Helen Cross

Professor of Neurology; Prince of Wales's Chair of Childhood Epilepsy; Head, Developmental Neuroscience Programme

Professor Helen Cross holds the Prince of Wales's Chair of Childhood Epilepsy and heads the Developmental Neuroscience Programme at the UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health in London. She is an honorary consultant in paediatric neurology at Great Ormond Street Hospital and works with the charity Young Epilepsy in Lingfield. She trained in medicine and paediatrics in Birmingham and in paediatric neurology in London, and completed a PhD in 1998. Her research aims to improve outcomes for children with early-onset epilepsy, particularly through evaluation of epilepsy surgery and the ketogenic diet, and she has authored more than 450 research papers. She received an OBE in 2015 for services to children with epilepsy. She was Secretary General of the International League Against Epilepsy from 2013, Treasurer from 2017 to 2021 and its President from 2021 to 2025, the first woman to hold the post.