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Paediatric Neuroradiology : A clinically applied study day. The Basics...and Beyond....!!!

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Monday, 21 January 2008

A paediatric neuroradiology study day is to be held at the Postgraduate Lecture Theatre, Manchester Royal Infirmary on Thursday 6th March 2008, organised by the Neurology and Radiology Department, Royal Manchester Chidlren's Hospital.

Course Organsiers: Dr Grace Vassallo and Dr W St C Forbes

Course Chair: Dr Pam Tomlin

Price �150

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This meeting is a non profit educational meeting. Any surplus founds will be used to fund further educational meetings.

Programme	�6th March 2008	�
�8:50am-9.00am	Introduction�	�Dr Pam Tomlin
�9:00am-9:30am	�Basics of Paediatric CT Scan Imaging	Dr Brennan Wilson Consultant Paediatric Radiologist Royal Manchester Children's Hospital, Manchester
�9:30am-10am	�Basics of Paediatric MR Scanning including white matters and its maturation	�Dr Neville Wright Consultant Paediatric Neuroradiologist Royal Manchester Children's Hospital, Manchester
�10:10am-10:30am	�coffee break	�
�10:30am-11:15am	�Paediatric Stroke, Cerebral vessels and vascular teritories. Neurovascular intervention techniques	�Dr Amit Herwadkar Consultant� Neuroradiologist Hope Hospital, Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester
�11:15am-12:00pm	�Neuroradiology in non accidental injury	�Dr W St C Forbes Consultant� Neuroradiologist Royal Manchester Children's Hospital, Manchester,Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester
�12:00-1:00pm	�Lunch Time	�
�1:00pm-1:30pm	�CSF Flow Studies	�Dr Stavros Stivaros Medical Research COuncil/Royal College of Radiolgoists Research Training Fellow. The University of Machester, Imaging Science and Biomedical Engineering
�1:30pm-2:00pm	�Aicardi-Goutieres syndrome and other genetic causes of intracranial calcification	�Dr Yanick Crow Senior Lecturer and Consultant in Clinical Genetics Leeds Institute of Molecular Medicine, St James's University Hospital Leeds
�2:00pm-2:45pm	�The use of MRI in the investigation of neurometabolic disorders	�Dr John Livingston Consultnat Paediatric Neurologist DEpartment of Paediatric Neurology, Leeds General Infirmary
�2:45pm-3:15pm	�Coffee Break Time	�
�3:25pm-3:45pm	�Lissencephaly	�Dr Daniela Pilz Consultant Clinical Geneticist Institute of Medical Genetics, University Hospital of Wales
�3:45pm-4:25pm	�The phenotype and genetics of congenital microcephaly	�Professor W B Dobyns Department of Human Genetics The University of Chicago
�4:30pm-5:00pm	�Polymicrogyria	�Dr Daniela Pilz Consultant Clinical Geneticist Institute of Medical Genetics, University Hospital of Wales
�5:00pm-5:45pm	�The phenotype and genetics of cobblestone malformations	�Professor W B Dobyns Department of Human Genetics The University of Chicago
�5:45pm-6:00pm	�Close	�
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