AES 2025 – American Epilepsy Society Annual Meeting (Videos with subtitles)

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Release date 19 Dec 2025

The AES Annual Meeting/Digital Select offers relevant, high-quality educational programming across diverse work settings, professional roles, and experience levels. Whether you are just starting with the specialty, have a limited background in epilepsy, or are highly fluent with complex topics, you will find sessions and content relevant to your needs.

Session Types 

Annual Course: Encourages in-depth exploration of important topics related to epilepsy, focused on clinical care, including review of the science underlying the topics, reviews of clinical research, and discussion of the associated clinical implications. The Annual Course includes a mixture of educational lectures, clinical vignettes, and panel discussions.

Basic Science Skills Workshops: Deliver learning opportunities on basic science research techniques and methodologies. Attendees will learn about approaches and applications they can incorporate into their own research. Included in meeting registration fee.

Clinical Skills Workshops: Deliver hands-on and interactive learning opportunities in focused clinical areas. Attendance at each workshop is limited to a small number of participants to allow optimal interaction. Advance registration and an additional fee are required.

Dialogues to Transform Epilepsy: This session introduces transformative neurobiological research from outside the epilepsy field, with discussions on how those advances could accelerate progress in epilepsy.

Epilepsy Fellowship Program Directors Meeting: Provides a forum for current clinical epilepsy program directors, clinical neurophysiology program directors, and those interested in starting an ACGME Fellowship, to address challenges in running a program and meeting accreditation requirements. This session will meet ACGME program requirement II.A.4.

Epilepsy Surgery Skills Workshop: Epilepsy surgeons discuss and illustrate different surgical techniques and approaches related to epilepsy surgery followed by hands-on practice at teaching stations. Topics include temporal lobe surgeries, extra-temporal resections, invasive monitoring methods, and hemispheric surgeries.

Epilepsy Exchange: Recognize the accomplishments of distinguished leaders in clinical epilepsy and research and/or highlight current developments in the field.

Investigators Workshops (IW): Highlight exciting developments in basic, translational, and clinical epilepsy research in a format promoting interactive discussion. Speakers include established and junior epilepsy investigators, as well as researchers from other fields.

Poster Sessions: Posters are grouped by general topic category at various times throughout the meeting. Poster authors are available for discussion during each session. Check the program for author present times. In addition, the following special poster sessions offer additional times to interact with authors

Basic Science Poster Session: This session features the most exciting and innovative studies focused on understanding the basic mechanisms of epilepsy and using cutting-edge approaches to understand and treat the mechanisms of epilepsy.

Broadening Representation Inclusion and Diversity by Growing Equity (BRIDGE): This session spotlights research relating to the needs of underserved populations along with showcasing the work of accomplished investigators who identify with groups historically under-represented in medicine and research.

Pediatric Epilepsy Highlight Session: This session showcases scientific abstracts focused on topics in clinical care and research in pediatric epilepsy.

Platform Sessions: Three concurrent sessions highlighting selected key scientific abstracts consisting of author presentations followed by Q&A.

Poster Walking Tours: Tours of selected posters led by leading experts in topic areas.

Professional Development: Offers mentorship, training, and information geared to early career professionals or anyone considering a career change.

Special Interest Groups (SIG): Offer information and networking for attendees with similar interests, in sessions organized by AES members. Although the sizes of SIG sessions vary, all lend themselves to active participation and dialogue.

Symposia: Provide the major educational activities at the Annual Meeting. Topics range from clinically oriented presentations reviewing common issues in epilepsy to more complex topics combining basic sciences and clinical neurology. While target audiences differ, all symposia include discussion of clinically relevant information.