Charlotte Dravet, Date of Birth

    

Charlotte Dravet

French paediatric psychiatrist and epileptologist

Date of Birth: 14-Jul-1936

Profession: psychiatrist, psychologist, epileptologist

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Cancer


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About Charlotte Dravet

  • Charlotte Dravet (born July 14, 1936) is a French paediatric psychiatrist and epileptologist. After graduation at the University Aix-Marseille University Dravet trained in Pediatrics in Marseille from 1962-1965.
  • She wrote her M.D.
  • thesis on the Lennox-Gastaut syndrome.
  • In 1971 she was certified as psychiatrist. From 1965 to 2000 Charlotte Dravet specialized in Epilepsy at the Centre Saint Paul in Marseille, among others with Henri Gastaut, Joseph Roger, and RenĂ© Soulayrol (pediatric psychiatry).
  • She was the resident doctor and actually lived on the premises until her retirement in 2000.
  • She thus had the opportunity, and also the dedication to accompany and observe inpatients day and night for many years, which resulted in some of her major contributions to epileptology.
  • In 1972 she trained in the pediatric EEG Department of the HĂ´pital Saint-Vincent de Paul and in the Department of Functional Neurosurgery of the HĂ´pital Sainte-Anne in Paris.
  • From 1989 to 2000 Dravet has been Associate Medical Director of the Centre Saint Paul. With Joseph Roger and Michelle Bureau she played an active role in the delineation of epileptic syndromes through several workshops and the first edition of the book "Epileptic syndromes in infancy, childhood and adolescence".
  • In 1981 she described together with Michelle Bureau the benign myoclonic epilepsy of infancy and in 1978 as well as in 1982 the severe myoclonic epilepsy of childhood, the syndrome later on named after her (Dravet syndrome), which was confirmed by subsequent genetic discoveries and became a model for the genetic childhood epilepsies. From 1991 to 1993 Charlotte Dravet was a member of the Scientific Board of the French Foundation for Research on Epilepsy.
  • From 1996 to 2004 she was a member of the Task Force on Classification and Terminology of the International League Against Epilepsy ILAE.
  • From 1997 to 1999 she served as president of the French League Against Epilepsy (LFCE).
  • In 2000 she organized the first National Epilepsy Day in France.
  • From 2003 to 2006 she was a member of the Board of the French ComitĂ© National pour l’Épilepsie and she still is a member of the Scientific Board of the International Dravet syndrome Epilepsy Action League. Since her retirement she has focused her activities on the Dravet syndrome.
  • As Honorary Consultant she regularly attends the Childhood Epilepsy Unit at the Policlinico A.
  • Gemelli of the Catholic University in Rome, Italy, where she sees patients with this severe epilepsy and, in collaboration with her Italian colleagues, coordinates research on their cognitive development. Charlotte Dravet trained or helped train a vast number of epileptologists who came from all over the world to Marseille to learn about the epileptic syndromes of infancy and childhood, and enjoys a huge following of disciples.
  • She is also a popular speaker about epilepsy and has spoken at numerous epilepsy meetings and workshops all around the world, not mentioning her frequent participation in events organised by nonprofessional organizations such as patients’ and parents’ associations worldwide.

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