Australia and New Zealand Child Neurology Society
1st Annual Scientific Meeting
13-15 May 2011
Programme
Friday 13th May 2011
Chair Dr Sophie Calvert
14.30 Update on Paediatric Stroke
Dr Mark Mackay, Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne
15:00 Use of CGH microarray in genetic movement disorders
A/Prof Russell Dale, The Children’s Hospital, Westmead, Sydney
15.20 Complex Encephalopathy
Dr Snehal Shah, Princess Margaret Hospital, Perth
15.40 Hypokalemic / hyperkalemic periodic paralysis
Dr Sachin Gupta, The Children’s Hospital, Westmead, Sydney
16.00 TSC and mTOR
Dr Michael Cardamone, Sydney Children’s Hospital
16.20 Acute childhood encephalitis project
Dr Sekhar Pillai, The Children’s Hospital, Westmead, Sydney
20.00 Annual General Meeting
Saturday 14th May 2011
Chair Dr Simon Williams
09.00 Psychogenic movement disorders
Dr Paddy Grattan-Smith, Southern Neurology
09.50 Long term follow-up of PGK deficiency
Dr Grahame Wise, Sydney Children’s Hospital
10.10 Case presentation
Dr Christina Miteff, John Hunter Childrens Hospital, Newcastle
10.30 Gut and brain
Dr Alexandra Johnson, Sydney Children’s Hospital
10.50 Morning tea
Chair Dr Gopinath Subramanian
11.20 Neonatal metabolic encephalopathy, vitamin responsive conditions
Prof Annie Bye, Sydney Children’s Hospital
11.40 Demyelination
Dr Esther Tantsis, The Children’s Hospital, Westmead, Sydney
12.00 VGKC encephalitis in status epilepticus
Dr Jehan Suleiman, The Children’s Hospital, Westmead, Sydney
12.20 Case presentation
Dr Rob Smith, John Hunter Hospital, Newcastle
12.40 Peripheral neuropathy in children with mitochondrial disease
Dr Manoj Menezes, The Children’s Hospital, Westmead
13.00 Lunch
19.00 Dinner (after dinner speeches: Dr Rob Smith and Prof Robert Ouvrier)
Australia and New Zealand Child Neurology Society
1st Annual Scientific Meeting
13-15 May 2011
Programme
Sunday 15th May 2011
Chair Dr Clare Pridmore
09.00 Epileptic encephalopathies of infancy with new genes
Prof Ingrid Scheffer, Austin Health, Melbourne
09.30 Cortical malformations update: new genetic breakthroughs
Dr Rick Leventer, Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne
10.00 Myasthenia in children: autoimmune and other
Dr Tyson Ware, The Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne
10.20 Seizures and developmental regression in a toddler
Dr Shekeeb Mohamad, The Royal Children’s Hospital, Brisbane
10.40 Symptomatic generalized epilepsy following HHV6
Dr Katherine Howell, Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne
11.00 Morning tea
Chair Dr Jeremy Freeman
11.30 Periodic Coma
Dr Richard Webster, Westmead Children’s Hospital, Sydney
11.50 Case Presentation
Dr Anita Cairns, Mater and Royal Children’s Hospitals, Brisbane
12.10 Movement disorders
Dr Jayasri Srinivasan, Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne
12.30 Rhabdomyolysis
Dr Hugo Sampaio, Westmead Children’s Hospital, Sydney
12.50 Lunch
14.15 Bus departure for Hobart airport and city centre
The organizers of the 1st ANZCNS Annual Scientific Meeting would like
to thank Novartis for supporting the meeting.