Course on Epilepsy Surgery

18-23 March 2008, Brno, Czech Republic

Working Group of Epilepsy Surgery (WGES)

Commission on European Affairs (CEA)

International League Against Epilepsy (ILAE)

EUROPEAN PROJECT ON DEVELOPMENT OF EPILEPSY SURGERY PROGRAM (EPODES)

Annoucement

 

Local Organizer: Ivan Rektor

Organising committee: Christoph Baumgartner, Walter van Emde Boas, Peter Halasz,  Kristina Malmgren, Çigdem Özkara (chair) ,  Ivan Rektor, Hermann Stefan

 

 

A basic interactive course on surgically remediable epilepsies, presurgical evaluation, scalp and intracranial EEG, neuropsychology, imaging and psychiatric issues of surgical patients before and after surgery.

Keynote speakers and case presentations by tutors and students. Video presentations of ongoing surgical interventions.

Instructions for application:

      • Neurologist or neurosurgeon who has a background to establish or run an Epilepsy surgery center

      • All applications have to be accompanied by a CV and a recommendation letter from the director of the hospital or chair of the department

      • Adequate English to follow the course and participate the discussions is needed

      • Bursaries will be available for only Central and Eastern European countries. Please indicate that you are applying for bursary in your letter. (Bursaries will include travel up to 300 Euros, accomodation, meals and course handouts)

      • Registration fee: 500 Euros

Course registration fee includes dormitory accomodation for 5 days, meals and course handouts

Provisional Faculty: Christoph Baumgartner (Austria), Sally Baxendale (UK), Milan Brazdil (Czech Republic), Jan Chrastina (Czech Republic), Alois Ebner (Germany), Walter van Emde Boas (Netherlands), Stefano Franchione (Italy), Jan Hadac (Czech Republic), Peter Halasz (Hungary), Philippe Khan (France), Steffi Koch-Stoecker (Germany), Vilademir Komarek (Czech Republic), Robert Kuba (Czech Republic), Kristina Malmgren (Sweden), Zdenek Novak (Czech Republic),Çigdem Özkara (Turkey), Ivan Rektor (Czech Republic), Bertil Rydenhag (Sweden), Roberto Spreafico (Italy), Hermann Stefan (Germany))

Deadline for applications: 1st January 2008

 

Please send all the applications to:

Prof. Dr. Cigdem Ozkara ,

Cerrahpasa Medical School,

Department of Neurology,

Istanbul,

Turkey,

tel-fax: 90 212 6330176

e-mail: cigdemoz@istanbul.edu.tr

 

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