EFNS Teaching course, Odessa, April 25-29, 2007

Provisional programme

April 25 (Arrival day)

18.00. Opening ceremony

April 26:

Brain and spine trauma 9.00 – 18.00   

Chairmen:   David Vodusek (Slovenia)
                   Eugen Pedachenko (Ukraine)

09.00 Istvan Nyary (Hungary):   

State of the art management of traumatic brain injury.
09.45 Eugen Pedachenko (Ukraine):

Problems of modern diagnostics and treatment of brain injury.

10.30 David Vodusek (Slovenia):   

Neurological and clinical neuro-physiological.             diagnostics in patients with posttraumatic cauda equina lesions.

12.15 V italiy Mamchur ( Ukraine )

Pharmacological therapy of central nervous system trauma.

13.00 – 14.00 Lunch

Workshops in the afternoon

   Chairmen: Istvan Nyary (Hungary)
                  Mikola Polischuk (Ukraine)

14.00 Mikola Polischuk (Ukraine):

Combination of cranial-cerebral trauma.

14.45 Istvan Nyary (Hungary):   

Surgery of spine trauma

15.30 David Vodusek ( Slovenia ):   

Lower urinary tract and sexual dysfunction in patients           with cauda equina lesions.
16.15 Tatiana Litovchenko (Ukraine):

Particularities of posttraumatic epilepsy.

17.15-18.00 Round table

Friday, April 27:
Pain syndromes 9.00 – 18.00       

Chairmen:   Giorgio Cruccu (Italy)
                     Anatoliy Son (Ukraine)

09.00 Olesen Jes (Denmark):   

Classification and clinical diagnosis of headache disorders

09.45 Amos D. Korczyn (Israel):   

Where is pain in the brain?

10.30 Giorgio Cruccu (Italy):      

Advances in trigeminal neuralgia

11.15 Anatoliy Son (Ukraine):   

Microvascular decompression in trigeminal neuralgia treatment.

11.45 Eugen Pedachenko (Ukraine) :

Miniinvasive spinal neurosurgery.

12.30 Stanislav Evtushenko (Ukraine):     

Spondylodiscities with pain syndromes (clinics, diagnostics, treatment).

13-14 Lunch

Workshops in the afternoon   

Chairmen:   Jes Olesen (Denmark)

V italiy Cimbaluk (Ukraine)

14.00 Jes Olesen (Denmark):     

Pathophysiology and treatment of headache disorders.

14.45 Natan Bornstein (Israel):   

Post Stroke Pain Syndromes.

15.30 Giorgio Cruccu (Italy):     

EFNS guidelines on neuropathic pain treatment.

16. 15 V italiy Cimbaluk (Ukraine):   

Surgery of tunnel syndromes.

16. 45 Anatoliy Son (Ukraine):   

Address therapy of vertebral neurocompression syndromes.

17.15 –18.00 Amos D. Korczyn (Israel):

H eadache tournament.

Saturday, April 28:

Epilepsy 9.00 – 17.00       

Chairmen:   Paul Boon (Belgium),
                   Alexey Shandra (Ukraine)

09.00 Hermann Stefan (Germany):   

Diagnosis of the epilepsies; what is reasonable and             necessary, first seizure, intractability.
09.45 Paul Boon (Belgium):      

Optimal MR imaging in epilepsy.

10.30 Natan Bornstein (Israel):   

Post Stroke Seizure.

11.15 Kristil Vonck (Belgium):   

Current antiepileptic drug therapy.

12. 00 Vladimir Smolanka (Ukraine):

Choosing criteria of surgery in patients with           epilepsy.
12. 30 Alexey Shandra (Ukraine):   

Experimental models of epilepsy.

13-14 Lunch

Workshops in the afternoon   

Chairmen: Hermann Stefan (Germany),
                 Vladimir Smolanka (Ukraine)

14.00 Hermann Stefan (Germany):   

Tumors and epilepsies

14.45 Paul Boon (Belgium):      

Anti-epileptogenesis
15.30 Amos D. Korczyn (Israel):   

Cognitive changes in epilepsy

16.15 Kristil Vonck (Belgium):   

Refractory epilepsy

17.00 Tests and Closing session.

For further information please contact:

Dr Liliya Zvagina zvs@paco.net

Conference Director

Odessa region medical center

Sudostroitelnaya 1, Odessa 65029

Ukraine.

Participation fee for foreigners are 500 Euro, accommodations costs divide from 50 to 100 US $.