Neurometabolic training course: 24-25 April 2023

Day 1: 24 April, Hall Berlin

Clinical presentation and diagnosis of Neurometabolic diseases 

Moderator: Barbara Plecko

08'30-09'00

30

Registration

all

09'00-09'15

15

Welcome: 10 pre-course questions

Dana Craiu

09'15-10'00

45

Introduction to metabolic disorders - a signs and symptoms approach

Barbara Plecko

10'00-10'30

30

coffee break

10'30-11'15

45

Metabolic disorders presenting with acute or chronic encephalopathy

Saskia Wortmann

11'15-12'00

45

Metabolic disorders presenting with epilepsy

Barbara Plecko

12'00-12’45

45

Metabolic diseases presenting with movement disorders: clinical, radiologic and laboratory findings

Michel Willemsen

12'45-14'15

90

lunch

14'15-15’15

60

Case based learning (faculty)

Barbara, Saskia, Michel

15'15-15'45

30

tea break

15.45-16.30

45

Floppy infant, metabolic myopathies

Dimitrios Zafeiriou

16.30-17.30

60

Presentation of cases by participants (breakout rooms)

Group 1 Hall Berlin

Mentors: Michel Willemsen, Netherlands, & Agnese Suppiej, Italy

Case Presenters:

  • İsmail Hakkı Akbeyaz, Turkey
  • Berthold Aman, Belgium
  • Lucia Amolo, South Africa
  • Daniel Bancovsky, Israel
  • Muhammed Cagri Bayraktutan, Turkey
  • Filip Christian Castberg, Denmark

Group 2 Hall Riga

Mentors: Dimitrios Zafeiriou, Greece, & Saskia Wortmann, Austria

Case Presenters:

  • Agnieszka Cebula, Poland
  • Ketevan Chavleishvili, Georgia
  • Horea Constantin Chirila, Romania
  • Andreea Bianca Dabu, Romania
  • Ann-Louise Esserlind, Denmark
  • Nadezhda Gasparyan, Armenia

Group 3 Hall Tallinn

Mentors: Barbara Plecko, Austria, & Coriene Catsman-Berrevoets, Netherlands.

Case Presenters:

  • Sotiria Gkiotsaliti, Sweden
  • Nasrin Hamed, Israel
  • Barbora Heřmanovská, Czech Republic
  • Darkhan Kimadiyev, Kazakhstan
  • Veronika Letychevska, Ukraine
  • Iryna Liskevych, Ukraine

all

18’30-22'00

Social event. Departure from the hotel by tram 18:30 (At the registration you will get the ticket for tram)

all


Day 2: 25 April, Hall Berlin

Treatment options in Neurometabolic diseases

Moderator: Michel Willemsen

08'30-9'15

45

Biomarkers of metabolic disorders and NGS

Saskia Wortmann

9’15-10.00

45

Presentation of cases by participants (plenary)

Michel, Dimitrios, Barbara

10'00-10’30

30

coffee break

10'30-11’15

45

Lysosomal storage diseases; neurological complications and treatment options   

Dimitrios Zafeiriou

11'15-12’00

45

Mitochondrial disorders

Saskia Wortmann

12’00-12’45

45

Neurotransmitter Disorders

Michel Willemsen

12'45-14'00

75

Lunch

14'00-15’00

60

Presentation of cases by participants (breakout rooms)

Group 1, Hall Berlin

Mentors: Michel Willemsen, Netherlands, & Saskia Wortmann, Austria

Case Presenters:

  • Mariam Lomsianidze, Georgia
  • Leanca Madalina, Romania
  • Mina Maričić, Serbia
  • Katarina Markovic, Serbia
  • Kajus Merkevičius, Lithuania
  • Cernomazu Oana, Romania

Group 2, Hall Riga

Mentors: Dimitrios Zafeiriou, Greece, & Agnese Suppiej, Italy

Case Presenters:

  • Magdalena Ogrodnik, Poland
  • Mikolaj Pielas, Poland
  • Dace Pretkalnina, Latvia
  • Željka Rogač, Montenegro
  • Sunny Samosir, Indonesia
  • Eva Martha Madsen Svarrer, Denmark

Group 3, Hall Tallinn

Mentors: Barbara Plecko, Austria, & Coriene Catsman-Berrevoets.

Case Presenters:

  • Mane Tadevosyan, Armenia
  • Irakli Tugushi, Georgia
  • Seçil Doğa Tunc, Turkey
  • Karoliina Videman, Finland
  • Diego Viguera Elías, Spain
  • Mavzoda Yunusova, Uzbekistan
  • Antje Wonneberger, Germany

all

15'00-15'30

30

tea break

15’30-16.15

45

Treatment strategies in metabolic disorders

Barbara Plecko

16’15-17’00

45

Course summary – main messages

Michel Willemsen

17’00-17’30

30

Quiz results and Best presentation award

Dana Craiu

18'30-20'00

Dinner at the hotel

all

 

Epilepsy Training Course: 26-27 April 2023 

Day 1: 26 April 2023, Hall Berlin

08'30-08'45

15’

Pre-course Questions

Dana Craiu

08'45-10'15

30’

New classification of seizures, epilepsy and syndromes

Sameer Zuberi

30’

The concept of ‘epileptic encephalopathies vs developmental and epileptic encephalopathies’

Dana Craiu

30’

The concept of etiology specific syndromes (c)

Biayna Sukhudyan

10'15-10'45

30’

coffee break

10'45-12'45

40’

Role of EEG in the diagnosis of epilepsy

Dana Craiu

40’

Metabolic and genetic examinations in childhood epilepsy

Carmen Fons

40’

Imaging in childhood epilepsy

Biayna Sukhudyan

12'45-14'00

75’

lunch

14'00-15’00

60’

Case reports by the students (breakouts)

Group 1 Hall Berlin

Mentors: Lieven Lagae, Belgium, & Agnese Suppiej, Italy

Case Presenters:

  • Lucia Amolo, South Africa
  •  Jonas Andreikėnas, Lithuania
  • Daniel Bancovsky, Israel
  • Muhammed Cagri Bayraktutan, Turkey

Group 2 Hall Riga

Mentors: Coriene Catsman Berrevoets, Netherlands, & Sameer Zuberi, UK

Case Presenters:

  • Agnieszka Cebula, Poland
  • Ketevan Chavleishvili, Georgia
  • Horea Constantin Chirila, Romania
  • Ann-Louise Esserlind, Denmark

Group 3 Hall Tallinn

Mentors: Dana Craiu, Romania, & Carmen Fons, Spain

Case Presenters:

  • Andreea Bianca Dabu, Romania
  • Nadezhda Gasparyan, Armenia
  • Sotiria Gkiotsaliti, Sweden
  • Eline Hamilton, Netherlands

Group 4 Hall London

Mentors: Katrien Jansen, Belgium, & Biayna Sukhudyan, Armenia

Case Presenters:

  • Barbora Heřmanovská, Czech Republic
  • Haki Jashari, Kosovo
  • Darkhan Kimadiyev, Kazakhstan
  • Veronika Letychevska, Ukraine

all

15'00-15'30

30’

tea break

15'30-17'30

30’

First line AED treatment (when to start, first line AED choice)

Biayna Sukhudyan

30’

Treatment options in refractory epilepsy (including VNS, no surgery)

Lieven Lagae

30’

Ketogenic diet

Carmen Fons

30’

Epilepsy surgery: background and illustrative cases

Katrien Jansen

18'30 – 22'00

Social event. Departure from the hotel @18:30 with English speaking guides (walking distance)

More information

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Day 2: 27 April 2023, Hall Berlin

Moderator: Lieven Lagae

08'30-09’30

30’

Differential Diagnosis in childhood epilepsies

Sameer Zuberi

30’

Co-morbidities in childhood epilepsy

Dana Craiu

09'30-10'30

60’

Neonatal epilepsies

Carmen Fons & Katrien Jansen

10'30-11'00

coffee break

11’00-11’30


11’30-12’00

30’


30’

Developmental and epileptic encephalopathy syndromes 

in infancy with emphasis on Infantile epileptic spasms syndrome (IESS)

Dravet syndrome & Lennox Gastaut epilepsies

Sameer Zuberi


Lieven Lagae

12’00-12’30

30’

Epileptic syndromes with EEG activation in sleep

Dana Craiu

12’30-13’00

30’

FIRES and inflammatory epilepsies

Katrien Jansen

13'00-14'00

Lunch

14'00-15'00

30’

Self-limited epilepsies of childhood

Katrien Jansen

30’

Genetic Generalized Epilepsies - Absences epilepsies + Juvenile myoclonic epilepsies

Lieven Lagae

15'00-15'30

tea break

15’30-17’00

60’

Case presentations by the students (breakouts)

Group 5 Hall Berlin

Mentors: Lieven Lagae, Belgium, & Agnese Suppiej, Italy.

Case Presenters:

  • Iryna Liskevych, Ukraine
  • Mariam Lomsianidze, Georgia
  • Mina Maričić, Serbia
  • Kajus Merkevičius, Lithuania

Group 6 Hall Riga

Mentors: Coriene Catsman Berrevoets, Netherlands, & Sameer Zuberi, UK.

Case Presenters:

  • Katarina Markovic, Serbia
  • Magdalena Ogrodnik, Poland
  • Teodora Paneva, Bulgaria
  • Renee Proost, Belgium
  • Mavzoda Yunusova, Uzbekistan

Group 7 Hall Tallinn

Mentors: Dana Craiu, Romania, & Carmen Fons, Spain.

Case Presenters:

  • Mikolaj Pielas, Poland
  • Željka Rogač, Montenegro
  • Sunny Samosir, Indonesia
  • Teresa Barata, Silvério, Portugal
  • Eva Martha Madsen Svarrer, Denmark

Group 8 Hall London

Mentors: Katrien Jansen, Belgium, & Biayna Sukhudyan, Armenia.

Case Presenters:

  • Mane Tadevosyan, Armenia
  • Jeanette Tinggaard, Denmark
  • Irakli Tugushi, Georgia
  • Seçil Doğa Tunc, Turkey
  • Diego Viguera Elías, Spain

all

17’00

Evaluation, course message, best presentation award

Dana Craiu, Lieven Lagae

18'30 – 20'00

Dinner at the hotel