EPNS Masterclass 2026

Event Notes:

For every life-transforming gene transfer or epilepsy surgery in paediatric neurology, there are countless encounters where the most powerful intervention was a conversation. The human factor remains at the core of our practice. We explain, reassure, persuade, comfort, teach, and console. Human factors also shape how patients and families respond to neurological challenges — some with extraordinary resilience, others with anger or helplessness. Our own emotional responses in these moments can either support or further complicate care.

And we don’t do this alone: we work in teams, an experience which can be inspiring, or exasperating.

When things go wrong in medicine, as in other industries, the cause is often not technical failure but human factors again: unspoken assumptions, reluctance to admit uncertainty, burnout leading to shortcuts. Understanding these is as essential to improving patient outcomes as developing the next antisense oligonucleotide or monoclonal antibody.

And what happens when the human factor is removed? As AI enters our field, how will it change the way we diagnose, communicate, and care for our patients?

Join us for the EPNS Masterclass in Cambridge, where we will explore these themes through the lens of epilepsy in the 2020s.

As well as the world class clinical and neuroscience faculty you expect from the EPNS we will have parents, ethicists, philosophers, and researchers from disciplines you don’t ordinarily meet speaking.

The EPNS Cambridge Masterclass has established itself as something special…