Ingrid Scheffer

Ingrid Scheffer
FRS FAA
Residence Australia
Citizenship Australian
Alma mater University of Melbourne

Ingrid Scheffer, FAA FAHMS, is an Australian paediatric neurologist and senior research fellow at the Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health. She has made several major advances in the field of epilepsy research. Scheffer is credited with finding the first gene implicated in epilepsy. She has also described and classified novel epileptic syndromes such as Epilepsy limited to Females with Mental Retardation.[1]

Early life and education

Ingrid Eileen Scheffer was born in Melbourne, Victoria on 21 December 1958. She finished her secondary schooling at Methodist Ladies' College in 1976. She attended Monash University, from where she graduated with a Bachelor of Medicine and a Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) in 1983. She went on to complete her PhD in Neurology at the University of Melbourne in 1998.

Career and research

Beyond further describing the aetiology of epilepsy, Ingrid has worked to characterise new epilepsy syndromes, from infancy to adulthood, which have permitted appropriate treatment and diagnosis, such as Dravet Syndrome[2] and Epilepsy limited to Females with Mental Retardation. Her work also provides for more accurate genetic reproductive counselling.

Awards and honours

References

  1. ↑ Scheffer IE, Turner SJ, Dibbens LM, Bayly MA, Friend K, Hodgson B, Burrows L, Shaw M, Wei C, Ullmann R, Ropers HH, Szepetowski P, Haan E, Mazarib A, Afawi Z, Neufeld MY, Andrews PI, Wallace G, Kivity S, Lev D, Lerman-Sagie T, Derry CP, Korczyn AD, Gecz J, Mulley JC, Berkovic SF (2008). "Epilepsy and mental retardation limited to females: an under-recognized disorder" (PDF). Brain. 131: 918–927. doi:10.1093/brain/awm338. PMID 18234694.
  2. ↑ Jansen FE, Sadleir LG, Harkin LA, Vadlamudi L, McMahon JM, Mulley JC, Scheffer IE, Berkovic SF (6 November 2014). "Severe myoclonic epilepsy of infancy (Dravet syndrome): recognition and diagnosis in adults". Neurology. 67: 2224–6. doi:10.1212/01.wnl.0000249312.73155.7d. PMID 17190949.
  3. ↑ 14th Annual L’ORÉAL-UNESCO Awards for Women in Science - 2012
  4. ↑ "Distinguished scientists elected as Fellows and Foreign Members of the Royal Society". The Royal Society. 9 May 2018. Retrieved 10 May 2018.
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