The Research Room

Ava Easton, Ph.D., is a senior honorary fellow at the department of clinical infection, microbiology, and immunology at the University of Liverpool. She is also the chief executive of Encephalitis International.
Sarosh R. Irani, BMBCh MA (Oxon) DPhil FRCP FEAN, is a professor and neurologist at the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida, and professor of autoimmune neurology at the University of Oxford.
Jessica Fish, Ph.D., clinical neuropsychologist and lecturer at the Institute of Health and Wellbeing, University of Glasgow Wolfson Neuro Rehabilitation Centre, St George’s Hospital.
Thomas Pollak, MBBS, MRCPsych, MSc, NIHR, is a clinical lecturer at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology, and Neuroscience at King’s College London and a specialty trainee general adult psychiatrist at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust. Irani, Fish, and Pollak are on the scientific advisory panel of Encephalitis International.

These researchers and people with lived experience share findings and thoughts on prevention, diagnosis, treatment, management, and the consequences of the neurological condition, encephalitis.