Danielle Andrade

Dr. Andrade MD PhD is Professor of Medicine (Neurology) at University of Toronto and the Medical Director of the Epilepsy Program of University Health Network, University of Toronto. She is also the Director of the Adult Genetic Epilepsy (AGE) Program at University of Toronto, a pioneer program established to promote care and research in adult genetic epilepsies. She is also the former Chair and now Co-Chair of the ILAE Task Force on Child to Adulthood Transition.

Dr. Andrade’s research interests are on the area of genetic epilepsies and their natural histories and the field of transition of care from pediatric to adult. Dr. Andrade and her team have identified and characterized several epilepsies and comorbidities in adults with genetic epilepsies, including Dravet syndrome. She has also identified the first gene associated with SUDEP (sudden, unexpected death in epilepsy) in patients with non-syndromic epilepsy.

Her team has also discovered genes responsible for Lennox-Gastaut syndrome, Jeavon’s syndrome, teenage-onset neuronal ceroid lipofuccinosis progressive myoclonus epilepsy, among others.