PRESSLER Ronit

Ronit Pressler is Consultant in Clinical Neurophysiology and clinical lead of the Telemetry Unit at Great Ormond Street Hospital for children, London and Honorary Reader at the UCL-GOS Institute of Child Health.

Her research interests include neonatal seizures, particularly their diagnosis and treatment, as well as the effect of epilepsy on cognition and pre-surgical evaluation in children with complex epilepsy. She was the coordinator of NEMO, an EU funded program investigating the safety and efficacy of bumetanide for the treatment of neonatal seizures. Since 2015 she has been on the council of the British Society for Clinical Neurophysiology (BSCN) and currently serves as international secretary. She is currently chair of the ILAE neonatal seizure classification task force as well as co-chair of the ILAE neonatal guidelines update task force and the INC Neonatal seizure working group.