Hideo Yamanouchi, MD is President, International Symposium on Acute Encephalopathy and Its Related Disorders (ISAE2016); Director, Saitama Medical University Hospital Comprehensive Epilepsy Center; and Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Saitama Medical University in Saitama, Japan. He is a co-author of Acute Encephalopathy and Encephalitis in Infancy and Its Related Disorders.

Dr. Yamanouchi earned his MD from Mie University School of Medicine and his PhD from Gunma University School of Medicine. Before his current position at Saitama Medical University, he held positions at Gunma University School of Medicine and Dokkyo Medical University.  He is board certified in Pediatrics, Child Neurology, Clinical Epileptology, and Medical Genetics.

He is on the board of directors of the Japanese Society of Child Neurology; councilor, Japan Epilepsy Society; councilor and secretary general, Infantile Seizure Society; delegate, Japanese Pediatrics Society; member, Japan Society of Human Genetics; affiliate member, Child Neurology Society, USA; member, International Child Neurology Association; and corresponding active member, American Academy of Neurology, USA.