Programme - ILAE British Conference

Day 1

Wednesday 12 October

1000 — 1100

Lower Hall

Registration & coffee

Lower Hall

1100 — 1110

Assembly Room

Introduction

Dr Manny Bagary, ILAE British Branch President

Assembly Room

1110 — 1245

Assembly Room

Session 1| Moving Forwards: Novel treatments for epilepsy

1110 – 1140
Novel ASM: Dr Rhys Thomas, Newcastle

1140 – 1210
Precision genetic therapies in epilepsy: Prof Norman Delanty, Dublin

1210 – 1240
Laser interstitial thermal therapy (LITT): Mr Martin Tisdall, London

Assembly Room

1245

Lower Hall

Lunch

Lower Hall

1300 — 1345

Assembly Room

Symposium 1 (45 minutes): Angelini Pharma

Assembly Room

1345 — 1405

Lower Hall

Coffee & networking

Lower Hall

1405 — 1605

Assembly Room

Gowers and Platform presentations,
Celine Newman Neurobiology of Epilepsy Platform presentations

Assembly Room

1605 — 1625

Lower Hall

Coffee

Lower Hall

1625 — 1710

Assembly Room

Symposium 2 (45 minutes): Zogenix

Assembly Room

1710 — 1715

Comfort break

1715 — 1805

Assembly Room

Excellence in Epilepsy Award Lecture

Dr Ian Minshall GP, Chester

Assembly Room

1810 — 1900

Marble Hall

Drinks & canapés

Marble Hall

Day 2

Thursday 13 October

0830 — 0915

Lower Hall

Breakfast Symposium: Jazz Pharma

Lower Hall

0915 — 1015

Lower Hall

Expert-led Posters & coffee

Lower Hall

1015 — 1145

Assembly Room

Session 2| Artificial Intelligence in epilepsy: Is this useful to our current clinical practice?

1015 – 1045
What do we mean by AI? Dr Ali-Alim Marvasti, UCL WEISS, Wellcome EPSRC Institute of Surgical Science

1045 – 1115
Deep learning to analyse EEG data in epilepsy: Dr Catarin da Silva, Lourenco, University of TWENTE, Enschede, the Netherlands

1115 – 1145
The role of AI interpretation of MRI in epilepsy: Dr Sophie Adler, Great Ormond Street Hospital, London

Assembly Room

1145 — 1235

Assembly Room

Keynote talk: The Salzburg Consensus Criteria for Non-Convulsive Status Epilepticus – application in practice

Prof Sandor Beniczky, Denmark

Assembly Room

1235

Lower Hall

Lunch

Lower Hall

1250 — 1335

Assembly Room

Symposium 3 (45 minutes): UCB

Assembly Room

1335 — 1405

Assembly Room

AGM

Assembly Room

1405 — 1530

Assembly Room

Session 3|Music therapy in epilepsy

Principles of sonification: Nigel Osborne, Composer and Professor of music

Sonification in practice in epilepsy: Prof Mike Trimble, Emeritus Professor of Behavioural Neurology, UCL

Music therapy in epilepsy: Prof Hrvoje Hecimovic, Zagreb, Croatia

Assembly Room

1530 — 1600

Lower Hall

Coffee

Lower Hall

1600 — 1645

Assembly Room

Symposium 4 (45 minutes): UNEEG

Assembly Room

1745 — 1710

Comfort break

1710 — 1740

Assembly Room

Epilepsy Research UK - Results from the Priority Setting Partnership - top ten epilepsy research priorities.

Assembly Room

1740 —1810

Assembly Room

Update on NICE Guidelines

Update on NICE Guidelines: Prof Arjune Sen, Oxford

Assembly Room

1930 — 0000

Radisson Blu, Cardiff

Gala Dinner

Radisson Blu, Cardiff

Day 3

Friday 14 October

0830 — 0915

Lower Hall

Breakfast Symposium: Eisai

Lower Hall

0915 — 1015

Assembly Room

Session 4|Clinical Teaching 1: Developmental and epileptic encephalopathies

0900 – 0920
Electro-clinical diagnoses: Dr Ronit Pressler, Great Ormond Street Hospital, London

0920 – 0940
Clinical Management of seizures: Prof Matthew Walker, UCL/UCLH

0940 – 1000
Managing comorbidities – cognition, challenging behaviour, neurodevelopmental disorders: Prof Mike Kerr Cardiff

Assembly Room

1015 — 1145

Assembly Room

Session 5|Neurosurgery Network meeting

Assembly Room

1145 — 1215

Lower Hall

Coffee

Lower Hall

1215 — 1345

Assembly Room

Session 6|Clinical Teaching 2: Managing difficult genetic generalised epilepsies with panel discussion

JME: Prof Phil Smith, Cardiff
IGE with GTS: Dr Khalid Hamandi, Cardiff

Assembly Room

1345

Lower Hall

Close of meeting and lunch

Lower Hall