AES2020 Program At-A-Glance

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Please note that all times listed are in EASTERN TIME.
Program content is subject to change and will be kept up to date on this website.

  • Friday, December 4, 2020
    • 10:00 AM
      • Resident EEG Course (10:00 AM - 4:30 PM)
    • 9:00 AM 
      • SIG: Pediatric Case Discussion
      • Investigators Workshop: Using Human Brain Organoids to Study Genetic Epilepsies
      • Epilepsy Fellowship Program Director's Meeting
      • Career Skills
      • SIG: NIH and Non-profit Research Resources
      • Investigators Workshop: Vanquishing the VUS: Strategies for Decrypting Variants of Unknown Significance in Genetic Epilepsies
    • 11:00 AM
      • Epilepsy Specialist Symposium
      • NEW! Advanced Practice Provider Symposium
      • IW/Basic Science Poster Session
    • 2:15 PM
      • 18th Judith Hoyer Lecture in Epilepsy
    • 4:00 PM 
      • Spanish Symposium
      • Epilepsy Therapies Symposium
      • SIG: Genetics
      • Career Skills
      • SIG: Professional Wellness in Epilepsy Care
      • SIG: Translational Research
    • 6:00 PM 
      • SIG: Practice Management
      • Investigators Workshop: New Vistas in the Genetic Landscape of Epilepsy: Explaining the Genetically Unexplained
      • Investigators Workshop: New Investigations in Neuromodulation: Low Intensity Focused Ultrasound for TLE and Mapping Epilepsy to Determine Treatment Targets
      • Investigators Workshop: Metabolish-targeted Treatments for Epilepsy Revealed Through Studies of Ketogenic Diet
    • 6:30 PM
      • Satellite Symposia
  • Saturday, December 5, 2020
    • 9:00 AM
      • Epilepsy in the Time of COVID
      • SIG: Basic Mechanisms and Neuroscience of Epilepsy
      • SIG: Epidemiology
      • Investigators Workshop: Sleep and Circadian Rhythms in SUDEP: Disentangling Nighttime Contributors to Seizure-associated Death
      • Investigators Workshop: Bi-directional Relationship Between Late-onset Epilepsy and Alzheimer's Disease
      • Investigators Workshop: Epilepsy Surgery in Tuberous Sclerosis Complex: Research Priorities and Study Design
    • 10:30 AM
      • Presidential Symposium
    • 2:00 PM
      • Hot Topics Symposium
      • Investigators Workshop: Beyond Seizures: Comorbidities and Genetic Rescue in Developmental and Epileptic Encephalopathies 
      • Investigators Workshop: The Postictal State: A Transient Phenomenon with Long-term Consequences?
      • Investigators Workshop: How Study of the 'Seizure Focus' from Therapeutic Resections Can Lead to Novel Insights in Epilepsy
    • 4:00 PM 
      • SIG: Neuropsychology
      • SIG: Neuroendocrinology
      • SIG: Seizure and Cerebrovascular Disease
      • SIG: Tuberous Sclerosis
      • Poster Session: Better Patient Outcomes Through Diversity
    • 6:00 PM
      • SIG: Epilepsy and Aging
      • SIG: Neuropharmacology
    • 8:00 PM
      • 9th Annual Wine Tasting and Reception
  • Sunday, December 6, 2020

     

    • 9:00 AM
      • Annual Course Part 1
      • SIG: Children's Hours
      • SIG: Dietary Therapies
      • SIG: MEG
      • SIG: Quality and Safety
      • Investigators Workshop: Functional Mapping in Invasive Brain Recording: Science and Practice
      • Investigators Workshop: Mechanisms Governing RNA Fate in Epilepsy: From Generation to Translation
    • 11:00 AM
      • Annual Course Part 2
    • 12:00 PM
      • Poster Author Hour
    • 12:15 PM
      • Poster Tours
    • 1:45 PM
      • Annual Course Part 3
      • Investigators Workshop: Pediatric Epilepsy Clinical Trials: Current and Future Challenges
      • Investigators Workshop: Master Regulators in Epileptogenesis: REST and All the Rest
      • Investigators Workshop: Mechanisms of Epileptogenesis and the Peritumoral Microenvironment
    • 2:15 PM
      • NAEC-AES Joint Coding Session
    • 3:45 PM
      • Career Skills
      • Investigators Workshop: MEW Network 2.0: Evidence-based Epilepsy Self-management Research and Scaling Up for Broad-based Public Health Impact
      • Investigators Workshop: New Therapeutic Implications for Adult Hippocampal Neurogenesis in Rodents and Humans
    • 4:00 PM
      • Annual Course Part 4
    • 5:00 PM
      • Poster Author Hour
    • 6:00 PM
      • SIG: Clinical Epilepsy for the Advanced Practice Provider
      • SIG: Epilepsy and Surgery
      • SIG: Seizures in Autoimmune Encephalitis
      • SIG: SUDEP
      • Satellite Symposia

     

  • Monday, December 7, 2020

     

    • 9:00 AM
      • SIG: Critical Care
      • SIG: Intractable Generalized Epilepsy
      • SIG: Psychogenic Non-epileptic Seizures
      • SIG: Psychosocial Comorbidities
      • SIG: Tumor-related Epilepsy
      • Investigators Workshop: Beyond the Hippocampus: Remote Networks Important for Epilepsy Outcomes and Seizure Control
      • Poster Author Hour
    • 11:00 AM
      • Best Practices Symposium
      • Scientific Symposium
      • SIG: Epilepsy Education
      • SIG: Global Health
      • SIG: Neonatal
      • SIG: Stereoelectoencephalography
    • 1:00 PM
      • Poster Tours
    • 1:30 PM
      • Poster Author Hour
    • 2:30 PM
      • Dialogues to Transform Epilepsy
      • Pediatric Highlights
    • 3:00 PM
      • PAME
      • SIG: Ictal Semiology
      • Investigators Workshop: Genetics in the Clinic Beyond Monogenic Epilepsies
    • 4:00 PM
      • Scientific Exhibits
    • 4:30 PM
      • SIG: Temporal Lobe Club
      • SIG: Women's Issues in Epilepsy
    • 5:00 PM
      • Lombroso Lecture
    • 6:30 PM
      • Award presentations
      • SIG: Data Science in Epilepsy
      • SIG: Engineering and Neurostimulation
      • SIG: Neuroimaging
  • Tuesday, December 8, 2020

     

    • 9:00 AM
      • SIG: EEG
      • SIG: Sleep and Epilepsy
      • Clinical Skills Workshop: Self-management Training for Providers
      • Clinical Skills Workshop: Genetics Testing in Epilepsy Patients
      • Clinical Skills Workshop: Pearls of videoEEG Monitoring
      • Clinical Skills Workshop: Alternative Therapies to Standard Anti-epileptic Therapies
      • Clinical Skills Workshop: Optimal Use of Neuroimaging in Diagnosing and Treating Epilepsy
      • Poster Author Hour
    • 11:00 AM
      • Merritt-Putnam Symposium
      • Pediatric State of the Art Symposium
      • Basic Science Skills Workshop: In Vivo Imaging
    • 1:00 PM
      • Clinical Skills Workshop: Misadventures in EEG
      • Clinical Skills Workshop: Intracranial Electrode Studies
      • Clinical Skills Workshop: Telehealth: Virtual Epilepsy Clinic, Soup to Nuts
      • Clinical Skills Workshop: Treating Patients with Psychogenic Non-epileptic Seizures
      • Basic Science Skills Workshop: Genome Editing Technologies
    • 1:30 PM
      • Annual Fundamentals Symposium

With Deep Appreciation to AES2020 Premier Exhibitors

SK Life Science Eisai UCB

Many Thanks to AES2020 Leadership Exhibitors

Biocodex

Greenwich Biosciences, Inc.

LivaNova

Medtronic

Neurelis, Inc.

Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc.

Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

Zogenix, Inc.