Course directors

Born in 1963; he followed classical studies in Genova before going to the medical Faculty in the same town.
After the medical Degree, in 1988, he started the specification in Clinical Neurophysiology, always in Genova, and completed it in 1991.
Immediately after the specification he joined Claudio Munari and his newly formed Epilepsy Surgery team in Grenoble, France, where he spent the following 3 years. During the period in Grenoble he got completely absorbed in Epilepsy Surgery and became a specialist in the pre-surgical diagnosis of partial epileptic patients paying particular attention to all the non-invasive pre-surgical diagnostic techniques and in SEEG as the main invasive diagnostic methodology. In 1996, after a 2 years period in Genova where he set up a Video-EEG monitoring laboratory, he definitively joined the Claudio Munari Epilepsy Surgery Centre in Milano where he worked until July 2023. In August 2023 he moved back to Genova where he started working at the Gaslini Paediatric hospital for managing the Epilepsy Surgery activity and implementing a new Stereo-EEG program.
For more than 25 years in Milano, and now in Genova, he continued his activity in Epilepsy Surgery dealing with all the aspects of the pre-surgical diagnosis and deepening his expertise also in functional neuroimaging aspects.
Beside his clinical activity he contributed to many scientific publications in the field and played also an important role in multiple, italian and international, didactical initiatives.
In particular, since 2013 is co-director of the “International SEEG Course” a teaching program about Stereo-EEG methodology which started in 2010 and is now established in 3 continents (Europe, North-America and Asia) with annual editions. Since May 2023 he became the coordinator of the UTASK, an informal group of European Epilepsy Surgery specialist, meeting twice every year for discussing complex cases of paediatric focal epilepsy.

Philippe Kahane, MD-PhD, is a neurologist and neurophysiologist, Hospital Practioner and University Professor at Grenoble-Alpes University and Hospital (France). He is the Director of the Grenoble Hospitalo-University Federation of Clinical Neurosciences and is in charge of the clinical epileptology program. He is acknowledged as an international expert on presurgical assessment of drug-resistant epilepsies, including SEEG investigations, with more than 25 years of experience in the field.

Philippe Ryvlin, MD, PhD, is Professor of Neurology and Chair of the Department of Clinical Neurosciences at the University Hospital of Lausanne (CHUV), Switzerland, and Director of the Epilepsy Institute (IDEE) in Lyon, France. He is the President of the European Epilepsy Monitoring Association (EEMA) and holds an honorary Professorship in epilepsy surgery at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. He previously chaired the Department of Functional Neurology and Epileptology at Hospices Civils de Lyon.

Francesco Cardinale, MD, serves as a neurosurgeon at the "Claudio Munari" Epilepsy Surgery Centre, Niguarda Hospital, Milan, Italy. His clinical activity focuses on stereotactic methodology for implanting intracerebral electrodes aimed to perform StereoEEG monitoring and on brain resective surgery. His research activity focuses mainly on advanced neuroimaging processing for surgical planning and on robotic aided surgery.