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David Callen holds a PhD in neuroimaging in dementia from the University of Toronto and an MD from McMaster University. He completed his residency in pediatric neurology at the University of Toronto. Currently, he is an Associate Professor at McMaster University, where his focus is on education in the field of neurology.

Professor, Lancaster University Madeleine Thomson is Head of Climate Impacts, in the Climate Change and Health Challenge Area at the Wellcome Trust; a politically & financially independent foundation which supports science to solve the urgent health challenges facing everyone. Prior to this role she was the interim Head of Our Planet Our Health at Wellcome. The Trust support researchers, policy makers & the public in tackling some of today’s greatest health challenges, including those associated with climate change. Dr Thomson is also a visiting Professor at Lancaster University, UK...

Do we need to perform genetics in presurgical evaluation? Georgia Ramantani Genetic testing has been recently introduced in presurgical evaluation in many epilepsy centers. Particularly in patients with early onset epilepsy, intellectual impairment, positive family history, and lack of an MRI-detectable focal lesion, genetic testing in the presurgical evaluation may prove crucial for counseling and prognostication. While mTORopathies may be more amenable to resective epilepsy surgery, channelopathies and synaptopathies should be considered more carefully, as they may bear considerably lower chances of seizure freedom. Nevertheless, genetic findings should not be interpreted as exclusive to epilepsy surgery....

Dr. Banwell currently serves as the Chief of Child Neurology and Director of the Neuroscience Center, Professor of Neurology and Pediatrics, and the Grace Loeb Chair in Neuroscience at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania.  Dr. Banwell's clinical and research focus is in the area of pediatric multiple sclerosis, and she has led a large North American prospective study of clinical outcomes, genetics, immunology, and neuroimaging features of MS in children. Dr. Banwell has over 300 published manuscripts and 30 book chapters. Dr. Banwell serves as the Chair of the...

Dr. Hitoshi Osaka is a Director at the Tochigi Children's Medical Center, a Professor at Jichi Medical University, Chief of the Neurology Department of Pediatrics at the Kanagawa Children's Medical Center, and Investigator of Information and Cellular Function, PRESTO at the Japan Science and Technology Corporation (JST). Dr. Osaka completed his Residency at the Kanagawa Children's Medical Center, Yokohama; his Postdoctoral fellowship from the Department of Pharmacology, School of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, CA; and his Research fellowship from the Department of Degenerative Neurological Diseases, National Institute of Neuroscience, National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry. Dr. Osaka...

Topic: Pediatric Neurology Cases. Talk By: Dr. Vrajesh Udani, Dr. Lokesh Lingappa and Dr. Soumya Sundaram. When: Saturday, April 13, 2024, at 09:00 AM Eastern Time ( US/ Canada ). Click Here to join the session. 

Topic: Sommeil de l’enfant : du normal au pathologique. Talk By: Prof. Sameh MSAAD. When: Thursday, March 7, 2024, at 12:00 PM Eastern Time ( US/ Canada ). Language: French Click Here to join the session.