Rate My Professor Lynette Sadleir

Sadleir served on the International League Against Epilepsy Classification Commission Task Force from 2010 to 2013, contributing to the ILAE online diagnostic manual of the epilepsies. She was president of the New Zealand League Against Epilepsy from 2013 to 2019 and now serves as treasurer. She chairs the ILAE Budget Review Committee and is a member of the ILAE Clinical Genetic Testing in the Epilepsies Task Force and the SNOMED Task Force. Additionally, she is a member of the Ministry of Health Complex Epilepsy Improvement Technical Advisory Group and the Paediatric Society's Neurology Clinical Network Clinical Reference Group, co-leading the development of New Zealand Epilepsy Guidelines and Pathways for Children and Young People. Her influential publications include 'Targeted resequencing in epileptic encephalopathies identifies de novo mutations in CHD2 and SYNGAP1' (Nature Genetics, 2013), 'The spectrum of SCN1A-related infantile epileptic encephalopathies' (Brain, 2007), 'ILAE definition of the idiopathic generalized epilepsy syndromes: position statement by the ILAE task force on nosology and definitions' (Epilepsia, 2022), and 'High rate of recurrent de novo mutations in developmental and epileptic encephalopathies' (American Journal of Human Genetics, 2017). In 2019, she presented her Inaugural Professorial Lecture entitled 'Epilepsy: Teams, genes and dreams'.