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Please click below to view the programme at a glance. - The programme at a glance provides an overall summary of the weekly and daily programmes. The programme at a glance is available here.
- The planner is a tool which allows you to make a diary of the session which you would like to attend and add them to your Outlook itinerary. The planner is available here.
- In the Scientific Programme document, you will find details of individual sessions, available here.
- The Epilepsy Course will be focusing on the Causes of Epilepsy, the full programme is available here.
- The congress has been granted 21 CME credit points, further details are available here .
- The ECE Forums are sessions in which selected topics can be explored and discussed in an informal workshop style. Details of the workshops are available here.
Welcome from the Chair of the Scientific Advisory Committee
Dear Colleagues,
The Scientific Advisory
Committee (SAC) has worked hard to make an exceptional programme for
the 10th ECE - London 2012. Our focus has been on the sometimes
contrasting objectives of including the most innovative and cutting
edge research and science (our primary goal), covering as broad a range
of epilepsy topics as possible, and providing a high quality teaching
experience to improve epilepsy management in the clinic. We have wanted
to make the programme both instructive and entertaining, and thus to
inspire our colleagues and to raise the profile of European epilepsy so
that it is recognised as primus inter pares.
To these ends,
we have constructed a full and high quality programme of around 300
presentations There are in total 4 main sessions (plenary themes), 6
special symposia, 42 sessions, 29 ECE forums, 8 sponsored satellites, 3
debates, 15 platform sessions and 3 “how to do it” sessions.
There are number of new features:
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Plenary themes, with associated platform and poster sessions, of: basic
and translational science, neuroimaging and surgery, clinical
epileptology
and
neuropsychiatry, and clinical pharmacology and drug therapy.
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Nobel Lecture Series - a daily lecture by a Nobel laureate/ Fields
medallist
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Debates - entertaining debates on controversial issues
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ECE Forums - interactive sessions with a clubroom
atmosphere
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Epilepsy
Course – a coordinated advanced course on the ‘Causes of
epilepsy’
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Epilepsy Olympiad - an epilepsy tournament for competing national
chapters
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Chairs’ Symposium - entitled ‘The borderland of epilepsy’
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‘100 barbiturate years’ - a special symposium to celebrate the
centenary of
the
discovery of the antiepileptic action of Phenobarbital
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Starred poster presentations
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A documentary film session
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An historical exhibit entitled: Epileptology in London 1860-1910
The programme itself is colour coded into 8 categories as a quick guide
to help navigation through the programme.
The
2012 London Olympics will have finished a few weeks earlier, with some
events held in the congress centre. We will continue the Olympic theme
at the congress, and this will include an exhibition of photos from the
ILAE’s SUFE (Stand Up for Epilepsy) project.
Finally,
there is London, an extraordinary city fully worth exploring. As Dr
Johnson, the famous essayist and moralist, remarked in 1777: “No Sir,
when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in
London all that life can afford”. This is still true today and we hope
you will, at the London 2012 Congress, have a refreshing, instructive
and entertaining time.
With best wishes, (On behalf of the Scientific Advisory Committee)
Simon Shorvon,
Chair, Scientific Advisory Committee
The scientific
programme for the 10th ECE
can be downloaded here.
