Jacqueline French is a professor of Neurology in the Comprehensive Epilepsy Center at NYU Grossman School of Medicine and Founder/Director of the Epilepsy Study Consortium, an academic group that has performed a number of early phase epilepsy trials. Dr. French trained in Neurology at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, and did her fellowship at Mount Sinai hospital and Yale University. Dr. French serves as the Medical Director of the Epilepsy Foundation. She is the past president of the American Epilepsy Society. She has authored over 300 articles and chapters, and lectures internationally on use of antiseizure medicines.