Special Interest Groups
Special Interest Groups (SIGs) are member-initiated groups focused on educational or research issues which have demonstrated appeal and "interest" to AES members. SIGs are expected to be active throughout the year and usually have a scheduled session during the AES Annual Meeting. Though SIG programs are an important part of the Annual Meeting, they do not provide attendees with CME, and usually don’t provide handouts. SIG activity must be consistent with the educational and research mission of the AES, as stated in Article I of the AES Bylaws.
(Groups that do not meet the above criteria are encouraged to form and should be "created" in the Member-Created Community listing in Professional Connection)
To join a SIG, visit Professional Connection, the AES online, (members only) networking tool. You will land on the "public page." Click on the Log in to see members only content link. Once logged in, find the Directory tab at the top of the page. Find Special Interest Groups in the dropdown menu. Explore the list of SIG Topics and join as many as "interest" you in order to participate in the discussion forums.
Professional Connection allows SIGs to function all year long, providing a platform in which members have the ability to participate in discussions, post documents, and plan for the annual meeting SIG Program. Each SIG includes at least one Coordinator who is responsible for the SIG's activities throughout the year.
Through Professional Connection, SIG members communicate and collaborate; discuss and document; argue and agree; elaborate and educate; listen and learn. The value of your AES Membership will increase exponentially through active participation in a Special Interest Group(s).
- Basic Neuroscience
- Basic Mechanisms of Epilepsy
- Botanicals & Alternative Therapies for Epilepsy
- Children's Hour
- Clinical Care Monitoring
- EEG
- Engineering and Epilepsy
- Epidemiology
- Frontal Lobe Epilepsy
- Genetics
- How to Obtain NIH Funding
- Ictal Semiology
- Junior Investigator Workshop
- Ketogenic Diet
- MEG/MSI (Magnetoencephalography)
- Military Epileptologists
- Neonatal Seizure
- Neuroendocrinology
- Neuroimaging
- Neuropharmacology
- Neuropsychology
- Neurostimulation
- Non-Epileptic Seizures
- Nursing
- Pediatric Epilepsy Care-Based Discussion
- Pregnancy Registry Outcomes
- Private Practice Epilepsy
- Psychiatry in Epilepsy
- Quality and Value Indicators
- Sleep and Epilepsy
- Status Epilepticus
- SUDEP
- Surgery
- Temporal Lobe Club
- Tuberous Sclerosis
- Tumor-Induced Epilepsy
- Women's Issues/Women with Epilepsy