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ABN Annual Meeting 2025

The ABN Annual Meeting 2024 will be held at the EICC in Edinburgh, Scotland.

Event Dates

Monday 20 May 2024 (Training Day)
Tuesday 21 - Thursday 23 May 2024 (Main Meeting Days)
 
Key dates
 Registration opens/Call for abstracts  Monday 4th December 2023
 Abstract deadline  Monday 22nd January 2024
 Early bird deadline  Monday 11th March 2024
 Online registration closes  Monday 6 May 2024

 

 

 

7:45am
ABN Committee Meetings
 
9:00am
Opening and Welcome
 
9:15am
Plenary session 1: Pathogenic mechanisms of neurological disorders

  1. Mitochondrial disease in adults: Recent advances and future promise: Yi Ng, Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle
  2. Oligodendrocyte biology and MS: Denise Fitzgerald, Queen's University, Belfast
10:15am
ABN Practical Neurology Lecture 2025

Karen Furie, Rhode Island Hospital, , USA

This lecture is kindly supported by Practical Neurology.

11:00am
Coffee, Exhibition & Silent Symposium
 
11:45am
Parallel Session 1: Epilepsy
Parallel Session 2: Cognitive
12:55pm
Lunch Break, Exhibition & Sponsored Symposium
2:25pm
Poster Session 1
3:30pm
Plenary session 2: Expert Management of Common Neurological Disorders

  1. The Parkinson's follow-up: the drugs and beyond for the general neurologist: Chris Kobylecki, Salford, Manchester
  2. The epilepsy follow-up: the drugs and beyond for the general neurologist: Gary Dennis, Sheffield
4.30
Coffee, Exhibition & Silent Symposium
 
5:15
ABN Medallist Lecture

Jaqueline Palace, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford

Citation: Isabel Maria Leite

6:00pm
Welcome Reception
 
7:00am

Yoga or Waterfront Walk

 
7:45am
ABN SIGS
  • SIG 1: TBI
  • SIG 2: Peripheral nerve
  • SIG 3: Neuro-infection
  • SIG 4: Epilepsy
9:00am
Plenary session 3: Advice, Management and Referral

  1. Managing sleep disorders: Guy Leschziner, Guys and St Thomas’s Hospital , London
  2. Cervical myelopathy: Adrian Casey, UCLH, London
10:00am
Coffee, Exhibition & Silent Symposium
 
10:45am
Gordon Holmes lecture

Christian Lueck, Australian National University Sydney, Australia

This lecture is kindly supported by the Guarantors of Brain.

11:30pm
Plenary 4: Navigating Neurological Differences

  1. Dizziness, Balance and PPPD: Diego Kaski, UCLH, London
  2. Understanding Autism : Francesca Happé, King’s College Hospital, London
12:30pm
Lunch Break, Exhibition
2:00pm
Plenary 5: Appraising New Therapies

  1. The power of placebo in headache trials : Elizabeth Loder, Harvard Medical School, USA
  2. Using new treatments for Alzheimer’s: Paresh Malhotra, Imperial College, London
  3. The MDT: MS DMTs for the non-specialist : Simon Shields, Musgrove Park Hospital, Taunton
3.10pm
Poster Session 2

4:10pm

Coffee, Exhibition & Silent Symposium

4:50pm
Parallel Session 3: MS
Parallel Session 4: Neuromuscular
7:30pm
Gala Dinner
7:00am

Fun Run, Yoga, Walk

 
7:50am
ABN SIGs
  • SIG 5: Autonomic
  • SIG 6: FND
  • SIG 7: Neuro-oncology
  • SIG 8: Cognitive
9:00am
ABN AGM
9:45am
President's Lecture
10:30am
Coffee, Exhibition & Silent Symposium
 
11:15pm
Case Presentation Competition & CPC
1:00pm
Lunch, Exhibition & Symposium
2:30pm
Parallel Session 5: Movement Disorders
Parallel Session 6: General/QST
3:40am
Coffee, Exhibition & Silent Symposium
 
4:15pm
Plenary 6 Video Session
5:15pm
Prize Presentations & close
1:00pm
Arrive/Registration

 

 
1:00pm
FY/IMT
  • Headaches in the acute setting:
    Mona Ghadiri-Sani, Liverpool
ST
  • Future of epilepsy:
    Rajiv Mohanraj, Manchester
1:45pm
FY/IMT
  • Epilepsy and seizures:
    Rachel Todd, Manchester
ST
  • Whole genome sequencing in Neurology:
    Mary O’Driscoll, Birmingham
2:30pm
Break
 
3:00pm
FY/IMT
  • Stroke:
    John Williamson, Liverpool
ST
  • Using digital apps to manage patients with Parkinson’s disease and dementia:
    Kinan Muhammed, Oxford
3.45pm
FY/IMT
  • Artificial intelligence in Stroke:
    Arup Sen, UCLH
ST
  • Getting into Neurology and the Life of a Neurology Registrar
    Christopher Hutchcroft, Manchester
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