Day 2: 26 April 2024


MORNING SESSIONS

08.00AM to 08.45AM

Management of the first seizure

The audience will learn to identify the management of first seizure.

Speaker

Naim Haddad, M.D.(Qatar)

Moderator

Rola Khodair M.D. (Qatar)

08.45AM to 09.00AM

Q & A

 

09.00AM to 09.45AM

Focal Epilepsies: Diagnosis and Treatment

Audience will learn how to make the diagnosis and treatment of focal epilepsy.

Speaker

Gayane Melikyan, M.D. (Qatar)

Moderator

Dr. Yasser Osman (Qatar)

09.45AM to 10.00AM

Q & A

 

10.00AM to 10.45AM

Epilepsy Surgery in Drug-Resistant Epilepsy: Presurgical Evaluation and Surgery Options

The audience will learn about definition of drug-resistant epilepsy and how to treat them.

Speaker

Dr. B. Abou Khalil, M.D. (USA)

Moderators

Dr. B. Sirajeddin, M.D. (Qatar)

Dr. A Ayad, M.D. (Qatar)

10.45AM to 11.00AM

Q & A

 

11.00AM to 11.45AM

Psychiatric Comorbidities in Epilepsy

The audience will learn and discuss about psychiatric comorbidities in epilepsy.

Speaker

Dr. M Gayane, M.D. (Qatar)

Moderator

Dr. Khaked Zammar, M.D. (Qatar)

11.45AM to 12.00PM

Q & A

 

12.00PM to 02.00PM

Lunch

 

AFTERNOON SESSIONS

02.00PM to 02.45PM

Epilepsy in Women

The audience will learn and identify about epilepsy in women, how to adjust antiseizure medications during pregnancy and which antiseizure medications we should avoid to use in women.

Speaker

Dr. Emilio Perucca, M.D.

(Italy-Australia)

Moderator

Dr. Rola Khodair, M.D.(Qatar) 

02.45PM to 03.00PM

Q & A

 

03.00PM to 03.45PM

Epilepsy in Neurocysticercosis

The audience will learn diagnosing and treating neurocysticercosis.

Speaker

Dr. N Haddad, M.D., (Qatar)

Moderator

Dr. Lubna Alsheikh, M.D. (Qatar)

03.45PM to 04.00PM

Q & A

 

04.00PM to 04.15PM

Coffee Break

 

04.15PM to 05.45PM

Special Session 2: Imaging in Epilepsy

  1. Structural neuroimaging (CT, MRI) B. Schuknecht, M.D. (Switzerland) 45min
  2. Functional Neuroimaging (PET: positron emission tomography, SPECT: single photon emission computed tomography) Dr. Lajos Szabados (Qatar) 45min

The audience will learn and describe about neuroimaging in epilepsy.

Moderator

Dr. Ahmed Own, M.D. (Qatar)

Dr. Elsothouhi (Qatar)

05.45PM to 06.00PM

Q & A

General Comments

 
 

End of Sessions

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