
Neurology 2020
Talks
Inflammatory muscle diseases
Dr James Lilleker
Metabolic muscle diseases
Dr Mark Roberts
Motor neurone disease mechanisms and translational research
Professor Siddharthan Chandran
Modern management of pain
Dr Nick Plunkett
Acute stroke – what should be doing?
Dr Gavin Young

Neurology 2019
Talks
Stroke treatment
Dr Tracey Baird
Management of myasthenia gravis
Dr Maria Farrugia
Dementia: Novel biomarkers, neuroimaging and treatments
Professor Craig Ritchie
Gene targeting therapies for neurological disorders
Professor Sarah Tabrizi
Epilepsy treatments - an update
Professor Matthew Walker
Autoimmune encephalitis
Professor Sarosh Irani

Scotland Parkinson’s Excellence Network Conference 2019
Talks
The UK Excellence Network and our new Parkinson's Strategy
Katherine Crawford
Psychiatry and psychosis of PD
Dr Dichelle Wong
Mental Health Hub
Dr Jennifer Foley
Deep brain stimulation (DBS) update
Dr Vicky Marshall
Exercise and PD
Julie Jones, Janet Kerr and Alison Williams
Award-winning exercise project
Lois Rosenthal and Aimi McGeough
Using existing systems to help administer/prescribe PD medications
Nic Bryden
First Steps
Dave Thomson
Medications management project at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary
Dr Zoe Muir
Comprehensive genetic testing for PD in NHS Scotland
Dr Esther Sammler
Experience of Parkinson's Kinetigraph in NHS Fife
Dr Marie-Claire Grounds
UK Parkinson’s Audit - Next steps
Dr Anne-Louise Cunnington

Neurology 2018
Content
Words I hate in neurology
Dr Richard Davenport
Making sense of tingling
Dr Katie Brennan
Slides: Making sense of trembling
Dr Jane Alty
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 ICH
Dr Adrian Parry-Jones
PFO and 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
Professor Andrew Lees
The evolving DDx of PD
Dr Richard Davenport
Waking up to sleep disorders
Dr Kirstie Anderson
Managing challenging neuropsychiatric features: depression, dementia and psychosis
Professor Dag Aarsland
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
Dr Tilo Kunath
Investigating inflammatory responses in a novel rat model of G51D α-synuclein familial PD
Stephen West
Engineering PD-resistant human dopaminergic neurons for cell transplantation therapies
Yixi Chen
Exercise Masterclass: Strength, balance and endurance training
Professor Lynn Rochester
Precipitants of care home placement and management of the person with PD in a care home setting
Professor Richard Walker
Implications of genetic screening
Dr Esther Sammler
Managing communication and swallowing difficulties
Julia Johnson
Day 2
The acute hospital
Dr Richard Genever
The community
Dr Ed Newman
Managing the later stages
Dr Ed Richfield
Pathophysiology
Professor Stephen Gentleman
Current and future therapies
Professor Roger Barker
How to prevent fractures
Dr Emily Henderson
How to manage GI 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 (DBS)
Dr Alan Whone
Intrajejunal L-DOPA
Dr Seamus Kearney