Lawrence W. Brown, MD is emeritus Professor of Neurology and Pediatrics at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and the Perelman School of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania.  He is past president of the Child Neurology Foundation and founding chairman of its medical transition initiative to develop tools for successful transition to adulthood. He is senior author on its consensus statement published in Neurology with endorsements by the American Academy of Neurology (AAN), American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), the American Epilepsy Society (AES) and Child Neurology Society (CNS).  He was until recently co-principal investigator of an epilepsy education and transition project funded by the Health Resources Services Administration (HRSA) in collaboration with the AAP as well as principal investigator of an NIMH collaborative grant on the genetics of Tourette syndrome.