Our Mission
The Epilepsy Study Consortium (TESC) is a group of scientific investigators from academic medical research centers who are dedicated to accelerating the development of new therapies in epilepsy to improve patient care. The organization’s goals include building a partnership between academics, industry and regulatory agencies and optimizing clinical trial methodology in order to responsibly speed new treatments to patients.
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Since 2007 the epilepsy study consortium has assisted with the design and conduct of more than 100 clinical trials. As a result our experience, tools, and network can help accomplish faster and safer epilepsy trials.
It is my goal to actively foster the kind of research that can make a difference to people with epilepsy in a time frame that matters.
President Jacqueline French MD
Dennis Dlugos MD MSCE
Vice-President TESC (Pediatric Epileptologist)
- Professor of Neurology and Pediatrics
- Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
- Pediatric Regional Epilepsy Program at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP)
Michael Sperling MD
Vice-President TESC (Adult Epileptologist)
- Baldwin Keyes Professor of Neurology
- Vice-Chair for Research Director, Jefferson Comprehensive Epilepsy Center
- Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University
Daniel Friedman MD MS
Executive Committee TESC
- Associate Professor of Neurology
- Comprehensive Epilepsy Center, NYU Langone School of Medicine
Sudha Kessler MD MSCE
Executive Committee TESC
- Associate Professor of Neurology and Pediatrics
- Catherine D. Brown Chair of Pediatric Epilepsy
- Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
- Pediatric Epilepsy Center at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP)
Pavel Klein MD MA
Executive Committee TESC
- Clinical Professor, Department of Neurology
George Washington University
- Mid-Atlantic Epilepsy and Sleep Center, Bethesda, MD
Gregory Krauss MD
Executive Committee TESC
- Professor of Neurology
- Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
John Pollard MD
Executive Committee TESC
- Adjunct Assistant Professor of Neurology
- Department of Neurology, University of Pennsylvania
- Christiana Care Health Services
Who, What, How?
What is the Epilepsy Consortium?
How do you advance epilepsy research?
Do you Create innovative trial designs?
Who does the Epilepsy Consortium Collaborate with?
ETDD Symposium
For over 25 years, researchers from academic epilepsy, governmental agencies such as the Food and Drug Administration, the National Institutes of Health, and pharmaceutical and device industry researchers have been meeting on a biennial basis to discuss ways to expedite new epilepsy therapies to patients.