Michel Baulac is currently Professor of Neuroanatomy and Neurology at the Pierre et Marie Curie University (Paris VI), and chief of clinical department at la Pitié-Salpêtrière University Hospital. He is in charge of the clinical epilepsy programmes and coordinates epilepsy research among various research units.
Michel Baulac qualified as a neurologist at the University of La Pitié-Salpêtrière in Paris where he completed his neurosciences training.
For the past 15 years, Michel Baulac has been developing a comprehensive epilepsy programme featuring EEG video-monitoring, in- and out-patient clinics, epilepsy surgery and clinical pharmacology of antiepileptic drugs. In parallel, he coordinates several research programmes on topics such as seizure anticipation based on non-linear mathematical models, genetics of epilepsy, and neuroimaging and neuroanatomical characteristics of epilepsy.
He and his colleagues from La Pitié-Salpêtrière have published extensively in the field of epilepsy, including recent papers in the Lancet, Nature Genetics, Nature Medicine, and Science. With his pediatrician colleague, Professor Olivier Dulac, he recently contributed to the creation of a Centre for rare Epileptic Diseases, as part of the French governmental programme in favour of rare diseases, targeting the epileptic encephalopathies from infancy to adulthood.