Neurology 2019
Talks
- What’s new in stroke treatment | Dr Tracey Baird
- What’s new in the management of myasthenia gravis | Dr Maria Farrugia
- Dementia - novel biomarkers, neuroimaging and treatments | Professor Craig Ritchie
- Gene targeting therapies - what does the future hold for neurological disorders? | Professor Sarah Tabrizi
- Epilepsy treatments - an update | Professor Matthew Walker
- Autoimmune encephalitis - diagnosis and management | Professor Sarosh Irani
Scotland Parkinson’s Excellence Network Conference 2019
Talks
- The UK Excellence Network and our new Parkinson's Strategy | Katherine Crawford
- Sleep and Parkinson’s disease (PD) | Dr Ian Morrison
- Psychiatry and psychosis of Parkinson's disease (PD) | Dr Dichelle Wong
- Mental Health Hub | Dr Jennifer Foley
- Deep brain stimulation (DBS) update | Dr Vicky Marshall
- Exercise and Parkinson’s disease (PD) | Julie Jones, Janet Kerr and Alison Williams
- Award winning exercise project | Lois Rosenthal and Aimi McGeough
- Using existing automatic systems to help administer/prescribe Parkinson's medications | Nic Bryden
- First Steps | Dave Thomson
- Medications management project at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary | Dr Zoe Muir
- Comprehensive genetic testing for Parkinson's disease (PD) for NHS Scotland patients | Dr Esther Sammler
- Experience of Parkinson's Kinetigraph (PKG) in NHS Fife | Dr Marie-Claire Grounds
- UK Parkinson’s Audit - Next steps | Dr Anne-Louise Cunnington
Neurology 2018
Talks
- Words I hate in neurology | Dr Richard Davenport
- Making sense of tingling | Dr Katie Brennan
- Can we be confident this is a functional neurological disorder? | Professor Alan Carson
Stroke Medicine 2018
Talks
- Mechanical thrombectomy for acute ischaemic stroke | Professor Phil White
- Management of intracerebral haemorrhage | Dr Adrian Parry-Jones
- PFO & cryptogenic stroke - (when) should we close the hole? | Dr Nicholas Weir
- Oral anticoagulation after ischaemic stroke - when is best? | Professor Urs Fischer
- Cognition after stroke: is decline preventable? | Professor Sarah Pendlebury
Parkinson's Disease 200
Day 1
- James Parkinson - Lessons from his essay on the shaking palsy for modern doctors (1817 - 2017) | Professor Andrew Lees
- The evolving differential diagnosis of Parkinson's disease | Dr Richard Davenport
- Waking up to sleep disorders | Dr Kirstie Anderson
- Managing the challenging neuropsychiatric features of PD: depression, dementia and psychosis | Professor Dag Aarsland
- Parkinson's genetics | Dr Miratul Muqit
- Potential prodromal parkinsonism in adults with 22q11 deletion syndrome | Dr Alisdair McNeill
- Developing individualised predictions of prognosis | Dr Angus D MacLeod
- Future regenerative therapies for Parkinson's | Dr Tilo Kunath
- Investigating inflammatory responses in a novel rat model of G51D α-synuclein familial Parkinson’s disease | Stephen West
- Engineering Parkinson's disease-resistant human dopaminergic neurons for cell transplantation therapies | Yixi Chen
- Exercise Masterclass: evidence for strength, balance and endurance training. Specific to age and stage | Professor Lynn Rochester
- The precipitants of care home placement and the management of the person with Parkinson's disease in a care home setting | Professor Richard Walker
- The implications of genetic screening in Parkinson's disease | Dr Esther Sammler
- Managing communication and swallowing difficulties in people with Parkinson's | Julia Johnson
Day 2
- The acute hospital | Dr Richard Genever
- The community | Dr Ed Newman
- Managing the later stages | Dr Ed Richfield
- Pathophysiology of Parkinson's disease | Professor Stephen Gentleman
- Current and future therapies for Parkinson's disease | Professor Roger Barker
- How to prevent fractures | Dr Emily Henderson
- How to manage gastrointestinal problems | Dr Sarah Marrinan
- How to manage orthostatic hypotension | Dr Claire McDonald
- How to manage urinary symptoms | Dr Jalesh Panicker
- Apomorphine | Professor Nicola Pavese and Ms Una Brechany
- A real hard man | Dr Edward Fitzsimons
- Deep brain stimulation | Dr Alan Whone
- Intrajejunal L-DOPA | Dr Seamus Kearney
Neurology 2017
Talks
- Symptoms and signs of neuro-otological disorders | Dr Diego Kaski
- Dizziness – acute, paroxysmal, positional | Mr Patrick Spielmann
- Neurological red flags in the acute medical receiving unit | Dr Esther Sammler
- Common dilemmas in the neuro-intensive care setting | Professor Simon Nagel
- Long term respiratory support in neuromuscular conditions | Dr Anthony Bateman