GUEST PROFESSORS:

·        Yukio Fukuyama

Child Neurology Institute
Minami-Shinagawa, Shinagawa-ku, Japan

• Pierre Genton
  Hopital Henri Gastaut-Centre Saint Paul, Marseille, France

• Charlotte Dravet

Hopital Henri Gastaut-Centre Saint Paul, Marseille, France

• Eli Mizrahi

Baylor College of Medicine

Huston University, Texas, USA

• John B Stephenson
  Fraser of Allander Neurosciences Unit, Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom

• Alla Nechai

University Children's Hospital

Kiev, Ukraine

• Chahnez Triki

Department of Neuropediatric

University of Sfax, Tunisia

• Hanan AL Shakankiry

               Pediatric Neurology 

               King Faisal University, Saudi Arabia

• Anne O'Hare

University of Edinburgh

Local speakers:

Asma A.AL Tawari

AL Sabah Hospital, Ministry of Health

Lada Cindro Heberele

AL Sabah Hospital, Ministry of Health

TIMETABLE OF EVENTS

Opening and scientific lectures on Monday 3^rd, Nov. 2008

08.30-09.00           welcome and regestration

Morning workshop chair :    Dr. Jamila K Abdullah

09.00-10.00      part 1 Clinical interactive case study
10 - 10.45         Interpretation of neonatal EEG [Eli Mizrahi]

10.45-11.15   Tea , Coffe break

11.15-12.30      Part II Clinical interactive case study

12.30- 13.30   The pitfalls in interpretation of Pediatric EEG [Hanan AL Shakankiri]

13.00 lunch break

16.00 – 16.30 Opening ceremony and official speeches

16.30-17.00 Break & Exhibition opening

Lecture I  chair  : Dr. Fayka AL Raqum .  Dr. Yousuf Habib

17.00 –17.30

Diagnostic difficulities in children with seizures – MCQ test

[Pierre Genton]

17.30 –18.00

Benign myoclonic epilepsy

[Charlotte Dravet]

Lecture II

18.00-18.30

Proposed criteria for referral and evaluation of children for epilepsy surgery: recommendations of subcomission for Paediatric Epilepsy Surgery

[ Eli Mizrahi]

19.00 Getting together DINNER

Scientific lectures on Tuesday 4^th, Nov. 2008

09.00

Introduction

[A. Al-Tawari)

Lectures III chair :Dr.Lila Bastaki. Dr. Mazen AL Essa

09.00 – 09.30

Developmental Epilepsy- with particular emphasis on benign infantile seizure syndrome

[Yukio Fukuyama]

09.30 –10.00

Neonatal seizures: Evaluation , management and outcome

[Eli Mizrahi]

10.00-10.30

Epilepsies in some chromosomal abnormalities
[Pierre Genton]

10.30 – 11.00                  Coffee Break

Lectures IV chair :Dr. Majeda Sabri . Dr. Niran Al Naqeeb

11.00 – 11.30

Neonatal non-epileptic events and seizures: benign neonatal sleep myoclonus, hyperekplexia, paroxysmal extreme pain disorder (formerly familial rectal pain)

[John B Stephenson]

11.30 – 12.00

Bath-induced paroxysmal disorders in infancy

[Alla Nechay]

12.00-12.20

Lissencephaly - Congenital brain malformations and its impact on paroxysmal disorders (The Kuwait experience)

[Asma AL-Tawari]

12.20-12.45

Paroxytic non epileptic events in children- a retrospective study of 100 patients from Jordan

[Amira AL Masri]

13.00 – 15.00                  Lunch Time

Lectures V chair : Dr. Lada Cindro Heberle .Dr. Maleha AL Boloshi

15.00 – 15.30

Dravet syndrome: aetiology, diagnostics and treatment – where are we now?

[Charlotte Dravet]

15. 30 – 16.00

. Neonatal seizures: Characterization, classification and clinical recognition EEG - Video presentation
[Eli Mizrahi]

16.00 – 16.30    Tea, Coffee break

Lectures VI chair: Dr. Dina Ramadan- Dr. Nada AL Turkait

16.30 – 17.00

Epilepsy in Children with Cerebral Palsy

[Chahnez Turiki]

17.00 – 17.30

Gratification, shuddering, benign infantile spasms and anoxic-epileptic seizures
[John B. Stephenson]

17.30 – 18.00

Case studies during neonatal & infantile period
  [ALLA Nechay]

18.00-18.20

Epilepsy Genetics

[Lada Cindro Heberle]

18.30-18.45

Atkin`s Diet in childhood refractory seizure: An Iranian Experience

Tonekaboni S

Scientific lectures on Wednesday 5^th. Nov. 2008

Lectures VII chair : Dr. Eman Al Enazi

09.30 –10.00

Paediatric Epilepsy Surgery in Gulf Area: “The need and

the challenges"

[Hanan Shakankiri]

10.00 – 10.30

. Dragnostie Difficulties in infant and children in seizure disorders
Chahnez Triki
 

10.30 -10.50

SCN1A-related epilepsy in Iranian families: A clinical and Molecular Approach

Houshmand M

11.00 – 11.30                  Coffee break

Lectures VIII chair :Dr. Fawazia Mandani .  Dr. Essam Abdulraheem

11.30 – 12.30

. "Epileptic encephalopathies of infancy and childhood with special aspects of EEG in Ohtahara syndrome, Early myoclonic encephalopathy, West syndrome, Doose syndrome and Lennox-Gastaut Syndrome".
[C Dravet, P Genton]
 

12.30 – 13.00

Differentiation between convulsive syncopes and epilepsies (how to distinguish faints from fits)
[John B. Stephenson]

13.00 – 13.30

Early-onset absence epilepsy

[Pierre Genton]

13.30 – 15.00                  Lunch Time

Lectures IX Development Pediatrics chair: Dr. Fatema Al Awadi- Dr. Abdullah Quolom

15.00 – 15.30

Clinical aspects of language regression with reference to autism and its differential diagnosis

[Anne O'Hare]

15.45 – 16.00

Development Pediatric in Kuwait

[Hadeel Al Faras] , [Nahed AL Ateeje]

16.00-16.30

Receptive language Impairment

[Anne O'Hare]

16.30-16.45

An update on Levetiracetam clinical use in children’

[Pierre Genton]

16.45 – 17.00                  Coffee break

Lectures X chair: - Dr. Dravet- Dr. Hanan Al Shakankiri

17.00-17.15

Role of Mitochondria in Epilepsy

M. Houshmand

17.15 – 17.30

Benign familial and non familial infantile seizures: a study of 10 class from Saudi Arabia
Emad Saadeldin
 

17.30-17.40

‘Pattern of headache in school children in the state of Qatar

Bessisso M

17.40- 18.15

Session on Corrections of MCQ
[Pierre Genton]

18.00 – 18.30    Final remarks & Closing of symposium

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Ministry of Health