Agenda

Wednesday, September 11, 2024 All times in Eastern Time
4:30 p.m.	Registration / Exhibits
5:30 p.m.	Welcome and Introductions
5:45 p.m.	Opening Keynote: Pediatric Epilepsy Surgery
6:45 p.m.	Adjourn
7:00 p.m.	Welcome Reception

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Thursday, September 12, 2024 All times in Eastern Time
7:30 a.m.	Continental Breakfast / Exhibits
Session I: Epilepsy Surgery – Then and Now
8:00 a.m.	Lessons Learned From More Than 100 Years of Epilepsy Surgery
8:40 a.m.	SEEG in the Presurgical Evaluation of Epilepsy: 15 Years of Experience at Cleveland Clinic
9:20 a.m.	Epilepsy Surgery Candidates and Role of Invasive Evaluation
10:00 a.m.	Break / Exhibits
Session II: SEEG Indications and Results from Around the World
10:20 a.m.	France
10:40 a.m.	Italy
11:00 a.m.	India
11:20 a.m.	Australia
11:40 a.m.	China
12:00 p.m.	Mexico
12:20 p.m.	Lunch / Exhibits
Session III: SEEG – The Method
1:20 p.m.	Principles
2:00 p.m.	Role of Semiology
2:40 p.m.	Role of Multimodal Studies
3:20 p.m.	Break / Exhibits
Session IV: SEEG – From Preimplantation Planning to Surgical Resection
3:40 p.m.	Principles of Implantation
4:20 p.m.	Principles of SEEG Analysis
5:00 p.m.	How to Use the SEEG Information for Surgical Planning
5:30 p.m.	Keynote Presentation: Future Role of SEEG in Epilepsy Surgery
6:30 p.m.	Adjourn

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Friday, September 13, 2024 All times in Eastern Time
7:30 a.m.	Continental Breakfast / Exhibits
Session V: Pediatric Epilepsy Surgery
8:00 a.m.	SEEG in the Pediatric Population
8:40 a.m.	Pediatric Epilepsy Surgery in Eloquent Regions in the Brain
9:20 a.m.	Is Surgery an Option in Some Epilepetic Encephalopathies?
10:00 a.m.	Break / Exhibits
Session VI: Imaging
10:20 a.m.	Current State of Imaging of the Epilepsies
10:50 a.m.	Novel MR Sequences
11:20 a.m.	Postprocessing Technologies
11:50 a.m.	Imaging and Genetics of FCD
12:20 p.m.	Lunch Break
Session VII: Presurgical Evaluation and Management of Epileptic Pathologies – Part I
1:20 p.m.	The ILAE classification for Focal Cortical Dysplasia
2:00 p.m.	Focal Cortical Dysplasia Type 1
2:40 p.m.	Focal Cortical Dysplasia Type 3
3:20 p.m.	Break / Exhibits
Session VIII: Presurgical Evaluation and Management of Suspected FCD Epilpetic Pathologies – Part II
3:40 p.m.	FCD Type 2
4:20 p.m.	mMCD and MOGHE
5:00 p.m.	No FCD on Histopathology
5:30 p.m.	Keynote Presentation: Principles of Brain Rhythms and Synchronization: Lessons for Epilepsy
6:30 p.m.	Adjourn

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Saturday, September 14, 2024 All times in Eastern Time
7:30 a.m.	Continental Breakfast / Exhibits
Session IX: SEEG – Presurgical Evaluation and Management of Epileptic Pathologies – Congenital Tumors
8:00 a.m.	Epilepsy Considerations in the Management of LEATs
8:30 a.m.	Neuroimaging of Congenital Tumors: What is Desired?
9:00 a.m.	Pathological Classification
9:30 a.m.	Proposal for a Layered Approach to the Management of Congenital Tumors in Epilepsy
10:00 a.m.	Break / Exhibits
Session X: Presurgical Evaluation and Management of Other Epileptic Pathologies
10:20 a.m.	Cavernomas
10:50 a.m.	PMG
11:20 a.m.	PVN
11:50 a.m.	Temporal Encephalocele
12:20 p.m.	Break / Exhibits
Session XI: Special Surgical Considerations in the Management of FCDs and Tumors
1:20 p.m.	FCD1 –
1:40 p.m.	FCD2 –
2:00 p.m.	FCD3 –
2:20 p.m.	MOGHE
2:40 p.m.	Congenital Tumors
3:00 p.m.	Ablative Surgeries: LITT and RFA
3:20 p.m.	Break / Exhibits
Session XII: Non-Resective Approaches to Epilepsy Surgery
3:40 p.m.	Stimulation of the Cortex vs Pathways: The Lab Perspective
4:10 p.m.	RNS
4:40 p.m.	DBS
5:10 p.m.	VNS
5:30 p.m.	Adjourn

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Sunday, September 15, 2024 All times in Eastern Time
7:30 a.m.	Continental Breakfast / Exhibits
Session XIII: Emerging Role of Novel Anti-seizure Medications and Genetics in Epilepsy Management
8:00 a.m.	Current State of Knowledge in Epilepsy
8:20 a.m.	Epigenetics in Epilepsy
8:40 a.m.	Single Gene Methylation
9:00 a.m.	Towards a More Personalized Treatment with Anti-seizure Medications
9:20 a.m.	Are We Ready for Gene-based Therapies? Future Perspectives
9:40 a.m.	Panel Discussion of New Anti-Seizure Medications and Gene Therapy
10:00 a.m.	Break / Exhibits
Session XIV: Signal Processing, Engineering and AI: Trends in Epilepsy
10:20 a.m.	Non-Invasice Mapping of Connectivity in Epileptic Network
10:40 a.m.	Normative Brain Mapping: Scalp EEG, MEG, and Intracranial EEG
11:00 a.m.	4-Dimensional Mapping of Epileptic Networks
11:20 a.m.	AI in Detection and Analysis of intracranial EEG
11:40 a.m.	Taxonomy of Seizure Dynamotypes and Modeling of Epilepstic Seizures
12:00 p.m.	Epileptiform Dynamics in SEEG: Neuroengineering, AI and the Renaissance in Epilepsy Surgery
12:20 p.m.	Lunch / Adjourn

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