Name

Professor Norman Delanty

After graduating from University College Cork in 1988, Professor Delanty trained in general medicine in Cork and Dublin before completing a neurology residency at Cornell Medical Centre, New York. He then moved to Philadelphia to complete a fellowship at Penn Epilepsy Centre, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. In 2000, he returned to Dublin to take up a position as Consultant Neurologist at the Epilepsy Service and National Epilepsy Surgery Programme at Beaumont Hospital, Dublin in 2000. 

Professor Delanty is also Clinical Professor at the School of Pharmacy and Biomolecular Sciences, and a funded investigator at the Science Foundation Ireland-funded FutureNeuro Research Centre at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI). 

Professor Delanty has been active in many translational research projects. He initiated the Irish epilepsy DNA biobank, and collaborates nationally and internationally with other investigators. His current interests include precision therapy in the genetic epilepsies. He was the clinical instigator in the development of the now nationally-used Epilepsy Electronic Patient Record. He is also the founder of the Irish Epilepsy and Pregnancy Register. Professor Delanty has published widely in peer-reviewed journals, and he has edited two books. 

In 2009, he received an ILAE Ambassador for Epilepsy Award. He is a past President of the Irish Chapter of the ILAE. He co-hosted the joint scientific meeting of the UK and Irish Chapters of the ILAE held in Dublin in October 2016. He is a member of both the ILAE Genetic Literacy Commission, and the ILAE Climate Change Commission. He was also a member of the Scientific Organising Committee of the International Epilepsy Congress held in Dublin in September 2023.