Join Medical Academic and Zydus Healthcare for a webinar on the diagnosis of epilepsy with subject expert Dr James Butler. As many as 1 in 100 South Africans are estimated to suffer from the disease. This webinar is accredited for 1 General CPD point and it is proudly sponsored by Zydus.
Presented by
Conrad Strydom
Editor: Medical Academic
Dr James Butler
Neurologist
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 two local universities and neurologists, neurosurgeons, neuroradiologists, neuropathologist and neuropsychologists from across the country.
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