Wednesday, 1
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Friday, 3 November 2023
Programme
Programme updated 17 October 2023
| 10.00am - 12.00pm | ENSIGNA - Epilepsy Nurses Symposium |
| 12.00pm - 12.45pm | Welcome lunch |
| 12.45pm - 1.00pm | Welcome / Opening / Mihi |
| 1.00pm - 2.45pm | Session 1 | Equity of Access in Epilepsy Care/Epilepsy in Indigenous Peoples Part 1 Chairs: Stephen Malone / Erik Andersen |
| 1.00pm - 1.45pm | Global perspective Sam Wiebe |
| 1.45pm - 2.15pm | Māori Health and Equity Jade Tamatea |
| 2.15pm - 2.45pm | Epilepsy in Māori people Erik Andersen & Ngaire Keenan |
| 2.45pm - 3.15pm | Afternoon tea |
| 3.15pm - 5.15pm | Session 2 | Equity of Access in Epilepsy Care/Epilepsy in Indigenous Peoples Part 2 Chairs: John Archer / Elizabeth Walker |
| 3.15pm - 4.00pm | Equity of access - other countries, how to improve Ley Sander |
| 4.00pm - 4.30pm | Aboriginal health and equity Angie Dos Santos |
| 4.30pm - 5.00pm | Epilepsy in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people Ian Wilson |
| 5.00pm - 5.15pm | Panel Discussion / Q & A |
| 5.15pm - 6.45pm | Session 3 | Platform 1 Chairs: Terence O'Brien / Piero Perucca |
| 5.15pm - 5.30pm | Correlations of receptor desensitization of gain-of-function GABRB3 variants with clinical severity Nathan Absalom |
| 5.30pm - 5.45pm | Defining the movement disorders in patients with genetic developmental and epileptic encephalopathies Ingrid E. Scheffer |
| 5.45pm - 6.00pm | Correlations Between Semiology and Cognitive Impairment in TLE: An SEEG Study Nicholas Murray |
| 6.00pm - 6.15pm | Mosaic recurrent MTOR pathogenic variant in a patient with focal cortical dysplasia and striking progression on MRI Michael Hildebrand |
| 6.15pm - 6.30pm | How a preexisting Toxoplasma gondii infection alters epileptogenesis in a self-sustained electrical status epilepticus mouse model of temporal lobe epilepsy Sandy Shultz |
| 6.30pm - 6.45pm | Cannabidiol treatment in Refractory Paediatric Epilepsy - a pre and post Video-EEG study Yeeshu Singh |
| 6.45pm - 8.00pm | Welcome function & Poster viewing session |
| 08.30am - 10.30am | Session 4 | Epilepsy Across the Lifespan Part 1 Neonatal Chairs: Annie Bye / Suzanne Davis |
| 08.30am - 08.55am | Models of HIE Alistair Gunn |
| 08.55am - 09.20am | Neonatal Seizures: An Overview Lakshmi Nagarajan |
| 09.20am - 09.45am | Neonatal Seizures: When should we treat? and how? Rod Hunt |
| 09.45am - 10.10am | NEOLEV2 and NEOLEV3 Cynthia Sharpe |
| 10.10am - 10.30am | Panel Discussion / Q & A |
| 10.30am – 11.00am | Morning tea |
| 11.00am - 1.15pm | Session 5 | Epilepsy Across the Lifespan Part 2 Child and Adolescence Chairs: Kaitlyn Parratt / Ingrid Scheffer |
| 11.00am - 11.25am | Epidemiology of DEE Lynette Sadleir |
| 11.25am - 11.50am | Paediatric trauma and seizures Bridgette Semple |
| 11.50am - 12.20pm | Adolescent issues and transition Annie Bye |
| 12.20pm -12.45pm | DBS in DEE/LGS Linda Dalic |
| 12.45pm - 1.15pm | Surgery in young adult Sam Wiebe |
| 1.15pm - 2.00pm | Lunch |
| 2.00pm - 3.30pm | Session 6 | Platform Session 2 - Young Epilepsy Section (YES) Chairs: Honor Coleman / Ngaire Keenan |
| 2.00pm - 2.15pm | Polygenic background modifies epilepsy phenotype in monogenic families Karen Oliver |
| 2.15pm - 2.30pm | Relative MTOR expression and the tendency for bottom-of-sulcus dysplasia to develop in the frontal lobe Emma Macdonald-Laurs |
| 2.30pm - 2.45pm | Comparison of Paediatric Epilepsy Care Delivered to New Zealand Children with Recommended Guideline Standards Ngaire Keenan |
| 2.45pm - 3.00pm | Outcomes of initiating new anti-seizure medication in older patients with drug resistant epilepsy Desiree Goh |
| 3.00pm - 3.15pm | A personalised approach to neurocognitive risk in stereo-EEG radiofrequency thermocoagulation Emily Cockle |
| 3.15pm - 3.30pm | Predictors of Post-Ictal Generalised EEG Suppression and Post-Ictal Immobility Duration in Tonic-Clonic Seizures John Phamnguyen |
| 3.30pm - 4.00pm | Afternoon tea |
| 4.00pm - 5.30pm | ESA AGM Located in Rangitoto Room 1, Level 2 |
| 7.00pm – late | Conference dinner |
| 08.30am - 10.00am | Session 7 | Epilepsy Across the Lifespan Part 3 older patients Chairs: John Dunne / Jacqui Saw | ||
| 08.30am - 08.50am | New onset epilepsy in the Elderly - diagnosis Emma Foster | ||
| 08.50am - 09.20am | Medical comorbidities Ley Sander | ||
| 09.20am - 09.40am | Mechanistic overlap between dementia and epilepsy Nigel Jones | ||
| 09.40am - 10.00am | Treatment in the Elderly Emilio Perucca | ||
| 10.00am – 10.30am | Morning tea | ||
| 10.30am - 12.00pm | Session 8 | Video session Chairs: Andrew Bleasel / Ernie Sommerville | ||
| 12.00pm - 12.30pm | Awards and Close | ||
| 12.30pm – 1.30pm | Lunch | ||
| 1.00pm - 1.30pm | NZLAE AGM Located in Rangitoto Room 1, Level 2 | ||
| 1.30pm - 5.00pm | Semiology workshop | ||