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Monday 15 September
09:30 - 10:30
Registration & Coffee
10:30 - 10:40
Welcome
ILAE British Branch President Dr Rhys Thomas
10:40 - 12:10
Session 1 – Epilepsy and Dementia
Epilepsy and Memory: Dr John Baker, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, London
Delirium and epilepsy: Dr Gregory Scott, Imperial College, London
Trials of anti-dementia medications in epilepsy – new opportunities on the near horizon: Professor Arjune Sen, Wolfson College, Oxford
12:10 - 12:30
The Centre for Global Epilepsy: Professor Arjune Sen, Wolfson College, Oxford
12:30- 13:35
Lunch
12:40 - 13:25
Symposium
13:35 - 15:05
Session 2 – Functional Dissociative Seizures
Advancing diagnostic accuracy – novel neurobiology markers in functional v epileptic seizures: Dr Mahinda Yogarajah, UCL, London
Morbidity and Mortality in dissociative seizures: Dr Krishna Chinthapalli, UCL
Managing patients with functional/ dissociative seizures: Professor Markus Reuber, Sheffield
15:05 - 15:30
Coffee, Posters & Networking
15:30- 16:00
Excellence in Epilepsy Award
To be awarded to John Paul Leach, Rome
Citation: Dr Graeme Sills
16:10 - 16:55
Symposium
17:00 - 17:40
Session 3: Genetic Case Studies (adult and paediatric cases)
17:45 - 18:45
Drinks Reception
19:00 - 22:30
Young Epilepsy Society (YES) Event
Tuesday 16 September
08:30 - 09:15
Breakfast Symposium
09:20 - 10:40
Neurosurgery Session
Update on VNS trials: Professor Tony Marson, Walton Centre, Liverpool
Adult and paediatric cases for discussion
10:40 - 11:20
Coffee, Posters & Networking
11:20 - 12:00
Keynote talk
Professor Helen Cross, President ILAE
12:00 - 12:30
AGM
12:30 - 13:30
Lunch
12:40 - 13:25
Symposium
13:30 - 15:30
Session 4: Platform Poster Presentations and Epilepsy Research Institute Neurobiology of Epilepsy Session
Talks selected from abstracts
15:30 - 16:15
Poster Tours & Coffee
16:20 - 17:05
Symposium
17:10 - 18:40
FEVER
FIRES: Dr Sukhvir Wright, Birmingham
New onset refractory Status Epilepticus (NORSE): Dr Laura Mantoan Ritter, King’s College, London
Generalised Epilepsy with febrile seizures plus (GEFS +): Dr Andrea Whitney, University Hospital, Southampton
19:45 - 23:55
Gala Dinner
The Pavilion
Wednesday 17 September
09:00 - 10:30
Session 6: Seizures from Sleep
Seizures in the dark: distinguishing Nocturnal Epilepsy from its mimics: Professor Matthew Walker, UCL
Biology of sleep seizures: Professor Mark Cunningham, Trinity College Dublin
Seizure alerts and alarms: Professor Hannah Cock, St George’s University Hospitals NHS Trust
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee, Posters & Networking
11:00 - 12:30
Session 7: Decision Making in Clinical Practice
Making better decisions in epilepsy care: Applying the science of decision making in the epilepsy clinic:
Professor Sallie Baxendale, UCL
Predicting, illustrating, communicating and optimising patient-centred outcomes of epilepsy surgery using nomograms and Bayes’ theorem: Professor Bryce Mulligan, The Ottawa Hospital, Canada (remotely)
My choice and how I made it: Sarah Brown, USA
12:30 - 14:00
Lunch and finish