ANN JACOBY, Ph.D.

Ann Jacoby, Ph.D. is a social scientist who has worked in the field of epilepsy since 1985. Dr. Jacoby’s major research interests have been the psychosocial aspects of epilepsy, assessment of quality of life in people with epilepsy and the development and application of patient-based measures of the outcome of treatments for epilepsy, particularly within the framework of randomised clinical trials.

Dr. Jacoby holds substantial grants for research into epilepsy from the UK Medical Research Council and UK NHS Executive. She is currently Professor of Medical Sociology in the Department of Primary Care, which is a constituent department of the School of Health Sciences in the University of Liverpool Medical School. She is also Visiting Professor at the Centre for Health Services Research in the University of Newcastle and a core senior member of staff of the UK Medical Research Council Health Services Research Collaboration. She has been joint principal investigator on a number of international studies of quality of life in epilepsy. Dr. Jacoby has also published extensively on quality of life in epilepsy and presented my work widely at international conferences.

Dr. Jacoby has taught on quality of life issues in epilepsy both nationally and internationally. She was elected to the Council of Management of British Epilepsy Association in 1995, was Vice-Chair from 1997-2000 and became Chair in July 2000. Dr. Jacoby is also Chairman of the second International Bureau for Epilepsy Commission on Epilepsy Risks and Insurability.