Charlotte Dravet is a psychiatrist and an epileptologist. She graduated from the Marseilles University in the specialization of the psychiatrist. She is the President of the French League against Epilepsy and member of the Committee for classification of various types of epilepsy ILAE. She participates in multiple congresses, lectures, and is the author of many published works.

She worked in the St. Paul's Center at the Marseilles University that is specialized in infant neuropsychiatry.

Under the management of Henri Gastaut, she studied the type of epilepsy in 1965 that would further be named the Lennox-Gastaut syndrome.

Dr. Dravet has always worked with Joseph Roger, Michelle Bureau, and Pierre Genton.

She studied epileptic syndromes of childhood, psychological consequences of epilepsy, hereditary genetic anomalies.

Her name was given to the Dravet syndrome recognized as one of the most serious syndromes in childhood.

Being retired already, she continues to work in France and Italy.