Chahnez Charfi Triki

Professor of Child Neurology; President of TADE and Vice President of IBE-EMR

Chahnez Charfi Triki is a professor of child neurology at the Faculty of Medicine of Sfax, University of Sfax, and head of the pediatric neurology department at the Hedi Chaker University Hospital in Sfax, Tunisia. She completed postgraduate training in child neurology at the Catholic University of Louvain in Brussels and at Kremlin-Bicetre Hospital in France. In 2000 she created a professional master's degree in epileptology at Sfax, which became an online program in 2005 and trains Tunisian and French-speaking African physicians. She presides over the Tunisian Association Against Epilepsy, chaired the ILAE Eastern Mediterranean Region from 2017 to 2021, and led the International Bureau for Epilepsy regional committee for the Eastern Mediterranean from 2013 to 2017. She received the ILAE Ambassador for Epilepsy Award in 2023 and has more than 100 indexed publications, with research interests in epilepsy, cerebral palsy, neurogenetics and intellectual disability.