21st Annual Scientific Meeting, Melbourne: Program Details

Download the complete official program [PDF 3.28MB]

Symposia

Presentation slides which presenters have given permission to distribute are linked below.

ENSIGA: Nurses and Allied Health Professionals Education Symposium

Pat Dean, Miami Children’s Hospital, United States	Keynote Speaker: Management of the child who can't be helped by surgery	Not available
Liz Grimmer, Royal Children’s Hospital Penny Kincade, Austin Hospital	Practicalities of SPECT	Not available
Michael Kean, Royal Children’s Hospital	MRI Made Easy	Not available
Frank Vajda, Monash Medical Centre	IV Epilim: Practical Use	Not available
Ruth Johnson, Southern Health, Dandenong Hospital	Case Study: Implementing a Psychosocial Model of Care for a frequent presenter with epilepsy	Not available
Barbara Woods, Starship Children’s Hospital, Auckland NZ	Triple sedation for EEG and EMG	Not available
Kylie Bailey, Flinders Medical Centre	Impact of a protocol for the use of intranasal midazolam for prolonged seizures in the community	Not available
Lucy Cuddihy, Barwon Health	Nurses – Making a Difference	Not available

Symposium on Imaging of Epileptogenesis

Sam Berkovic, University of Melbourne	Epileptogenesis: A clinician’s perspective	Download [PDF 267KB]
Bianca Jupp, Royal Melbourne Hospital	Imaging small animal models of epileptogenesis	Not available
David Reutens, Monash Medical Centre	PET Imaging of Epileptogenic Changes	Not available
Reetta Kälviäinen, Kuopio University, Finland	Keynote Speaker: MRI studies of disease progression in TLE	Not available
Simon Harvey, Royal Children’s Hospital	Secondary epileptogenesis	Download [PDF 1.28MB]
Andrew Bleasel, Westmead Hospital	Does TLE cause progressive neurocognitive damage?	Download [PDF 463KB]
Graeme Jackson, University of Melbourne	Imaging of interictal to ictal transition	Not available
Alan Connelly, Brain Research Institute	Imaging in epilepsy: History and the future	Not available

Symposium on Syncope: A Seizure Mimicker

Ernest Somerville, Prince of Wales Hospital Annie Bye, Sydney Children’s Hospital and the University of New South Wales	Clinical features of syncope and apnoea in adults, children and infants	Download [PDF 422KB]
Sue Corcoran, St Vincent’s Hospital	Mechanisms of Syncope	Not available
Sue Corcoran, St Vincent’s Hospital	Cardiac investigations	Not available
Mark Cook, St Vincent’s Hospital	Management and therapy	Not available
David Wells, Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine	Syncope: Driving and legal issues	Not available
Shih-Hui Lim, National University of Singapore, Singapore	Keynote Speaker: Brain seizes, heart ceases: Seizures and cardiac dysrhythmias	Not available

Merritt-Putnam Symposium: Optimising Epilepsy Treatments in the Pharmacogenomic Age

Shih-Hui Lim, National University of Singapore, Singapore	Overview of current outcomes of medical treatment – efficacy and adverse effects	Not available
Terence O'Brien, University of Melbourne	Mechanisms of pharmacoresistance	Download [PDF 413KB]
John Wark, Royal Melbourne Hospital	AEDs and fracture risk	Not available
Beverley Vollenhoven, Monash Medical Centre	Sex hormones, sexuality and fertility; effects of epilepsy and its treatment	Download [PDF 216KB]
Fergus Cameron, Royal Children’s Hospital and Murdoch Children’s Research Institute	AED treatment in children: Growth, obesity and bone metabolism	Not available
Mark Mackay, Royal Children’s Hospital	Anticonvulsants, cognition and behaviour in children with epilepsy	Download [PDF 134KB]
Cassandra Szoeke, Royal Melbourne Hospital	Is pharmacogenetic testing the future?	Not available
Reetta Kälviäinen, Kuopio University, Finland	Which drug – now and tomorrow?	Not available