Saturday, June 4, 2011
8:30am to 5:00pm
Duke University Hospital North
Amphiteaters 2001, 2002, 2003

Course Director:  Mohamad Mikati, MD, Chief of Pediatric Neurology, DUMC

One day course comprised of three concurrent symposia to update on the advances and treatment guidelines of common and important pediatric neurological disorders for pediatricians and primary care professionals (Symposium 1), on pioneering developments in pediatric neuroscience for pediatric neurologists and adult neurologists (Symposium 2), and cutting-edge topics in epilepsy for neurologists and epileptologists (Symposium 3).

Symposium 1:  Demystifying Pediatric Neurology - An Update for the Pediatrician

Target Audience: Pediatricians and primary care health professionals.
Goal: To enhance the ability of participants in the identification, evaluation, and care of common and important neurological disorders in children.
Description: Lectures, discussions, and video illustrations addressing the evaluation and management of common pediatric neurological disorders and related recent guidelines.
Planned topics: Common neurosurgical problems in the nursery, recent guidelines for sports related head injury, autism and relationship to diet and vaccination, pediatric behavioral problems, non-epileptic paroxysmal disorders, new guidelines for work-up of developmental delay, new-onset seizures, febrile seizures and relationship to vaccination, pediatric headache, differential diagnosis of child with muscle weakness, use of modern genetic testing in the clinic.

Symposium 2:  Progress in Pediatric Neuroscience - An Update for the Specialist

Target Audience:  Child neurologists, adult neurologists, neuro-geneticists, neuromuscular specialists and neurosurgeons.
Goal:  Updating the participants on front-line advancements and hot topics in pediatric neuroscience including neurogenetic and neurometabolic medicine.
Description:  Lectures, discussions on hot topics in pediatric neuroscience, and a workshop on neurometabolic/neurogenetic disorders.
Planned topics:  Unusual neurological presentations for treatable metabolic disorder, updates on mitochondrial disorders, evolving spectrum of autoimmune encephalitis, emerging genetic therapies for neuromuscular disorders, neuroprotective and
neural enhancing therapies, stem cell therapy for neurological disorders, advances in pediatric vascular neurosurgery, oncologic neurosurgery-state of the art, CNS vasculitis, controversies in stroke management in children.

Symposium 3:  Epilepsy and Neruophysiology - An Update for the Specialist

Target audience:  Child neurologists, adult neurologists, epileptologists, neurophysiologists, and neurosurgeons.
Goal:  Update on cutting-edge developments in epilepsy surgery localization, evolving imaging modalities, clinical neurophysiology and epilepsy genetics and ongoing related controversies.
Description:  Lectures, discussions on hot topics in pediatric epilepsy, and two workshops on localization for epilepsy surgery.
Planned topics:  Subdural electrode monitoring--too much is never enough! or is it?, atypical localizations of eloquent areas in the epileptic brain, usefulness of DTI, advances in intraoperative monitoring, cortical stimulation, and functional neurosurgery, updates on genetics of epilepsy, case presentation and discussion of difficult cases of pediatric neocortical epilepsy.

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Contact:

• For course activity information, please contact Amy Seidel at amy.seidel@duke.edu or 919.668.4834.
• For registration information, please contact the Duke CME Office at cme@mc.duke.edu or 919.401.1204.