American Epilepsy Society Annual Meeting 2025

AES 2025 Annual Meeting December 5-9, 2025 Atlanta, GA
The American Epilepsy Society’s (AES) Annual Meeting is the largest meeting and exhibition in the world for those who share the common scientific and clinical interests of epilepsy and clinical neurophysiology. The meeting typically attracts more than 5,000 attendees dedicated to improving the quality of life for people living with epilepsy. AES is the top forum to examine common concerns and to gain insight from leading authorities.
The AES 2025 Annual Meeting brings together healthcare providers, scientists, advocates, industry professionals, and other stakeholders dedicated to achieving better outcomes for people with epilepsy.

Statement of Need
The need for this activity has been determined based on identifying professional practice gaps, previous course evaluations, and AES self-assessments. The educational content of this activity was based upon current issues and topics provided by the Annual Meeting Committee and membership.

Target Audience
Neurologists, epileptologists, pediatric neurologists, nurses, psychologists, neuropsychologists, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, pharmacists, researchers, and scientists.

Global Learning Objectives
This comprehensive educational meeting provides learners with opportunities to:

Increase knowledge about the diagnosis and treatment, including novel diagnostic methods and therapeutic modalities of, various manifestations of epilepsy and common comorbidities to enhance clinical practice and improve patient outcomes.

Be informed about the latest research developments in epilepsy that may translate into clinical care and human therapy in the near future.

Consider the public health implications of epilepsy and the impact of the disease on patients, communities, and health systems.

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.

 
+ Topics:

23rd Judith Hoyer Lecture | A Metabolic Paradigm for Epilepsy and Its Comorbidities

Advanced Practice Providers Symposium | Beyond the Basics: Advanced Diagnostic Testing for the Epilepsy Patient

Annual Course | From Then to Now: The Evolving Spectrum of Epilepsy Care

Annual Fundamentals Symposium | Advances in Epilepsy Genetics: Bridging Pediatric and Adult Populations

Best Practices in Clinical Epilepsy Symposium | Mortality in Epilepsy: Challenges and Interventions

Epilepsy Exchange | Dialogues to Transform Epilepsy: Visualizing Gene Expression and Neurotransmitter Release

Epilepsy Exchange | Implementation Science: Moving the Needle in Epilepsy Care

Epilepsy Exchange | NINDS 75th Anniversary: 75 Years of Research Progress Towards Curing the Epilepsies

Epilepsy Exchange | Strategies in Epilepsy Care: Bridging Gaps and Promoting Health Equity in Diverse Settings

Epilepsy Exchange | The Ethics of AI in Epilepsy Care, Research, and in Everyday Work

Epilepsy Specialist Symposium | Neuroimmunology of Epilepsy: Mechanisms, Treatments, and Clinical Insights

Epilepsy Therapies Symposium | Personalized Precision Medicine in Epilepsy

Hot Topics Symposium | Show Me the Money: Finance Models in Epilepsy Practice

ILAE North America Symposium | Guiding Epilepsy Treatment

IW | Epilepsy in the Gyrencephalic Brain: Advances in Large Animal Research

IW | Enhancing Neuronal Secondary Ion Transport: Just Kicking the Can Down the Road?

IW | Drugs of Abuse in the Epileptic Brain

IW | EEG Biomarker Challenge

Special Lecture | Research Award Presentations

Merritt-Putnam Symposium | Tumor-associated Epilepsy and Epilepsy-associated Tumors: Exploring the Bidirectional Crosstalk Between Tumors and Seizures

Neurosurgery Symposium | Thalamic SEEG: Expanding our Understanding of Epilepsy

Pediatric State of the Art Symposium | Pediatric Epilepsy Surgery: It’s Not Just About Resection

Presidential Symposium | Do Seizures Have Consequences?

Scientific Symposium | Biological Sex

SIG | Critical Care: Automating Critical Care EEG – Enhancing Accuracy, Efficiency and Patient Outcomes

SIG | Epilepsy Surgery: Thalamic Neuromodulation – New Frontiers

SIG | Ictal Semiology: Are There Any Truly Localising Seizure Semiologies?

SIG | Neonatal Seizures: Clinical Trial Readiness for Neonatal Seizures – Can We Prevent Epilepsy?

SIG | Neuroimaging: Going Off Script – Novel Imaging Approaches to Unconventional Epilepsy Challenges

SIG | Neuropharmacology: Use of Anti-seizure Medications in the Era of AI and Precision Medicine

SIG | Stereoelectroencephalography (sEEG): Overcoming Challenges in SEEG Explorations – The Missing Electrode

SIG | Temporal Lobe Club: Anterior Temporal Lobectomy Failures – Networks, Neuropsychology, and Next Steps

Spanish Symposium | Bitemporal Lobe Epilepsy: Enhancing Diagnosis, Treatment and Long-term Management

Translational Research Symposium | Current State of SUDEP Research