EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE:
Monday, Dec. 7, 2020
6:30 p.m. EST
CHICAGO - Jay A. Salpekar, M.D. presented Rebecca Goldberg Kaufman AES Clinical
Lecture in Ethical Neuropsychiatry Award during the AES2020 event of the American
Epilepsy Society (AES). Dr. Salpekar spoke on the Treatment of Psychiatric
Comorbidities during the Best Practices in Clinical Epilepsy Symposium.
Dr. Salpekar is the director of the Neuropsychiatry in Epilepsy Program at Kennedy
Krieger Institute and Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Neurology at Johns Hopkins
University Medical School. He has been and remains an academician overlapping
psychiatry and neurology for 25 years. He is a long-time investigator for clinical research
projects involving psychiatric illness associated with epilepsy.
Dr. Salpekar has been committed to the epilepsy community for over two decades, most
recently as a committee chair in the American Epilepsy Society, serving two terms on
the Professional Advisory Board of the Epilepsy Foundation, and on the editorial board of
epilepsy.com.
As the mother of a child with epilepsy, Rebecca Goldberg Kaufman understood the
significant psychiatric and social ramifications of epilepsy and became a staunch
advocate for increased education on these aspects. Her son, AES member Dr. Kenneth
R. Kaufman, Professor of Psychiatry, Neurology and Anesthesiology at Rutgers-Robert
Wood Johnson Medical School, established an AES fund in her honor to recognize her
compassion, her advocacy, and her support for clinical research on the psychiatric and
social aspects of epilepsy and the use of antiepileptic drugs in the treatment of
psychiatric disorders.