Dr Michael Shevell is a Professor in the Departments of Neurology/Neurosurgery and Paediatrics at McGill University. He is also currently Director of the Division of Paediatric Neurology at the Montreal Children's Hospital-McGill University Health Centre. He has an ongoing research interest in children with or at risk for neurodevelopmental disabilities. He was Chairman of the Xth World Congress of the International Child Neurology Association held in Montreal in June 2006. He is the long-standing Chair of the Ethics Committee of the Child Neurology Society and is a currently a Member of the Executive Board of the International Child Neurology Association and former President of the Canadian Association of Child Neurology.