Elena D. Belousova

In 1980, she graduated from the Leningrad Pediatric Medical Institute.

Then she was a resident at the department of child neurology, Leningrad State Institute for Improvement of Physicians’ Qualification.

Since 1985 she has been working at the Moscow Scientific Research Institute of Pediatrics and Child Surgery of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation.

Since 2003 she is the head of the department of psychoneurology and epileptology at this Institute.

In 1994, she defended her master's thesis entitled "Computed tomography in the evaluation of neuropsychiatric and neurological disorders in children with minimal brain dysfunction".

In 2004, she defended her doctoral thesis entitled "Risk factors, treatment and prognosis of seizures and epilepsy in children with infantile cerebral palsy".

She has successfully supervised 5 master's theses. In 2007, she has been awarded the title of professor.

She is an author of more than 170 scientific works published in Russian and foreign literature. Among the most significant of her works are monographs "The differential diagnosis of epilepsy" and "Benign epileptic spikes and benign childhood epilepsy", as well as chapters in such monographs as "Hereditary disorders of the nervous system", "Epilepsy and seizures in children", "Genetics of hereditary neuropsychiatric disorders in children", "Pharmacotherapy guide in pediatrics and children's surgery", "Epilepsy", etc.

E.D. Belousova is the head of the large research area which is dealt with the problems of diagnostics and treatment of seizures and epilepsy in children.

Among the main priorities of her scientific interest are investigation of the risk factors for epilepsy, characteristic features of different types of epilepsy, strategy of their treatment.

She takes an active part in a variety of international clinical trials devoted to efficacy and tolerability of the new antiepileptic drugs.

E.D. Belousova is a principal investigator for the international trials into treatments for tuberous sclerosis and Duchenne muscular dystrophy.

She is a lecturer and an active participant of a variety of large Russian and international symposiums and congresses.

In 2011 she was awarded a title of The Honored Physician of the Russian Federation.