Jo Wilmshurst
Professor of Paediatric Neurology at University of Cape Town and Head of Paediatric Neurology at Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital; Director of African Paediatric Fellowship Program; ILAE-Africa Regional Chair specializing in epilepsy, neuromuscular diseases, and pediatric clinical neurology across Africa.
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May 28, 2026
Jo WilmshurstGUEST
So a- about 60% of my caseload is, in fact, driven by children who have epilepsy, and then the other portions of my work, I have what would be regarded as rarer diseases.
Jo WilmshurstGUEST
So I spend a lot of my time, uh, through the clinical pathways of the care that I give to those kids, um, trying to work out what on earth is wrong with them.
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Jo WilmshurstGUEST
Um, and the, the counseling kind of goes up another level because of the huge implications to families, and we, we lean on Karen and Alina, uh, in a big way in the care of these, um, patients.
Jo WilmshurstGUEST
Uh, I think our, um, earliest lessons of collaborative work, uh, and reaching out was that we, um...
Jo WilmshurstGUEST
So, so congenital myopathies is where these babies are obviously weak at the beginning, and they have often very striking appearances, but there are many, many, many different, um, variants that can, uh, cause a congenital myopathy, but-