AES2020 Program At-A-Glance
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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
- 10:00 AM
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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
- 9:00 AM
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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
- 9:00 AM
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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
- 9:00 AM
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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
- 9:00 AM
With Deep Appreciation to AES2020 Premier Exhibitors
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Many Thanks to AES2020 Leadership Exhibitors
Biocodex
Greenwich Biosciences, Inc.
LivaNova
Medtronic
Neurelis, Inc.
Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc.
Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Zogenix, Inc.