Rima Nabbout

Professor of Paediatric Neurology; Director, National Centre for Rare Epilepsies

Rima Nabbout is Professor of Paediatric Neurology at Universite Paris Cite and directs the National Centre for Rare Epilepsies at Necker-Enfants Malades Hospital in Paris, a role she has held since 2006. She obtained her medical degree in 1990, a PhD in neurosciences in 2003 and the Habilitation a Diriger des Recherches in 2010, and has held her professorship since 2014. At Institut Imagine she coordinates the Innov4-ePiK research programme and directs the GEEN-DS chair in epilepsy. Her work focuses on rare and genetic epilepsies of childhood. She chairs the scientific committee of the French national rare disease registry (BNDMR) since 2019, is a founding member of the EPICARE steering committee, co-leads a pillar of the European Joint Programme on Rare Diseases, and sits on ILAE working groups. She has authored more than 300 peer-reviewed papers.