The example set by the San Servolo course, an educational initiative of ILAE President Giuliano Avanzini (Italy), was followed in 2005 by Dr. Meir Bialer (Israel) with the first of the biennial Eilat International Educational Courses on the Pharmacological Treatment of Epilepsy. In the same year, Peter Wolf (Denmark), as the new ILAE President, declared education as the number one priority of his term of office and encouraged the international community to launch new educational initiatives. The first of these, starting in 2007, was the Baltic Sea Summer School on Epilepsy (BSSSE), a 1-week course held annually in one of the ten countries around the Baltic Sea, hosted by their ILAE chapters, with a faculty from these countries and with about 40 international participants not restricted to the region.
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