The 2009 Neurology Update Meeting will take place on September 18th 2009 at the Guinness Storehouse, Dublin 8
Theme: Neurological Complications of Medical Illness.
Programme
Neurology Update Meeting Programme.
| 08.30 - 09.00 |
Registration and Coffee |
| 09.00 - 09.10 |
Welcome and Introduction
Dr. Catherine Keohane, Dean, Irish Institute of Clinical Neuroscience |
| 09.10 - 09.50 |
'Neurological Complications of HIV Infection'
Dr. Janice Redmond |
| 09.50 - 10.30 |
'Medical Causes of Seizures'
Dr. Norman Delanty. |
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QUESTIONS and DISCUSSION |
| 10.40 - 11.00 |
Tea and Coffee |
| 11.00 - 11.40 |
'The System Vasculitides and the Nervous System'.
Dr. Mary Keogan. |
| 11.40 - 12.20 |
'Neurological Illness in the ICU'.
Professor Dan Healy |
| 12.20 - 13.00 |
'Diagnosis of Brain Death in the Intensive Care Unit'.
Dr. Rory O'Dwyer |
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QUESTIONS and DISCUSSION |
| 13.15 - 14.15 |
Lunch |
| 14.15 - 14.55 |
'Patent Foramen Ovale and Stroke Risk'.
Dr. Dominick McCabe |
| 14.55 - 15.35 |
'The Neurology of Sleep Disorders'
Dr. Catherine Crowe |
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QUESTIONS and DISCUSSION |
| 15.45 - 16.00 |
Tea and Coffee |
| 16.00 - 17.00 |
Guest Lecture - ' "Voodoo" Death Revisited: the Modern Lessons of Neurocardiology.'
Professor Martin Samuels, Neurologist-in-Chief, Department of Neurology, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School |
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QUESTIONS and DISCUSSION |
| 17.30 |
Close of Meeting |
Guest Lecture
Professor Martin Samuels is is one of the most well-known and respected teachers of medicine. He has repeatedly been cited as one of the leading neurologists in the United States, having been fully trained and board certified in both Internal Medicine and Neurology. His voice and image have made neurological medicine comprehensible and accessible to innumerable physicians, nurses and other health professionals around the world. His several books, The Manual of Neurological Therapeutics, Office Practice of Neurology, Shared Care in Neurology and Hospitalist Neurology are standard reading for students, residents, and postgraduate physicians. He has written and edited several books that have had a major educational impact. He is the neurological editor for Stein’s Internal Medicine. He is Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School in its Department of Neurology at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
Registration
To register for the meeting please click on the link to follow and forward the form and registration fee to the IICN at: P.O. Box 351, Limerick; Email: info@iicn.ie; Fax: 061 203041 Registration Neurology Update Meeting
Directions to the Venue
For directions to the Guinness Storehouse please click on the link to follow Guinness Storehouse
CME
Application will be made to the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland for Continuing Medical Education accreditation
UCB Epilepsy Management Meeting
UCB Pharma will hold an Epilepsy Management meeting on Thursday 17th September, to which delegates to the Neurology Update Meeting are invited. The meeting will be held at the UCD Health Sciences Building and will be chaired by Dr. Norman Delanty. The Epilepsy Management Meeting will begin at 18.45.
To view the programme for the meeting please click on the link to follow Programme Epilepsy Management. To register for this meeting please click on the link to follow UCB Pharma Epilepsy Management Meeting
