Margitta Seeck, professor emeritus at the UNIGE Faculty of Medicine and founder of the HUG Epilepsy and EEG Unit, is the recipient of the Tissot Medal, the highest distinction awarded by the Swiss League Against Epilepsy. A member of the League's committee for many years, this award honours her exceptional commitment to the care of people with epilepsy and to research in epileptology in Switzerland.

A neurologist specialising in neurophysiology and epileptology, Margitta Seeck has headed the Geneva-Lausanne pre-surgical epilepsy programme since 1995, a national and international reference centre for difficult-to-treat epilepsy in adults and children. Her research has focused on the analysis and localisation of electrical signals in the brain, the surgical assessment of epilepsy, the semiology of seizures and phenomena related to cognitive epilepsy, epilepsy imaging and the neurology of first seizures.

An expert for the Swiss Foundation and other national scientific foundations, and former president of the Swiss Society of Neurophysiology, she has been actively involved in the teaching activities of the Swiss Society of Neurophysiology. In 2018, she received the prestigious Berger Prize in Epileptology and Clinical Neurophysiology, awarded by the International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology (IFCN). A full professor in the Department of Clinical Neurosciences, she was appointed professor emeritus in October 2025.

The Tissot Medal is named after the Swiss physician and author of books on public health, Samuel Auguste Tissot (1728–1797), who published the first modern educational work on epilepsy. It has generally been awarded every two years since 2007.