Area of expertise: epilepsy, epilepsy genetics
Biography
Professor Deb Pal is an honorary consultant in children's neurology at Evelina London, who specialises in epilepsy.
Professor Pal graduated from Cambridge University with degrees in Natural Sciences and Medicine. He undertook his specialist training in paediatric neurology and epilepsy at UCL Hospitals and Great Ormond Street Hospital and Queen Square.
He established the first multidisciplinary Epilepsy Genetics service in England in 2015 and is an expert on rare monogenic epilepsies and precision medicine. His special interest is stratified medicine in common genetic epilepsies of childhood and adolescence.
In 2009 he was appointed the first Professor of Paediatric Epilepsy at King's College London. He has no private practice.
- 1998: MA Natural Sciences and MB BChir – Corpus Christi College, Cambridge University
- 1995: MSc Epidemiology – London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
- 1998: PhD Neurosciences – University College London
- 2000-2004: postdoctoral scholar in statistical genetics and genetic epidemiology – Mount Sinai Medical Center and Columbia University (USA)
- epilepsy genetic diagnostics and counselling for rare, familial or drug resistant patients
- common epilepsies of childhood and teenage onset
- stratified medicine
- clinical trials
- mental health
- genetics of common epilepsies
- epilepsy, sleep, treatment and learning
- omic biomarkers of disease course in epilepsy
- experimental personalised medicine for rare epilepsies
- functional MRI correlates of epilepsy morbidities
- Visiting Professor in clinical neuroscience – University of Catania (Italy)
- Visiting Professor in children's clinical neuroscience – Brown University (USA)
- Molecular Neurogenetics Study Member – US National Institute of Health
- Royal Society-Fullbright Commission distinguished postdoctoral scholar
- Winston Churchill Memorial Trust Fellow
- Pfizer Young Scientist Award
- Glendinning Award for Medicine
- Joan Dawkins Award – British Medical Association
- Wellcome Trust Advance Research Training Fellow – University College London