Neurology - a practical guide
Friday 3 March 2017
The programme will be presented live from the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow,
with the opportunity to interact via web stream at our remote centre at Queen’s University Belfast.
08.30am – 09.00am
09.00am – 09.10am
Registration, tea and coffee
Welcome and introduction
Dr Edward Newman
Consultant Neurologist and Honorary Clinical
Associate Professor
Queen Elizabeth University Hospital
Session 1: ‘Brain biopsy – when should we be doing it?
09.10am – 09.50am
Chair - TBC
Decision making: a clinicians perspective
09.50am – 10.30am
Decision making: a neuropathologists
perspective
10.30am – 10.40am
Questions
10.40am – 11.00am
Refreshment break
Dr Edward Newman
Consultant Neurologist and Honorary Clinical
Associate Professor
Queen Elizabeth University Hospital
Dr William Stewart
Honorary Clinical Associate Professor Institute
of Neuroscience and Psychology, Queen
Elizabeth University Hospital
Glasgow x1
Belfast x1
(more than one question if time allows)
Session 2: ‘Lessons from…’
11.00am – 11.40am
Chair - TBC
Lessons from… a headache clinic
11.40am – 12.20pm
Lessons from… a sleep clinic
12.20pm – 12.30pm
Questions
12.30pm – 1.30pm
Lunch
Dr Sarah Miller
Consultant Neurologist
National Hospital for Neurology and
Neurosurgery, London
Dr Ian Morrison
Consultant Neurologist
Ninewells Hospital, Dundee
Glasgow x1
Belfast x1
(more than one question if time allows)
Session 3: ‘Practical approaches’
1.30pm – 2.10pm
Chair - TBC
Treatment decisions in Parkinson’s Disease
2.10pm – 2.50pm
Imaging interpretation in Neurological Disease
2.50pm – 3.00pm
Questions
Dr Donald Grosset
Honorary Professor (Institute of Neuroscience
and Psychology)
Queen Elizabeth University Hospital
Dr Ravi Jampana
Consultant Neuroradiologists
Queen Elizabeth University Hospital
Glasgow x1
Belfast x1
(more than one question if time allows)
3.00pm – 3.20pm
Refreshment break
Session 4: Clinico-neurophysiological correlates – video EEG cases
Chair - TBC
3.20pm – 4.20pm
Case histories in Epilepsy
4.20pm – 4.30pm
Questions
4.30pm – 4.35pm
Thanks and Close
Dr Veronica Leach
Consultant Clinical Neurophysiologist
Queen Elizabeth University Hospital
and
Dr Shona Livingstone
Consultant Clinical Neurophysiologist
Queen Elizabeth University Hospital
Glasgow x1
Belfast x1
(more than one question if time allows)