Co-Chairs
Ana Suller Marti, MD, MSc, PhD, CSCN-EEG
Dr. Ana Suller Marti is an adult epileptologist and clinician-researcher, serving as an Associate Professor of Neurology at Western University, with cross-appointments in Psychiatry, Paediatrics, and Biomedical Engineering. She completed advanced fellowship training in Clinical Epilepsy, Epilepsy Research and Headache, as well as a PhD in Medicine, where she investigated the effects of neuromodulation devices in the managment of drug-resistant epilepsy.
At Western University, Dr Suller Marti established a multidisciplinary research group focused on stereoencephalography, enhancing epilepsy research and increasing the international visibility of our Epilepsy Program. She has developed extensive national and international collaborations and currently serves as Secretary of the Canadian League Against Epilepsy (ILAE), Chair of the Spanish Symposium at the American Epilepsy Society, and North American Representative for the YES-ILAE. She is also collaborating on the ILAE's Competency-Based Educational Curriculum in Epilepsy.
Dr. Suller Marti has authored 64 peer-reviewed manuscripts and over 20 book chapters. She has led more than 20 investigator-initiated studies and supported the training of over 30 trainees across multiple disciplines, including neuroscience, medicine, biomedical engineering, and nursing. In recognition of her leadership and expertise, she received the prestigious Herbert-Jasper Award from the Canadian Society of Clinical Neurophysiologists (2020).
Ingrid Johnsrude, PhD
Dr. Ingrid Johnsrude received her BSc in Psychology from Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. She then trained at the Montreal Neurological Institute and McGill University with pioneering neuropsychologist Brenda Milner, receiving her PhD in clinical neuropsychology in 1997.
After a postdoctoral fellowship at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging in London UK- the home of Statistical Parametric Mapping (SPM), she was recruited to the Medical Research Council Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge, UK to help start a neuroimaging program there.
In Cambridge, she worked with, and learned from, many wonderful auditory and cognitive scientists. After four years there, she returned to her alma mater, Queen's University, where she held a prestigious Canada Research Chair for 10 years. She was recruited to Western University in 2014, as the first Western Research Chair.
Dr. Johnsrude's work has been recognized by awards and honours including NSERC's EWR Steacie Award, and she is particularly proud of her IgNobel Prize, with Eleanor Maguire and others, for the London taxi-driver study.
Dr. Johnsrude has published over 100 papers and articles, which together have been cited over 28,000 times. Postdoctoral and graduate trainees have gone onto professional careers in audiology and clinical psychology, to industrial research careers at international and Canadian companies, and to academic positions in Canada, the US, the UK and Europe. More than half of Dr. Johnsrude's undergraduate trainees have gone on to professional training (audiology, business, law, medicine, speech pathology) or to graduate school.
