Epilepsy On World Brain Day - Tissa Wijeratne, Melbourne, Australia
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For World Brain Day, neurologist Tissa Wijeratne explains the importance of brain health and disability and how 50% or 4 Billion of us shall be affected personally by neurological disease. Tissa also speaks of how far we’ve come but how much we still need to do to improve both individuals’ lives and the lives of us as a species.
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World Brain Day
Brain Health & Disability: the focus in 2023
Epilepsy & Brain Health in LMICs
Neurology history & human rights
Brain disorders being preventable & treatable
Amazing improvements in neurological care and therapeutics
Encouraging more students & clinicians to study neurology
Learn more and become involved!
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Tissa Wijeratne is a senior Neurologist and clinician scientist interested in promoting brain health and preventing neurological disorders globally.
He is the Director and Chair of the Department of Neurology and Stroke Services at Western Health, St Albans, 3021, Victoria, Australia.
He holds honorary academic roles at the University of Melbourne, La Trobe University, Victoria University in Australia, and the University of Rajarata, Sri Lanka.
Tissa has supervised over 450 basic physician trainees in Australia since 2006 and continues to facilitate train-the-trainer workshops on behalf of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians in Australia since the inception of this program ( well over 100 workshops with where over 1,000 Australian physicians were trained with skills in supervision).
Tissa became the first Sri Lankan neurologist to be awarded the prestigious Order of Australia Award (Order of Australia Medal) on 26th January 2023. This is in recognition of his services to Medicine as a neurologist.
He is the first Sri Lankan/ Australian Neurologist to be appointed as the President of the Asian Regional Consortium of Headache (www.archhub.org).
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LinkedIn: proftissawijeratne
Twitter: combatstrokeSL
Website: www.tissawijeratne.net
World Brain Day: wfneurology.org/world-brain-day
World Federation of Neurology: Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM)
International Headache Society: tissa-wijeratne
Asian Regional Consortium for Headache: www.archhub.org
World Federation for Neurorehabilitation: special-interest-groups - headache & migraine
Loop: loop.frontiersin.org/people/400340
ResearchGate: Tissa-Wijeratne-2
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