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Professor Arjune Sen is Professor of Global Epilepsy at The University of Oxford and Consultant Neurologist at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. He is Director of the Centre for Global Epilepsy and Fellow of the Oxford Martin School, where he leads the Programme on Global Epilepsy. Arjune is also: Head of the Epilepsy Research Group at the Oxford University Hospitals; topic advisor to the NICE Epilepsy Guidelines; and a member of Commissions and Councils at the International League Against Epilepsy.

Arjune’s clinical interests include cognitive, psychological and psychosocial difficulties in people with epilepsy. At a research level, Arjune works on trying to better understand the intersections between epilepsy and dementia. He is Chief Investigator of the ILiAD (Investigation of Levetiracetam in Alzheimer’s Disease) study and leads multiple other trials both in Oxford and the UK more broadly. Over the past several years, a clear focus has been global epileptology with a view to improving care for people in resource-poor settings through the development of culturally tailored technologies that can be deployed at scale to hard-to-reach communities.