Executive Committee

Aatif M. Husain, MD, is a Professor in the Department of Neurology and Chief of the Division of Epilepsy, Sleep and Clinical Neurophysiology at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina. He also is the National Director of the Veterans Affairs Epilepsy Centers of Excellence. Dr. Husain is currently the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Clinical Neurophysiology and the Treasurer of the International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology. He is a Past President of the American Clinical Neurophysiology Society and the American Board of Registration of the EEG and EP Technologists. Dr. Husain is the author of more than 100 publications and nine books, including landmark studies on the treatment of refractory seizures and non-convulsive status epilepticus. His clinical interests include treatment of acute seizures and status epilepticus, neurophysiologic intraoperative monitoring, and general clinical neurophysiology.

Dr. Jorge Gutierrez is a doctor at the University del Valle, Cali, Colombia where he also completed his residency. He obtained a Master’s degree in computer sciences at the Technological Institute of Monterrey, Mexico. He also has a PhD in Bioinformatics and Biomedical Informatics at the Pontifical University of Salamanca in Madrid, Spain. His field of expertise includes electromyography, neurophysiology, carpal tunnel, peripheral neuropathy, radioculapathy and discal herniation. He is an Assistance Professor, Department of PM&R, University del Valle. He has chaired the Latin American Chapter of IFCN and will be IFCN’s next convener of ICCN.

Yoshikazu Ugawa, MD, is a Director and Professor at the Department of Human Neurophysiology, Fukushima Medical University, Fukushima, Japan. He enjoyed the disaster of the earthquake 2011, Japan and still lives in Fukushima. He studied the physiology of movement disorders under Professor Marsden and Professor Rothwell in Queen Square, London in 1987-1990. He received his PhD from the University of Tokyo in 1992. He was a Director and Professor of the Department of Neurology, Fukushima Medical University from 2007 to 2018. He was the secretary of IFCN from 2014 to 2017, he has been a co-chair of the Brain Stimulation SIG of IFCN since 2017 and an associate editor of Clinical Neurophysiology since 2006, and he is now the president of AO chapter of IFCN. His main interest is in noninvasive brain stimulation, such as TMS and newly developed transcranial ultrasound stimulation (TUS). His clinical interest is movement disorders, and he has published around 450 papers in various international journals.

Hatice Tankisi, is a consultant in Clinical Neurophysiology at Aarhus University Hospital and professor at Aarhus University, Denmark. She has served as the secretary and treasurer of ExCo Europe-Middle East-Africa Chapter, International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology (EMEAC-IFCN) since 2018 and in January 2022, she was elected as the president of EMEAC. She is Asscociate Editor of Clinical Neurophysiology Practice. She has been serving as the Co-chair of the Clinical Neurophysiology Panel, European Academy of Neurology (EAN) since 2020. She is also a member of EAN Teaching Course Sub-Committee.

She was born and studied medicine and trained as a neurologist in Turkey and then moved to Denmark in 2000, trained as a clinical neurophysiologist and did her PhD in Denmark. Her main research interests are peripheral nerve, muscle and cortical excitability tests with threshold tracking and motor unit number estimation methods for diagnosis and understanding disease pathophysiology in neurological disorders particularly ALS, myopathy and polyneuropathy.

Professor Paulo Kimaid, MD, PhD is a Board-Certified Neurologist and Clinical Neurophysiologist in Brazil. He has a master’s degree in sciences and a professional doctorate in Medical Sciences, area of Neurology. He is a Past-President of the Brazilian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology and a Past-President of the Latin America Chapter of the IFCN. He is Co-chair of the Education Committee of the IFCN. He is interested in both education and clinical practice. His clinical interests are peripheral nerve neurophysiology and imaging, evoked potentials and intraoperative neurophysiology.

Dr. Peter Kaplan is Professor of Neurology and serves as the Director of Epilepsy and EEG at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center. He focuses on epilepsy, clinical neurophysiology and nonconvulsive status epilepticus. He has written extensively about these subjects as well as about eclampsia and neurologic disease in women.

Dr. Peter Kaplan received his medical training from St. Bartholomew’s Medical School, University of London. He then obtained membership to the Royal College of Physicians in England. He completed his residency in neurology at Duke University Medical Center. He completed fellowships in epilepsy and clinical neurophysiology at the same institution.

He is a member of the Royal College of Physicians, London RCP, The Royal Society of Medicine, London, the AAN, ANA, and the ACNS.

He has received the Concours du Collège de Médecine des Hôpitaux de Paris, Paris, France and the Gloor Lifetime Award for Clinical Neurophysiology, ACNS in 2019.

He has written some 270 articles; 10 books/editions and 50 book chapters.

Margitta Seeck, MD, is the Director of the EEG & Epilepsy center since 1995, which became a reference center for difficult-to-treat epilepsies in adults and children on both a national and an international level. Her main interests are scalp and intracranial EEG, imaging in epilepsy, epilepsy surgery, corticography and cognitive evoked potentials in epilepsy patients. She is author of more than 180 papers on epilepsy in national and international journals. In 2018, she was awarded with the Hans Berger Preis of the American Society of Clinical Neurophysiology and IFCN. She is currently on the board of the Swiss national science foundations and expert for other national science agencies. She is Past President of the Swiss Neurophysiology Society and is still actively involved in teaching activities of the Society. She is the Editor-in-Chief of Clinical Neurophysiology Practice of the International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology.

Dr. Robert Chen is currently Professor of Medicine (Neurology) at the University of Toronto and Senior Scientist at the Krembil Brain Institute. His editorial experience includes the Editor-in-Chief of the Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences and Associate Editor for Movement Disorders. His clinical and research interests include the neuromodulation techniques such as transcranial magnetic and ultrasound stimulation, neurophysiology of movement disorders, mapping of brain connectivity using functional magnetic imaging and electroencephalography, electromyography and neurophysiological assessment of the respiratory system. He has published over 380 research papers with a Google Scholar H-index of 105. In 2022, he published a book on transcranial magnetic stimulation and edited two volumes of Handbook of Clinical Neurology on Respiratory Neurobiology.