CHICAGO ― Phillip L. Pearl, MD, FAES, will present the Fritz E. Dreifuss Lecture during the Presidential Symposium at the 2024 Annual Meeting of the American Epilepsy Society (AES). Dr. Pearl’s presentation is titled “Imaging in the Inherited Metabolic Epilepsies.”
Dr. Pearl is director of Epilepsy and Clinical Neurophysiology at Boston Children’s Hospital and William G. Lennox Chair and professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School. He attended Johns Hopkins University, the Peabody Conservatory of Music and the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore. He completed his residency at Texas Children’s Hospital/Baylor College of Medicine, Houston and his fellowship at Boston Children’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School. He was division chief of neurology at Children’s National and professor of neurology, pediatrics and music at the George Washington University, Washington, D.C., until returning to Boston in January 2014.
His primary research interest is inherited metabolic epilepsies with a specific focus on disorders of GABA metabolism. Dr. Pearl has published over 250 peer-reviewed manuscripts, over 160 chapters/reviews and written or edited five books, one of which was translated into Chinese and one into Japanese. Dr. Pearl is a member of the Music and Health Institute at the Berklee College of Music, Boston, and is past president of the Professors of Child Neurology and the Child Neurology Society.
The Dreifuss Lecture, funded through the AES Dreifuss Fund, honors the memory of Dr. Fritz E. Dreifuss, a leading clinical epilepsy specialist, clinical investigator and former president of the AES and International League Against Epilepsy. He mentored a generation of epilepsy researchers and is an educator with worldwide influence. His legacy continues as the fellows and residents he mentored, in turn, have become a network carrying on his work.