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.

The proceedings from the 16th International Child Neurology Congress (Joint ICNA/CNS Congress) will be published as a JICNA Supplementary issue 2020(1). The accepted abstracts are shown below.
Alternatively you may download the abstracts here (Platforms / Posters)

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The Joint 16th International Child Neurology Congress & 49th International Child Neurology Congress will be staged virtually/on-line in mid October.

Dates and times for live programming have been reconfigured in a manner which will make live sessions manageably available around the world. All ICNA-CNS will subsequently be available On-Demand through March 2021.

REVISED VIRTUAL MEETING SCHEDULE AT A GLANCE .17.01 KB29/08/2020, 19:43

Speaker presentation guidelines have been sent to session chairs and speakers with links to schedule recording (ALL presentations will be pre-recorded). Poster presentation guidelines will be sent the last week in August.

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The Virtual Joint 16th International Child Neurology Congress & 49th Annual Meeting will include:

• The full lineup of CME-accredited plenary lectures, symposia, seminars, workshops, meet-the-expert sessions and posters (more than 750!) originally scheduled for San Diego.
• Dates and times has been rearranged to ensure optimal access to the full range of content, with some sessions live-streamed each day and all sessions available on demand.
• Multiple social/networking opportunities throughout the meeting.
• Commercial and non-profit exhibits
• All Industry-sponsored CME sessions and product theaters will be offered during Week 1; some sessions may be available a second time in Week 2.
• A strong line-up of fully committed, generously supportive corporate partners eager to explore new and exciting collaborative opportunities with child neurologists in our fast-changing field

We will continue to provide regular updates here and also via eConnections and the CNS website as we move toward launching on-line registration in early August and the virtual meeting in October.