Presenter: Dr. Norman Delanty Consultant Neurologist, Dublin

Biography: After graduating from University College Cork in 1988, Norman Delanty trained in general medicine in Cork and Dublin before completing a neurology residency at Cornell Medical Centre, New York. He then moved to Philadelphia to complete a fellowship at Penn Epilepsy Centre, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. In 2000, he returned to Dublin to take up a position as Consultant Neurologist and Director of the Epilepsy Service and National Epilepsy Surgery Programme at Beaumont Hospital, Dublin in 2000.  He is also Associate Professor at the School of Pharmacy and Biomolecular Sciences, and a funded investigator at the Science Foundation Ireland-funded FutureNeuro Research Centre at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI). 

Professor Delanty has been active in many translational research projects. He initiated the the Irish epilepsy biobank, originally funded by the Higher Education Authority of Ireland, and collaborates nationally and internationally with other investigators.  He was the clinical instigator in the development of the now nationally-used Epilepsy Electronic Patient Record.  He is also the founder of the Irish Epilepsy and Pregnancy Register.  Professor Delanty has published widely in peer-reviewed journals, and he has edited two books.  In 2009, he received an ILAE Ambassador for Epilepsy Award.  He is a recent past President of the Irish Chapter of the ILAE.  He co-hosted the joint scientific meeting of the UK and Irish Chapters of the ILAE held in Dublin in October 2016.