servít (Czechoslovakia), Arthur A. Ward Jr (USA), Janusz J. Zieliński (Poland)
1975 Brian Bower (England), Lammert ("Bert") Harmen Brulleman (Netherlands), Hermann Doose (Germany), Rudolf Dreyer (Germany), Heinfried Helmchen (Germany), John G. Kirker (Ireland), Kalyanasundaram Subra Mani (India ), Francisco Rubio-Donnadieu (Mexico), Marie-Luise Schikarski (Germany), Gilbert C. van Wessem (Italy)
1974 C. Chapelin (France), Richard Grant (England), Jan Seyffert (Netherlands), Lucien Sorel (Belgium), Millie Tits (Belgium)
1973 Frank Burroughs (Australia), Anna Generalis (Greece), Michael O. Jones (England), Stewart Miller (Scotland), Luis Oller-Daurella (Spain), Fred Plum (USA), Lenna-Belle Robinson (Korea), José Vila-Bado (Spain), Kang Woo-Sik (Korea)
1972 Edward Brett (England), Rudolf Hess (Switzerland), Peter M. Jeavons (England), Abraham Mosovich (Argentina), Maurice J. Parsonage (England), James Kiffin Penry (USA), Madison Thomas (USA)
1971 Johan (Jan) Henri Bruens (Netherlands), Sylvia Burden (England), George F. Henriksen (Norway), Harry Meinardi (Netherlands), A. Earl Walker (USA)
1969 Louis D. Boshes (USA), Valentine Chapman (New Zealand), J. Romanes Davidson (Scotland), Hon Mrs Ruby Florence Hutchison (Australia), Dieter Janz (Germany), Margaret Lennox-Buchthal (Denmark), Otto Magnus (Netherlands) ), Desmond A. Pond (England)
1968 Amparo Arcaya (Chile), George S. Burden (England), Titus O. Dada (Nigeria), David D. Daly (USA), Irene Gardiner (England), Henri Gastaut (France), Ellen H. Grass (USA) , Christina Kilgour (Scotland), Hans Heinrich Landolt (Switzerland), Albert M. Lorentz de Haas (Netherlands), Francis L. McNaughton (Canada), Karl-Axel Melin (Sweden), Jerome K. Merlis (USA)

Michael Prize

The Michael Prize awarded by the Michael Foundation was originally awarded to encourage epilepsy research among young scientists (age under 40) in Germany. It is now an international award for the best scientific and clinical research for the further development of epileptology. It is endowed with 20,000 euros and is awarded every two years.

Previous winners are:

1963: Hermann Doose , Germany ;, Germany
1964: Leonie Stollreiter, Germany
1965: Friedrich Vogel, Germany; Heinz Häfner, Germany; Klaus Diebold, Germany; Hubertus Tellenbach, Germany; Uroš Jovanović, Germany
1966: Rolf Kruse , Germany
1967: Gerhard Koch, Germany; Alfred Leder, Switzerland
1968: Dieter Janz , Germany
1969: Gerhard Schorsch , Germany
1970: Gerhard Veith, Germany
1971: Ansgar Matthes , Germany
1972: Rudolf Dreyer , Germany
1973: Heinz Caspers and Erwin-Josef Speckmann , Germany
1974: Wolfgang Ehrengut, Germany; Helmut Heintel, Germany
1975: Gerhard S. Barolin, Erich Scherzer and Gernot Schnabert, Austria; Cordula Nitsch, Switzerland
1976: no award
1977: Hans Dieter Lux and Uwe Heinemann , Germany
1978: Hellmuth Petsche, Austria; Alan Richens, England
1979: Pierre Gloor, Canada; Otto Creutzfeldt, Germany
1980/1981: Colin D. Binnie, England; Brian S. Meldrum, England
1982: Jerome Engel Jr, USA
1983: Christian E. Elger , Germany; George Kostopoulos, Greece
1984: Solomon L. (“Nico”) Moshé, USA; Jeffrey L. Noebels, USA;
1987: Charles E. Ribak, USA; Arthur Könnerth, Germany; Uwe Heinemann , Germany; Yoel Yaari, Israel; Lechoslaw Turski, Germany; Waldemar A. Turski, Poland; Esper A. Cavalheiro, Brazil
1989: Gregory L. Holmes, USA; Eli M. Mizrahi, USA
1991: Michael M. Segal, USA
1993: Wolfgang Löscher , Dagmar A. Hönack and Chris Rundfeldt, Germany
1995: Massimo Avoli, Canada
1997: Thomas Sander, Germany; Gertrud Beck-Mannagetta, Germany; Ortrud Steinlein, Germany
1999: Heinz Beck , Germany; Marco de Curtis, Italy; Istvan Mody, USA
2001: Matthias Koepp, England; Friedrich G. Wörmann, Germany
2003: Rüdiger Köhling , Germany
2005: József Janszky, Hungary; Heidrun Potschka , Germany
2007: Christophe Bernard, France; Alon Friedman, Israel
2009: Hrissanthi Ikonomidou, Germany; Ivan Soltesz, USA
2011: Eleonora Aronica, Netherlands
2013: Ding Ding, China
2015: Jeanne Paz, France
2017: Boris C. Bernhardt, Germany / Canada
2019: Stéphanie Baulac, France; Birgit Frauscher, Austria

Social Accomplishment Award

Every two years, the International Bureau for Epilepsy and the International League Against Epilepsy jointly honor an individual who has undertaken extraordinary activities aimed at social improvement for people with epilepsy. The recipient will receive a scroll and check for US $ 1,000 and will also be invited to attend the International Epilepsy Congress to receive the award.

Previous winners are:

2019 Carlos Acevedo, Chile
2017 Susan Axelrod, USA
2015 Shunglon Lai, Taiwan
2013 Jane Hanna, England
2011 Pravina Shah, India
2009 Michael D. Hills, New Zealand
2007 John G. Kirker, Ireland
2005 Hanneke M. de Boer, Netherlands
2003 Chi-Wan Lai, Taiwan
2001 Chong Cheul Park, South Korea
1999 Joan K. Austin, USA
1997 Kalyanasundaram Subra Mani, India
1995 Tony Coelho and Elizabeth Savage, USA
1993 Patricia A. Gibson, USA
1991 Caroline Pickering, Kenya
1989 Richard L. Masland, USA
1987 Nyrma Hernandez, USA
1985 Amparo Arcaya, Chile
1983 Ellen Grass, USA
1982 Gilbert C. van Wessem, Italy
1981 Lammert ("Bert") Harmen Brulleman, Netherlands
1980 George S. Burden, England

Epilepsia price

The Epilepsia Prize (originally the Morris Coole Epilepsia Prize) is awarded every year by the ILAE in recognition of outstanding research published in the ILAE organ Epilepsia . It is designed to both encourage excellence in epilepsy research and reward young researchers for outstanding contributions to the field. Award winners receive $ 5,000 and a badge of honor. They will also give the Morris-Coole Epilepsia keynote address at the Awards Symposium during the International Epilepsy Congress.

Presidents and General Secretaries

The President for 2017–2021 is Sam (uel) Wiebe (Canada), the Secretary General is Edward H. Bertram (USA).

Previous presidents and general secretaries were and are:

1909–1913 President: Augusto Tamburini (1909–12), David F. Weeks (1912–1913); Secretary General: Louis JJ Muskens
1935–1939 President: William G. Lennox ; Secretary: Hans Iacob Schou
1939–1946 President: William G. Lennox ; Secretary: Hans Iacob Schou
1946–1949 President: William G. Lennox ; Secretary: Hans Iacob Schou
1949–1953 President: Macdonald Critchley; Secretary General: Bernard Christian Ledeboer
1953–1957 President: A. Earl Walker; Secretary General: Bernard Christian Ledeboer
1957–1961 President: A. Earl Walker; Secretary General: Henri Gastaut
1961–1965 President: Francis L. McNaughton; Secretary General: Henri Gastaut
1965–1969 President: Albert M. Lorentz de Haas (1965–1967), Jerome K. Merlis (1967–1969); Secretary General: Henri Gastaut
1969–1973 President: Henri Gastaut ; Secretary General: Otto Magnus
1973–1977 President: David D. Daly; Secretary General: J. Kiffin Penry
1977–1981 President: J. Kiffin Penry; Secretary General: Francisco Rubio Donnadieu
1981–1985 President: Mogens Dam; Secretary General: Fritz E. Dreifuss
1985–1989 President: Fritz E. Dreifuss; Secretary General: Harry Meinardi
1989–1993 President: Harry Meinardi; Secretary General: Roger J. Porter
1993–1997 President: Edward H. Reynolds; Secretary General: Peter Wolf
1997–2001 President: Jerome Engel Jr; Secretary General: Peter Wolf
2001–05 President: Giuliano Avanzini; Secretary General: Natalio Fejerman
2005–09 President: Peter Wolf; Secretary General: Solomon L. Moshé
2009–2013 President: Solomon L. Moshé; Secretary General: Samuel Wiebe
2013–2017 President: Emilio Perucca; Secretary General: Helen Cross
2017–2021 President: Samuel Wiebe, Secretary General: Edward H. Bertram

Web links

Website of the ILAE (English)

Individual evidence

↑ Anonymous (the Secretaries) .: Establishment of an international league against epilepsy . In: Epilepsia (first series) . tape 1 , 1909, p. 232-234 .

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[1] Anonymous (the Secretaries) .: Establishment of an international league against epilepsy . In: Epilepsia (first series) . tape 1 , 1909, p. 232-234 .