Lennox-Lombroso Pediatric Epilepsy Conference (September 18-19, 2025)

Overview

The third biennial Lennox-Lombroso Pediatric Epilepsy Conference continues Boston Children’s Hospital’s tradition of excellence in continuing medical education, specifically focusing on childhood epilepsy diagnosis, management, and research. This course will cover a wide range of topics, including medical advances, discoveries, and innovative technological approaches in areas such as epilepsy genetics, neurocritical care, computational neurophysiology, surgical procedures, and EEG development.

This Continuing Education (CE) course is designed to meet the educational needs of healthcare professionals who specialize in or have an interest in pediatric neurology, neurology, pediatric epilepsy, neuropsychology, epilepsy, clinical neurophysiology, and primary care.

In addition to presenting the latest advances and innovations in epilepsy research and care, the course will provide practitioners with clear guidance on how to apply this knowledge across all aspects of pediatric epilepsy. The core faculty comprises members from the Division of Epilepsy and Clinical Neurophysiology at Boston Children’s Hospital. Additionally, invited faculty members have been selected to honor and highlight alumni who continue to make significant contributions to the field.

Lennox Lombroso Symposium Guest Alumni Faculty:
2019	2023	2025
Gregory L. Holmes, M.D. Mohammad Mikati, M.D. James J. Riviello, M.D.	Blaise Bourgeois, M.D. Howard P. Goodkin, M.D., Ph.D. Cecil Hahn, M.D.	Mary Connolly, M.D. Elizabeth Donner, M.D. Michael Duchowny, M.D.

About the courses

This 2 day course is being offered in-person at the The Inn at Longwood Medical, 324 Longwood Ave, Boston MA 02115.

A virtual option is available for those who are unable to attend in-person.

Course Objectives:

Learning Objectives: 

At the conclusion of this educational program, learners will be able to:

1. The participant will apply stereotactic EEG principles in planning epilepsy surgery.
2. The participant will provide SUDEP counseling with the most current information on risk and risk factors.
3. The participant will learn the clinical spectrum and molecular biology underlying the epilepsy-dyskinesia syndromes.

Physician
Boston Children’s Hospital designates this live activity for a maximum of  16.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits ™. Physicians should claim only credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in this activity.

Nurse
Boston Children’s Hospital designates this activity for 16.00 contact hours for nurses. Nurses should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

 

	Phillip L. Pearl, MD  Co-Director, Epilepsy Center; Director, Epilepsy and Clinical NeurophysiologyWilliam G. Lennox Chair and Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School
	Coral M. Stredny, MD  Assistant Physician, Department of Neurology Instructor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School
	Jeffrey Bolton, MD Assistant, Department of Neurology Instructor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School
	Michael Duchowny, MD Pediatric Neurologist
	Sanjay Prabhu, MBBS, FRCR  Staff Pediatric Neuroradiologist, Department of Radiology; Medical Director, Imaging Informatics; IT Physician Director Assistant Professor of Radiology, Harvard Medical School
	Michelle Y. Chiu, MD, FRCPC Attending, Department of Neurology Instructor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School
	Scellig Stone, MD, PhD, FRCSC  Co-Director, Epilepsy Center; Director, Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery; Neurosurgical Director, Movement Disorders and Deep Brain Stimulation Program Associate Professor of Neurosurgery, Harvard Medical School
	John McLaren, MD Assistant, Department of NeurologyInstructor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School
	Jurriaan Peters, MD, PhD Assistant, Department of NeurologyAssociate Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School
	Elizabeth Donner, MD, M.Sc., FRCPC Head, Division of Neurology, The Hospital for Sick Children
	Melissa Tsuboyama, MD Assistant, Department of Neurology Instructor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School
	Alexander Rotenberg, MD, PhD Epileptologist; Director, Neuromodulation Program Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School
	Christina Briscoe, MD, EdM Pediatric Epileptologist, Department of Neurology Instructor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School
	Amy DiVasta, MD, MMSc Chief, Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
	Paula E Voinescu, MD, PhD
	Robert Stowe, MD Assistant, Department of Neurology Instructor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School
	William Hong, MD Epilepsy Genetics Fellow
	Sara James  KCNQ2 Cure Alliance Vice President Author; Emmy Award-Winning Journalist
	Mary Connolly, MB, BCh Clinical Investigator, CFRI Clinical Professor and Division Head, Division of Neurology, Department of Paediatrics, University of British Columbia Director of the Epilepsy Surgery Program, BC Children’s Hospital
	Stephanie Donatelli, MD Assistant, Department of Neurology; Director, Epilepsy Fellowship Training ProgramInstructor of Neurology. Harvard Medical School
	Chellamani Harini, MD Director, Infantile Spasms Program; Assistant, Department of Neurology Assistant Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School
	Clemente Vega, PsyD, ABPP-CN  Attending Neuropsychologist, Department of NeurologyInstructor of Psychology in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
	Agnieszka Kielian, MD Pediatric Neurologist
	Anna Pinto, MD, PhD
	Heather Olson, MD, MPH Assistant, Department of Neurology Instructor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School
	Sara Trowbridge, MD Attending, Department of Neurology Instructor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School
	Christelle Moufawad El Achkar, MD Assistant, Department of Neurology Instructor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School
	Sonal Mahida, MGC, CGC Senior Genetic Counseling Program Manager, Department of Neurology
	Kimberly Wiltrout, MD Attending, Department of Neurology Instructor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School
	Fatemeh Mohammadpour Touserkani, MD Pediatric Neurologist
	Archana Patel, MD, MPH, MSc Assistant, Department of Neurology Assistant Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School
	Janet Soul, MDCM Director, Fetal-Neonatal Neurology Program Associate Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School
	Darius Ebrahimi-Fakhari, MD, PhD Director, Movement Disorders Program; Attending, Department of Neurology Assistant Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School

We would like to thank all of our sponsors/exhibitors

Bronze Sponsors

Basic Sponsors

Exhibitors

• Epilepsy Foundation New England
• UCB
• SK Life Sciences
• PTC
• BioCodex
• Upsher-Smith
• GeneDX

Disclosures

Boston Children’s Hospital adheres to all ACCME Essential Areas, Standards, and Policies. It is Boston Children’s policy that those who have influenced the content of a CME activity (e.g. planners, faculty, authors, reviewers and others) disclose all relevant financial relationships with commercial entities so that Boston Children’s may identify and resolve any conflicts of interest prior to the activity. These disclosures will be provided in the activity materials along with disclosure of any commercial support received for the activity. Additionally, faculty members have been instructed to disclose any limitations of data and unlabeled or investigational uses of products during their presentations.

The following planners, speakers, and content reviewers, on behalf of themselves, have reported the following relevant financial relationships with any entity producing, marketing, reselling, or distributing health care goods or services consumed by, or used on patients: 

Name, Degree	Entity Name, or None
Coral Stredny, MD	Stock, Proctor and Gamble; Clinical Trial, Roche
Phillip Pearl, MD	Researcher, Speaker, PTC Therapeutics; Honoraria, Elsevier, Springer Demos, Cambridge University Press, Up to Date
Jeffrey Bolton, MD	None
Michael Duchowny, MD	None
Sanjay Prabhu, MBBS, FRCR	None
Michelle Chiu, MD, FRCPC	Individual stocks, Medtronic; Individual stocks, Neuropace; Consultant, Ceribell
Scellig Stone, MD, PhD, FRPCSC	Consultant, Microbot Medical
Tobias Loddenkemper, MD	Research Grant funding through Epitel and through NIH, Epitel; Future research grant funding, investigator initiated, at BCH, LivaNova; Sensor donations for research, Epatica
John McLaren, MD	None
Jurriaan M. Peters, MD, PhD	Consultant, Scientific Advisory Board, Neurelis; Scientific Advisory Board, UCB Pharma
Elizabeth Donner, MD	Consultant, UCB; Consultant, Jazz;
Melissa Tsuboyama, MD	Consultant for an FDA- related study through Neuroelectrics.
Christina Briscoe, MD, EdM	None
Amy Desrochers DiVasta, MD, MMSc	Author, UpToDate
P. Emanuela Voinescu, MD, PhD	Royalties (book authorship), Cambridge University Press
Mark Libenson, MD	None
Ugur Damar, MD	None
Patrick Davis, MD, PhD	None
Mohammad AlQahtani, MBBS, MSc, FRCPC	None
Jack O’Keeffe Donohue, MB, BCH, BAO	None
Dimira Tambunan, MD	None
Stephanie Donatelli, MD	None
Chellamani Harini, MD	None
Clemente Vega, PsyD, ABPP	None
Agnieszka Kielian, MD	None
Anna Pinto, MD, PhD	None
Sara Trowbridge, MD	None
Christelle Moufawad El Achkar, MD	None
Sonal Mahida, MGC, CGC	None
Kimberly Wiltrout, MD	Consultant, Stoke Therapeutics
Robert Stowe, MD	Medical Advisory Board, Takeda Pharmaceuticals
Fatemeh Mohammadpour Touserkani, MD	None
Archana Patel, MD, MPH, MSc	None
Janet Soul, MDCM	Research support for an investigator-initiated, multicenter research study on the use of lacosamide to treat neonatal seizures, UCB
Darius Ebrahimi-Fakhari, MD, PhD	Joint research agreement (Astellas), Clinical Trial (Neurocrine), Consulting (BlackfinBio), Astellas Pharma Inc., Neurocrine Inc., Blackfin Bio Inc

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