Dr. Victor Patterson
About Victor
Dr. Victor Patterson has been a neurologist for over 50 years but for the last 12 has been working with overseas colleagues on a practical solution to reduce the epilepsy treatment gap – this is where people with epilepsy in poorer countries aren’t on any treatment for what is an eminently treatable disease. He has done this by developing smartphone applications which enable less-experienced doctors to diagnose and manage epilepsy. Together with colleagues from Nepal, India, Sudan, Pakistan, Italy, Bolivia, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and the UK, he has showed that these apps work in a series of publications. In his previous life as a neurologist, Victor pioneered teleneurology in the UK resulting in two books and 40 publications, winning the “Best Telemedicine Network in the World” in 2003. Apps are just another type of telemedicine, but, crucially, ones which have the ability to be deployed easily on a large scale.
Areas of focus
telemedicine
LMICs
global health
Links
LinkedIn | ResearchGate | Google Scholar | loop | EpilepsyApp
Episode
Using a Phone App To Diagnose Epilepsy - from Thousands of Miles Away
08 Oct 2026
In this episode we hear of:
telemedicine and app use in Low-Middle Income Countries - and beyond
the origin of telemedicine
AI is changing the epilepsy world for the better