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Pediatric Neuroscience Conference 2024

24th – 26th October

Venue: Sidra Medicine Auditorium


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Overview /Agenda

All Sessions DAY 1: Thursday, 24th October 2024 DAY 2: Friday, 25th October 2024 DAY 3: Saturday, 26th October 2024
17:00

REGISTRATION, COFFEE, AND NETWORKING

17:20

Welcoming Remarks

Session I- Paroxysmal Neurological Disorders in Children (2.5 hrs CME)

Moderators:

  • Dr. Khaled Zamel
  • Dr. Ruba Benini
17:30

Pediatric Paroxysmal Movement Disorders

Speaker:

  • Dr. Majid Aziz
    UAE
18:00

Approach to Paroxysmal Weakness in Children

Speaker:

  • Prof. Mohammed Jan
    KSA
18:30

Pediatric Headache Syndromes – Updates on treatments

Speaker:

  • Dr. Khalid Awad
    Sidra Medicine
19:00

Seizures and Seizure Mimickers

Speaker:

  • Dr. Khalid Omar Ibrahim
    Sidra Medicine
19:30

Neuro-Ophthalmologic Video Session

Speaker:

  • Dr. Ruba Benini
    Sidra Medicine
20:00

DMD Gene Therapy – Non CME symposium

Speaker:

  • Dr. Mahmoud Fawzi
    Sidra Medicine
20:15

End of Day 1

20:30

NETWORKING DINNER – Healing Garden Tower D

8:00

REGISTRATION, COFFEE, AND NETWORKING

Neuroscience Nursing Symposium (2.5 Hours)

Moderators:

  • Jenny Sacree
8:30

A – Z Seizures, Classification, Types, Non-Seizures, Treatments

Speaker:

  • Dr. Fatima Al-Maadid
8:45

Neuro Assessment for Nurses, Why, How, What for, When

Speaker:

  • Jenny Sacree
    Sidra Medicine
9:00

Child Life for TBI/ABI/Neuro Patients

Speaker:

  • Mikki Hucket
    Sidra Medicine
9:15

Cerebellar Mutism What, Why, How, How Long

Speaker:

  • Busisiwe Tshabalala
    Sidra Medicine
9:30

Gene Therapy
SMA/DMD – How/What Happens From A Pharmacy View

Speaker:

  • Noora Alhamad
    Sidra Medicine
9:45

Surgical Approaches to Spasticity – SDR/ITB How, Why, When

Speaker:

  • Dr. Baker Alzidaneen
    Sidra Medicine
10:00

EEG – What do those squiggly lines mean?

Speaker:

  • Ejaz Karim
    Sidra Medicine
10:15

Making sense of splints – Why, How, When

Speaker:

  • Aeysha Bibi Khan, Gerald Romero
    Sidra Medicine
10:30

Intraventricular Baclofen – A Winning Story

Speaker:

  • Jenny Sacree
    Sidra Medicine
10:45

What happens in Neuro Theatre?

Speaker:

  • Roelisa Mabasa
    Sidra Medicine
11:00

End of Nursing Symposium

12:00 - 13:00

REGISTRATION, COFFEE, AND NETWORKING

12:55

Welcoming Remarks

SESSION II: Neonatal Neurocritical Care I (2 Hours CME)

Moderators:

  • Dr. Farouq Thabet
  • Dr. Majid Aziz
13:00

NICU Case Presentation – Neurology Fellow (Dr. Faisal Hadid)

13:10

Hypoxic Ischemic Encephalopathy, from Diagnosis to Cooling

Speaker:

  • Dr. Aravanan Anbu Chakkarapani
    Sidra Medicine
13:35

Neonatal Encephalopathies other than HIE

Speaker:

  • Dr. Tayyba Anwar
    Children’s National Hospital, USA
14:00

Prenatal and Neonatal CNS Infections

Speaker:

  • Dr. Youssef A. Kousa
    Children’s National Hospital, USA
14:25

Unmet Needs in Neonatal Hydrocephalus Research

Speaker:

  • Dr. Robert Keating
    Children’s National Hospital, USA
14:50

Panel Discussion

15:00 - 15:15

NETWORKING COFFEE BREAK (15 minutes)

SESSION III: Neonatal Neurocritical Care II (1.5 Hours)

Moderators:

  • Dr. Khalid Al-kharazi
  • Dr. Rana Alshami
15:15

Neurosurgical Interventions in the Neonatal ICU

Speaker:

  • Dr. Gnanamurthy Sivakumar
    Leeds, UK
15:40

Difficult Goals of Care and Outcome Discussions in the Neonatal ICU

Speaker:

  • Dr. Youssef A. Kousa
    Children’s National Hospital, USA
16:05

Hypotonia & Arthrogryposis

Speaker:

  • Dr. Diana Bharucha-Goebel (Virtual)
    Children’s National Hospital, USA
16:30

Panel Discussion

16:45 - 17:15

NETWORKING COFFEE BREAK (30 minutes)

SESSION IV: Pediatric Neurocritical Care (2.25 Hours)

Moderators:

  • Prof. Mohammad Jan
  • Dr. Amna Almotawa
17:15

PICU Case Presentation – Neurology Fellow (Dr. Dana Thaher)

17:30

Pediatric Status Epilepticus – Monitoring and Management

Speaker:

  • Dr. Dana Harrar
    Children’s National Hospital, USA
17:50

Management of Increased ICP in Critically Ill Children

Speaker:

  • Dr. Wagdy Al-Kadasi
    Sidra Medicine
18:10

Role of Neuromonitoring in Critically-ill Children – Does it improve outcomes?

Speaker:

  • Dr. Ricardo Garcia Branco
    Sidra Medicine
18:30

Acute Stroke: Diagnosis and Critical Care Management

Speaker:

  • Dr. Dana Harrar
    Children’s National Hospital, USA
18:50

Neurocardiac Critical Care

Speaker:

  • Dr. Sarah Schlatterer (Virtual)
    Children’s National Hospital, USA
19:15

Panel Discussion

19:30

Adjourn of Day 2

8:00

REGISTRATION, COFFEE, AND NETWORKING

SESSION V: Pediatric Demyelinating Disorders (1.75 Hours)

Moderators:

  • Dr. Youssef Kousa
  • Dr. Dana Harrar
8:30

Clinical Presentation and Evaluation of Demyelinating Disorders in Children

Speaker:

  • Dr. Mahmoud Fawzi
    Sidra Medicine
8:55

Neuroimaging in Acute Inflammatory Demyelinating Disorders

Speaker:

  • Dr. Fahad Albassam
    Saudi Arabia
9:20

Pediatric Multiple Sclerosis

Speaker:

  • Dr. Osama Muthaffar
    Saudi Arabia
9:45

Updates on the Treatment of Demyelinating Disorders

Speaker:

  • Dr. Fahad Albassam
    Saudi Arabia
10:10

Panel Discussion

10:20 - 10:30

NETWORKING COFFEE BREAK (10 minutes)

Session VI – Neurosurgery (2.5hrs)

Moderators:

  • Dr. Ian Pople
  • Dr. Husam Kayyali
10:30

Neurosurgery Case Presentation

  • Dr. Wesam Khalafallah
    Sidra Medicine
10:40

Debate: Cerebral Revascularization for Moya Moya

  • Dr. Alya Hasan – Kuwait
  • Dr. Ali Ayyad – HMC
11:10

Microvascular Treatment of Pediatric AVMs

  • Dr. Siraj Belkhair
    HMC
11:25

Spinal Dysraphism

Speaker:

  • Dr. Khalid Al Kharazi
    Sidra Medicine
11:40

Congenital Cervical Surgery

Speakers:

  • Dr. Tariq Kanaan
    Jordan
12:00

Craniosynostosis

Speakers:

  • Abdulrahman J Sabbagh
    KSA
12:20

Latest Treatments for Malignant Glioma in Children and Adults

Speakers:

  • Prof. Tom Chen
    University of Southern California, USA
12:50

Panel Discussion

13:00 - 14:00

NETWORKING LUNCH – Healing Garden Tower D

SESSION VII: Personalized Medicine in Pediatric Neurology

Moderators:

  • Dr. Ruba Benini
  • Prof. Hilal Lashuel
14:00

Personalized Treatments for Genetic Epilepsy

Speakers:

  • Dr. Tayyba Anwar
    Children’s National Hospital, USA
14:25

Spinal Muscular Atrophy – In the Therapeutic Era of Gene Therapy

Speakers:

  • Dr. Tawfeg Ben Omran
    Sidra Medicine (Virtual)
14:50

Personalized Treatment in DMD

Speakers:

  • Dr. Sarah Wright (Virtual)
    Children’s National Hospital, USA
15:15

Gene Therapy for Leukodystrophies

Speakers:

  • Dr. Aqeela Hashim
    King Fahad Medical City, KSA
15:40

Implementing AI in the Operating Room: State of the Art and Future Directions

Speakers:

  • Dr. Daniel A. Donoho (Virtual)
    Children’s National Hospital, USA
16:05

Abstract Panel Presentations

16:30

CLOSING REMARKS – END OF CONFERENCE

“This activity is an Accredited Group Learning Activity Category 1 as defined by the Ministry of Public Health’s Department of Healthcare Professions-Accreditation Section (DHP-AS) for a maximum of 17.5 hours DHP approval.”

In support of improving patient care, Sidra Medicine is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.


The Scientific Planning Committee has reviewed all disclosed relevant relationships of speakers, moderators, facilitators, and/or authors in advance of this CPD activity and has implemented procedures to manage any potential
or real conflicts of interest.