Timetable

Plenary Parallel Symposium Workshop Function Break Poster

Monday, 16 May 2011
08:30	Official Opening and Welcome by Richard Frith, ANZAN President Concert Hall
08:35	Keynote Address Concert Hall Chair Richard Frith Paediatric and Metabolic Movement Disorders Marie Vidailhet, Hopital de la Salpetriere, France
09:00	Stroke Symposium Concert Hall Co-Chair Alan Barber Co-Chair Helen Castley Stroke Thrombolysis Andrew Demchuk Significance and Treatment Implications of Cerebral Microbleeds Tim Kleinig, Royal Adelaide Hospital, Australia Intracerebral Haemorrhage - Where we are Now and What's on the Horizon Craig Anderson, The George Institute for Global Health, Australia
10:30	Morning Tea
11:00	Mervyn J Eadie Lecture Chair Monique Ryan Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease in the 19th and 21st Centuries Robert Ouvrier, The Children's Hospital at Westmead, Australia
11:45	Adolescent Neurology Symposium Co-Chair Andrew Churchyard Co-Chair John Lawson Transition to Adult Health Care for Young People with Chronic Conditions: What does it Mean, Why does it Matter, and Can we do Better? Susan Sawyer Epilepsy in Adolescence Annie Bye, Sydney's Children's Hospital, Australia Neuromuscular Disorders and Adolescence Monique Ryan
13:15	Lunch
14:00	Epilepsy/Neurophysiology Co-Chair Michelle Kiley Royal Adelaide Hospital Australia Co-Chair Wendyl D'Souza VGKC antibodies in paediatric encephalitis presenting with status epilepticus Jehan Suleiman, The Children hospital at Westmead, Australia Gentamicin vestibulotoxicity: 111 cases over 34 years Rebekah M Ahmed, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney, Australia The role of EEG in first unprovoked seizure in adults Athanasios Gaitatzis, Royal Perth Hospital, Australia Prognosis of first-ever remote symptomatic seizure Siew Hung Sim, Royal Perth Hospital, Western Australia, Australia Effects of levetiracetam versus valproate or carbamazepine on bone health: a randomized trial Tahir M Hakami, University of Melbourne, Australia Terrence J O'Brien, 1. University of Melbourne 2. Royal Melbourne Hospital, Australia Marian Todaro, 1. University of Melbourne 2. Royal Melbourne Hospital, Australia Gene therapy for idiopathic generalised epilepsy: viral-vector mediated NPY overexpression in ventrolateral thalamus suppresses absence-like seizures in a genetic rat model Terence J O'Brien, Department of Medicine, The Royal Melbourne Hospital, The University of Melbourne, Australia	Stroke Chair Helen Dewey Austin Health Co-Chair David Blacker Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital Australia Cerebral blood flow is the best CT perfusion predictor of infarct core in ischemic stroke Bruce CV Campbell, Royal Melbourne Hospital, University of Melbourne, Australia Young Ischemic Stroke in South Australia: More Obesity, Marijuana, and Amphetamine Abuse Matthew CL Phillips, The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Australia Significance of haematoma growth on the outcome from intracerebral haemorrhage: the INTERACT1 study Candice Delcourt, The George Institute for Global Health, Australia Bedside diagnosis of acute vestibular syndrome in an Australian stroke unit Luke Chen, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Australia Will Lee, Alfred Health, Australia Brian R Chambers, Austin Health, Australia Helen Dewey, Austin Health Prevalence and prognostic value of the dense middle and posterior cerebral artery signs in acute ischaemic stroke Patrick B Aouad, Department of Neurology, The Canberra Hospital, Australia Christian J Lueck, Department of Neurology, The Canberra Hospital, Australia	Neuroinflammation Co-Chair John Pollard Co-Chair Helmut Butzkueven Royal Melbourne Hospital Australia The role of IVIg: Immediate and longitudinal modulatory effects of IVIg on axonal function in CIDP Cindy Shin-Yi Lin, The University of New South Wales, Australia The clinical, radiological and histopathological phenotype of a novel neuroinflammatory disorder Neil G Simon, Institute of Neurological Sciences, Prince of Wales Hospital., Australia Anti-HHV-6 & EBV IgG and clinical outcomes in multiple sclerosis Steve L Simpson, Jr, Menzies Research Institute Tasmania, University of Tasmania, Hobart TAS, Australia Correlation of the Multiple Sclerosis International Quality of Life questionnaire (MusiQoL) and the 36-item Short Form questionnaire (SF-36) with changes in Expanded Disability Status Score (EDSS) in patients with multiple sclerosis Helmut Butzkueven, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Australia A case-control metabolomic analysis of MS and CIS cases Bruce Taylor, Menzies Research Institute Tasmania, Australia The epidemiology of Myasthenia Gravis in Australia: Estimating the incidence and prevalence of symptomatic disease using PBS data for Pyridostigmine Bromide John M Worthington, South-Western Sydney Clinical School, University of New South Wales, Australia	Cognitive/Neurodegenerative Co-Chair Amy Brodtmann Co-Chair Elsdon Storey Monash University (Alfred Hospital Campus) Australia Small-vessel disease (SVD) in patients with Lewy Body Disease (LBD): a clinico-pathological study Raymond Schwartz, Southern Neurology; University of Sydney, Australia Clinical and neurophysiological evidence of motor neuron dysfunction in frontotemporal dementia James R Burrell, Neuroscience Research Australia, Australia Abnormalities of Intracortical GABA Circuits in Stiff-Man Syndrome Samuel D Kim, Movment Disorders Unit, Westmead Hospital, Australia Memory decline as a predictor of AD pathology in older community dwelling adults David G Darby, CogState Ltd, Melbourne, Australia Lower Motor Neurone Degeneration in ALS patients Fusun Baumann, Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital, Australia Human olfactory neurosphere-derived (hONS) cells from Parkinson’s disease patients show dysregulated responses to oxidative stress and differential susceptibility to mitochondrial toxins like rotenone George D Mellick, Eskitis Institute, Griffith University, Australia
15:30	Afternoon Tea
16:00	Neuroimmunology Symposium Co-Chair Lynette Kiers Co-Chair Bruce Taylor Menzies Research Institute Tasmania Australia Modern Management of Neuroimmune Disorders Stephen Reddel Managing the Risks of Immunosuppression Sean Riminton, Department of Immunology, Concord Repatriation General Hospital., Australia Auto-antibodies as Biomarkers or Pathogenic Mediators in Autoimmune Encephalopathy Russell Dale, The Children Hospital at Westmead, University of Sydney, Sydney Australia/ John Radcliffe Hospital Oxford UK, Australia
17:30	Welcome Reception
19:00

Tuesday, 17 May 2011
08:15	ANZAN AGM
09:00	Clinical Updates Session Co-Chair Judy Spies Co-Chair Con Yiannikas The Neuro-ophthalmology of Mitochondrial Disease Nancy Newman, Emory University School of Medicine, United States Neuronal Ion Channel Dysfunction and Episodic Ataxia - An Oxford-Australia-London Collaboration Michael Hanna, National Hospital for Neurology, United Kingdom Asymptomatic HyperCKaemia Merrilee Needham
10:30	Morning Tea
11:00	Tasmania Symposium Co-Chair Katrina Reardon Co-Chair Richard Macdonell Devil Facial Tumour Disease - Schwann Cells Gone Wild! Greg Woods Hunting for Disease Genes in Healthy Brains Jac Charlesworth, Menzies Research Institute Tasmania Vitamin D, Latitude and MS Bruce Taylor, Menzies Research Institute Tasmania, Australia
12:30	Lunch
13:15	Poster Session Anti-CV2 antibody syndrome: A case of paraneoplastic cerebellar degeneration, myelitis and peripheral neuropathy Abhishek Malhotra, Department of Neurosciences, Gosford Hospital, NSW, Australia Herpes simplex encephalitis: a diagnosis not to be missed Carrie B Hurelbrink, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Australia Susac’s Syndrome- an immune mediated endotheliopathy laden with a few controversies Abhishek Malhotra, Dept. of Neurosciences, Gosford Hospital, NSW, Australia Merrilee Needham Elizabeth Reyneke, Dept. of Neurosciences, Gosford Hospital, NSW, Australia Vertebrobasilar ischaemia presenting as recurrent isolated vertigo Will Lee, Alfred Hospital, Australia Luke Chen, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Australia Eight and a half syndrome: a case of brain stem arithmetic Abhishek Malhotra, Department of Neuroscience, Gosford Hospital , NSW 2250, Australia Elizabeth Reyneke, Department of Neuroscience, Gosford Hospital , NSW 2250, Australia Subacute MRI changes in an episode of Transient Global Amnesia Abhishek Malhotra, Department of Neuroscience, Gosford Hospital , NSW 2250, Australia Robert Heard, Department of Neuroscience, Gosford Hospital , NSW 2250, Australia The vitamin D pathway and Multiple Sclerosis Kate J Greenhill, Menzies Research Institute Tasmania, Australia A rare presentation of adult onset Glutaric aciduria Type I Monica S Badve, Gold Coast Hospital, Australia Ultrasonography in carpal tunnel syndrome – A systematic review Nimeshan Geevasinga, West,ead Hospital, Australia Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome: a case of multifocal arterial dissections with cerebral, mesenteric and renal ischaemia Abhishek Malhotra, Department of Neurociences, Gosford Hospital, NSW, Australia Scott Whyte, Department of Neurociences, Gosford Hospital, NSW, Australia Recurrent CNS inflammation with suspension of Natalizumab dosing during pregnancy Katrina A Morris, St Vincent's Hospital Sydney, Australia Utility of serial electrocardiography in detecting atrial fibrillation in ischemic stroke patients Venkatesh Krishnamurthy, University of Auckland, New Zealand Cortical Atrophy Underlies Disability Development In Multiple Sclerosis Sudarshini Ramanathan, Department of Neurology, Westmead Hospital , Westmead, NSW, Australia Variable Course and Treatment if Idiopathic Hypertrophic Pachymeningitis: 2 case reports Lucie Aldous, Royal Hobart Hospital, Australia Neurological Complications of Acute Multifocal Placoid Pigment Epitheliopathy: A case report and review of the literature Wallace J Brownlee, Department of Neurology, Auckland City Hospital, Auckland, New Zealand, New Zealand Acute Encephalitis in Auckland: a retrospective review Nicholas Child, New Zealand Multiple sclerosis and headache - a case-control study in Queensland Helen L Robinson, Griffith University, Gold Coast, Queensland; Gold Coast Hospital, Queensland., Australia Ipilimumab and Myasthenia Gravis Mark W Faragher, Dept of Neurosciences Alfred Hospital/Monash University, Australia Comparison of the Mini Mental State Examination (MMSE) to the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) as a Cognitive Screening Tool in an Inpatient Rehabilitation Setting Arun Aggarwal, Concord Hopsital, Australia Cognitive screening tool in Parkinson’s disease: Mini Mental State Examination (MMSE) versus Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) Arun Aggarwal, Concord Hospital, Australia An Australian case of natalizumab-associated progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy Nicholas F Blair, Sydney Adventist Hospital, Australia A Case Series of Mechanical Thrombectomy Following Failed IV Thrombolysis In Acute Ischaemic Stroke Roula Ghaoui, Flinders Medical Center, Australia Smoking increases the risk of multiple sclerosis – a case-control study in Queensland and a meta-analysis Cullen M O'Gorman, Princess Alexandra Hospital, Brisbane, QLD, Australia How good are we in diagnosing seizures based on semiology? Deepa Rajendran, Monash Medical Centre, Australia Ophthalmoplegic migraine: A rapid clinical and radiological response to intravenous corticosteroids Susanne U Grewe, Royal North Shore Hospital Sydney, Australia Safety profile of cladribine tablets in two consecutive treatment periods in relapsing remitting MS: results from the phase III, 96 week CLARITY study John O King, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Australia A fMRI study of cutaneous and muscle afferent activation of sensorimotor cortex and cerebellum Daniel L Wardman, Australia Digital map of topography of infarction post cardio-respiratory arrest Shaloo Singhal, Southern Health - Monash Medical Centre, Australia An Assay of MX1 Gene Expression, a Molecular Biomarker of Beta-Interferon Neutralising Antibodies Hannah Kennedy, Dept of Pathology, University of Otago, Christchurch, New Zealand Reversible Cerebral Vasoconstrictive Syndrome – 2 catastrophic cases Lucie Aldous, Royal Hobart Hospital, Australia Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy with Associated Leukoencephalopathy without inflammation – a case report Lucie Aldous, Royal Hobart Hospital, Australia Nerve axonal excitability properties implicate demyelination in CMTX neuropathy Christina Liang, Dept of Neurology and Clinical Neurophysiology, Royal North Shore Hospital, Australia Numb Chin Syndrome with migraine like headache Koshy George, Princess Alexandra Hospital, Australia Perceived self-control of seizures in adults with chronic focal epilepsy Janavi Dunuwille, Royal Perth Hospital, WA, Australia Call-Fleming syndrome associated with Varenicline Nimeshan Geevasinga, Westmead Hospital, Australia Sustained disease activity-free status in patients with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis treated with cladribine tablets: results from the phase III, 96-week CLARITY study Michael H Barnett, Brain and Mind Research Institute, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia Long-term safety and efficacy of cladribine tablets therapy in relapsing and early forms of multiple sclerosis: report of a clinical development plan and prospective registry Michael Barnett, Brain and Mind Research Institute, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia Botulinum Toxin as a Treatment for Refractory Trigeminal Neuralgia Lisa A Dark, John Hunter Hospital, Newcastle, NSW, Australia Jeff Blackie, John Hunter Hospital, Newcastle, NSW, Australia The effect of a Huntington’s disease nurse specialist on inpatient admissions at Auckland Hospital David AJ Bourke, Neurology Department, Auckland Hospital, New Zealand Facial onset sensory and motor neuronopathy (FOSMN): case report Neil E Anderson, Auckland City Hospital, New Zealand A novel THAP1 gene variant identified in two Australian primary dystonia cases George D Mellick, Eskitis Institute, Griffith University, Birsbane, Australia Common genetic variation in the P2X7 gene and depression in Parkinson’s disease (PD) George D Mellick, for the Queesland Parkinson's Project Investigators, Australia Cerebral vasculitis and stroke due to cryptococcal meningitis complicated by post-partum immune reconstitution syndrome in an HIV-seronegative pregnant woman Jessica Sylvester, The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Australia Carbamazepine - Friend or Foe ? Mark Hersch, St George Hospital, Australia Higher tumor and peritumor glutamate concentrations are associated with greater seizure risk in gliomas Terence J O'Brien, Departments of Medicine and Neurology, Royal Melbourne Hospital, The University of Melbourne, Australia
14:00	Neuro-opthalmology Symposium Co-Chair Mark Paine Co-Chair Isla Williams Is it an Optic Neuropathy? If Not, What Else Could It Be? Nancy Newman, Emory University School of Medicine, United States Visual Fields and the Neurologist Christian J Lueck, Department of Neurology, The Canberra Hospital, Australia Anterior Ischemic Optic Neuropathy vs Optic Neuritis Nancy Newman, Emory University School of Medicine, United States Posterior Cortical Atrophy Elsdon Storey, Monash University (Alfred Hospital Campus), Australia
15:30	Afternoon Tea
16:00	Neuro-opthalmology Symposium Co-Chair John King Co-Chair Stephen Reddel Supranuclear Eye Movement Disorders Tim Anderson, University of Otago, Chrischurch, New Zealand Eye Movements with Videos Michael Halmagyi, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney, Australia Those Other Causes of Diplopia Nancy Newman, Emory University School of Medicine, United States
17:00

Wednesday, 18 May 2011
06:30	Fun Run & Breakfast
08:00
08:30	Keynote Address Chair John Fink How to Distinguish Benign from More Sinister TIAs Andrew Demchuk
09:10	Young Investigator Award Finalists Co-Chair Merrilee Needham Co-Chair Bruce Taylor Menzies Research Institute Tasmania Australia Defining mechanisms of neuroplasticity in stroke William Huynh, Prince of Wales Clinical School, University of New South Wales & Neuroscience Research Australia., Australia Stroke Patients with Atrial Fibrillation have frequent Early Cardiac Complications and Require Monitoring Hans TH Tu, Royal Melbourne Hospital, University of Melbourne, Australia THE SPLIT HAND INDEX: A Novel Diagnostic Test for ALS Parvathi Menon, Westmead Hospital, Sydney, NSW., Australia The Effect of Geography, Gender, Year of Birth and MS phenotype on the Age of Onset of Multiple Sclerosis Lucie Aldous, Royal Hobart Hospital, Australia Trial-Defined Disease Progression in Multiple Sclerosis is a Sub-optimal Measure of Permanent Disability Progression Katherine A Buzzard, Department of Neurology, Australia Electrically evoked VOR, three-dimensional head impulse testing and ocular vestibular evoked myogenic potentials (OVEMP) in multiple sclerosis patients with internuclear ophthalmoplegia Luke Chen, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital and Brain and Mind Research Institute, Australia
10:40	Morning Tea
11:10	Leonard Cox Lecture Chair William Carroll Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital Australia Novel Insights into the Pathophysiological Mechanisms of ALS Steve Vucic, Western Clinical School, University of Sydney & Neuroscience Research Australia., Australia
11:40	E Graeme Robertson Lecture Chair Richard Frith The Primacy of the Spinal Cord in the Control of Movement: Some Studies on the Control of Gripping and Grasping David Burke, Institute of Clinical Neurosciences, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital; University of Sydney; NSW, Australia, Australia
12:20	Keynote Address Chair Rick Stell DBS for Dystonia Marie Vidailhet, Hopital de la Salpetriere, France
13:00
19:00	Gala Dinner
23:00

Thursday, 19 May 2011
08:30	Controversies Session Co-Chair Peter Hand Co-Chair Carolyn Sue Co-Chair Richard Stark Mx of NCSE Terence J O'Brien, The University of Melbourne, Australia Controversies in MS Management William Carroll, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Australia Who Should Manage ICH? David Blacker, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Australia
10:00	W Ian McDonald Lecture Chair Matthew Kiernan Translational Research in Muscle Channelopathies - Genetics, Disease Mechanisms and Treatment Trials Michael Hanna, National Hospital for Neurology, United Kingdom
10:45	Morning Tea
11:15	History of Neurology Symposium Co-Chair James Lance Prince of Wales Hospital Australia Co-Chair Catherine Storey North Shore Private Hospital Australia A Brief Introduction Catherine Storey, North Shore Private Hospital, Australia Writing the Texts Neil Anderson, Neurology Department, Auckland City Hospital, New Zealand The Evolution of the Reflex Hammer Catherine Storey, North Shore Private Hospital, Australia Vibration Waves and "Tendon Jerks" James Lance, Prince of Wales Hospital, Australia French Contributions to the Neurological Examination Robert Ouvrier, The Children's Hospital at Westmead, Australia
12:45	Awards Ceremony
13:00	Lunch
14:00	EEG Workshop Co-Chair Wendyl D'Souza Co-Chair Michelle Kiley Royal Adelaide Hospital Australia EEG Artifacts and Normal Variants that Result in Diagnostic Confusion Michelle Kiley, Royal Adelaide Hospital, Australia Interictal Epileptiform Findings Wendyl D'Souza Periodic Patterns - When are they Ictal? Andrew Bleasel, Westmead Hospital, Australia Is it a Seizure? Video-EEG Session Elizabeth Walker, Auckland City Hospital, New Zealand	Movement Disorders Workshop Co-Chair Thomas Kimber Co-Chair Neil Mahant Neuropsychological Complications in PD Andrew Evans Movement Disorders of the Face Philip Thompson GAIT Disorders Victor SC Fung, Australia
15:30	Farewell Drinks
16:30