Background

The epilepsy group held its exploratory meeting on 20 January 1996 at the Istituto Mario Negri, Milan, Italy and formally registered with Cochrane on 1 September 1996. The first meeting of the group took place in September 1996, at The Hague. This was an open meeting intended to encourage new review authors. The first meeting of the group's editorial board took place in July 1997 in Dublin, Ireland.

Dates of previous editorial meetings:

• July 1997, Dublin, Ireland
• December 1997, Boston, USA
• December 1998, San Diego, USA
• October 1999, Rome, Italy
• December 1999, Orlando, USA
• December 2000, Los Angeles, USA
• October 2002, Liverpool, UK
• February 2006, Liverpool, UK
• October 2011, Madrid, Spain
• February 2012, Liverpool, UK
• September 2013, Liverpool, UK
• June 2014, Liverpool, UK
• October 2015, Liverpool, UK
• May 2016, Liverpool, UK
• November 2016, Liverpool, UK
• May, 2017, Liverpool, UK
• April 2019, teleconference
• July 2020, teleconference
• February 2020, teleconference
• May 2020, teleconference
• August 2020, teleconference
• May 2021, teleconference
• June 2022, teleconference

 Members of the board are kept informed about the day-to-day work of the group by regular e-mails.