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PLENARY (AWARD) LECTURES TO BE PRESENTED:
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Frank Ford Award Lecture (ICNA) The Global Burden of Paediatric Neurological Disorders Charles Newton, MD; University of Oxford Oxford, United Kingdom & KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Collaborative Programme Kilifi, Kenya Presented Friday, October 23 |
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Bernard Sachs Award Lecture (CNS) Genes as a Window into the Developing Brain Joseph G. Gleeson, MD University of California San Diego Rady Children’s Institute for Genomic Medicine, San Diego, CA USA Presented Tuesday, October 20 |
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John Stobo Pritchard Award Lecture (ICNA) Developmental and Epileptic Encephalopathies: What we know and what we do not know Nicola Specchio, MD, PhD Bambino Gesu' Children's Hospital, IRCCS Rome, Italy Presented Tuesday, October 20 |
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Hower Award Lecture (CNS) Migraine, Vertigo, and Dizziness Kenneth J. Mack, MD, PhD Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN USA Presented Thursday, October 22 |
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Linda De Meirleir Neurometabolic Award Lecture (ICNA) Update in Pediatric Neurometabolic Disorders 2020 Lance Rodan, MD, FRCP(C) Boston Children's Hospital Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA Presented Thursday, October 22 |
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Sheila Wallace Award Lecture (ICNA) |
| Philip R. Dodge Young Investigator Award Lecture (CNS): TBA Presented Wednesday, October 21 |
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Congratulations to the 2020 ICNA Junior Investigator Award winners, Dr. Omar Abdel-Mannan and Dr. Sachendra Badal.
Both awardees will present their work at the upcoming ICNA-CNS 2020 Virtual meeting. The ICNA Junior Investigator award provides complimentary registration to the 2020 virtual meeting and $2000 to support travel and hotel costs for the next 2022 ICNA meeting
Dr. Abdel-Mannan is a resident in Paediatric Neurology at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children (London, UK). He completed his medical degree at Oxford University in 2011, which was followed by foundation jobs and general paediatric and neonatal medicine training in North London (2011-2018). He was also selected as an NIHR Academic Clinical Fellow at the UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health (2014-2017). He plans to complete a PhD in paediatric multiple sclerosis followed by completion of training to become an independent clinician academic with an interest in neuro-inflammatory conditions of childhood. His abstract is entitled “Use of disease-modifying therapies in paediatric relapsing remitting multiple sclerosis in the UK: A multi-centre retrospective study”.
Dr. Badal is an Assistant Professor and Consultant in Pediatric Neurology at Armed Forces Medical College in Pune, India. He trained in Pediatric Neurology at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India. He completed his Pediatrics training at the Armed Forces Medical College in Pune. He is serving in the Indian Armed Forces Medical Services since 2004 and worked in a United Nations peace keeping mission in South Sudan in 2007 and in a hospital in Bhutan from 2014-2016. He completed his DM degree in January 2020, and his paper, “Structured remedial intervention for Indian school going children up to Class VI having Specific Learning Disorder (SLD) with Dyslexia: A longitudinal study assessing change of brain activation profile using Functional MRI and Resting state MRI and clinical severity scores using standard tools post intervention of 12 weeks” was his DM dissertation.
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Bursary/Travel Grants
The information below is subject to change following the decision to host the congress virtually. Please watch this space for updates
The ICNA is delighted to offer bursaries/travel grants its student and Early Career members to attend the ICNC2020 to be held virtually in October 2020. The bursaries/travel grants are limited to a maximum of 2000 USD.
To be eligible for an ICNA bursary the following criteria must be met:
- the applicant must be a member of ICNA at the time of application
- have their application supported by the applicant's educational/clinical supervisor, Principle Investigator, lab head, or another senior staff member of the institution at which the applicant is also based.
- the applicant must have a poster/spoken presentation as FIRST AUTHOR at the ICNC2020
- the applicant must NOT have received a bursary from the ICNA to attend a previous ICNC
- the application should be submitted using the online form below before the deadline of 17:00 GMT on Tuesday 30 June, 2020
- the application should be accompanied by supporting documents including the accepted abstracts, brief cv (not more than two sides of A4), statement of level of financial support requested & document verifying status.
Conditions of award
- Awardees will be expected to submit an academic piece of work for publication following peer review in JICNA either before or within 1 month of attending the congress.Submission to JICNA is a precondition for the award$.
- Awardees will also be asked to fill in an evaluation survey, following the congress
- All awards are disbursed following the congress on receipt of a completed expenses form along with supporting evidence
$JICNA editorial policy does not normally permit manuscripts under review in JICNA or ICNC conference proceedings to be simultaneously under review for another publication. Submissions to the ICNC conference proceedings or JICNA invited reviews are considered as original articles that have not been previously published in a refereed or formally reviewed publication. Please email editor@jicna.org for any queries regarding JICNA editorial policy on simultaneous submissions & prior publications.
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