SUDEP: past, present and future

<h3>Biography</h3> Rohit is a professor in Neuropsychiatry with University of Plymouth Peninsula School of Medicine and director of its Cornwall Intellectual Disability Equitable Research (CIDER) unit https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/research/cider-cornwall-intellectual-disability-equitable-research. He is the associate Dean for academic training for Royal College of Psychiatrists (RCPsych). He is a consultant in developmental neuropsychiatry and clinical director for the Cornwall adult intellectual disability services. Awarded an MBE (2018) for services to the learning disability community he has national/international awards including the RCPsych Digital Team of the Year (2023), RCPsych Intellectual disabilities team of the year (2021), British Medical Journal (BMJ) awards for mental health (2020), Education (2019) Neurology (2016), Innovation (highly commended-2017), ILAE Epileptic Disorders best paper (2017) and Epilepsy Foundation America SUDEP Challenge (2016). He is the chair of the RCPsych Southwest England division, the vice-chair of the Intellectual Disability faculty of the RCPsych and lead of the Cochrane update for pharmacological and non-pharmacological interventions in people with epilepsy and intellectual disabilities. He was on the NICE epilepsy panel, National confidential inquiry for deaths in epilepsy, and currently on the global International League Against Epilepsy (ILAE) commission for inclusion and diversity and the ILAE task force for neurodevelopmental disorders. His interests are in co-producing with patients’ translational clinical research in neurodevelopmental/neuropsychiatric disorders, risk management, and health technology. He has over 250 index-linked publications/book-chapters and led/contributed to various national reports with over 90% as first/last and/or corresponding author. Publications are on https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1183-6933 &amp; https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/staff/rohit-shankar Rohit will outline the pathophysiology, diagnostics and clinical antecedents of SUDEP. In particular, he will explore the bio-psycho-social and environmental factors which are associated with SUDEP. He will highlight how these can be influenced to possibly reduce SUDEP and epilepsy related deaths.