2025 Asian SEEG Course
From the surface to the depth
Join us in October 2025 for our second edition of our Asian SEEG course in Bangkok, Thailand. After a successful event in 2024, we are thrilled to launch registrations for a second promising event.
Led by world-renowned experts in SEEG, this immersive course places a special emphasis on Phase I evaluation—the crucial first step in identifying candidates for SEEG and shaping the trajectory of epilepsy surgery. You’ll explore how detailed analysis of non-invasive data, including semiology, video-EEG, imaging, and functional mapping, forms the backbone of successful invasive investigation.
This course offers a unique opportunity to learn directly from global leaders in the field. In an intimate setting, you’ll engage with top experts and peers, participate in dynamic discussions, and enjoy group dinners featuring stimulating debates. Don’t miss your chance to enhance your skills and stay at the forefront of epilepsy surgery.
This course is designed to teach the foundations of SEEG, with a strong emphasis on how Phase I evaluations shape the success or failure of SEEG. Participants will explore the critical disciplines involved in SEEG, understand their interconnections, and learn how modern imaging, electroclinical data, and anatomical knowledge converge in today’s practice of personalized epilepsy surgery.
Main Objectives:
- Understand what SEEG is, its rationale, and how it evolved into an essential tool for drug-resistant epilepsy
- Analyze the components of Phase I assessment, including semiology, interictal and ictal EEG, and the role of PET and SPECT, to formulate well-grounded SEEG hypothesis
- Interpret video-EEG data with a focus on ictal patterns and their anatomical implications
- Explore anatomo-electroclinical correlations as a basis for constructing meaningful implantation strategies
- Learn the principles of cortical anatomy, stereotaxy, and electrode implantation, including practical examples of surgical planning
- Examine how depth electrodes record electrical activity, the nature of SEEG signals, and how this information supports hypothesis validation and guides surgical decision-making
- Discuss the concept of epileptogenic networks and how Phase II data contributes to understanding seizure propagation and symptom generation
- Review and debate illustrative cases that highlight the logical integration of Phase I findings into SEEG planning and ultimately tailored surgical intervention
Course Objectives
Who is this course for
This course is suitable for neurologists and neurosurgeons beginning in SEEG practice and will also offer new insights to those with an established practice.
Course Logistics:
Dates : October 24-26, 2025
Location : Bangkok, Thailand
Accommodations : Montien Hotel Surawong Bangkok
2025 ASIAN SEEG COURSE COMMITTEE
Patrick Chauvel, MD, FACNS
Professor
Neurological Institute, Cleveland Clinic
Patrick Chauvel, MD
Professor
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and Aix-Marseille University
After completing his medical and scientific training in Neurology and Neuroscience, Dr. Patrick Chauvel became a researcher at INSERM (Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale) in Paris (1975). There, he began his pioneering work in experimental and clinical research on the mechanisms of epilepsy.
Under the mentorship of Talairach and Bancaud at Hôpital Sainte-Anne/Université René Descartes in Paris, he advanced stereo-electroencephalography (SEEG) as a presurgical method
using intracerebral electrodes for epilepsy surgery (1975–1990). His research has focused on the pathophysiology of the epileptogenic zone, the emergence of seizure semiology, and human cerebral cortex physiology. Notably, he championed the concept of an epileptogenic network, moving beyond the classical "epileptic focus" model, and pioneered new insights into markers of the epileptogenic zone and focal epilepsy semiology.
Succeeding Jean Bancaud, Dr. Chauvel served as Director of the SEEG Unit at Hôpital Sainte-Anne (1986–1990), then as Professor and Chairman of Neurology in Rennes (1990–1997), where he established an innovative Epilepsy Unit integrating clinical care and research. Later, he became Professor and Chairman of Clinical Neurophysiology and Director of the INSERM Institute of Systems Neuroscience in Marseille (1997–2014).
In 2014, he joined the Cleveland Clinic’s Epilepsy Center to advance SEEG-based presurgical evaluation in North America, while also serving as Professor of Neurology at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine (Case Western Reserve University). Additionally, as an Honorary Professor at the University of Queensland (Brisbane), he guided the development of SEEG-based epilepsy surgery and research programs.
He later held appointments as Professor of Neurology at the University of Pittsburgh and Neurologist at UPMC.
Currently, Dr. Chauvel is a researcher at the Cleveland Clinic Epilepsy Center, where he is developing novel SEEG-based methods for presurgical evaluation of drug-resistant epilepsy and researching biomarkers of the epileptogenic zone and the neural mechanisms underlying seizure semiology.
He is a Member of the Royal Academy of Medicine of Belgium in recognition of his contributions to the field.
Jorge Gonzalez-Martinez, MD, PhD
Professor
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Jorge Gonzalez-Martinez, MD, PhD
Professor
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Dr. Gonzalez-Martinez is a board-certified neurosurgeon subspecialized in epilepsy and functional neurosurgery. He is the director of the epilepsy and movement disorders surgery, Co-Director of the Epilepsy Center and Director of the Cortical Systems Laboratory at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.
Dr. Gonzalez is a world-renowned surgeon who have published more than 200 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters related to epilepsy surgery and methods of brain mapping for patients with medically intractable epilepsy and movement disorders. He has been serving the American Society of Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery in the capacity of member of the executive committee for the last 6 years, developing high relevant projects and topics related to the field of functional neurosurgery and epilepsy.
Dr. Gonzalez is a medical pioneer in novel surgical methods for treating medically refractory seizures such as stereo-electroencephalography, SEEG guided laser ablative procedures, neuromodulatory interventions and robotic guided surgeries, bringing for the first time innovative surgical interventions to the United States and other countries. His particular field of interest and academic drive is related to neuro-electrophysiology, intracranial signal processing and behavioral neuroscience studies.
Combined, the clinical and basic science efforts have been guiding his academic and clinical pathway for safer and more efficient methods for treating patients with severe seizures and abnormal movement disorders, promoting the improvement of symptoms, in combination with better functional and quality of life outcomes.
Aileen McGonigal, MD, PhD, MRCP
Neurologist
Director of Epilepsy Unit, Mater Hospital and University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
Aileen McGonigal, MD, PhD, MRCP
Neurologist
Director of Epilepsy Unit, Mater Hospital and University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
Dr. McGonigal is a neurologist with extensive specialist experience in epileptology and EEG, including stereo-EEG. Following UK neurology training, Prof McGonigal spent around 20 years in France where she studied and practised stereo-EEG methodology, contributing to its evolution through clinical research. Her research interests include seizure semiology and its neural correlates, and she has written and lectured widely on these. She took up her current post in Australia in 2022, and continues to develop use of stereo-EEG with an associated clinical research programme.
Louis Maillard, MD, PhD
Epileptologist
Regional University Hospital of Nancy
Louis Maillard, MD, PhD
Epileptologist
Regional University Hospital of Nancy
Dr. Maillard has been heading since 2005 the Patrick Chauvel epileptology unit at the Regional University Hospital of Nancy, which is a tertiary French and European Reference Center for rare and complex epilepsies. He is Professor of Neurology at Lorraine University and member of the research project Neuroscience of Systems and Cognition, Lorraine University, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, UMR 7039. He is also heading the Scientific Board of the Franch Clinical Neurophysiology Society and member of the ILAE Taks Force on Diagnostic Methods/EEG.
Dr. Maillard did a clinical fellowship in the Marseille epileptology Unit from 2003 to 2005 and a PhD in neuroscience at the university of Marseille under the supervision of Pr Patrick Chauvel and Catherine Chauvel.
His research interests have focused on drug-resistant epilepsies with several purposes: (1) improving the delineation of epileptogenic zone based on both Stereo-Electroencephalography and on Electrical Source Imaging; (2) Improving the post-surgical cognitive outcome, especially in language and visual recognition, using electrical cortical stimulation, intra-cerebral evoked potentials, cortico-cortical evoked potentials. Overall, he has published numerous articles on international peer-reviewed journals on these topics and has been a tutor and faculty in numerous international workshops and congresses on Stereo-Electroencephalography and drug resistant epilepsies.
2025 ASIAN SEEG COURSE
SEEG | The Course | FAQ
A special THANK YOU to DIXI medical for helping to off-set the $2,500 course registration costs for all participants. Attendees are responsible for travel and accommodation costs.
Participants will receive a certificate of completion for participating in the SEEG course. CME credits are not offered for this course.
This is a specialized course intended for neurology and neurosurgery epilepsy physicians and junior faculty or second year fellowship level. Non-medical healthcare professionals are not eligible to attend this course.
Some lectures may be recorded.
Currently we do not offer scholarships.
Yes, international attendees are welcome to participate.
The course will be offered only in English.
This course is intended for epilepsy neurologists and neurosurgeons.
There is no application process.
To maintain the quality of the course, it will be limited to 80 participants.
SEEG course alumni will have the opportunity to be part of the growing network of the Epilepsy Courses, as well as join the physician and other healthcare professional platform, www.epilepsyX.net.
If you have additional questions, please contact Info@EpilepsyCourses.com
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