Matti Lauri Sillanpää

Background

Sillanpää, Matti Lauri was born August 4, 1936 in Noormarkku, Finland. Son of Lauri Herman and Elma Sylvia (née Wahlroos) Sillanpää

1962 Authorized Physician

1962-1964 General Practitioner

1964-1967 Resident in Pediatrics, University of Turku, Finland

1967 Board-Certified Specialist in Pediatrics, Univ. of Turku

1967-1968 Resident in Neurology, Univ. of Turku

1968-1969 Resident in Child Neurology, Univ. of Uppsala, Sweden

1969 Board-Certified Specialist in Pediatric Neurology

1976-1990 Appointed Associate Professor and Acting Full Professor of Public Health, Univ. of Turku

1990-2001 Appointed Full Professor and Faculty Member of Pediatric Neurology, Univ. of Turku

1991-2000 Chief Physician of Child Neurology, Turku University Hospital

2001- Full-time Senior Research Scientist

Education

Matti Sillanpää completed his Abitur (sedcondary school graduate) in 1955, obligatory military service in 1956, M.D. in 1962,

Career

Dr Matti Sillanpää completed his studies as Secondary Uppper School Graduate and passed matriculation examination in the year 1955, completed his obligatory military service 1956 (First Sanitary Lieutenant 1974), completed his service as municipal health officer in the Town of Loimaa 1964, completed as resident in Pediatrics 1967, as resident in Child Neurology 1969, PhD degree in 1973, as Staff Specialist/Senior Consultant 1976, as tenured Associate Professor of Public Health 1990, as Chief Physician of Child Neurology and 1999 and Full Professor and Faculty Member of Child Neurology until retirement 2001.

Achievements

• Holder of the first full-time University Professor's of Child Neurology chair in the Norcic Countries 1990-2001
  
  Founder of the national Finnish Epilepsy Research Foundation
  
  Founder of the Finnish Epilepsy Society
  
  Founder of the national Finnish Association for Orofacial Therapy
  
  One of the Founders of Child Neurology in Finland (Ashwal J, 2021)
  
  Research Scientist for 60 years, since 1961
  
  Declared scientifically competent and eligible for Full Professor's Office of Public Health Sciences at the Univ. of Oulu 1986 and at the Univ. of Turku 1989, and for Full Professor´s Office of Child Neurology at the Univ. of Helsinki 1989 and Univ. of Turku 1990

Works

• More than 550 (as of Dec 9, 2021) peer reviewed scientific papers, handbooks and other papers. Books deal, among other things, with peadiatric epilepsy; child neurology; history of child neurology in Finland; and autobiography.

  • Dr Sillanpää´s works are mainly focused on epilepsy, childhood migraine and headache, epidemiology, chronic diseases and neurodevelopment

Membership

• Finnish Association of Physicians , Finland

  1958 - present

• Scandinavian Pediatric Association

  1966 - 1980

• International Child Neurology Association

  1973 - 1993

• PEDEKOS: International Academy for Children with Special Needs

  1976 - 1997

• Acta Neurologica Scandinavica

  1990 - present

• Pediatr Neurol (editorial board 1991)

  1991 - 2021

• National Epilepsy Association Finland

  1976 - present

• Finnish Epilepsy Journal

  1976 - 1998

• Pharmaceutical Journal Dosis Editorial Board

  1985 - 1994

• Finnish Association of Pediatricians

  1964 - present

• Nordisk Neuropediatrisk Förening

  1968 - present

• European Federation of Child Neurology Societies

  1973 - present

• International League Against Epilepsy

  1976 - present

• International Bureau for Epilepsy

  1994 - 2006

• Finnish Neurology Association

  1974 - present

• Epileptic Disorders Editorial Board

  2000 - 2006

• Journal of Headache and Pain Editorial Board

  2000 - 2005

• Neurologica Dziecieca (Pol) Editorial Board

  2001 - 2009

• BMC Neurology

  2005 - 2009

• Seizure

  2006 - present

• Epilepsia journal Editorial Board

  2013 - 2017

• Journa of Epileptology (former Epileptologia)

  2009 - present

Personality

Dr Sillanpää is still an active researcher despite havin retired 2001. His motto is: "He who rests, rusts".

Physical Characteristics: A Finnish University Professor of Bacteriology and Serology in a cocktail party, Feb 14, 1991: "Dr Sillanpää is a typical western man by physique especially with regard to body size, nose and chin".

Dr Sillanpää´s wedding priest Oct 30, 1964, Pori, Finland and a British Professor Oct 10, 2003 in Firenze: "Your eyes and smile, you are Turku's John Wayne".

A Canadian Female Professor Nov 15, 2012: "You are handsome", and an American (male) Professor Nov 15, 2012, both in the Hague: "You look good".

A German Professor Oct 15, 2012 in the Hague: "You have not changed at all during the last twenty years!"

A female steward Oct 15, 2012 on Finnair flight from Helsinki to the Hague: "Its nice to see a well-dressed gentleman. It is so rare nowadays"

Interests

• Music, clubs

Connections

Spouse Pirjo Kaarina Huida, October 30, 1964.

Father:

Lauri Herman

Mother:

Elma Sylvia