ATLANTA―Lawrence J. Hirsch, MD, FAES will be presented with the 2025 Clinical Science Research Award during the 2025 Annual Meeting of the American Epilepsy Society (AES). The Research Recognition Awards are the Society's highest research awards to encourage and recognize active basic science and clinical investigators whose research contributes importantly to understanding and conquering epilepsy.
Dr. Hirsch is professor of neurology, co-director of the Comprehensive Epilepsy Center, co-director of the Critical Care EEG Monitoring Program and fellowship, director of the Clinical Neurophysiology fellowship, and medical director of the School of Neurophysiology, all at Yale University.
He has held leadership positions in the AES, ACNS, AAN, and EFA. He is lead author of the 2012 and 2021 ACNS guidelines on critical care EEG terminology and senior author of the ACNS guideline on Critical Care EEG Monitoring. He is founder and former chair of the Critical Care EEG Monitoring Research Consortium; co-chair of the medical advisory board of the NORSE Institute; first author of the manuscript defining NORSE and FIRES; PI of the NORSE/FIRES Open Biorepository housed at Yale, and PI of a 33-center randomized trial on immunotherapy for NORSE. He described and coined the term SIRPIDs. He has an H index of 92 with >33,000 citations. He has published more than 240 peer-reviewed manuscripts. He has won multiple teaching awards, mentored dozens of trainees, received the 2025 ACNS Pierre Gloor Award for Outstanding Clinical Research, and is co-author of the first-ever atlas on EEG in critical care, now with multiple editions.