The ILAE "6th Migrating Course on Epilepsy" will be held in Porto, Portugal, from 10 -17 June 2012.The Portuguese League Against Epilepsy will organize the event and outline the scientific program, in close collaboration with the Commission on European Affairs of the ILAE.
This is a comprehensive course combining basic and clinical epileptology. It is aimed primarily to younger doctors (< 45yrs). The teaching staff comprises european epileptologists with widely recognized scientific and educational skills. The working model will be interactive, with emphasis on work sessions in small groups, and participants are encouraged to bring specific cases to discuss their own clinical experience.
We would be thankful if you could transmit this initiative to the members of your chapter, and perhaps announce the event at your chapter’s website (an english version is available at http://www.epilepsia.pt/lpce/6th-migrating-course-on-epilepsy.
A limited number of bursaries will be available from the course organization. It would be excellent if your chapter could perhaps support deserving applications from your country, reducing the costs of participation for those not contemplated with the course bursary.
The first announcement of the 6th Migrating Course can be found attached and is also available for download at the LPCE website (http://www.epilepsia.pt/lpce/6th-migrating-course-on-epilepsy).
Looking forward to receiving applications from your country, we send our best regards,
The Course Directors of the 6th Migrating Course on epilepsy:
Alla Guekht
Peter Wolf
Francisco Sales
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The following IRCN books will be made available to ICNA active members who have paid their membership dues for the respective years.
| Book for Year |
Title |
Editors |
Status |
| 2008 |
Stroke |
Ganesan & Kirkham |
Published in 2011 |
| 2009 |
Leucodystrophies |
Fatemi & Naidu |
Published in 2011 |
| 2010 |
Acquired Brain Injury in the Fetus & Newborn |
Shevell & Miller |
To be published in March/April 2012 |
| 2011 |
CNS infections |
Singhi, Griffins, Newton |
To be published in June 2012 |
| 2010 |
Acquired Brain Injury in the Fetus & Newborn |
Shevell & Miller |
To be published in March/April 2012 |
| 2011 |
CNS infections |
Singhi, Griffins, Newton |
To be published in June 2012 |
| Future Books | ||
| Title of Book |
Editors |
Expected date of Publishing |
| Neonatal Seizures | Lakshmi Nagarajan | December 2012 |
| Immunology |
Rob Rust |
TBC |
| Epilepsy Surgery in Children |
Helen Cross and Michael Duchowny |
? 2013 |
| Myasthenia in Children |
Hugo Arroyo |
TBC |
| Tropical Neurology |
Veena Kalra |
TBC |
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12th International Child Neurology Congress
11th Asian and Oceanian Child Neurology Congress
27 May – 1 June 2012
Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre, Australia
John Stobo Prichard Award lecture
The ICNA is now accepting applications for the John Stobo Prichard Award lecture.
The lecture will be awarded to a young child neurologist who has made a significant contribution to clinical and/or basic research. The Nominating Committee, chaired by Professor Robert Ouvrier, will select the candidates for recommendation to the ICNA EB.
1. The candidate should be nominated by three members of the ICNA.
2. The candidate should be 45 years old or younger at the time of the ICNA congress in Brisbane (June 2012).
3. The nominating members should describe the candidate and his/her work and they should make clear why they consider the candidate’s work so relevant to the field of child neurology.
4. The candidate should be a child neurologist and an active member of ICNA.
5. The nominating letter should be sent to the Chairman of the Selection Committee. Email to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
6. The deadline for nomination will be OCTOBER 17, 2011
7. From all the proposed names, the Nominating Committee will choose and rate the three most appropriate candidates.
8. The candidates selected by the Selection Committee will be proposed for final decision at the Executive Board meeting in Prague November 2011.
9. The award lecturer will be invited to present a lecture during a plenary session at the 2012 ICNA-AOCNA Congress in Brisbane.
10. The successful candidate will receive $1000 towards travel to the congress, the costs of 3 night’s accommodation (as selected by the committee) and the registration will be waived.
Sheila Wallace International Fellowship Award
The ICNA is now accepting applications for the Sheila Wallace International Fellowship Award which will sponsor $1000 towards travel to the congress, the costs of 3 night’s accommodation (as selected by the committee) and the registration fee for a young child neurologist who has made a significant contribution in clinical research in his/her developing country to attend the 12th International Child Neurology Congress to be held in Brisbane in 2012. The Nominating Committee, chaired by Professor Robert Ouvrier, will select the candidates for recommendation to the ICNA EB.
1. The candidate should be nominated by two members of the ICNA.
2. The candidate should be 45 years old or younger at the moment of the ICNA congress in Brisbane in May 2012.
3. The nominating members should describe the candidate and his/her work and they should make clear why they consider the candidate’s work so relevant to the field of child neurology.
4. The candidate should be a child neurologist and an active member of ICNA, trained in a developing county and practising child neurology in an academic setting.
5. The nominating letter should be sent to the Chairman of the Selection Committee. Email to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
6. The deadline for nomination will be OCTOBER 17, 2011
7. From all the proposed names, the Selection Committee will choose and rate the three most appropriate candidates.
8. The candidates selected by the Selection Committee will be proposed for final decision at the Executive Board meeting in Prague November 2011.
9. The award lecturer will be invited to present a lecture in a plenary session at the 2012 ICNA-AOCNA Congress in Brisbane.
Robert Ouvrier
Chairman, Prichard Award Selection Committee
Immediate Past President International Child Neurology Association
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The meeting was attended by over three hundred delegates including therapists, medical specialists, psychologists and dieticians. The idea of the workshop was to apply a truly multi-disciplinary approach as it would be applicable in the care and management of children with cerebral palsy.
We had two distinguished guests from overseas, Prof Alec Hoon from John Hopkins University School of Medicine and Director of the Phelps Center for Cerebral Palsy and Neurodevelopmental Medicine at the Kennedy Krieger Institute in Baltimore. He was a very generous guest who discussed many issues regarding pathogenesis of cerebral palsy, plasticity, diagnosis and evaluation and the use of neuro-imaging techniques.
In the true spirit of PANDA and the developing ACNA (African Child Neurology Association) the other invited speaker was from Egypt. We were delighted to host
Dr Walid Ahmed Abdel Ghany, who is a consultant neurosurgeon and a lecturer in neurosurgery and functional surgery in the Department of Neurosurgery and Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt. He was able to share his experience in the field of cerebral palsy in Egypt.
Other topics that were covered varied from the physiology of spasticity, new classifications of cerebral palsy as well as the medical management of spasticity and dystonia. There were also updates of visual problems, feeding challenges and the latest in treatment for hemiplegia. Other issues that were explored included conveying difficult information to families, psychiatric co-morbidities in cerebral palsy, and also a very important talk about what works best in resource poor areas.
The second day was mostly dedicated to orthopaedic and neurosurgical issues in cerebral palsy as well as a look at the evidence base for some new interventions, as well as medical legal reporting and life expectancy in these patients. Issues of botox, and rhizotomy were also discussed in depth.
This was the first combined meeting arranged with the medical fraternity and the therapists and it was a great success. No one was obsessed about there turf and there was a general sense of sharing and taking part-responsibility for the management of these children with cerebral palsy.
We were also delighted to be able to host Dr. Angelina Kakooza from Uganda who currently is helping to arrange the Epilepsy in Africa meeting in February 2012. She also presented a poster at this meeting.
It is obvious that such an important topic should have a multi-disciplinary approach and these combined and inter-disciplinary meetings have a lot to contribute. A decision was made at this meeting that cerebral palsy should be revisited every few years and if it is at all possible PANDA will take on that responsibility.
Prof Andre Venter
Neurodevelopmental Paediatrician
Head of Paediatrics, Bloemfontein
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