Welcome Message
The Qatar International Epilepsy School aims to provide a comprehensive epilepsy educational program for neurologists, fellows, neurology residents, nurses, and all healthcare professionals involved in the care of individuals with epilepsy. Over the course of three intensive days (September 26th-28th, 2025), attendees will have the opportunity to learn from leading experts in epileptology from Qatar and elsewhere, covering multiple topics such as clinical practice, treatment guidelines, classical concepts and recent advances in the field of pharmacological and surgical treatment of epilepsy. The program will consist of slide presentations with ample time allocated for interactive Q&A sessions following each talk or session (10 min discussion following each 30 min talk ).
The 7th Qatar International Epilepsy Course will provide detailed information on seizures, epilepsy, intractable epilepsy and status epilepticus treatments.
You are all invited to the 7th Edition of Qatar International Epilepsy Course.
We look forward to your participation in this enlightening and impactful educational initiative.
We look forward to your participation in this enlightening and impactful educational event.
Thank you
Boulenouar Mesraoua, MD, FAAN
Course Chair
Director of the Comprehensive Epilepsy Program (Hamad Medical Corporation)
Sr Consultant neurologist/epileptologist (Hamad Medical Corporation)
Associate Professor of Neurology(Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar)
Ambassador for Epilepsy (ILAE)
Tel Mob +(974)66123513
bmesraoua@hamad.qa
boulenouar.mesraoua@wanadoo.fr
Hassan Al Hail ,MD,FAAN
Course Vice Chair
Sr Consultant neurologist/epileptologist
(Hamad Medical Corporation)
Assistant Professor of Neurology
(Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar)
Ali A. Asadi-Pooya, MD
Course Vice Chair
Professor of Epileptology,
Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Gayane Melikyan, MD
Course Vice Chair
Sr Consultant Neurologist/Epileptologist (Hamad Medical Corporation)
Associate Pr of Neurology (Weill Cornell Medical College-Qatar)
About the Epilepsy School
As usual this year, the Epilepsy School will provide Neurologists, Neurology residents and fellows as well as other MDs and epilepsy care givers from HMC, Qatar and abroad, with a comprehensive Epilepsy Educational Program. The participants will learn about recent advances in Epilepsy including clinical, imaging and treatment of Patients with Epilepsy and Status Epilepticus from leading epileptologists experts based in Qatar and the rest of the world.
Objective of the course:
At the conclusion of this course participants will learn about:
- Focal and generalized epilepsies.
- Idiopathic and symptomatic epilepsies
- Autoimmune epilepsies
- Epilepsy surgery in Drug Resistant Epilepsy
- Epilepsy in elderly
- Progressive Myoclonic Epilepsy
- Psychogenic non epileptic seizures
- SUDEP: Definition, epidemiology, and significance of education
- Structural (CT, MRI) and functional neuroimaging in patients with epilepsy
- Therapeutic strategies for epilepsy treatment
- Localizing and lateralizing features of auras and seizures
- Reflex epilepsy
- Precision medicine in epilepsy
- Functional Seizures
- ASMs and breastfeeding
- Recent treatment for epilepsy
- New Onset Refractory Status Epilepticus (NORSE)
- Epilepsy and pregnancy
- Surgical procedures and indications for pre-operative assessment for epilepsy surgery
- Artificial intelligence and epilepsy diagnosis and treatment
- Classification of epilepsy
- Epileptic Encephalopathies
- Management of epilepsy and use of antiseizure medications
- Antiseizure withdrawal in epilepsy
- Why does temporal lobe epilepsy surgery fail ?
- Debate on Cenobamate in the treatment of epilepsy
- Cortical stimulation during epilepsy surgery
- Genetic Testing for Epilepsy
- Epilepsy surgery in the Gulf Region
