Curriculum Vitae

MOGENS DAM, born April 27, 1935

is private practising specialist in epileptology.

He defended his thesis on the effect of Phenytoin on the cerebellum of patients with epilepsy (Acta neurol scand 1972: suppl. 48: pp.65).

He has been active in neurological research, especially in pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of antiepileptic drugs, the development and clinical testing of new antiepileptic drugs, and surgical treatment of epilepsy, and has published more than 100 scientific papers in these fields.

He is the author of many Danish books on epilepsy and has written several chapters on specific topics of epilepsy in international literature. In 1982 he published together with Dr. Erik Kiørboe the book "Epilepsy ­ Diagnosis and Treatment" and in 1985 together with Dr. Lennart Gram the book "Epilepsy ­ Prejudice and Fact", which has been translated from Danish into English, German, Finnish, Italian and Spanish. In 1987 he published the book: "Epilepsy: Progress in Treatment" together with Svein I. Johannessen, Bengt Nilsson and Matti Sillanpää and in 1990 together with Matti Sillanpää, Svein I. Johannessen, and Gösta Blennow the book: "Paediatric Epilepsy", and in 1991 together with Dr. Lennart Gram the book: "Comprehensive Epileptology". He is also the editor of the book: "A Practical Approach to Epilepsy" from 1991. Together with Dr. Lennart Gram he published in 1993 the book "Tæt på Epilepsi", which has been translated into English under the title "Epilepsy Explained" and into Chinese, published in 1995.

He was Professor in Epileptology at the Department of Neurology, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark.
He has been Vice-President of the Danish Neurological Society and President of the Danish Society for Medical Education. He has been Secretary and Chairman of the Commission on Antiepileptic Drugs of the International League Against Epilepsy, President of the International League Against Epilepsy and Chairman of Epilepsy International. He has been President of the Danish Epilepsy Society. He has been member of the Advisory Board of Epilepsia, the Journal of the International League Against Epilepsy, and is Editor-in-Chief of Acta Neurologica Scandinavica.

He has received the Danish Epilepsy Association's Saint Valentine prize, and The Danish Neurological Society's Borberg prize.

Mogens Dam has been elected Honorary Member of the Uruguayan Epilepsy Society, Honorary Corresponding Member of the American Academy of Neurology, Ambassador of Epilepsy of the International Bureau for Epilepsy, and Corresponding Member of the Epilepsy Society of Germany.