Management of epilepsy in children can be complex and challenging and a good clinician knows when to draw on multidisciplinary professional expertise, while staying up to date with clinical and non-clinical areas outside his or her immediate expertise. No one understood this more than the late Sheila Wallace under whom I had the privilege to train in the 1980s. She was a hands on clinician who did not shy away from basic science. The first edition of her book, Epilepsy in children, published in 1996, not surprisingly encompassed the various disciplines …