Agenda - 2025 Ochsner Regional Neurosciences Symposium

7:00 AM - 8:00 AM

REGISTRATION/BREAKFAST/VISIT EXHIBITS

7:15 AM - 8:00 AM

OPTIONAL - Industry Sponsored Presentation by Alexion
The Journey From Diagnosis to Multidisciplinary Care for Pediatric Patients With Neurofibromatosis Type 1 (NF1) Plexiform Neurofibroma (PN) - Regina Zambrano, MD

8:00 AM - 8:10 AM

Welcome! Day #1
Aaron M. Karlin, MD

8:10 AM - 8:35 AM

Stroke Research
Nneka Ifejika, MD, MPH

8:35 AM - 9:00 AM

Surgery for ICH – We’ve Come Full Circle
Joseph Keen, MD

9:00 AM - 9:30 AM

Advancements in Acute Stroke Care: A Journey of Progress
Ekaterina Bakradze, MD - UAB

9:30 AM - 9:50 AM

BREAK/QUESTIONS/VISIT EXHIBITS

9:50 AM - 10:15 AM

Streamlining Diagnosis: Efficient Evaluation of Cognitive Disorders in Neurology
James Rini, MD

10:15 AM - 10:45 AM

Neurofibromatosis
Caroline Goldin, MD

10:45 AM - 11:00 AM

BREAK/QUESTIONS/VISIT EXHIBITS

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

KEYNOTE - Neurobiology of Sleep and Dementia
Daniel Cohen, MD, M.M.Sc. - Sentara

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

BREAK/QUESTIONS/LUNCH BREAK

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

OPTIONAL - Industry Sponsored Lunch by Amgen
UPLIZNA: A Treatment for NMOSD That Goes Beyond Attack Prevention by Mark Tullman, MD

1:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Endoscopic Spine Surgery – The Latest Advancements
Will Mangham, MD

1:30 PM - 2:00 PM

Classification of Spinal Cord Injury
Mahmoud Sarmini, MD

2:00 PM - 2:30 PM

How to Establish Buy in of Patients for Improvement in Individualized Treatment Outcomes
Heather Barber, SLP

2:30 PM - 3:00 PM

BREAK/QUESTIONS/VISIT EXHIBITS

3:00 PM - 3:40 PM

The Neuroscience of Functional Neurologic Disorder and Implications for Treatment
Christina Mueller, PhD

3:40 PM - 4:10 PM

Rehabilitation of Patients with FND
Gabi Diaz and Cailyn Glenn, PT

4:10 PM - 4:40 PM

Creation of a Multi-D Clinic for FND
Gage Rodriguez, MD

4:40 PM - 5:00 PM

QUESTIONS/CLOSING

3:00 PM - 3:25 PM

Rehab Continuum of Care for Neurologic Patient Population
Heather Barber, SLP

3:25 PM - 3:50 PM

Inpatient Stroke Rehabilitation: Methods and Tools to Achieve Optimal Outcomes
Mirjana Bukara, MD/Jeffrey Watkins, MD/Amanda Horaist, NP/Hannah Gresham/Kris Huber

3:50 PM - 4:15 PM

Post-Stroke Movement Disorders: A Review of Chemodenervation for Varying Degrees of Spasticity and Focal Dystonia
Zachary Dawes, MD

4:15 PM - 4:40 PM

Gait Lab Studies as it Relates to Survivors
Eddie Austin, PT, OT, PhD and Kathleen Delpy, PT, DPT

4:40 PM - 5:00 PM

QUESTIONS/CLOSING

7:00 AM - 8:00 AM

REGISTRATION/BREAKFAST/VISIT EXHIBITS

7:15 AM - 8:00 AM

OPTIONAL – Industry Sponsored Presentation by Argenx
VYVGART Hytrulo®: An overview of a novel treatment for adult patients with chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP) - Raghav Govindarajan, MD (St. Elizabeth's Hospital)

8:00 AM - 8:05 AM

Welcome! Day #2

8:05 AM - 8:30 AM

Advances in Surgical Management of Parkinson’s Disease: Sensing and Spectral Power
Lora Kahn, MD

8:30 AM - 9:00 AM

Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy
Joseph Tarsia, MD

9:00 AM - 9:30 AM

Innovations in Neurosurgical Care: From Minimally Invasive to Incisionless Surgeries
Vernard Fennell, MD

9:30 AM - 9:50 AM

BREAK/QUESTIONS/VISIT EXHIBITS

9:50 AM - 10:20 AM

Myofascial Pain in the Neurosciences
Erin Derbigny, MD

10:20 AM - 10:50 AM

Deep Brain Stimulation: Neural Networks, Targets, Clinical Implications
Viswanath Aluru, MD

10:50 AM - 11:05 AM

BREAK/QUESTIONS/VISIT EXHIBITS

11:05 AM - 12:00 PM

Keynote - Neurologic Complications of COVID-19
Shruti Agnihotri, MD - UAB

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

BREAK/QUESTIONS/LUNCH BREAK

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

OPTIONAL - Industry Sponsored Lunch by AstraZeneca
Identifying ‘Constellations’: Polyneuropathy and Cardiomyopathy of ATTR - Brent Goodman, MD

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Guest Lecture - Absence Epilepsies from the Clinic to the Molecular Basis
Marco Medina, MD

2:00 PM - 2:30 PM

Cardiac Related Morbidity and Mortality in Epilepsy Patients
Fawad Khan, MD

2:30 PM - 3:00 PM

BREAK/QUESTIONS/VISIT EXHIBITS

3:00 PM - 3:20 PM

Introduction to Ethics
Mike Hagen, MD

3:20 PM - 3:40 PM

Intensive Rehabilitation Practices in a Low Resource Environment -
Matthew Amodeo, MD

3:40 PM - 4:00 PM

DBS and Applications in Children
Esther Dupepe, MD

4:00 PM - 4:20 PM

Advances in Gene Therapy
Pam Rapiti, MD

4:20 PM - 5:00 PM

Ethics Case-Based Round Table/Questions

3:00 PM - 3:25 PM

Cancer Pain
Marianne Gelter, MD

3:25 PM - 3:50 PM

Treatment Options for Patients on Long-term Opiate Therapy
Dan Lynch, DO

3:50 PM - 4:15 PM

Interventions for Headache and Craniofacial Pain
Christopher Anderson, MD

4:15 PM - 4:40 PM

Management of Painful Diabetic Neuropathy
Patrick Fitzsimmons, MD

4:40 PM - 5:00 PM

QUESTIONS/CLOSING REMARKS - Day #2

7:00 AM - 8:00 AM

REGISTRATION/BREAKFAST/VISIT EXHIBITS

7:20 AM - 8:00 AM

OPTIONAL - Industry Sponsored Presentation by UCB
RYSTIGGO: The first FcRn inhibitor indicated for the treatment of generalized myasthenia gravis (gMG) in adults who are anti-acetylcholine receptor (AChR) or anti0 muscle specific tyrosine kinase (MuSK) antibody-positive - Joshua Alpers, MD

8:00 AM - 8:05 AM

Welcome - Day #3
Ehtesham Khalid, MD

8:05 AM - 8:30 AM

Treating Multiple Sclerosis in Pregnancy
Jenny Feng, MD

8:30 AM - 9:00 AM

Visual Field Complaints and Clinical Correlation
Rachel Calix, MD

9:00 AM - 9:15 AM

BREAK/QUESTIONS/VISIT EXHIBITS

9:15 AM - 9:45 AM

Update on Movement Disorders
Carlos Cevallos, MD

9:45 AM - 10:15 AM

Building a Multi-Disciplinary Clinic: Lessons Learned from Establishing a Huntington's Disease Center of Excellence
Victor Sung, MD

10:15 AM - 10:45 AM

Expanding Indications for Interventional Neurology
Muhammad Taimor Khan, MD

10:45 AM - 11:00 AM

BREAK/QUESTIONS/VISIT EXHIBITS

11:00 AM - 11:30 AM

Empowering Patient Change: Utilizing Motivational Interviewing in Clinical Practice
Kristen Hollas, PhD

11:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Peripheral Nerve Hyperexcitability syndrome
Rima El-Abassi, MD

12:00 PM

CLOSING
Aaron Karlin, MD