Ingrid Scheffer
Australian paediatric neurologist and senior research (born 1958)
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Early life and education
Ingrid Eileen Scheffer was born in Melbourne, Victoria on 21 December 1958. Scheffer finished secondary school at Methodist Ladies' College in 1976, and then attended Monash University, where she graduated with a Bachelor of Medicine and a Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) in 1983. Scheffer went on to complete her PhD in neurology at the University of Melbourne in 1998. Scheffer undertook her general paediatric neurology training at the Royal Children’s Hospital before moving to the UK to train in child neurology at the Great Ormond Street Hospital, London, and epileptology at the Austin Hospital.
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Career and research
Beyond further describing the aetiology of epilepsy, Ingrid has worked to characterise new epilepsy syndromes, from infancy to adulthood, which have permitted appropriate treatment and diagnosis, such as Dravet Syndrome and Epilepsy limited to Females with cognitive disability. Her work also provides for more accurate genetic reproductive counselling.
In 2014, Scheffer, alongside her close collaborator Professor Sam Berkovic, AC, won the Prime Minister’s Prize for Science for their work on deciphering the genetics of epilepsy. It is one of many awards in she has received throughout her career.