Dr. Andrade is a Professor of Medicine (Neurology) at the University of Toronto. She is the Medical Director of the Epilepsy Program at the University Health Network.
She is also the founder and Director of the Adult Genetic Epilepsy (AGE) Program. She is the President of the Canadian League Against Epilepsy, the Co-Chair of the International League Against Epilepsy task force on adults with Developmental and Epileptic Encephalopathies, and the former Chair and C...
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Dr. Andrade’s research interests are in the field of genetic epilepsies and their long-term outcome, or natural history. Her team identified the first gene associated with SUDEP (sudden, unexpected death in epilepsy) in patients with non-syndromic epilepsy.
Her team also discovered the genes responsible for different epilepsies, including Lennox-Gastaut syndrome, Jeavon’s syndrome, teenage-onset neuronal ceroid lipofuccinosis and progressive myoclonus epilepsy. She leads UHN’s adult Dravet Syndrome program.
