Join Medical Chronicle for a free, one-hour, CPD-accredited webinar on Lacosamide – A practical update on the new anti-seizure medication. This webinar is sponsored by Macleods.
Date: 5 November 2024
Time: 7pm
Topic: Lacosamide – A practical update on the new anti-seizure medication
Speaker: Dr James Butler & Dr Sally Ackermann
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Dr Butler is a neurologist who specialises in epilepsy, including epilepsy surgery. He qualified from the University of Cape Town in 1988, completed his neurology training at the same institution in 1995, and finished a two-year fellowship in epilepsy at the Epilepsy Unit in the Department of Neurological Sciences, University of Western Ontario, Canada from 1996 to 1998. He completed six university courses in clinical epidemiology and biostatistics from the same institution. He was subsequently appointed as a consultant neurologist at the University of Stellenbosch, before starting the Epilepsy Unit at Constantiaberg Hospital, Cape Town in 2000. He subsequently established a research unit in the same hospital, is affiliated as a part-time consultant to the Neurology Department at the University of Cape Town and the University of Stellenbosch, and has published 18 articles in international peer-reviewed journals, including one of the few completed randomised controlled trials of epilepsy surgery in adults. He serves as a member of the Neurological Association of South Africa executive committee. He holds a weekly Friday morning neurosciences meeting and a weekly EEG meeting, attended by members of the 2 local universities and neurologists, neurosurgeons, neuroradiologists, neuropathologist and neuropsychologists from across the country.
Dr Sally Ackermann is a paediatric neurologist in private practice at Mediclinic Constantiaberg, where she has worked since completing her training in 2011 at Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital. She runs a general neurology hospital practice, providing both an acute and elective neurology service. She also consults at Netcare Christiaan Barnard Hospital when required for acutely ill ICU patients. She has a special interest in infants and children with epilepsy, the ketogenic diet, autoimmune CNS conditions and the use of botulinum toxin for spasticity and dystonia. She is fortunate to work alongside the Neurosciences Unit and paediatric team at Constantiaberg, along with the support of a dedicated and passionate team of paediatric nursing staff and allied health professionals.
