Medical Advisory Board
J. Helen Cross, M.D.
Hope For HH, Medical Advisory Board Chairman (2015 - Present)
Head of Neuroscience Unit, UCL Institute of Child Health
London, England
Alexis Arzimanoglou, M.D.
Professor, Head of the Department of Pediatric Clinical Epileptology, Sleep Disorders and Functional Neurology, University Hospitals
Lyon, France
Visiting Professor Universitat de Barcelona and Epilepsy Research Coordinator, Hospital San Juan de Déu
Barcelona, Spain
Sam Berkovic, M.D.
Director, Epilepsy Research Centre, University of Melbourne, Australia
Melbourne, Australia
Madison M. Berl, Ph.D., ABPP
Director of Research, Division of Pediatric Neuropsychology Pediatric Neuropsychologist
Comprehensive Pediatric Epilepsy Program (CPEP) Children's National Medical Center
Washington, DC, USA
Varina Boerwinkle, M.D.
Director of the Neuro-Critical Care, Phoenix Children's Hospital
Phoenix, Arizona, USA
Daniel Curry, M.D.
Director, Functional Neurosurgery and Epilepsy Surgery Program, Office of Pediatric Neurosurgery, Texas Children’s Hospital, Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, Texas, USA
William Davis Gaillard, M.D.
Chief, Child Neurology
Director Comprehensive Pediatric Epilepsy Program, Children’s National Health System
Professor Pediatrics & Neurology, George Washington University
Washington, DC, USA
Michael Hildebrand, Ph.D.
Translational Neurogenetics Laboratory in the Epilepsy Research Centre
Melbourne Brain Centre, Austin Hospital
Melbourne, Australia
Julia Jacobs-Levan, M.D.
Head of Pediatric Epilepsy,
Alberta Children's Hospital
Calgary, Canada
John F. Kerrigan, M.D.
Director, Hypothalamic Hamartoma Program at Barrow Neurological Institute at Phoenix Children's Hospital
Hope For HH, MAB Chair (2009-2012)
Phoenix, Arizona, USA
Oliver Oatman, DO
Pediatric Endocrinologist, Division of Endocrinology & Diabetes, Phoenix Children's Hospital
Phoenix, Arizona, USA
Jean Régis, M.D.
Professor of Neurosurgery, Université de la Méditerranée, Marseille, France and Neurosurgeon, Stereotactic, Functional Neurosurgery, and Radiosurgery Department, Timone University Hospital, Marseille, France
Marseille, France
Andreas Schulze-Bonhage, M.D.
Director, Epilepsy Center University Hospital Freiburg
Freiburg, Germany
Hiroshi Shirozu, M.D., PhD
Head, Hypothalamic Hamartoma Center, Head, Department of Functional Neurosurgery, Head, Laboratory of Neurophysiology, Nishi-Niigata Chuo National Hospital
Niigata, Japan
Jie Wu, M.D., PhD
Professor & Director of Epilepsy Research, Barrow Neurological Institute, St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center
Phoenix, Arizona, USA
Honorary Members
Harold Rekate, M.D.
Director, The Chiari Institute, Great Neck, NY
Hope For HH, MAB Chair (2013-2014)
Jeffrey V Rosenfeld, M.D.
Professor and Head, Department of Surgery, Central Clinical School, Monash University Director, Department of Neurosurgery, The Alfred Director, Monash University Institute for Brain Development and Repair
Melbourne, Australia
A. Simon Harvey, M.D.
Epileptologist and Director,
Children’s Epilepsy Program at Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne, Australia
Melbourne, Australia
Past Members
Maya Lodish, M.D.
Maya Lodish, M.D., Assistant Clinical Investigator, Pediatric Endocrinology and Deputy Program Director, Inter-institute training program in pediatric endocrinology at the National Institutes of Health.
John Fulton, Ph.D., ABPP/CN
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Utah School of Medicine
Salt Lake City, Utah, USA