Elaine Wirrell, MD

Dr. Elaine Wirrell is the Chair of Child Neurology and Professor of Neurology at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. She completed medical school at the University of British Columbia and her pediatric neurology training at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

She is the co-chair of the Pediatric Medical Therapies Task Force and a member of the Pediatric Commission of the International League Against Epilepsy. She is also a member of the Medical Advisory Board for the Dravet Syndrome Foundation and the Lennox Gastaut Foundation.

Dr. Wirrell’s main research interests are in early onset, medically intractable epilepsies, and epileptic encephalopathies.