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Time Sunday May 3 Time Monday May 4 08:00 08:00 Registration Opens PART 3: 09:00 Opening remarks Pre-surgical evaluation 09:20 PART 1 – Setting the scene of focal epilepsies 10:40 Break 10:00 Break 11:10 PART 1 - continuation 10:30 PART 3 - continuation 12:30 Buffet Lunch offered by 12:30 Buffet Lunch offered by 13:30 Lunch SYMPOSIUM Diagnosis and management of Epileptic Encephalopathies 13:30 Lunch SYMPOSIUM Post-surgical management of focal epilepsies 15:00 Break 15:00 Break 15:30 PART 2: Potentially catastrophic epilepsies 15:30 PART 4: Abnormalities of cortical development and related lesions 17:30 Break 18:10 Break 18:00 Surgical Techniques Video session 18:30 Invasive Recordings Video session 19:30 Welcome Apéritif 19:30 Evening free 
Time | Tuesday May 5 | Time | Wednesday May 6 |
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08:30 | PART 5: | 08:30 | PART 7: |
| Surgical treatment of special epilepsy syndromes | | MRI-Negative focal epilepsies |
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10:30 | Break | 10:30 | Break |
11:00 | PART 5 - continuation | 11:00 | PART 7 - continuation |
13:00 | Buffet Lunch offered by | | |
14:00 | Lunch SYMPOSIUM Alternative treatments in non-surgical candidates | 13:30 | Concluding remarks |
15:30 | Break | | |
16:00 | PART 6: Pediatric epilepsy | | |
| surgery practices | | |
18:30 | Optimal practices Round table | | |
20:00 | Departure for Colloquium Dinner | | |
20:30 | Colloquium Dinner | | |
SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM
SUNDAY May 3rd, 2009
09:00 Welcome
Alexis Arzimanoglou, Chair of the Scientific Committee
Nico Moshé, President-elect of the International League Against Epilepsy
09:20 PART 1: SETTING THE SCENE
Chairs: Nico Moshé (New York, USA), Jean Aicardi (Paris, France)
09:20 What basic science tells us for epilepsy surgery in children
Gary Mathern (Los Angeles, USA)
10:00 Epidemiology of drug resistant epilepsies in children
Anne Berg (New York, USA)
10:40 BREAK in the Exhibition Hall (Foyer 1)
Chairs: Fred Andermann (Montreal, Canada), Doug Nordli (Chicago, USA)
11:10 Defining drug-resistance
Alexis Arzimanoglou (Lyon, France)
11:50 The spectrum of epilepsy-surgery candidates
Helen Cross (London, UK)
12:30 BUFFET LUNCH offered by EISAI in the Exhibition Hall (Foyer 1)
13:00 POSTERS VISIT: Authors present P01-P024
13:30 LUNCH SYMPOSIUM:
Diagnosis and management of Epileptic Encephalopathies
Chairs: Brian Neville (London, UK), Edouard Hirsch (Strasbourg, France)
13:30 The spectrum of epileptic encephalopathies
Doug Nordli (Chicago, USA)
14:00 Treatment of Landau-Kleffner syndrome
Patrick Van Bogaert (Brussels, Belgium)
14:30 Treatment of Lennox-Gastaut syndrome
Jack Pellock (Richmond, USA)
15:00 BREAK in the Exhibition Hall (Foyer 1)
15:30 PART 2: POTENTIALLY CATASTROPHIC EPILEPSIES
Chairs: Jack Pellock (Richmond, USA), Patrick Berquin (Amiens, France)
15:30 When and how to recognize surgical candidates
Ingrid Tuxhorn (Cleveland, USA)
16:10 How to better localize epileptic spasms
Eishi Asano (Detroit, USA)
16:50 Are diffuse EEG abnormalities always a contra-indication
for resective surgery
Ajay Gupta (Cleveland, USA)
17:30 BREAK in the Exhibition Hall (Foyer 1)
18:00 Surgical techniques - video session
Chairs: Francisco Villarejo (Madrid, Spain), Howard Weiner (New York, USA)
Callosotomy
Concezio Di Rocco (Roma, Italy)
Multiple subpial transaction
William Harkness (London, UK)
Hemispherotomy – Hemispherectomy
Olivier Delalande (Paris, France)
Surgical approaches of hypothalamic hamartomas
Olivier Delalande (Paris, France)
19:30 WELCOME APERITIF in the Exhibition Hall (Foyer 1)
MONDAY May 4th, 2009
08:00 PART 3: PRE-SURGICAL EVALUATION OF FOCAL
EPILEPSIES
Chairs: Hajo Hamer (Marburg, Germany),
Onno Van Nieuwenhuizen (Utrecht, The Netherlands)
08:00 Values and Pitfalls of ictal semiology in children
Hans Luders (Cleveland, USA)
08:40 Subjective semiology
Fabrice Bartolomei (Marseille, France)
09:20 Motor behaviors
Lino Nobili (Milano, Italy)
10:00 BREAK in the Exhibition Hall (Foyer 1)
Chairs: Renzo Guerrini (Firenze, Italy), Eliane Roulet-Perez (Lausanne, Switzerland)
10:30 Neuropsychological assessment in pre-surgical evaluation:
state of the art
Maryse Lassonde (Montréal, Canada)
11:10 Cognitive deterioration in children
Karine Ostrowsky (Lyon, France)
12:00 Behavioral deterioration
Karl Strobl (Kehl-Kork, Germany)
12:30 BUFFET LUNCH offered by UCB Pharma in the Exhibition Hall
(Foyer 1)
13:00 POSTERS VISIT: Authors present P025-P039
13:30 LUNCH SYMPOSIUM:
Post-surgical management of focal epilepsies
Chairs: Felix Rosenow (Marburg, Germany), Reetta Kälviäinen (Kuopio, Finland)
13:30 Medical treatment strategies following surgical failures
Edouard Hirsch (Strasbourg, France)
14:00 Reoperation following surgical failure
Ajay Gupta (Cleveland, USA)
14:30 Medical treatment strategies following successful surgery
Tilman Polster, Alois Ebner (Bielefeld, Germany)
15:00 BREAK in the Exhibition Hall (Foyer 1)
15:30 PART 4: ABNORMALITIES OF CORTICAL DEVELOPMENT
AND RELATED LESIONS
Chairs: Ingmar Blümcke (Erlangen, Germany), Peter Uldall (Blegdamsvej, Denmark)
15:30 The spectrum of cortical development abnormalities
Roberto Spreafico (Milano, Italy)
16:10 Cortical dysplasias: when invasive recordings are indicated
Pavel Krsek (Prague, Czech Republic)
16:50 Is surgical treatment of diffuse and/or multiple cortical
abnormalities possible
Laura Tassi (Milano, Italy)
17:30 DNETs and Ganglioglioma: Is lesionectomy always
the treatment of choice
William Harkness (London, UK)
18:10 BREAK in the Exhibition Hall (Foyer 1)
18:30 Invasive recordings – video session
Chairs: Concezio di Rocco (Milano, Italy), Dominique Hoffman (Grenoble, France)
SEEG implantation
Giorgio Lo Russo (Milano Italy)
Stimulation during SEEG
Lorella Minotti, Dominique Hoffmann (Grenoble, France)
GRIDS and STRIPS implantation
Frans Leijten (Utrecht, the Netherlands)
Stimulation with subdural electrodes
Prasanna Jayakar (Miami, USA)
19:30 EVENING FREE
TUESDAY May 5th, 2009
08:30 PART 5: SURGICAL TREATMENT OF SPECIAL EPILEPSY
SYNDROMES
Chairs: Christian Sainte-Rose (Paris, France), William Harkness (London, UK)
08:30 Rasmussen’s encephalitis: are we able to identify surgery
candidates early?
Robert Sassen (Bonn, Germany)
09:10 Sturge-Weber syndrome: is it only the lesion that counts?
Eleni Panagiotakaki, Alexandra Montavont (Lyon, France)
09:50 Hemispheric dysplasias: is hemispherotomy always the only
option?
Hans Holthausen (Vogtareuth, Germany)
10:30 BREAK in the Exhibition Hall (Foyer 1)
Chairs: Olivier Delalande (Paris, France), Gary Mathern (Los Angeles, USA)
11:00 Tuberous Sclerosis
Howard Weiner (New York, USA)
11:40 Hypothalamic hamartoma
André Palmini (Porto Alegre, Brazil)
12:20 Porencephalic cysts
Sabine Rona (Tübingen, Germany)
13:00 BUFFET LUNCH offered by CYBERONICS in the Exhibition Hall
(Foyer 1)
13:30 POSTERS VISIT: Authors present P040-P057
14:00 LUNCH SYMPOSIUM:
Alternative Treatments in non-surgical candidates
Chairs: Karl Strobl (Kehl-Kork, Germany), Mike Duchowny (Miami, USA)
14:00 How better identifying patients for VNS?
Jim Wheless (Memphis, USA)
14:30 Deep brain stimulation: myth or reality?
Stephan Chabardes (Grenoble, France)
15:00 Is electrocoagulation a realistic option?
Jean Isnard, Marc Guénot (Lyon, France)
15:30 BREAK in the Exhibition Hall (Foyer 1)
16:00 PART 6: PEDIATRIC EPILEPSY SURGERY PRACTICES
DISCUSSION FORUM
Discussants: Philippe Kahane (Grenoble, France), Hans Lüders (Cleveland, USA),
Felix Rosenow (Marburg, Germany), Philippe Ryvlin (Lyon, France)
A case of fronto-parietal epilepsy with surgical failure
M. Djuric, I. Tuxhorn, R. Kravljanac and B. Marjanovic
(Belgrad, Serby; Cleveland, USA)
Drug-resistant epilepsy in a child with temporal lesion
extended to parieto-occipital junction:
Indications to grid implantation and definition of the area
to be resected
C. Barba, F. Giordano, T. Metitieri, L. Genitori and R. Guerrini (Florence, Italy)
Surgical treatment for continuous spike and wave during slow
sleep in a child with infrequent seizures and moderate learning
disability?
R. Sanchez-Carpintero, J. Narbona, J. Iriarte, J. Arbizu, R. Garcia De Eulate
and M. Manrique (Pamplona, Spain)
Epilepsy after total congenital infarction of the left middle
cerebral artery and additional cortical lesions on the right
hemisphere
K. Strobl and A. Wiemer-Kruel (Kehl-Kork, Germany)
Spasm-like seizures in a case of tuberous sclerosis
M.V. Olivier, C. Bulteau, G. Dorfumiller, M. Fohlen, C. Jalin
and O. Delalande (Paris, France)
Case with refractory cryptogenic frontal epilepsy:
How to proceed further?
P. Dimova and K. Minkin (Sofia, Bulgaria)
18:00 Optimal practices for referral and Evaluation of Children
for Epilepsy Surgery – Round Table Discussion
Chairs: Cigdem Ozkara (Istanbul, Turkey) Helen Cross (London, UK)
Report of the ILAE subcommission for Pediatric Epilepsy
Surgery
Helen Cross (London, UK)
The experience of the European network for Padiatric Epilepsy
Surgery
Onno van Nieuwenhuizen (Utrecht, the Netherlands)
The US experiencec with referral and evaluation of children for
epilepsy surgery
Gary Mathern (Los Angeles, USA)
What can smaller countries do?
Igor Ravnik (Ljubljana, Slovenia)
20:00 COLLOQUIUM EVENING - Bus departure (PRE-REGISTRATION REQUIRED)
20:30 HOTEL DE VILLE DE LYON
Reception at the prestigious salons of the Mairie de Lyon, French wines tasting
followed by a gourmet dinner prepared for this exceptional occasion by Serge Magner.
WEDNESDAY May 6th, 2009
08:30 PART 7: MRI-NEGATIVE FOCAL EPILEPSIES
Chairs: Alexander Hammers (Lyon, France), Suzanne Knake (Marburg, Germany)
08:30 When to use novel neuroimaging techniques
Philippe Ryvlin (Lyon, France)
09:10 When to use Stereo-EEG
Philippe Kahane (Grenoble, France)
09:50 When to use grids
Robert Maciunas (Cleveland, USA)
10:30 BREAK in the Exhibition Hall (Foyer 1)
Chairs: Hans Lüders (Cleveland, USA), Philippe Ryvlin (Lyon, France)
11:00 How to recognize and treat a temporal lobe epilepsy
Mike Duchowny (Miami, USA)
11:40 How to recognize and treat a frontal lobe epilepsy
Andreas Fogarasi (Budapest, Hungary)
12:20 How to recognize and treat posterior focal epilepsies
Stefano Francione (Milano, Italy)
13:00 The challenge of Pediatric Epilepsy Surgery
13:30 END OF THE 2nd International Epilepsy Colloquium
