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Professor Robert Ouvrier is the Emeritus Professor of child neurology in the University of Sydney. After training in general paediatrics in Sydney, Perth and Papua-New Guinea, he undertook specialist training in child neurology at the Royal Children”s Hospital, Melbourne, the University of Kentucky (1969-70) and the Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore USA (1971-72). He was then Head of the Department of Neurology at the Children”s Hospital at Westmead, Sydney for 25 years. In 1999, he became the Foundation Head of the Institute for Neuroscience and Muscle Research at The Children”s Hospital, Westmead. He was President of the International Child Neurology Association from 2006-2010. He is the author of two books, thirty book chapters and an author or co-author of over 150 scientific articles on paediatric neurology.