8:00 AM - Dr Darshana Sirisena & Dr Pyara Rathnayake

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  • Name – Dr Orly Avitzur
  • Designation –

    President, American Academy of Neurology​

    Clinical Assistant Professor, New York Medical College Department of Neurology​

    Instructor, Yale University School of Medicine Department of Neurology​

    Editor-in-Chief, Brain & Life

  • Presentation title – Neurology & lifelong brain health

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Cerebral Palsy from diagnosis to adult life – by Prof. Peter Rosenbaum

 

8:30 AM - Dr Saraji Wijesekara & Dr Dhanushka Ratnayake

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  • Name – Prof. Peter Rosenbaum
  • Designation – Professor, Department of Paediatrics, McMaster University​
  • Presentation title – Cerebral Palsy from diagnosis to adult life 

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Surgery for seizure freedom – by Prof. Ashok Pillai

9:00 AM - Dr Sunethra Senanayake & Dr Sanjeewa Garusinghe

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  • Name – Prof. Ashok Pillai
  • Designation –

    Clinical Professor, Amrita Advanced Centre for Robotic Surgery, Surgical Oncology, Neurosurgery, ​Amrita Advanced Centre for Epilepsy

  • Presentation title – Surgery for seizure freedom

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Overview of infective encephalitis – by Prof. Sanjaya Senanayake

9:30 AM - Dr Padma Gunaratne & Dr Champika Gunawardhana

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  • Name – Prof. Sanjaya Senanayake
  • Designation – Associate Professor of Medicine, Australian National University​
  • Presentation title – Overview of infective encephalitis

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Rehabilitation of functional neurological disorders (FND) – by Dr Charitha Perera

10:00 AM - Dr MTM Riffsy & Dr VT Rajendiran

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  • Name – Dr Charitha Perera
  • Designation –

    Senior Consultant Physician in Rehabilitation Medicine, Flinders Medical Centre and the Repatriation General Hospital, Adelaide, Australia. ​

    Senior Academic Lecturer in Clinical Rehabilitation, Flinders University. 

  • Presentation title – Rehabilitation of functional neurological disorders (FND)

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11:00 AM - Dr Darshana Wijegunasinghe & Dr Gamini Pathirana & Dr Chryshanth Dalpatadu

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  • Name – Dr Waranga Jayawickrama
  • Designation –

    Specialist Physician in General Medicine, Rockingham General Hospital, Western Australia​

    Specialist Physician in General Medicine, Fiona Stanley Hospital, Western Australia​

    Clinical coordinator: University of Western Australia

  • Presentation title – Neurology in the emergency room

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  • Name – Dr Manoj Menezes
  • Designation – Paediatric Neurologist, Children’s Hospital, Sydney​
  • Presentation title – General principles in the management of Myasthenic crisis

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  • Name – Prof. Laura Silveira-Moriyama
  • Designation –

    Honorary Clinical Lecturer, University College London, UK​

    Honorary Associate Professor of Neurology at Universidade Estadual de Campinas, UNICAMP, Brazil 

  • Presentation title – Movement disorder emergencies

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Novel therapies for developmental and epileptic encephalopathies – by Dr Deepak Gill

12:30 PM - Prof. Jithangi Wanigasinghe & Dr Anomali Vidanagamage

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  • Name – Dr Deepak Gill
  • Designation –

    Senior Staff Specialist, Head of the Complex Epilepsy Program, The Children’s Hospital at Westmead, Sydney​

    Honorary Senior Lecturer, University of Sydney ​

    Head of the Epilepsy Research Group, Kids Neuroscience Centre, Sydney​

    Visiting Paediatrician, Orange Health Service, Orange Health Service, Orange, Australia

  • Presentation title – Novel therapies for developmental and epileptic encephalopathies

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2:00 PM - Dr Senaka Bandusena & Dr Srini Godevithanage & Dr Arjuna Fernando

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  • Name – Prof. Umapathi Thirugnanam
  • Designation –

    Adjunct Associate Professor, Senior Consultant Neurologist, Department of Neurology, National Neuroscience Institute, Singapore​

    Adjunct Associate Professor, Duke-NUS Medical School​

    Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, Yong Loo Lin Medical School, National University of Singapore

  • Presentation title – Neuromuscular disease in the under-resourced setting

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  • Name – Dr Channa Hewamadduma
  • Designation –

    Consultant Neurologist and Honorary Senior Lecturer Sheffield Teaching Hospitals Foundation Trust, Sheffield, UK ​

    Sheffield Institute for Translational Neurosciences (SITRAN), University of Sheffield, UK

  • Presentation title – Novel treatments in Myasthenia graves

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  • Name – Prof. Mary M. Reily
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    Professor, Centre for Neuromuscular Diseases and Dept. of Neuromuscular Diseases, ​National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery and UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, London, UK

  • Presentation title – An update on the inherited neuropathies

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Announce the ASN Neurology Quiz by Prof. Saman Gunatilake