Phillip L. Pearl, M.D. is Director of Epilepsy and Clinical Neurophysiology at Boston Children’s Hospital and William G. Lennox Chair and Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School.  Dr. Pearl also is a faculty member of the Music and Health Institute at the Berklee College of Music in Boston.  His major research interest is inherited metabolic epilepsies with specific focus on disorders of GABA metabolism.  Dr. Pearl is Past President of the Child Neurology Society and the Professors of Child Neurology.  He has authored over 215 peer-reviewed manuscripts and over 160 chapters and reviews, written or edited five books including one translated into Chinese and another into Japanese, and produced two musical CDs, the first of which had its debut at Georgetown’s famous Blues Alley and supported the care of indigent children in the nation’s capital.