Jerome Engel Jr. (USA, 1938) received his MD in 1965 and his PhD in Physiology in 1966, both from Stanford University. He is Professor of Neurology, Anatomy and Cell Biology at the UCLA Medical School and a member of the UCLA Brain Research Institute. He has been active in a number of professional societies, including President of the American Epilepsy Society and the American EEG Society, as well as the editor of several professional journals such as Advances in the Neurobiology of Epilepsy, and Journal of Clinical Neurophysiology. He is editor of several volumes on epilepsy and clinical neuroscience, and recently authored Seizures and Epilepsy (Davis, 1989). Dr. Engel has contributed over 125 papers in professional journals such as Epilepsy Research, Journal of Neurosurgery, Neurology, Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology, and Annals of Neurology.
