Ingrid Eileen Scheffer is an Australian paediatric neurologist and senior research fellow at the Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health.

She has also described and classified novel epileptic syndromes such as Epilepsy limited to Females with Mental Retardation.

[1] Ingrid Eileen Scheffer was born in Melbourne, Victoria on 21 December 1958.

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.

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