Ernest Somerville is Director of the Comprehensive Epilepsy Service of the Prince of Wales Hospital in Sydney and Conjoint Professor at the University of New South Wales.
Ernie studied medicine at Sydney University and received his training in neurology and epilepsy at Duke University, North Carolina, USA.
He established the epilepsy surgery program at Westmead Hospital in Sydney and became head of the Prince of Wales program in 2003. With Andrew Bleasel, he set up the ANZAN Annual Course in Clinical EEG and has directed the Epilepsy Society of Australia’s Course in Clinical Epilepsy since 2006. He has lectured extensively in Australia and Asia. Research interests include clinical epilepsy, EEG, driving, epilepsy in developing countries and seizure aggravation by anti-epileptic drugs.
He established the East Timor National Epilepsy Training Program, which trains Timorese health workers to diagnose and manage epilepsy and performs community education.
He is a Past President of the ESA and chairs the Driving Committees of ANZAN and the ESA.
He has received an Ambassador for Epilepsy Award from the International League Against Epilepsy and International Bureau for Epilepsy and awards from the Epilepsy Society of Australia and the Australian and New Zealand Association of Neurologists.