14th Annual Scientific Meeting

(16th - 19th September 2026)

The Duxton Hotel, Perth, Western Australia

Local Organising Committee

Snehal Shah, Chair
Bhanu Bommegowda
Twinkle Ghia
Maina Kava
Najm Khan
Matthew Lynch
Lakshmi Nagarajan
Jon Silberstein, President
Simon Williams

International Speakers

Professor Hasan Tekgul received his medical degree from Ege University’s School of Medicine. Postdoctoral training included residencies in both pediatrics and pediatric neurology at Ege Children’s Hospital and Ege University in Izmir (Turkiye). He completed a fellowship programme in the Department of Pediatric Neurology, Division of Epilepsy and Clinical Neurophysiology, at Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School (USA).
Dr. Tekgül has focused much of his research on the treatment of pediatric epilepsy syndromes, particularly in neonatal neurology and clinical neurophysiology. He has participated in clinical and basic studies of neonates and pediatric patients with seizures.

Dr Darius Ebrahimi-Fakhari is a Neurologist and Neuroscientist at Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. He serves as the Director of the Movement Disorders Program and the Pediatric Movement Disorders and Neurogenetics Fellowship at Boston Children’s Hospital. As a physician-scientist dedicated to patient-centered translational research, his goal is to facilitate clinical trial readiness and to develop molecular therapies for genetic movement disorders. Work from this research program has been published in over 150 peer-reviewed publications. In his clinical practice, Dr. Ebrahimi-Fakhari cares for children with movement disorders, many with severe and progressive conditions. He is an advocate for families with rare diseases and serves this community clinically and scientifically.

Dr Kathryn Yang is a board-certified child neurologist who earned her medical degree from the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. She then went on to complete her child neurology residency at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto and in 2024, she joined the team at Boston where she completed her subspecialty fellowship in the Movement Disorders and Neurogenetics Fellowship at Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Since joining the faculty at Boston Children’s, she has taken the lead in the Deep Brain Stimulation program where she’s focused her research interests on rare pediatric genetic disorders and neuromodulation as a therapy for pediatric movement disorders.

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