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EPNS Training: Inflammatory and Metabolic Disorders of the CNS; Leeds, England

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BPNA/EPNS

Sunday, 15 October 2006

GENERAL INFORMATION

Professors Robert Surtees and Marc Tardieu will lead a faculty on ‘Inflammatory and Metabolic Disorders of the CNS’. This European Paediatric Neurology Society course is part of a series of courses aimed at trainee paediatric neurologists.

This is a two-day residential course. Registration will be at 9.30am on Tuesday 7 November and the course will finish at 4.00pm on Wednesday 8 November 2006.

LOCATION AND ACCOMMODATION

The course is being held in England, in the city of Leeds, at the Marriott Hotel:

Marriott Hotel
4 Trevelyan SquareBoar Lane
Leeds
LS1 6ETTel: +44 (0)113 236 6366

This hotel is located in the city centre close to Leeds train station and about 19km from Leeds/Bradford airport. The following low cost airlines fly to Leeds/Bradford from all over Europe in addition to scheduled airline such as British Airways, Swiss Air etc:

JET2

BMI Baby

Ryan Air
Flybe

Alternatively you could fly to Manchester International Airport and travel direct by train from the airport to Leeds city centre, which will take about 1 hour 20 minutes.

COSTS

The cost of this course is £275.00 (British pounds sterling). This includes dinner, bed and breakfast for two nights (6 and 7 November). Payment can be made by credit card or bank draft to ‘BPNA (EPNS course)’.

BOOKING

Please complete the booking form below and send it by post or fax (including your credit/debit card details) to: European Paediatric Neurology Society, c/o BPNA Secretariat, Bridge House, Harrow Road, Bolton, BL1 4NH, England.

PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME
‘Inflammatory and Metabolic Disorders of the CNS’

Each speaker will give two talks: one 30 minute lecture followed by a 30 minute question and answer session, which will then be followed by a 15-20 minute lecture dealing in depth with a specific aspect followed by a 10 minutes of questions.
At the end of the day a self-assessment will occur followed by peer-review/discussion group (“difficult cases to be discussed together”).

Tuesday 7 November 2006
Robert Surtees	Lecture in Depth	Introduction and treatable causes of epilepsy to be confirmed
Nicole Wolf	Lecture in Depth	Inherited white matter disorders Pelizaeus-Merzbacher disease
Ruth Williams	Lecture in Depth	Inherited gray matter disorders to be confirmed
Shamima Rahman	Lecture in Depth	Mitochondrial disorders to be confirmed
Suresh Vijay	Lecture in Depth	Storage disorders to be confirmed
Wednesday 8 November 2006
Russell Dale	Lecture: In depth	Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis Post-infectious movement and psychiatric disorders
Marc Tardieu	Lecture: In depth	Multiple Sclerosis CNS Macrophage Activation Syndromes
Kevin Rostasy	Lecture: In depth	Guillain Barré syndrome Opsoclonus Myoclonus Syndrome
Collin Kennedy	Lecture: In depth	Unwanted effects occuring during treatment of brain tumour Effects of chemotherapy when added to craniospinal irradiation for medulloblastoma

Booking Form 15/10/2006,17:08 38.16 Kb

FURTHER INFORMATION
If you require any further information about this course, please email This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it or telephone Philippa Rodie on +44 (0)1204 492888

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