Boissé Lomax | Department of Medicine | School of Medicine

Lysa Boissé Lomax MD MSc FRCPC CSCN (EEG)

Position(s)

Division Chair

Professor

Contact Info

613-549-6666 ext 6242

Dr. Lysa Boissé Lomax is a Professor at Queen’s University, jointly appointed to the Division of Neurology and the Division of Respirology. In July 2025, she became Chair of the Division of Neurology. She completed her MD and MSc degrees at the University of Calgary and Neurology residency at Queen’s University. She received the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons Detweiler Travelling Fellowship and the Cecil Patience Reid Fellowship to pursue further training in Epilepsy and Genetics under the supervision of Professors Sam Berkovic and Ingrid Scheffer at the University of Melbourne in Australia. Upon returning to Queen’s University, she pursued additional training in Sleep Medicine and is certified to read EEG (CSCN diplomate) and polysomnography.

Dr. Boissé Lomax runs multidisciplinary sleep and epilepsy clinics, as well as a transition clinic that helps guide children and their families as they transition from pediatric into adult care, with an active virtual care practice. She is the Director of the KHSC District Epilepsy Centre and the Medical Director of the EEG Laboratory. She has served on national boards that created guidelines for epilepsy genetic testing, the repatriation of gene panels to Ontario, driving and epilepsy, and the transition from pediatric to adult epilepsy care.

Her research interests include epilepsy genetics and epilepsy syndromes (such as North Sea Myoclonus Epilepsy), cardiac arrhythmia in epilepsy, and virtual clinical teaching tools for residents. She is an active member of the ECHO Epilepsy Executive team and serves as Chair of the ECHO Epilepsy Genetics Section. She also serves as an executive member of the District 7 Ontario Medical Association Council.

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