SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM

MAY 28, 2008
08:00 – 17:00  REGISTRATION
08:30 – 09:30 OPENING CEREMONY
09:30 – 10:30 CONFERENCE: DIAGNOSIS AND MANAGEMENT OF NEONATAL SEZIURES
Chairpersons: Kalbiye Yalaz, Yavuz Renda
Speaker        : Eli M.Mizrahi
10:30 - 11:00 COFFEE BREAK
11:00 – 12:00 CONFERENCE: NEONATAL ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY: INTERPRETATION OF NORMAL AND ABNORMAL FINDINGS AND CLINICAL UTILITY
Chairperson: Erdal Gökçay
Speaker: Eli M.Mizrahi
12:00 – 13:15 LUNCH + SATELLITE SYMPOSIUM
Chairperson: Meral Topçu
Progress of Epistatus:  Graham March
Status epilepticus:       Brain Neville
13:15 – 14:15 CONFERENCE:  EARLY STROKE IN INFANTS
Chairperson: Gülhis Deda
Speaker: Arndt Rolfs
14:15 – 15:30

PANEL: NEUROMETABOLIC DESEASE
Chairpersons: Mine Çalışkan, Rıdvan Akın

  • Metabolic diseases associated with creatine deficiency 
    Meral Topçu
  • MRI findings in metabolic diseases                          
    Işıl Saatci
  • Screening tests
    Fatih S. Ezgü
15:30 – 16:00 COFFEE BREAK
16:00 – 17:15

PANEL: DEVELOPMENTS IN PEDIATRIC NEUROLOGY
Chairpersons: Eray Dirik, Güzide Turanlı

  • Developments in the Guillain-Barre syndrome     
    Banu Anlar
  • New therapies in muscular diseases                 
    Haluk Topaloğlu
  • New developments about registration system in cerebral palsy           
    Ayten Yakut
17:15 – 18:15 ORAL PRESENTATIONS
Chairpersons: Adnan Yüksel, Yavuz Gürer
18:15 – 19:15 POSTER PRESENTATIONS
Chairpersons: Akın İşcan, Bülent Ünay
20:00 OPENING CEREMONY
MAY 29, 2008
08:30 – 09:30 CONFERENCE: THE EFFECT OF UNIVERSAL NEWBORN SCREENING AND OF EARLY DIAGNOSIS ON SUBSEQUENT LANGUAGE ACQUISITION IN CHILDREN WITH PERMANENT HEARING IMPAIRMENT
Chairperson: Banu Anlar
Speaker: Colin C. Kennedy
09:30 – 10:00 COFFEE BREAK
10:00 – 11:00 CONFERENCE: HEREDITARY ATAXIA, WITH SPECIAL FOCUS ON ATAXIA TELANGIECTASIA
Chairperson: Meral Özmen
Speaker: Thomas Crawford
11:00 – 12:15

PANEL: MOVEMENT DISORDERS:
Chairpersons: Sabiha Aysun, H. Ali Taşdemir

  • Semiology and classification 
    Ayşe Bora Tokçaer                         
  • Medical treatment in movement disorders
    Sefer Kumandaş
  • Surgical treatment in movement disorders   
    Memet Özek
12:15 – 12:45

WORKING GROUP MEETING

  • Epilepsy and Febrile convulsion
  • Cerebral Palsy
12:45 – 13:15

WORKING GROUP MEETING

  • Neurometabolic diseases
  • Developmental Pediatric Neurology
13:30 SOCIAL PROGRAM: TRIP TO UZUNGÖL
MAY 30, 2008
08:30 – 09:00

WORKING GROUP MEETING

  • Neuromuscular diseases
  • Neonatal
09:00 – 09:30

WORKING GROUP MEETING

  • Stroke
  • Neuroimmunology
09:30 – 10:30 CONFERENCE: EPILEPTIC ENCEPHALOPATHIES
Chairperson: Şakir Altunbaşak
Speaker         : Brain Neville
10:30 – 11:00 COFFEE BREAK
11:00 – 12:00 CONFERENCE: ABSENCE EPILEPSIES
Chairperson: Hasan Tekgül
Speaker: James J. Riviello
12:00 - 13:00 LUNCH
13:00 – 14:00 PANEL: NOPEPILEPTIC PAROXISMAL DISORDERS
Chairperson: Dilek Yalnızoğlu
Speaker         : James J. Riviello
14:00 – 14:30 COFFEE BREAK
14:30 – 16:30  CONFERENCE: SLEEP DISORDERS
Chairpersons: Ayşe Serdaroğlu, Gülşen Köse
14:30 – 14:55 Obstructive sleep apnea syndrome: Clinical findings
Ayşe Tana Aslan
14:55 – 15:40  Polysomnography and treatment of obstructive sleep apnea 
Sangeeta Chakravorty
15:40 – 16:05 Restless leg syndrome   
Derya Karadeniz
16:05 – 16:30 Parasomnia
İbrahim Öztura
16:30 – 17:30 BOARD MEETING OF THE TURKISH CHILD NEUROLOGY SOCIETY
17:30 – 18:30 ORAL PRESENTATIONS
Chairpersons: Kıvılcım Gücüyener, Füsun Alehan
18:30 – 19:30 POSTER PRESENTATIONS
Chairpersons: Serap Uysal, Gül Serdaroğlu
20:00  GALA DINNER
MAY 31, 2008
08:30 – 09:00 CONFERENCE: VERTIGO
Chairperson : Dilara İçağasıoğlu
Speaker: Sarenur Gökben
09:00 – 10:15 PANEL: EMERGENCY APPROACH IN PEDIATRIC NEUROLOGY
Chairpersons:  Şenay Haspolat, Yüksel Yılmaz
  • Status epilepticus
    Mehmet Okan                                      
  • Increased Intracranial Pressure Syndrome
    Çetin Okuyaz                    
  • Approach to patients with coma and loss of consciousness
    Kürşat Aydın
10:15 – 10:45 COFFEE BREAK
10:45 – 12:00 CASE REPORTS
Chairpersons: Sarenur Gökben, Hüseyin Tan
12:15 – 13:15 LUNCH 
12:15 – 19:00 TRIP TO SÜMELA
MUSCULAR DISEASES COURSE 
Chairperson: Haluk Topaloğlu
13:15 – 14:00 SMA and SMAs
Thomas Crawford
14:00 – 14:30 Lyon hypothesis
Mehmet Ali Kaşifoğlu
14:30 – 15:00 Approach to neuromuscular diseases
Özlem Hergüner
15:00 – 15:30 Motor neuron diseases
Göknur Haliloğlu
15:30 – 16:00 COFFEE BREAK
16:00 – 17:00 CASE REPORTS
Chairpersons: Haluk Topaloğlu, Hatice Karasoy