The mission of the Saskatchewan Epilepsy Research Initiative (SERI) is to develop a clinical and basic sciences team to serve patients with intractable epilepsy in Saskatchewan. SERI objectives are:
• to undertake an interdisciplinary clinical and basic sciences program for epilepsy;
• to build an epilepsy brain bank to foster collaboration between clinical and basic science researchers at the U of S;
• to employ advanced imaging techniques, such as fMRI and PET-CT to study and treat patients with intractable epilepsy;
• to instigate major epidemiological projects focused on patients with epilepsy;
• to develop new services linked with clinical research such as an epilepsy transition clinic;
• to submit national grant applications;
• to build research capacity in the epilepsy field in Saskatchewan including senior and junior faculty, graduate and summer students
Team Members:
Jose Tellez-Zenteno
Lizbeth Hernandez Ronquillo
Alexandra Voll
Syed Rizvi
Changiz Taghibiglou
Francisco Cayabyab
Ron Borowsky
Adam Wu
Aleksander Vitali
Collaborators:
Huma Aftab
Mirna Vrbancic
Roland Ouer
Karen Waterhouse
Dianne Dash
Chelsea Dash
Viktor Zherebitskiy
Marla Mickleborough
Richard Huntsman
Simona Hasal
Gary Hunter