Main Sessions and Chairman’s Symposium
The Scientific Programme for the congress has been based on a comprehensive programme of main sessions which are as follows:
Chairman’s Symposium: Epilepsy surgery – who and when?
Chairs: Simon HARVEY (Australia) and Shih Hui LIM (Singapore)
Seizure outcomes following epilepsy surgery
Sam WIEBE (Canada)
Epilepsy surgery with limited resources
Kurupath RADHAKRISHNAN (India)
Lesional epilepsy: how long should you wait?
Byung-In LEE (Korea)
Non-lesional, extra-temporal epilepsy: when is surgery justified?
Andrew BLEASEL (Australia)
Outcome in newly-diagnosed epilepsy
Chairs: Shunglon LAI (Taiwan) and John DUNNE (Australia)
Predictors of outcome in newly-diagnosed epilepsy: clinical, EEG
and imaging
Elson L. SO (USA)
Pharmacogenomics: predicting seizure response and adverse events
Patrick KWAN (Hong Kong)
Psychosocial outcomes of newly-diagnosed epilepsy
Sarah-Jane WILSON (Australia)
Attitudes to epilepsy and their impact on outcome: insights from
rural China
Wang WENZHI (China)
Prevention of symptomatic epilepsy
Chairs: Chong Tin TAN (Malaysia) and Vinod SAXENA (India)
Epilepsy due to perinatal brain injury
Vrajesh UDANI (India)
Infections, immunisation and epilepsy
Gagandeep SINGH (India)
Head injury and post-traumatic epilepsy
Ben SELLADURI (Malaysia)
Can epilepsy be prevented after the brain insult?
Solomon L. MOSHE (USA)
Psychological wellbeing in epilepsy
Chairs: Terence O'BRIEN (Australia) and Mike GLYNN (Ireland)
Prevalence and nature of psychological disorders in epilepsy
Yushi INUOE (Japan)
Neurobiological links between epilepsy and mood disorders
Mike SALZBERG (Australia)
Effects of treatments on seizures and depression
Andres KANNER (USA)
Interventions to reduce stigma in clinical practice
Graham SCAMBLER (UK)
