Nominations for awards to be presented at the 33rd International Epilepsy Congress in Bangkok in 2019 are due by 31 December 2018. Please contact your chapter leadership if you wish to suggest someone for an award. View rules here:

• Lifetime Achievement Award
• Ambassador for Epilepsy Award
• Social Accomplishment Award

The Qatar chapter is very active within the country and internationally through clinical, research, and educational activities. They will hold the 1st Qatar International Epilepsy Course in November 2018.

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ILAE Comprehensive Epilepsy Surgery Course Series
21-25 January 2019
Brno, Czech Republic

Application deadline November 1, 2019

Interactive course on surgically remediable epilepsies, presurgical evaluation, scalp and intracranial EEG, neuropsychology, imaging and psychiatric issues of surgical patients before and after surgery. This year the course will be dedicated to advanced information on epilepsy surgery including adults and children. The programme consists of presentations by keynote speakers and case presentations by tutors and students.
Congress website

XV Workshop on Neurobiology of Epilepsy (WONOEP 2019)
What is a Seizure?
16 - 20 June 2019
Ayutthaya, Thailand

The overall purpose of WONOEP XV will be to discuss working definitions and classification schemes for epileptic seizures across the lifespan, improve methods of seizure recognition, detection, and classification and facilitate translation across species.

Abstract submission deadline 18 November 2018
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Proceedings of the 6th London-Innsbruck Colloquium of Status Epilepticus (28 articles)

Volume 59, Issue S2 Pages: i-viii, 67-248 October 2018

This month we are featuring information about Open Access, and recent OA research published in the ILAE journals. Interested in publishing Open Access? Learn more about the author benefits, publication charges, copyright & licensing, and view FAQs

• Brief history of anti‐seizure drug development
• Treatment of infantile spasms
• Discovery and validation of blood microRNAs as molecular biomarkers of epilepsy – ways to close current knowledge gaps

• Soman‐induced status epilepticus, epileptogenesis, and neuropathology in carboxylesterase knockout mice treated with midazolam
• Pharmacokinetics of clobazam oral soluble film
• Guideline‐based and bioinformatic reassessment of lesion‐associated gene and variant pathogenicity in focal human epilepsies

• Identifying the educational needs of physicians in pediatric epilepsy in order to improve care: results from a needs assessment in Germany, Spain, and the United States
• Averaging in time-frequency domain reveals the temporal and spatial extent of seizures recorded by scalp EEG

Plan to Attend Future Congresses

7 – 9 March 2019
5th East Mediterranean Epilepsy Congress
Marrakech, Morocco
Congress website

Abstract submission deadline 22 November 2018

22 - 26 June 2019
33rd International Epilepsy Congress
Bangkok, Thailand

Congress website

22 – 24 August 2019
4th African Epilepsy Congress
Kampala, Uganda
Website coming soon

26 - 27 October 2018
6th UAE Epilepsy Congress
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Website

31 October – 2 November 2018
32nd Epilepsy Society of Australia Annual Meeting
Brisbane, Australia
Chapter website

7 - 12 November 2018
1st Qatar International Epilepsy Course
Doha, Qatar
Congress website

15 November 2018
Epilepsy, critical care & anaesthesia: the interface
London, UK
Congress website

15 November 2018
Swedish Chapter National Meeting
Lund, Sweden

16 November 2018
Nationaal Epilepsie Symposium
Jaarbeurs, Utrecht, Netherlands
Congress website

30 November - 4 December 2018
American Epilepsy Society (AES) Annual Meeting
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Chapter website

8 - 10 March 2019
20th Joint Annual Conference of Indian Epilepsy Society and Indian Epilepsy Association
Lutyen’s Delhi, Parliament Street, New Delhi, India
Congress website

8 - 11 May 2019
Annual Meeting of the Austrian and German Societies for Epileptology and the Swiss Epilepsy League (“Dreilaendertagung”)
Basel, Switzerland
Meeting website