The Sacrifices & Benefits Of A Hemispherotomy - Georgia Ramantani, University Children's Hospital Zürich, Switzerland

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From epileptologist Georgia Ramantani, learn about who's suitable for a hemispherotomy, the positive impacts, the sacrifices, and ongoing research into patient outcomes. This is part 2 of 2.

    • Georgia intro

    • Who makes a good candidate for a hemispherotomy

    • Physical effects of surgery - the price for stopping seizures

    • Example of patient sacrifice & outcome

    • How the surgery works

    • Why aren’t there still seizures in one half of the brain?!

    • Research into patient outcomes

  • Georgia, MD, PhD, is a peadiatrician, child neurologist, and epileptologist, currently heading the EEG & Epilepsy Unit at the Department of Neuropeadiatrics, University Children's Hospital Zurich, Switzerland. She previously was the Head of the Peadiatric Epilepsy Surgery Program at the University of Freiburg, Germany.

    Georgia graduated from the University of Thessaloniki Medical School in Greece and completed her post-graduate training in peadiatrics, neuropeadiatrics, and epileptology in Heidelberg, Dresden, and Freiburg, Germany, as well as in Tokyo, Japan, and Cleveland, Ohio, USA. She received a doctorate degree in medicine from the University of Heidelberg, Germany, and a PhD on signal analysis from the University of Lorraine, France. Dr. Ramantani joined the medical faculty of the University of Freiburg as an assistant professor for neuropeadiatrics and epileptology in 2014.

    Georgia's main area of interest is in improving diagnostic tools for refractory focal epilepsy, particularly in the context of epilepsy surgery, as well as developing prognostic tools for outcome prediction after acute brain insults, particularly in the context of neonatal seizures. She is currently involved in several European joint studies and has received several international awards and scholarships.

  • LinkedIn: Georgia

    Publications: ResearchGate

    University: University of Zurich

 
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