Xiamen | China 2008

• Programme at a Glance
• Main Sessions
• Post-main Sessions
• Parallel Sessions
• Satellite Symposia
• Didactic Lectures
• Platform Sessions
• Pre-congress Activities
• Masakazu Seino Memorial Lecture
• Chinese Language Session

 

MASAKAZU SEINO MEMORIAL LECTURE
Chong-Tin Tan (Malaysia)

Celebrating the Life of Masakazu Seino (TBC)
Kazuichi Yagi (Japan)

Developmental Epileptology: How to Link Seizures in Infancy with Chronic Epilepsy in Adulthood
Yuko Fukuyama (Japan)

Masakazu Seino passed away on March 7, 2007. From 1975 to 1996 he had worked as the medical director and director-general, and since then as honorary president at the Epilepsy Center Shizuoka, Japan. He wrote 71 articles and chapters first-authored and a further 141 articles and chapters co-authored.

He was a board member of Japanese Epilepsy Research Group from 1967 to 1981 and appointed as secretary general from 1973 to 1981. Since 1981 he was board member of the Japan Epilepsy Society and he was appointed president of the Japan Epilepsy Society from 1989 to 1997. At the International Epilepsy Congress in Kyoto, 1981, he worked vigorously as secretary general. Then he was appointed as vice-president of International League Against Epilepsy (ILAE) from 1981 to 1989 and as treasurer from 1989 to 1993. He was a member of the Commission on Classification and Terminology (1981-2006), chairman of the Rules Commission (1983-1985), chairman of the Commission on Nomination (1985-1989), and a member of the Commission on Constitutional Affairs (1993-2006). After his retirement from the National Epilepsy Center, he devoted his time to the Asian Oceania Epilepsy Organization and teaching courses of Epileptology. He wished that people with epilepsy in Asian Oceania countries were treated as well as in European countries. He had organized the Commission on Asian Oceania Affairs (CAOA) and had set up the Asian Epilepsy Academy (ASEPA) under the umbrella of ILAE. His ideas are on-going in Asian and Oceanian countries and his dreams will come true in the future. After his death CAOA and ILAE decided to have a Masakazu Seino Lecture during the Asian & Oceanian Epilepsy Congresses (AOEC) that are held biennially to memorize and to fulfil his dream for Asia. In this Memorial Lecture, Kazuichi Yagi will speak about Masakazu Seino and Yokio Fukuyama will give a special didactic lecture entitled Developmental Epileptology: How to Link Seizures in Infancy with Chronic Epilepsy in Adulthood.
Written by Kazuichi Yagi (Japan); this lecture is kindly supported by Eisai Co. Ltd and Dainippon Sumitomo Pharma.