"EFNS Regional Teaching Course"
Current neurological questions
Odessa 20-24 April 2005

 

Organized by
- European Federation of Neurological Societies
Local support
- Ukrainian Scientific Practical society of Neurologists, Psychiatrists and Narcologists
- SE USRI Maritime Medicine, WHO CC
- Odessa State Medical University
- Odessa Scientific Practical Society of neurologists
- Odessa Association of neurosurgeons
- International benefit fund "Defense health of travelers."

Dear Colleagues
We have the pleasure to invite you to the EFNS Regional teaching Course, which will take place in Ukraine, Odessa 20-24 April 2005. The purpose of this course is to discuss many clinical neurological aspects, to provide update information and promote of international research and clinical collaboration.
Our meeting will be the opportunity for friends to come together, to create, strengthen and reformulate links of collaboration and friendship between researchers and practitioners with common ground of thoughts and work. Our main goal is to open new windows for the opportunity to scientific exchange in order to face the new perspectives and the implicit challenges at the beginning of this century.
We very much look forward to welcome you to Odessa and we hope that the meeting will be stimulating, fruitful and it will contribute to a better understanding of the neurological diseases.

Sincerely,
Professor Anatoliy Son
Chairman of the Local Organizing Committee

Programme:
Thursday, April 21: 9.00
Opening ceremony

9.30 Vida Demarin, (Zagreb, Croatia): Secondary stroke prevention and evidence based medicine: What can we learn from the results of clinical trials?
10.15.Jacques L. de Reuck (Gent, Belgium): Post-stroke epilepsy.
11.00. Pavel Kalvach, (Prague, Czech Republic): Subarachnoid haemorrhage - clinical issues and imaging. 11.45.Anatoliy Son (Odessa, Ukraine): Management of the "spontaneous" subarachnoid haemorrhage.
Workshops in the afternoon
14.00.Vida Demarin, (Zagreb, Croatia): "New" risk factors for stroke" 15.00.Jacques L. De Reuck (Gent Belgium,): CT findings in ischemic stroke.
16.00 Pavel Kalvach, (Prague Czech Republic): Diffusion and perfusion weighted imaging in ischemic stroke.
16.45 Valentine Yavorskaya (Kharcov, Ukraine): Pharmacy therapy in acute stroke: differential approach

Friday, April 22:
Epilepsy

9.00.Hermann Stefan, (Erlangen, Germany): Ictal Semiologies (Video EEG)
9.45. Gerhard Luef, (Innsbruck, Austria): Strategies for modern antiepileptic drugs.
10.30 Paul Boon, (Gent, Belgium): Presurgical evaluation and epilepsy surgery for medically refractory partial epilepsy.
11.15. Alexey Shandra (Odessa. Ukraine): Role of pro -and anti epileptogenic systems in pathogenesis of epilepsy.
11.30. Ludmila Dziak (Kiev, Ukraine): Modern treatment tactics for the epilepsy. Workshops in the afternoon
14.00.Hermann Stefan (Erlangen, Germany):Differential Diagnosis 14.45 Gerhard Luef (Innsbruck, Austria): How and when to use older and new AEDs
15.30.Paul Boon (Gent, Belgium): Early identification of epilepsy surgery candidates
16.15. Vladimir Smolanka. (Kiev, Ukraine): Ischemic stroke and surgical possibilities.

Saturday, April 23:
New treatment modalities

9.00 Geir Olve Skeie, (Bergen, Germany): Myasthenia gravis, diagnostics and treatment
9.45. Laszlo' Csiba (Debrecen, Hungary): Ultrasonography in clinical trials and clinical monitoring.
10.30 Wolfgang Grisold, (Vienna, Austria): New diagnostic possibilities in neurooncology.
11.15. Natalia Voloshina (Kharcov, Ukraine): Diagnostic and treatment of MS. Workshops in the afternoon
14.00.Geir Olve Skeie (Bergen, Germany): Other autoimmune disorders of the neuromuscular junction.
14.45. Wolfgang Grisold,( Vienna Austria):Therapeutic options for cerebral tumors
VENUE: Main hall at Hotel "Valentina" Curortnuy per.2, Odessa Languages: English, Ukrainian, and Russian.
15.30. Laszlo' Csiba (Debrecen, Hungary): Complex approach to arteriosclerosis and its therapy.
16.15.Irina Bogdanova (Kharcov, Ukraine): Particularities of modern forms of extra pyramidal pathology.
16.30. Closing session. Honorary committee:
Pavel Kalvach
Vice President of EFNS, MD, Professor, (Prague, Czech Republic)
Anatoliy Lobenko
the academician of AMS of Ukraine, Professor, MD, director of SE USRI Maritime Medicine (Odessa, Ukraine)
Petro Voloshin - MD, Professor,
President of Ukrainian Society of Neurologists and Psychiatrists and Narcologists, (Kharcov, Ukraine)
Valeriy Zaporozhan-
the academician of AMS of Ukraine, Professor, MD, rector of the State Medical University (Odessa, Ukraine).

Scientific Committee:
Pavel Kalvach - (Prague, Czech Republic)
Anatoliy Son - (Odessa, Ukraine)
Petro Voloshin - (Kharcov, Ukraine)

Local Organizing Committee:
Anatoliy Son - MD, Professor, Chairman, of Neurosurgery and Neurology
Yuri Goranskiy - MD. Professor, main neurologist, Odessa region. Alexandr Khrush- Dr., Assistant Professor
Sergey Mosenko - Dr., Assistant Professor
Alexandr Stoynov MD, Assistant Professor
Liliya Zvyagina - courses coordinator, M.D. director of WHO CC SE USRI Maritime medicine.

Accommodation
Hotel "Valentine", Curortnuy per.2, Odessa, Ukraine.
Tel. (+380-482) 632587, (+380-482) 632446,
tel/fax ((+380-482)681542.
e-mail: lhotval@ukr.net, Hotel_valentina@ukr.net, valentina_hotel@ukr.net