Stem Cells 2019

Sarnat is professor of Paediatric Neurology and Neuropathology at the University of Calgary and Alberta Children’s Hospital, Canada.

He has devoted most of his career to developmental (fetal and neonatal) neuroanatomy and neuropathology, particularly in relation to brain malformations with clinical correlates and to the developmental neuropathology of epilepsy. He is one of 8 permanent member of the International League Against Epilepsy, Commission on Neuropathology. His 180 research publications include clinical studies that have become classics as the Sarnat grading scale of neonatal encephalopathies (1976) and the first description of neonatal olfactory reflexes (1978), as well as a recent long series of articles defining the sequence of synaptogenesis in the fetal brain and another series on development of the olfactory system. He is sole or co-author or editor of several textbooks and has contributed 120 chapters to textbooks and monographs. He serves on the editorial boards of 9 journals. He was keynote speaker at the 50th anniversary meeting of the Canadian Association of Neuropathologists and was the prestigious Bernard Sachs Lecturer in 2016 at the congress of the Child Neurology Society (U.S.A.). He lectures frequently throughout Europe, Latin America, Japan, Australia, U.S.A. and Canada. His wife and co-author of many

publications, Dr. Laura Flores-Sarnat, is professor of Paediatrics and Clinical Neurosciences at the University of Calgary, formerly head of Child Neurology at the Instituto Nacional de Pediatría, a large university children’s teaching hospital in Mexico City.