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07:00 – 18:00 Registration Open Pyrmont Foyer

07:30 Trainee Meeting Breakfast Pyrmont Theatre

09:00 – 10:40 Clinical Update Pyrmont Theatre

Chairs: Carolyn Sue and Judy Spies

09:00 The clinical approach to the myopathic patient Merrilee Needham

09:25 What’s hot in the neuromuscular junction in 2019? Stephen Reddel

09:50 Metabolic Neuropathies – an update Arun Krishnan

10:15 Cancer and the peripheral nervous system Susanna Park

10:40 – 11:15 Morning Tea The Gallery

11:15 – 12:55 The cutting edge: NM disease investigations Pyrmont Theatre

Chairs: James Cleland and Jeannette Lechner-Scott

11:15 The utility of ultrasound in NM disease Neil Simon

11:40 Genetics in NM disease: focus on next generation Roula Ghaoui

12:05 Immunology/Antibody panels – a practical guide Nidhi Garg

12:30 Skin and Nerve biopsy Judy Spies

12:55 – 13:55 Lunch The Gallery

14:00 – 15:20 Plenary Session Pyrmont Theatre

Chairs: Rob Henderson and Merrilee Needham

14:00 Update on Inflammatory and toxic myopathies Richard Barohn

14:40 Advances in diagnosis and management of inflammatory neuropathy Richard Barohn

15:20 – 15:40 Afternoon tea The Gallery

15:40 Neuromuscular Cases Pyrmont Theatre

Chairs: Con Yiannikas, Christina Liang

17:00 – 19:00 Welcome Reception The Gallery

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08:00 – 08:10 Meeting Opening Pyrmont Theatre

Matthew Kiernan

08:10 Inaugural James Lance Oration Pyrmont Theatre

David Burke

08:30 – 10:00 Cognitive Neurology Pyrmont Theatre

Chairs: Amy Brodtmann and Matthew Kiernan

08:30 The Ageing Brain Jonathan Schott

09:00 Apathy in neurodegenerative diseases Campbell Le Heron

09:30 The Language predominant dementias- phenotypic and endophenotypic recognition Peter Nestor


10:30 – 11:00 Mervyn Eadie Oration Pyrmont Theatre

Chairs: Bill Carroll and Pam McCombe

An unplanned path to discovering the importance of chi Carolyn Sue

11:00 – 12:00 Two Controversies in Neurology: Pyrmont Theatre

SymposiumChairs: Bill Carroll and Pam McCombe

11:00 High expense high potency MS therapy should be used first-line in patients with MS Tomas Kalincik and Jan Hillert

11:30 Resource allocation in rare neurological disease. Should the few be allocated resources that could benefit the many? Michelle Farrar and Geoff Herkes


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ProgramWednesday 22 May

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13:00 – 14:30 Movement Disorders Neurology Pyrmont Theatre

Chairs: Carolyn Sue and David Bourke

13:00 Treatment advances in Dystonia Cindy Comella

13:30 Non-surgical treatment advances in Tremor Steve Tisch

13:50 Repurposing “old” drugs for use in Parkinson’s disease John O’Sullivan

14:10 Optimising the timing and patient selection for Deep Brain Stimulation – a guide for the general neurologist Mark Simpson


15:00 – 16:30 Important clinical lessons I have learned… Pyrmont Theatre

Chairs: Mark Slee and Anna Ranta

15:00 In neuromuscular disease Richard Barohn

15:30 In nystagmus and localisation of cerebellar or brainstem lesions Ji-Soo Kim

16:00 In movement disorders Cindy Comella

16:30 – 17:00 The Best Cases 2018/19 Pyrmont Theatre

Chairs: Jim Burrow and Amy Brodtmann

65 Presence of anti-Myelin Oligodendrocyte Glycoprotein antibodies in the serum of two patients following alemtuzumab therapy for suspected multiple sclerosis | Sinali Seneviratne

44 Dramatic Delayed Recovery Following Severe Anti-NMDAR Encephalitis | Allycia MacDonald

63 Headache with Periorbital Ecchymosis; A Rare Clinical entity | Srimathy Vijayan

72 Signal Recognition Particle antibody associated necrotizing myositis with “burnt-out” paravertebral muscle atrophy | Nimalan Harinesan

79 Glial Fibrillary Acidic Protein (GFAP) Astrocytopathy associated with Cerebral Micro-infarction and Poor Therapeutic Response | Allycia MacDonald

35 Valproate-induced parkinsonism “an early warning”: Case reports and review of literature | Shoaib Dal

91 Cerebellar oedema in fulminant adult Leigh syndrome | Leon Edwards

32 Radiation Induced Myopathy | Andrew Hannaford

81 Lymphoma: a great imitator in neurology and its many faces | Wei Yeh

104 Silent multilevel vertebral fractures in a severe case of glycine receptor antibody-positive progressive encephalomyelitis with rigidity and myoclonus (PERM) | Myintzu Min, Han Liu

17:00 – 18:00 Poster Viewing Session With Pyrmont Foyer

Refreshments

18:00 – 19:00 Council Reception for Advanced Trainees and Supervisors The Gallery Foyer

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Program | Wednesday 22 May

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08:00 – 09:00 ANZAN Annual General Meeting Pyrmont Theatre

09:00 – 10:30 Vestibular Neurology Session Pyrmont Theatre

Chairs: Luke Chen and Debbie Mason

09:00 Central vestibular disease Ji-Soo Kim

09:30 Vestibular migraine John Waterston

09:50 The unusual and the refractory BPPV Miriam Welgampola

10:10 Bedside evaluation of peripheral and central vertigo Stuart Mossman


11:00 – 12:00 Young Investigator Session Pyrmont Theatre

Chairs: Jim Burrow, Ji-Soo Kim and Andrew Bleasel

11:00 Altered interval timing as a novel marker of cognitive fluctuations in Lewy Body Dementia Elie Matar

11:10 Therapeutic lag in relapsing multiple sclerosis Izanne Roos

11:20 Subthalamic nucleus deep brain stimulation evoked resonant neural activity predicts clinical response to DBS San San Xu

11:30 Vestibular Event Monitoring in the Emergency Department Benjamin Nham

11:40 Electroclinical Characteristics of Autoimmune Encephalitis as Outcome Biomarkers Robb Wesselingh

11:50 Can seizure-related heart rate differentiate epileptic seizures from psychogenic non-epileptic seizures? Hue Mun Au Yong

12:00 – 12:30 Leonard Cox Oration Pyrmont Theatre

Chair: Steve Vucic

Multiple Sclerosis: Navigating Treatment Choice Tomas Kalincik


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13:30 – 14:00 W Ian McDonald Oration Pyrmont Theatre

Chair: Jeannette Lechner-Scott

Patient value of multiple sclerosis research – from genes to quality of care Jan Hillert

14:00 – 15:30 Concurrent Sessions

Concurrent Session 1 Epilepsy and Stroke

Meeting Room C2.3Chairs: Anna Ranta and Michael Dreyer

Concurrent Session 2 MND and Neuro-degenerationMeeting Room C2.5&6Chairs: Rebekah Ahmed and Rob Henderson

Concurrent Session 3 Vestibular and General NeurologyMeeting Room C2.4Chairs: Debbie Mason and Ian Wilson

14:00 The outcome of a cohort of pregnancies in Australian Women with epilepsy Frank Vajda

AVXS-101 gene-replacement therapy (GRT) in presymptomatic spinal muscular atrophy (SMA): study update Michelle Farrar

Profiles of benign positional vertigo tested on the Epley Omniax chair Emma Argaet

14:12 Associations between comorbidities and adverse events of antiepileptic drugs and quality of life: A survey of epilepsy patients in Australia Jeremy Welton

Unravelling Psychosis in Motor Neurone Disease – a study of clinical features, cognition, and survival Emma Devenney

Patient-initiated event monitoring for acute vertigo Allison Young

14:24 Axonal excitability properties in Dravet’s Syndrome reflect effect of loss of sodium channels Susan Tomlinson

One disease or three: is frontotemporal dementia – motor neuron disease a distinct entity? Zhe (Jill) Long

Genetic carrier screening for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy: the outcome of over twenty years of genetic counselling on disease epidemiology in a single-centre cohort study in New South Wales, Australia Didu Sanduni Kariyawasam

14:36 Neuroimaging and CSF findings in autoimmune encephalitis with neuronal cell surface antibodies James Broadley

Widespread extra-motor abnormality is a prominent MRI signature of ALS: A cross-cohort study Sicong Tu

Resistance exercises with blood flow restriction in patients with sporadic inclusion body myositis Christina Liang

14:48 Melbourne Mobile Stroke Unit halves workflow for acute stroke reperfusion therapy Henry Zhao

Role of transcallosal inhibition in disease spread in ALS Mehdi Van den Bos

The utility of nerve blood flow in the assessment of peripheral neuropathy Adeniyi Borire

15:00 Mechanical thrombectomy in pediatric stroke: Systematic review, individual patient-data meta-analysis, and case series Chris Blair

Genetic diagnosis of early-onset Parkinson’s Disease using Whole Genome Sequencing and non-coding sequence analysis Ryan Davis

Variation in the anatomy of the normal human optic chiasm: an MRI study Christian Lueck

15:12 The Impact of Aggressive Blood Pressure Management in the Post-Thrombolysis Setting Bethan Harper

Increased risk of an abnormal cervical screening test in women with MS exposed to high-efficacy disease-modifying treatments Anneke Van der Walt

Will refractory patients respond to Erenumab in the real world? Bronwyn Jenkins

Program | Thursday 23 May

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16:00 – 17:30 Regional Neurology Session Pyrmont Theatre

Chairs: Ian Wilson and Craig Costello

16:00 Keynote address: Clinical recognition of cognitive syndromes Jonathan Schott

16:30 Regional Neurology: Case presentations

19:00 ASM Dinner

Luna Park, Crystal Ballroom

Program | Thursday 23 May

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09:00 – 10:30 Biomarkers Update Session Pyrmont Theatre

Chairs: Bruce Taylor and Michelle Kiley

09:00 MS Imaging and body fluid biomarkers – a Swedish perspective Jan Hillert

09:30 Imaging and body fluid biomarkers in Dementia Jonathan Schott

10:00 Update in biomarkers for Parkinson disease Cindy Comella


11:00 – 11:45 The 2018 Top 5 Update Pyrmont Theatre

Chairs: Christian Lueck and Kaitlyn Parratt

11:00 The 2018 Top 5 in Headache Bronwyn Jenkins

11:15 The 2018 Top 5 in Stroke Anna Ranta

11:30 The 2018 Top 5 in Epilepsy Andrew Bleasel

11:45 – 12:15 E Graeme Robertson Oration Pyrmont Theatre

Chair: Matthew Kiernan

Achievements and Challenges in Multiple Sclerosis Richard Macdonell

12:15 Awards and close Pyrmont Theatre

12:30 – 13:30 Farewell Lunch The Gallery

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