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Dr Sam Amin

University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust, Bristol, UK

Dr Sam Amin is a consultant paediatric neurologist and head of department at University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust. He is chair of the South and Wales TSC network and has led several national and international working groups for guidelines in TSC. He runs an active research group in paediatric neurology and is chief investigator on nine current studies.

Dr Amin has received funding from GW Pharmaceuticals/Jazz Pharmaceuticals, Norvartis, PTC Therapeutics, Boston Scientific, Nutricia, UCB, BioMarin, LivaNova, Medtronic, Desitin, Ipsen, Orion, CDKL5 UK, TSA and the National Institute for Health Research.
Dr Milka Pringsheim

Epilepsy Center for Children and Adolescents, Schön Clinic Vogtareuth, Voiturette, Germany

Dr Milka Pringsheim has specialised in paediatric cardiology and neuropaediatrics. She has worked in the German Heart Centre Munich (Germany), as a paediatric cardiologist for 15 years, seeing outpatients with congenital heart disease and neurologic complications. She has also worked in the Schön Klinik Vogtareuth as a neuropaediatrician for 10 years, leading the ward for ICU there (intermediate care) and taking care of neuropaediatric patients with severe encephalopathy, who sometimes are also dependent on ventilation. In the neuropaediatric epilepsy centre, she is responsible for the cardiac investigations of the TSC patients. Her research focuses on genetic epilepsy syndromes.

Dr Pringsheim has previously received honoraria for speaking from Zogenix. She is part of the advisory board for Jazz Pharmaceuticals, Takeda and Zogenix.
Dr Nicholas Annear

St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK

Dr Nicholas Annear is a Consultant in Acute Medicine and Nephrology St George’s University Hospitals. He undertakes specialist clinics in Acute Kidney Injury and Renal Transplantation, and established a new clinic for patients with TSC. He is also an Honorary Senior Lecturer in the Institute for Medical and Biomedical Teaching at St George’s University of London.

Dr Annear has been awarded research grants with the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), the Wellcome Trust, the Imperial College Biomedical Research Centre, King’s College London Biomedical Research Centre and the Kathleen Valley Charitable Trust (KVCT). He is a co-signatory to a joint working project with Novartis to develop the TSC service at St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. He has previously received honoraria and educational grants for speaking, attending conferences and participating in research from Novartis and Vifor Pharma. He currently holds consulting agreements with Aeovian Pharmaceuticals and GW Pharmaceuticals/Jazz Pharmaceuticals.
Dr Aglaia Vignoli

University of Milan, Milan, Italy

Dr Aglaia Vignoli is Director of the Child Neurology and Psychiatry in Milan and assistant professor at the University of Milan. She has expertise in rare disorders and epilepsy and has led several research projects on rare disorders with neurologic impairment.

Dr Vignoli has received fees from Jazz Pharmaceuticals.
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