Boulenouar Mesraoua

Hamad General Hospital and WCMC, Qatar

Title: Drug resistant epilepsy, definition, Pathophysiology and management

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Biography

He is Senior Consultant Neurologist at HMC , Neuroscience Department ,and Associate Professor of Clinical Neurology at WCMC-Q; He graduated as an MD from Algeria  then moved to Belgium, for a Residency in Internal Medicine and Neurology at Liege University ; following the Belgian Board of Neurology (which he got with high marks), he moved to the National Hospital for Nervous Diseases, Queen Square, London, United Kingdom , for a fellowship in Clinical Neurophysiology, under Pr Willison ; Dr B Mesraoua had also further training in Epilepsy and Continuous EEG Monitoring for two years in the Neurophysiology department of Zurich ,Switzerland ,under late Pr Hans Gregor Wieser ,an internationally known clinical epileptologist . 

Dr B.Mesraoua is currently Director of the Neurology Fellowship Pro-gram at the Neurology Section at HMC, Doha, Qatar; he is also Assistant Director of the Residency Program at Qatar Medical School. 

He is the Chairman and the Organizer of the well known Qatar Epilepsy Symposium, and the International Epilepsy School he is running yearly for the past several years ; 

Internationally, Dr Mesraoua  is currently a member of the ILAE Publica-tion Council (2021-2025 term) with the aim of improving the quality of the publications targeting the journals  Epilepsia, epilepsia open and epileptic disorders and also a member of the ILAE Task Force Innovation Con-gress with the aim of  organizing and improving the quality of the next in-ternational epilepsy congresses. He was also an active and elected member of the Commission on Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMR ) , a re-gional branch of the ILAE,(2017-2020)

Abstract

Neurology