Facts: - residence: australia - name: professor ingrid scheffer - citizenship: australian - alma mater: university of melbourne Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of ingrid scheffer .
ingrid scheffer , faa fahms , is an australian paediatric neurologist and senior research fellow at the florey institute of neuroscience and mental health .she has made several major advances in the field of epilepsy research .scheffer is credited with finding the first gene implicated in epilepsy .she has also described and classified novel epileptic syndromes such as epilepsy limited to females with mental retardation .