This meeting is designed for the practicing neurologist and provides a review of clinical neurology, with emphasis on areas of recent neurological advances and progress in patient management. Both current concepts and new advances in neurologic disorders will be covered. The purpose of this course is to increase competence and improve clinician practice in neurology. Specifically to: * Increase knowledge of new concepts in dementing diseases, migraine, multiple sclerosis, Huntington's disease, transient ischemic attacks, and prion diseases; * Improve diagnosis and management of stroke and alterations in intracranial pressure.
| Wednesday, February 16, 2011 | ||
| 12:00:00 | Registration | |
| 13:00:00 | Welcome and Introductions | Stephen C. Hauser |
| 13:10:00 | Advanced Imaging Techniques in Neurologic Diagnosis | John C. Mazziotta |
| 14:00:00 | Prion Diseases | An Update | Stanley B. Prusiner |
| 14:50:00 | Recess | |
| 15:10:00 | Multiple Sclerosis | Highlights | Stephen C. Hauser |
| 17:00:00 | Adjourn | |
| Thursday, February 17, 2011 | ||
| 08:00:00 | Continental Breakfast | |
| 08:30:00 | T.I.A: Definition Evaluation and Treatment | J. Donald Easton |
| 09:15:00 | Migraine | 2011 | Peter J. Goadsby |
| 10:05:00 | Recess | |
| 10:25:00 | Dementia Update | Bruce L. Miller |
| 11:10:00 | Under Pressure | Highs, Lows, and the Fading of Vision | Jonathan C. Horton |
| 12:00:00 | Lunch Break | on your own | |
| 14:00:00 | Huntington’s Disease | An Update | Steven Finkbeiner |
| 15:00:00 | Report from the Stroke Meeting Stroke Center Physicians | Wade S. Smith |
| 17:00:00 | Adjourn | |
| Friday, February 18, 2011 | ||
| 08:00:00 | Continental Breakfast | |
| 08:30:00 | An Interactive Session: Difficult Diagnosis and UCSF Neurology Faculty Physicians | John W. Engstrom |
| 10:30:00 | Recess | |
| 10:50:00 | Difficult Diagnosis | continued | |
| 12:00:00 | Lunch Break | on your own | |
| 14:00:00 | Neuroradiology Update | Cynthia T. Chin |
| 15:00:00 | Clinico-Pathologic Conference | Andrew W. Bollen, S. Andrew Josephson |
| 16:30:00 | Adjourn | Evaluation | Attendance Verification Records | |
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