7th Asian Oceanian Congress on Clinical Neurophysiology
Speaker
Speaker
Anusha Achuthan is a Lecturer at Advanced Medical & Dental Institute of Universiti Sains Malaysia. She received her PhD in 2016, specializing in computer vision and medical image analysis from Universiti Sains Malaysia. Her main research publications are in the areas of computational neuroscience, knowledge guided image analysis, biomarkers analysis for neurological disorders and aging, machine learning, and computer vision. She is a member of IEEE, ISMRM and IACSIT. Besides research work, Dr Anusha is also very passionate about online teaching and learning resources. She has developed a MOOC course on Scientific Writing and delivered workshops on e-Learning modules.
Speaker
Dr Mohd Sufian Adenan began his career with Malaysian Health Service after graduating with a MBBS degree from University Malaya Kuala Lumpur. Following his post-graduate study in University Malaya, which he obtained M.MED (UM), he had proceeded to specialize in Neurology at Hospital Kuala Lumpur and one-year fellowship subspecializing in multiple sclerosis and general neurology in Western Health, Royal Melbourne Hospital and Monash Medical Centre in Melbourne, Australia.
He is presently a general neurologist in Hospital Kuala Lumpur with special interest in demyelinating diseases.
Dr. Sheila Agustini is a Neurologist from Indonesia who currently serves as the Vice Chair of Indonesia ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis) Foundation. She has been actively involved with the ALS community in Indonesia including participates in several overseas ALS meetings. Her main interest is Neurophysiology, specifically in Electrodiagnostic Study (EDX). Dr. Sheila completed fellowship in Electromyography (EMG) at University of Indonesia followed by Neurophysiology Training Program at Neuromuscular Electrodiagnosis Center, Teikyo University (Japan). Her private practice is at Mayapada Hospital Jakarta Selatan.
Correspondence : drsheilaagustini@yahoo.com
Chairperson
Present Designation: Sr Consultant in Neurology, Brunei Stroke and Rehabilitation Centre, PJSC, Brunei
DM Neurology
Sree Chitra Tirunal Medical Center for Medical Sciences and Technology, Trivandrum
Clinical Neuromuscular Fellowship ,
Montreal Neurological Institute , McGill University, Montreal Canada
Membership to Professional Bodies:
1) Neurological Society of India, Indian Academy of Neurology, Associate Member of American Academy of Neurology Member SERB, India
2) Convenor, Clinical Neurophysiology Subsection of IAN and National Delegate to the IFCN
Publications:
Has more than 100 peer-reviewed articles in International and National journals and chapters in International and National textbooks in these areas of interest
Prof Dato’ Dr Raymond Azman Ali is Senior Consultant Neurologist at the UKM Medical Centre. He was Medical Dean & Hospital Director of UKMMC from 2011 to 2016. He is currently the Chairman of the Epilepsy Council of Malaysia. He has been invited to deliver more than 300 lectures locally and abroad and published over 100 full journal papers related to neurology. In 2009, he also received the Anugerah Akademik Negara from the Ministry of Higher Education. He was the first medical doctor in Malaysia to ever win this prestigious award, and no other doctor has since won this award again.
Chairperson
Dr. Azmi Alias currently works as the Head and Senior Consultant Neurosurgeon at Department of Neurosurgery, Tunku Abdul Rahman Neuroscience Institute (IKTAR), Hospital Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and Department of Pediatric Neurosurgery, Women and Children Hospital Kuala Lumpur.
He is the Vice President of the Asian Australasian Society of Neurological Surgeons (AASNS), member of The World Academy of Neurological Surgery (WANS), Neuroendoscopy Committee for the World Federations of Neurosurgical Societies (WFNS), Secretary General of the International Society on Minimally Invasive Techniques in Neurosurgery (ISMINS, Secretary General of Asian Congress of Neurological Surgeons (ACNS), Audit Committee of the Asian Australasian Society For Pediatric Neurosurgery (AASPN) and Membership Committee of International Society For Pediatric Neurosurgery (ISPN).
Dr. Azmi Alias has been responsible as a pioneer in developing Pediatric Neurosurgical services, multidisciplinary approach to treat various neuroendocrine hypothalamic-pituitary axis disorders, combined craniofacial surgery for simple and complex syndromic craniosynostosis, combined pediatric epilepsy surgery program and minimally invasive Neuroendoscopy techniques in Hospital Kuala Lumpur.
He is actively involved in various Quality Assurance Program and participated in academic field as a Coordinating Editor for the Asian Journal of Neurosurgery (AJNS), various journals reviewer and researcher. He participated in undergraduate, postgraduate training program in Neurosurgery and Post Basic Neurosciences for Nurses and paramedics as a Honorary Lecturer and Board of examiner for the post graduate Master of Neurosurgery in Malaysia.
Speaker
Dr Archer is a Senior Lecturer of Medicine at the University of Melbourne, Epileptologist and head of the EEG laboratory at Austin Health, and research fellow at the Florey Institute for Neuroscience and Mental Health. His current clinical and research interests are stereo EEG, advanced epilepsy imaging including EEG/fMRI as a tool to understand epilepsy networks, Lennox-Gastaut Syndrome, and Deep Brain Stimulation for epilepsy.
Speaker
Dr Robert Boland-Freitas. BSc (Med), MBBS, FRACP. Consultant Neurologist and Staff Specialist, Blacktown Hospital, Sydney, Australia.
Dr. Robert Boland-Freitas completed his medical degree at the University of New South Wales. He undertook a Neurophysiology Fellowship at the Royal North Shore Hospital after completing his Advanced Training in Neurology at Blacktown, Westmead and Canberra Hospitals. He has subsequently completed PhD studies under the supervision of A/Prof. Ng (University of Sydney) studying myotonic dystrophy using an array of neurophysiological modalities, with a focus on automated muscle velocity recovery cycle assessment and quantitative sensory testing.
Name: Prasert Boongird
Address: Ramathibodi Hospital,
Rama 6 Road , Bangkok 10400, Thailand
Email: prasert.boo@mahidol.ac.th.
Academic title: Emeritus Professor of Neurology, Ramathibodi Hospital
Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand
M.D. King Chulalongkorn Hospital , Chulalongkorn
University, Bangkok, Thailand
Neurology residency: New York State University at
Buffalo, U.S.A.
Clinical neurophysiology fellowship: St. Michael Hospital,
University of Toronto, Canada
President: The Neurological Society of Thailand
President: Thai Society of Clinical Neurophysiology (1987-2019)
Publications:
1. Mahidol University Award Medical Textbook: “Compression & Entrapment Neuropathies”
2. Boongird P, Vejjajiva A. Electrophysiologic findings and prognosis in
Bell’s palsy. Muscle & Nerve 1978; 1: 461-466.
David Burke is Professor of Neurology at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital and the University of Sydney. Previously he held Chairs of Clinical Neurophysiology and of Neurology at the University of New South Wales and was Chairman of the Department of Neurology, Prince Henry and Prince of Wales Hospitals. From 2002 to 2008, he was Dean of Research for the Health Faculties at the University of Sydney and from 2008-2013 Bushell Professor of Neurology. He is a member of the Executive Committee of IFCN, immediate past Editor of Clinical Neurophysiology, and currently inaugural Editor of Clinical Neurophysiology Practice.
Sandip Chatterjee is a Graduate of Medical College Kolkata where he won innumerable prizes and medals in Anatomy, Pathology, Eye, ENT and Surgery. He went on to train in neurosurgery in UK and Canada. He passed his FRCS in General Surgery in 1987, and FRCS in Surgical Neurology in 1994. He returned to Kolkata in 1994 to start a department of neurosurgery at Park Clinic Kolkata, and this is now a postdoctoral training centre in neurosurgery, an AO Spine training centre in spine surgery, and a paediatric neurosurgery training centre recognized by the International Society of Pediatric Neurosurgery. He has 110 publications and 20 book chapters in national and international publications. Currently he is a Professor and Head of Neurosurgery at VIMS and Park Clinic, Kolkata. He is the Associate Editor of the British Journal of Neurosurgery, Editor in Chief of the Journal of Pediatric Neurosciences, and he Chairs the Education Committee of the International society of Pediatric Neurosurgery, the Asia Australasia Society of Paediatric Neurosurgery, and Education Committee of AO Spine in India. He is also the Chairman of the IONM Group in India and the Indian representative to the Asia Oceanian Society of Intraoperative Neuromonitoring. He is also in the WFNS Committee of Intraoperative Monitoring.
Speaker
Chee Kok Yoon, M.D., MMed (Psych), Fellowship in Neuropsychiatry
(Melb)
Consultant neuropsychiatrist with over 12 years of experience
specialising in neuropsychiatry and electroconvulsive therapy. He
was trained at the Neuropsychiatry Unit, Royal Melbourne Hospital,
Australia in 2011 and later further his training in Acquired Brain
Injury and Functional Neurological Disorder at the Lishman Unit,
Maudsley Hospital in 2017. He is currently the head of the
Neuropsychiatry Unit and Neuromodulation Unit (NEURON) of the
Department of Psychiatry & Mental Health, Hospital Kuala Lumpur.
He has established and elevated the neuropsychiatry service to the
national referral level. A recipient of two young Asian
psychiatrist awards and three merits of service awards and
recently awarded the Distinguished Fellow by the Pacific Rim
College of Psychiatrists. Currently, his research publication has
more than 500 citations with more than 60 publications in peer-review
journal, and RG score of 31.79 and h-index of 10.
Chairperson
Dr. Chia is currently a Consultant Neurologist at Hospital Queen Elizabeth, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah. Dr. Chia obtained his undergraduate degree from the University Of Western Ontario, Canada in 2000. He subsequently continued his training in internal medicine and obtained his MRCP (UK) and Master in Medicine (NUS Sg) in 2007. He did his subspecialty training in Neurology in Penang General Hospital, Hospital Kuala Lumpur, Hospital University Kebangsaan Malaysia and finally National Neuroscience Institute of Singapore. He has special interest in neurophysiology and neuromuscular disorder.
Speaker
Neurology Division, Department of Medicine, Phramongkutklao Hospital and Medical College, Bangkok, THAILAND
He was an epilepsy fellow at the Austin hospital (1995-1999), achieved his Ph.D. from Melbourne University, worked in EEG, ICU monitoring, neuroimaging (SPECT, PET), EEG source localization (ESL), EEG-fMRI, epilepsy surgery in pediatric and adult, VNS, DBS in epilepsy and sleep medicine at the Phramongkutklao hospital.
Position
- Director of Epilepsy surgery and Sleep disorder program at the Phramongkutklao Hospital
- The ILAE Imaging Task Force of the Commission on Diagnostic Methods, 2017‐2021
- President of
o Thai Academy of Sleep Medicine (TASM) society
o Thai Board of Sleep Medicine, Royal College of Physicians, The Medical Council of Thailand
o Sleep Neurological Society
o Brain Foundation
- Board Committee of the Epilepsy Society of Thailand
Committee
Professor Dr FONG Choong Yi is currently Professor and Consultant Paediatric Neurologist at University Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. He is head of the Paediatric Neurology division from 2014. He developed and oversees the Comprehensive Paediatric Epilepsy evaluation service in University Malaya. His research interests include paediatric epilepsy, paediatric bone health and using novel information technology applications in improving the quality of lives of children with neurological disorders. He plays an active role in advocation, education and forming collaborations in Child Neurology. In the Asian region, he is a member of the Asian Epilepsy Academy (ASEPA) International League against Epilepsy and helps in running epilepsy and EEG workshops throughout the Asian region as a faculty member. He has supervised overseas Paediatric Neurology fellows from the Asian region. Internationally, he is also a member of the International League against Epilepsy Paediatric Psychiatric Issues Task Force of the Commission of Psychiatry.
Speaker
Dr Nahian Chowdhury is a postdoctoral research fellow at Neuroscience Research Australia having completed his PhD in Clinical Psychology at the University of Sydney. Dr Chowdhury’s published work includes the use of non-invasive brain stimulation to understand the neural impairments associated with various clinical conditions and he has received several oral presentation prizes. He currently investigates the use of non-invasive brain stimulation and other neurophysiological techniques as biomarkers associated with chronic pain. Dr Chowdhury is passionate about translating research into clinical practise, with the aim that these biomarkers will be used diagnostically, or be used as targets for therapies such as repetitive brain stimulation, in future.
Jonathan Cole is a consultant in Clinical Neurophysiology at Poole Hospital and professor at Bournemouth University. He qualified from Oxford and The Middlesex Hospital, London and also undertook research in Oxford and Southampton. His main areas have been in sensory loss and motor control.
He studied with Oliver Sacks as a medical student and has written five books on the subjective experience of chronic neurological impairment, related to deafferentation, spinal cord injury and facial difference.
He is a past-President of the British Society of Clinical Neurophysiology, chaired the 2006 ICCN in Edinburgh and chair of the Europe-Middle East-Africa Chapter of the IFCN and sits on the IFCN ExCo.
Current positon: Head of Department of Neurology, Prince of Wales Hospital and Professor (Conjoint) POWH Clinical School, University of New South Wales.
During training as a neurologist, he completed a PhD in motor control and subsequently undertook postgraduate neurological training and research in London, the latter at the MRC Movement and Balance Unit and the MRC Cyclotron Unit (PET).
He has published on the properties of short latency vestibular reflexes – vestibular evoked myogenic potentials (VEMP) and described both the cervical VEMP and ocular VEMP. These techniques have enabled non-invasive investigation of otolith reflex pathways both in normal subjects and in disease.
Professor of Neurology, Chairperson of the Neurological Department in Peking Union Medical College Hospital. She is the President of the Chinese Society of Neurology and Vice President of the Branch of Neurology under the Chinese Medical Doctors Association. She is the National ALS collaboration team leader. She also is the general editor of Chinese Journal of Neurology.
She had been trained in Duke University and the UNC Medical Center’s EMG Lab for one year and in UC Irvine Medical Center as a Clinical Neurophysiological fellow for two years.
She has long been involved in Clinical Electrophysiological Studies， especially in ALS and other neuromuscular disorders. More than 500 papers have published in her name.
Ludwig F. Damian, M.D.
Completed medicine at the University of the Philippines, 1990. Residency in neurology and fellowship in clinical neurophysiology and neuromuscular disease both at the University of Chicago Hospital. Currently chairman, section of adult neurology, St. Luke’s Medical Center, QC, Philippines. Head, Clinical Neurophysiology Lab, SLMC-BGC. Chairman of the Clinical Neurophysiology Society of the Philippines. Chairman, Neuromuscular Council, Philippine Neurological Association. Member/Philippine Representative, Board of Governors, Asia-Oceania Myology Conference. Medical Adviser of the Multiple Sclerosis Society of the Philippines. Specialty areas of practice – neuroimmunology, neuromuscular diseases and clinical neurophysiology (EMG/NCV, EP, Intraoperative monitoring, TMS and ANS testing)
Dr. Santhi Datuk Puvanarajah began her career with the Malaysian Health Service after graduating with a MBBS degree (University of Madras, India). Following her MRCP (UK) qualification in London, she proceeded to specialize in Neurology with training at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and Oxford, United Kingdom.
She is presently a Senior Consultant Neurologist and Head of Department at the Kuala Lumpur Hospital with interests in Neuromuscular Diseases and Movement Disorders. Dr. Santhi is also the current National Head of MOH Neurology Services. In addition, she is a member of the Hospital Quality Improvement & ISO Committees, a member of the Editorial Board for the Kuala Lumpur Journal of Quality Improvement & also, the Chairperson of the Hospital Kuala Lumpur Continuous Medical Education (CME) Committee.
Dr. Santhi is a Life Member of the Malaysian Society of Neurosciences (MSN), and a Member of the Movement Disorder Society (MDS).
Current Position:
Consultant Neurologist and Clinical Instructor, Division of Neurology, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Ramathibodi Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand.
Head and Consultant in Clinical Neurophysiology, Electromyography Laboratory and Neuromuscular Clinic, Clinical Neurophysiology Unit, Queen Sirikit Medical Centre, Faculty of Medicine, Ramathibodi Hospital, Bangkok, Thailand
Speaker
Abd Almonem Doolaanea was graduated from Aleppo University (Aleppo, Syria) in 2006 as bachelor in pharmacy. After that, he worked in Razi Labs Pharmaceuticals as quality control manager for about three years then moved to Malaysia to pursue postgraduate study in Faculty of Pharmacy (International Islamic University Malaysia) where he obtained his PhD in pharmaceutical technology. His PhD work was about drug delivery to the brain using nanoparticles. From 2014 he is working there as an assistant professor. He is also working as head of quality assurance in IKOP SDN BHD. He is the person-in-charge for Advanced Drug Delivery Lab.
Expertise
Microencapsulation, Nanotechnology, Gene therapy, Plasmid extraction and purification, Pharmaceutical formulation, Pediatric formulations, Pharmaceutical manufacturing, Pharmaceutical analysis (especially, HPLC, FTIR, UV-VIS), Quality control
Research Interest
Drug delivery, Drug targeting , Microencapsulation, Nanotechnology , Gene therapy, Pharmaceutical formulation, Pharmaceutical analysis (HPLC, FTIR, UV-VIS)
Clinical Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Western Australia
Chairman, Asian Epilepsy Academy, International League Against epilepsy (ILAE)
Secretary general, Commission on Asian and Oceanian Affairs, ILAE
Australian delegate to the International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology
Chairman, EEG and Clinical Neurophysiology Committee, Australian and New Zealand Association of Neurologists
Member of Epilepsy Society of Australia national executive and other committees
Involved in epilepsy and clinical neurophysiology teaching throughout the Asian and Oceanian region.
Dr Stephan Goedee received his training in neurology in a large general teaching hospital and also specialized in neuromuscular disorders at the university medical hospital in Utrecht (UMCU) the Netherlands. His training in neuromuscular ultrasound started with Leo Visser at the ETZ in Tilburg, the Netherlands, and at the radiology department of the UMCU. He is currently working as a neurologist and clinical neurophysiologist in a large tertiary neuromuscular center, at the UMCU. His research has been focused on nerve ultrasound and MRI imaging in polyneuropathies, particularly diagnostics of chronic inflammatory neuropathies such as CIDP and MMN. He also participates as faculty in national and international courses on nerve imaging.
Dr Khean-Jin Goh is Professor and Head, Division of Neurology, Department of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur. He graduated from the National University of Singapore and underwent his neurology training in Singapore. He was a Commonwealth Fellow (University of Oxford, 1999-2000) and Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Exchange Fellow (NCNP, Tokyo January 2005). Professor Goh’s main research interests are in clinical neurophysiology and neuromuscular diseases. He is currently Executive Board member of the Asian and Oceanian Myology Centre (AOMC). He is a past President of the Malaysian Society of Neuroscience (MSN) and the ASEAN Neurological Association (ASNA) and a Fellow of the Academy of Medicine of Malaysia.
Committee
Dr Goh Kwang Hwee is currently worked as Consultant Neurologist and Physician in Regency Hospital, Johor Bahru. He qualified with a basic medical degree from the University of Malaya, in 2004, and obtained his membership from Royal College of Physician, United Kingdom in 2010. Subsequently he pursued his interest in neurology in Kuala Lumpur Hospital, since 2013 and National University of Malaysia in 2015. Finally, he completed his fellowship in Parkinson’s Disease and Movement Disorders at National Neuroscience Institute, Singapore, in 2016. He returned to Malaysia in 2016 and actively contributed to clinical service. He had set up Parkinson Clinic in Sultanah Aminah Hospital in 2017.
Dr Goh is a EXCO member of Malaysian Society of Neurosciences since 2018, council member of Movement Disorders, Malaysian Society of Neurosciences, since 2016 and member of The International Society for Parkinson’s Disease and other Movement Disorders, since Dec 2012.
Education:
- Candidate to Doctorate in Informatics Engineering, Pontificia Universidad de Salamanca, Spain, 2012-2017.
- Master’s degree in Computer Sciences, ITESM, Mexico, 2002-2005.
- Residency in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Universidad del Valle, Colombia, 1986 – 1989.
- Medical Doctor, Universidad del Valle, Colombia, 1976 – 1983.
Work Experience:
- Assistant Professor, Department of PM&R, Universidad del Valle, Colombia since 1994.
- Director, EMG Lab, Universidad del Valle, Colombia, 1994 -2014.
- Director, Program of Medicine, Universidad del Valle, Colombia, 1995-1997.
- Chief of the PM&R Department, Universidad del Cauca, Colombia, 1989-1991.
Most relevant designations:
- Member of the IFCN ExCo
- Past President of the Latin American Chapter of the IFCN.
- Secretary of the Latin American Association of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine (AMLAR) 2010-2012.
- Past President of the Colombian Association of Electrodiagnostic Medicine (ACME).
- Former President of the Colombian Association of PM&R (ACMFR), 2010-2012.
Areas of Interest:
- EMG, Eps, IOM.
Working Position:-
- Head of Clinical Neurophysiology and Neuromuscular Disorder Division, Department of Neurology FKUI-RSCM, Jakarta
Organization:-
- Chairman of Indonesia Study Group for Clinical Neurophysiology and Neuromuscular Diseases, Indonesia Neurology Association.
- Member of Board of Asean-Oceanean Myology Center.
Dr. Hallett is the Chief of the Human Motor Control Section, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, NIH, Bethesda. He is past President of the International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology and the President of the newly founded Functional Neurological Disorder Society. Dr. Hallett is also remote past President of the Movement Disorder Society and past Editor-in-Chief of Clinical Neurophysiology. His work mainly deals with principles of motor control and the pathophysiology of movement disorders.
March 1990
M.D. Yokohama City University
April 1990 - March 1992
Junior Resident in Medicine of Toranomon Hospital
April 1992 - March 1999
Clinical Fellow of the University of Tokyo Hospital
March 1999
PhD The University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Medicine
Jan 2001-Dec 2003
Research Fellow of the University of Toronto, Toronto Western Hospital
Dec 2003-March 2014
Assistant Professor of the University of Tokyo, Department of Neurology
April 2014-March 2017
Associate Professor of Department of Neurology, Kitasato University School of Medicine
April 2017-present
Professor of Division of Neurology, Department of Brain and Neurosciences, Faculty of Medicine, Tottori University
Dr Hiew Fu Liong completed his undergraduate education at International Medical University (IMU), Malaysia. He subsequently completed his post graduate study in Internal medicine in 2009 [MRCP (UK), MMed (S'pore)] and obtained his Fellowship in Neurology from Ministry of Health, Malaysia in 2016. He has a special interest in neuromuscular diseases and neurophysiology, with experience working as specialist registrar and research fellow in Birmingham, United Kingdom. He is now one of the neurologists in the Neurology Department, Kuala Lumpur Hospital, Malaysia.
Prof. Dr.med.habil. Dr. h.c. Max J. HILZ, M.D. FAAN, FEAN
Prof. Hilz chairs the Autonomic Nervous System (ANS) Research Group in the World Federation of Neurology. He was Professor of Neurology, Medicine, and Psychiatry at New York University, New York, NY, Chair in Autonomic Neurology at the Institute of Neurology, Queen Square, London, UK, and until April 2019 Professor of Neurology at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany. Since June 2015, he is also Adjunct Professor of Neurology at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA. He is Past-President of the German Autonomic Society and the European Federation of Autonomic Societies and co-authored various guidelines and consensus papers on ANS disorders and published more than 300 scientific articles and book-chapters. He is particularly interested in rare autonomic diseases and central autonomic dysfunction after common neurological diseases.
Associate Professor
Department of Neurology, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul Metropolitan Government Boramae Medical Center
Yoon-Ho Hong is an Associate Professor of Neurology at Seoul National University, South Korea. Hong obtained his M.D. and Ph.D in Brain & Neuroscience from the Seoul National University in 1998 and 2006, respectively. He was trained at the Seoul National University Hospital for neurology residency and fellowship, and studied biomedical informatics at Harvard Medical School as a visiting scholar. Hong has more than 70 publications on neuromuscular disorders and neurophysiology and is an academic director of the Korean Society of Clinical Neurophysiology.
Speaker
Dr Sung-Tsang Hsieh is an expert in physiology and pathology of pain and neurodegeneration. Currently he is professor of National Taiwan University and attending neurologist of National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan. His works mainly focus on 3 themes related to neurodegeneraiton and pain:
(1) establishing diagnostic tools of small fiber neuropathy, in particular, skin biopsy, (2) integrating a battery of multi-modality tests for exploring mechanisms underlying neuropathic pain including pathology, physiology, and neuroimaging, including contact heat evoked potential (CHEP) and nociception-evoked functional MRI, and
(3) investigating genotypes and pathology of familial amyloid polyneuropathy (FAP)
Ying-Zu Huang is currently Professor of Neurology at the Medical School of Chang Gung University and Director of Neuroscience Research Center at Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taiwan. He is best known for his invention of theta burst stimulation, which is a well-known protocol of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation. His main interests are in mechanisms of non-invasive brain stimulation, human plasticity and pathophysiology of movement disorders and other neurological disorders. He is the Secretary-General and Treasurer of the Asian-Oceanic Chapter of the International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology. He received the Cambridge Award of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation from the British Society of Clinical Neurophysiology.
Aatif M. Husain, M.D. is Professor, Department of Neurology, and Chief, Division of Epilepsy, Sleep and Clinical Neurophysiology at Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina. He is also the National Director of the Veterans Affairs Epilepsy Centers of Excellence. After completing medical school in Pakistan, he did an internship at the Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, Michigan. He then completed a Neurology residency at the Medical College of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. After residency, Dr. Husain did fellowships in Clinical Neurophysiology, Epilepsy and Sleep Medicine and EMG/Neuromuscular Disorders at Duke University Medical Center. Since his fellowships, he has stayed at Duke University as faculty. His clinical interests include treatment of acute seizures and status epilepticus, neurophysiologic intraoperative monitoring and general clinical neurophysiology. He has written many articles, chapters and books on these topics. Dr. Husain is currently the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Clinical Neurophysiology and the Treasurer of the International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology. He is a past President of the American Clinical Neurophysiology Society and the American Board of Registration of EEG and EP Technologists.
Speaker
Professor Datin Dr Norlinah Mohamed Ibrahim
MBBCh,BAO (Ireland), BMedSci, MRCPI, AM
Professor Dr Norlinah Mohamed Ibrahim is a senior consultant Neurologist and Professor of Neurology, specializing in movement disorders at the UKM Medical Center. She graduated from University College Dublin, Ireland in 1997 with Honours and obtained her membership of the RCPI in 1999. In 2001, she joined UKM as a lecturer, and later promoted to Associate professor in 2007 and Professor in 2011. Between 2006 and 2007, Dr Norlinah completed a one-year intensive Fellowship in movement disorders and Parkinson’s disease at the Institute of Neurology, Queen Square, London under the supervisions of Prof Niall Quinn and Prof Kailash Bhatia. She was the Head of Neurology Unit from 2007-2011 and later became the Head of Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, UKM from 2011-2016. Dr Norlinah was also the First Chair of the Movement Disorder Council of Malaysia (2010-2014), an affiliate of the International Movement Disorders Society. She was the Chairperson for Stroke Intervention Programme at UKMMC from 2006-2014, which won a Quality Improvement Award from the university in 2013.
Akio Ikeda, MD,PhD,FACNS, is the President of the Japan Epilepsy Society (JES), the Chair of Commission on Asian and Oceanian Affairs (2017-2021) of the ILAE, and Exco-member of the Japanese Society of Clinical Neurophysiology (JSCN).
Besides his teaching and clinical roles, he is involved with numerous professional bodies; he is the incumbent Council Member and Chair of the Advanced EEG Seminar of the Japanese Society of Clinical Neurophysiology and holds various Council and Committee Member positions in the Japanese Neurological Society.
Professor Ikeda has been working on clinical epilepsy, wide-band EEG (ictal DC shifts) and the role of glia in epileptogenicity, and earned his PhD from Kyoto University in 1993, where his thesis was on movement-related potentials recorded from the supplementary and primary motor areas of the brain (Brain,1992). He has published literature, having authored 300 original articles in English, 290 review articles, 160 book chapters and 7 books in both English and Japanese.
Professor, Sapporo Medical University School of Health Sciences
Education:
1986 Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine
Appointments:
1986 - Internships, Sapporo Medical University Hospital
1988 - Staff fellow, National Sanatorium Yakumo Hospital
1990 - Lecturer, Department of Physiology, Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine
1992 - Lecturer, Department of Neurology, Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine
1998 - Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology, Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine
2013 - Professor, Sapporo Medical University School of Health Sciences
Major professional service and professional societies
• Director, Japanese Society of Clinical Neurophysiology
• Chairman of Examination Board, Japanese Society of Clinical Neurophysiology
• Councilor, Japanese Society of Neurology
• Councilor, Japanese Society of Neurological Therapeutics
• Expert commission member, Ad hoc committee for Practical Guideline for Myasthenia Gravis in Japan
Speaker
Prof. Ryusuke Kakigi, M.D., Ph.D, received a degree in Medicine from the Faculty of Medicine, Kyushu University, Japan, in 1978. He served as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Internal Medicine, Saga Medical School, Japan, between 1981 and 1993. In between, he worked as an invited researcher at the Institute of Neurology, London University, London, U.K., between 1983 and 1985. He has served as a Professor and Chairperson of the Department of Integrative Physiology, Okazaki, Japan, since 1993. His research interests include the neuroimaging studies, mainly electroencephalography and magnetoencephalography. He is now focusing on face perception in humans.
Chairperson
Committee
Dr. Ching-Soong Khoo is currently a lecturer and clinical specialist of the Neurology
Division, Department of Medicine, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Medical Centre. After graduating with an honours degree in MD and obtaining MRCP (UK), he went
on to pursue training in neurology at the Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia. He was a
successful candidate of the Korean Epilepsy Society Fellowship Program in 2018
after winning the best poster presentation award at the 23rd Korean Epilepsy
Congress. He was then made an epilepsy fellow at the Haeundae Paik Hospital, Inje
University in Busan, Korea. Dr. Khoo was a recipient of the Excellent Service Award
from the Ministry of Health in 2013 and Outstanding Publication Award from the
Faculty of Medicine in 2018. He also received College Travelling Fellowship from
the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow in 2018; and Myre Sim
Fund Research and Travel Grant from the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh
in 2019.
Ji-Soo Kim is a Professor of the Department of Neurology, College of Medicine, Seoul National University, South Korea. He is the Director of the Dizziness Center in Seoul National University Bundang Hospital. He was the President of the Korean Balance Society (2015~2017) and is the President of the Korean Society of Neuro-Ophthalmology (2019~). He is currently on the editorial board of Journal of Neuro-ophthalmology, Journal of Clinical Neurology, Frontiers in Neuro-otology, Frontiers in Neuro-ophthalmology, Journal of Vestibular Research, Journal of Neurology, and Medicine.
He has published more than 300 SCI papers, especially on vertigo and eye movement disorders. He is the recipient of Hallpike-Nylen Prize from the Barany Society (2014) and Order of Science and Technology from the Republic of Korea (2015).
Byung-Jo Kim received his medical degree in 1992 and completed neurology residency training at the Korea University Medical center. After he received his Ph.D. in Medical Science from the Korea University College of Medicine, he spent two years as a research fellow in the Division of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Stanford University Medical Center, California. He is currently Professor of Neurology at Korea University Medical Center. He has published over 100 scientific articles in international peer-reviewed medical journals. He currently serves as an Associate Editor of the Journal of Clinical Neurology, and chairman of various committees in many academic societies. His research interests are electrophysiologic and imaging analysis of peripheral nerve, muscle, and central nervous system to exam pathophysiologic characteristics of various neuromuscular diseases and neuropathic pain. He has also been actively collaborated with biomedical engineers to develop medical device related to the recording of electrophysiologic signals from the human body. His main clinical interests are clinical neuroimmunology, specifically Multiple Sclerosis, Neuromyelitis Optica Spectrum Disorder, Immune-mediated polyneuropathies, and Myasthenia Gravis.
Dr. Kimura received a Bachelor of Technology degree in 1957 and MD in 1961 both from Kyoto University in Japan. He moved to the United States as a Fulbright scholar in 1962 for residency training in neurology and fellowship in electrophysiology at the University of Iowa. He has served as Editor in Chief of Muscle & Nerve (1988-1997), President of American Association of Neuromuscular and Electrodiagnostic Medicine (AANEM 1985-1986), International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology (IFCN 1990-1993) and the World Federation of Neurology (WFN 2002-2005). His book “Electrodiagnosis in Diseases of Nerve and Muscle” has appeared in four editions.
Dr. Serdar Kocer graduated from the University of Istanbul, school of Medicine in 1988. He completed Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation residency program at University of Rennes, France in 1993.
He is the Head of the Rehabilitation Centre of Hôpital du Jura in Switzerland since may 2015 and a member of executive board of the Hôpital du Jura . The centre has 40 inpatient capacity dedicated for Neuro Rehabilitation, Oncologic Rehabilitation and Musculoskeletal Rehabilitation and has also outpatient rehabilitation clinic.
Before 2015, he was the head of Neuro rehabilitation department in Coubert Rehabilitation Centre, near Paris.
He is also certified as ultrasonographer and he has been using ultrasonography for more than 25 years. Dr.Kocer is recognized as an expert in ultrasound guided injection as he has been organizing value added trainings on that specific injection technique for more than 15 years from all over the world.
His clinical interests lie in the area of musculoskeletal ultrasonography, spasticity treatment and neuro-urology.
Dr.Kocer is a member of the Swiss Society of Rehabilitation Medicine and Swiss Society of Neuro-Rehabilitation and president of International Society of Neurology and Rehabilitation Medecine (ISNeReM) who organize Toxin Academy training program in Fribourg (www.toxinacademy.com) .
Kunihiko Kodama, MD, Ph. D. is currently a Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Neurosurgery Shinshu University School of Medicine, Matsumoto, Japan. His fields of interest are skull base surgery, endoscopic neurosurgery, cerebrovascular surgery and intraoperative neurophysiological monitoring. He has been intensively working on research of intraoperative visual function monitoring. He has been internationally recognized for his work in intraoperative neuromonitoring, and he was an Executive Board member of the International Society of Intraoperative Neurophysiology. Currently, he is Secretary of the Asian Oceanian Society of Intraoperative Neurophysiology, Intraoperative Neuromonitoring Committee of World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies.
Dr Kok is currently a practicing consultant physician and neurologist in Department of Medicine and Neurophysiology Unit, Hospital Tuanku Ja’afar, Seremban, Malaysia. He graduated with medical degree from Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) in 2007. He subsequently obtained his membership with Royal Colleges of Physicians (UK) and Royal College of Physician (Ireland). He completed his general neurology fellowship training under the Ministry of Health (MOH) Malaysia in 2018. He has got the opportunity to do his clinical fellowship training in Neuromuscular and Neurophysiology in National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery (NHNN), Queen Square, London.
Department of Neurology, Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan
Professor Kuwabara is the Chair of Neurology at Chiba University Hospital (since 2008). He is a clinical neurologist, Deputy Editor of the Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry (since 2010), and Chief Reviewer of Cochrane Database Systematic Review; “Treatment for POEMS syndrome” (since 2008). He graduated from Chiba University in 1984 (MD) and studied Clinical Neurophysiology under Prof. David Burke at the University of New South Wales (1999-2000). He has extensively studied Clinical Neurophysiology and Neuroimmunology through the pathophysiology and treatment of neuromuscular disease such as Guillain-Barre syndrome, CIDP, and POEMS syndrome. He has published 460 (English) and 350 (Japanese) peer reviewed articles.
Chairperson
Dr. Lee is a professor of Neurology and Director of the Epilepsy Center at the Inje University Haeundae Paik Hospital in Buan, Korea.
He was trained in Neurology at Minnesota University Hospital and then had a fellowship in Epilepsy at the Cleveland Clinic. He started his academic career as a Faculty of the Neurology Department at the Indiana University Medical Center in Indianapolis in 1984, when he established the epilepsy surgery program and introduced the interictal and ictal SPECT study as a presurgical investigation for localizing the Epileptogenic Zone, which was the first attempt in the field. He returned to Korea in 1988 and founded the first Comprehensive Epilepsy Care Program in Korea with the introduction of V- EEG monitoring and Epilepsy Surgery. He organized the Yonsei Epilepsy Symposium (YES), which had been held annually from 1994 to 1999, and then biannually, to promote knowledge and skills in epilepsy care for epileptologists in Korea.
His official services to academic organizations include the Secretary General of the 9th AOCN(1993-1996), CEO and President of Korean Neurological Association(2007- 2010), President of Korean Epilepsy Society (1997-2002), President of Korean Neurocritical Society(2008~2013), and Chair of the Council of National Medical College Professors (2007-2011).
His contribution to the Epilepsy Community of Asian and Oceanian Region started in 1993, when he participated as a member of AOEO (Chair: M Seino of Japan). He was the chair of the organizing committee of the Inaugural Congress of AOEO, which was held in Seoul, Korea, in 5th-6th September, 1996. He also was the chair of CAOA (2009~2017).
His academical contributions include eight chapters of the textbook and 150 publications in SCI-journals. He was the recipient of the Ambassador Award of ILAE in 2013.
Professor Dr. Lim Kheng Seang, a University of Malaya (Malaysia) graduate, is a Professor of Neurology in Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya and Consultant Neurologist specialized in epilepsy in University of Malaya Medical Centre and University Malaya Specialist Centre, Malaysia. He has been trained in the University of Malaya for his neurology subspecialty training, followed by fellowship training in Melbourne and Cleveland for epilepsy. He is currently the member of Malaysian Epilepsy Council and the past President of the Malaysian Epilepsy Society and Malaysian Society of Neurosciences. Internationally, he is the chair of the Research Commission in International Bureau of Epilepsy and the Research Task Force in the Commission of Asian and Oceanian Affairs, International League Against Epilepsy. He has published numerous original papers in epilepsy, especially on the psychosocial aspects of epilepsy, genetics, pharmacogenomics and pharmacokinetics of antiepileptic drugs, quantitative EEG and quantitative MRI research.
Dr. Shen-Yang LIM is a Neurologist and Professor at the University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, where he runs a very busy clinical practice specializing in Parkinson's and related disorders.
Dr. Lim has published extensively on Parkinson's disease and related conditions in top scientific journals (including Lancet Neurology, Nature Genetics, JAMA Neurology, Annals of Neurology, Neurology, Movement Disorders, Parkinsonism & Related Disorders, etc.), with >2,000 citations to papers he has authored or co-authored.
He is Chair of the Movement Disorders Council (MDC) Malaysia and Medical Advisor to the Malaysian Parkinson's Disease Association (MPDA).
He has been a very active member of the International Parkinson & Movement Disorder Society (MDS), and currently serves as Secretary of the MDS Asian-Oceanian section; and as a member of the MDS Task Force for Evidence-Based Medicine, and MDS Task Force for Palliative Care in Movement Disorders.
- Professor and Chairman, Shanghai Deji Hospital Epilepsy Center, Qingdao University Affiliated, Shanghai, P. R. China
- Board Member of the Standing Committee, China Association Against Epilepsy (CAAE)
- Chairman, the Commission on SEEG and Brain Mapping of China Association Against Epilepsy (CAAE)
- Board Member, the Commission on Electromyography and Clinical Neurophysiology,
- Neurology Branch of Chinese Medical Association
- Member of Neurophysiology Taskforce, Diagnostic Methods Commission of International League Against Epilepsy (ILAE)
Professor Lo was previously Head and is currently Senior Consultant Neurologist at the National Neuroscience Institute (SGH Campus) and Professor at Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School, Adjunct Professor at Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine and Adjunct Professor at the Faculty of Medicine, National University of Singapore.
Professor Lo is active in the field of Clinical Neurophysiology and lectures regularly on this subject in the USA, Europe, Australasia and Asian countries. He was the founding President of the Clinical Neurophysiology Society (Singapore) and representative to the International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology. He was an invited speaker at the World and Asian Oceanian Congresses of Neurology, as well as the European and International Congress of Clinical Neurophysiology. In 2007, he was awarded the Galloway Lectureship for his work in cervical myelopathy.
His main research interests are on spinal cord disorders, and cortical plasticity changes in spinal cord dysfunction. Other ongoing international research collaborations include transcranial magnetic stimulation in motor control, neuromuscular transmission in demyelinating neuropathies and imaging correlates of cortical and cerebellar activity.
Professor Lo sits on the current editorial board of Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery and is the current Editor-in-Chief of the Proceedings of Singapore Healthcare. He has over 150 publications in international peer reviewed journals, including first author papers in the New England Journal of Medicine, Neurology, The Lancet Neurology, Annals of Neurology, Brain, Archives of Neurology, Journal of Neurology, Spine, Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry, Nature Clinical Reviews Neurology and Movement Disorders.
His book titled “Clinical Neurophysiology: New Clinical and Research Applications” was published in 2013.
Speaker
Dr Mohd Azman M. Aris, MBChB (Leeds, UK), M. Med (UKM)
Born in Johor, Dr Mohd Azman M. Aris, MB ChB, M. Med, completed medical school at University of Leeds, United Kingdom in 2003. He completed post-graduate training Master in Internal Medicine at Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia in 2012, and later served as General Physician in Kluang District Hospital. He pursued sub-speciality training in Neurology at Hospital Kuala Lumpur in 2015, and worked as a Clinical Research Fellow at the Parkinson’s National Centre of Excellent at Kings College Hospital, UK in 2017. He is currently working as a neurologist in Melaka General Hospital. He has a special interest in Movement Disorders, in particular Parkinson’s disease.
Prof. Margaret Mak is currently a Professor of Physiotherapy at the Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, The Hong Kong Polytechnic Univeristy. Her research focuses on neurological rehabilitation, with special emphasis on Parkinson’s disease. Her ongoing research projects include the efficacy of combined balance and brisk walking programmes and the application of non-invasive brain stimulation in people with Parkinson’s disease. Prof. Mak has publications in leading international journals such as Nature Reviews Neurology, Movement Disorders, Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair, and Brain Stimulation. Prof. Mak has also been invited to present in the international conferences such as International World Confederation of Physical Therapy Congress, World Parkinson Congress and International Congress of Parkinson’s Disease and Movement Disorders.
Chairperson
Dr Mazlina Mazlan is an Associate Professor of Rehabilitation Medicine at Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya (UM). She practices clinically as a consultant rehabilitation physician in the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, UM Medical Centre (UMMC) and UM Specialist Centre (UMSC). She is the current Chairman of Brain Injury-Specialist Interest Group, Malaysian Association of Rehabilitation Physicians. She also sits on the national conjoint board and reviews the rehabilitation medicine training curriculum and examination in Malaysia.
Dr Mazlina’s interest in neurorehabilitation started after she completed her clinical postgraduate rehabilitation medicine training in 2007. In 2009, she started heading the acquired brain injury rehabilitation service in UMMC, which focuses on patients with various neurological conditions. She received her clinical fellowship in acquired brain injury rehabilitation in 2014 from Epworth Rehabilitation, Melbourne, Australia. In 2019, she completed her training in neuromodulation, both in the fields of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation from Harvard Medical School and Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation from Barcelona, Spain.
She has published numerous academic papers in peer-reviewed journals in the field of medical rehabilitation including neurorehabilitation; became regular reviewer for ISI-indexed journals and has been awarded certificates of recognition as Elsevier’s Journal reviewer.
Position:
Associate Professor of Department of Neurology, Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba University, Japan
Professional Experience:
April 2006 to November 2008, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Neurology, Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba University
From December 2008, Assistant Professor of Department of Neurology, Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba University
From July 2014, Lecturer of Department of Neurology, Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba University
From March 2017, Associate Professor of Department of Neurology, Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba University, Japan
Research field:
Clinical neurophysiology, peripheral neuropathy
Awards:
Brazier Award, ICCN 2006; Young investigator award, ICCN 2010
Committee
Dr Jayakumar joined the Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) as a senior lecturer after completing his PhD in neurophysiology of alcohol addiction in 2015 from Universiti Sains Malaysia. Prior to that, he graduated from Universiti Putra Malaysia in biomedical science (BSc) with a first class honours degree in 2008. To date, Dr Kumar has published in 21 peer-reviewed international journals, presented in 22 conferences, awarded with various national, international, and industrial grants, and also received recognitions such as Young Investigator Award from Asian Pacific Society of Neurochemistry, Excellence in service awards from UKM, and many others.
Committee
He is an Associate Professor in Medical Neuroscience at the Universiti
Sains Malaysia (USM), School of Medical Sciences after having
completed his medical and postgraduate training for MBBCh/PhD
degrees at Cardiff University, UK. He is a co-founder and current
Programme Coordinator for USM mixed-mode graduate studies, the
Integrated Neuroscience Programme (INP), the first of its kind in
Southeast Asia. He is currently the Chair, Basic Neuroscience Council
and Vice President, Malaysian Society of Neurosciences (MSN),
Associate Fellow of Academy of Sciences Malaysia (ASM), Council
Member of the Federation of Asia-Oceanian Neuroscience Societies
(FAONS), Governing Council Member for Malaysia at the International
Brain Research Organisation (IBRO) and UNESCO Mentor (CommunityBased Participatory Research) for Malaysia Hub. His scholarly area of
interests includes brain rewards circuitry; neurocognition;
cerebrovascular; neurodegeneration; and University-Community
neuroscience engagement.
Dr. A. Nalini is a senior professor from the National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, India and has specialized in Neuromuscular disorders for the past 25 years. Her areas of interest are in inherited muscle disorders, neuromuscular junction and neuropathies, Motor Neuron disease and Hirayama disease. To her credit she has more than 125 publications. She has large cohorts of pathologically and genetically confirmed cases of Neuromuscular disorders. She is executive member of the AOMC. She has vast experience in a large cohort of Hirayama disease of more than 400 cases evaluated over 25 years. Presently she is working on the surgical intervention in Hirayama disease / Monomelic Amyotrophy and has an experience of over 65 operated cases and their follow-up.
Sanjeev D Nandedkar, Ph.D.
Sanjeev is a biomedical engineer with interest in instrumentation, signal analysis, computer simulations, and quantitative analysis in electrodiagnostic studies. He works for Natus Neuro where he helps design, development, testing and training for the electromyography systems. He has published many scientific articles in medical and engineering journals and textbooks. He also edits the ‘EMG on DVD’ series (now in streaming format). He enjoys teaching and travel, which has led him to many countries for conducting seminars and workshops.
Speaker
Dr Vairavan Narayanan
M.D, M.S, FRCS(Edin)(Neurosurg)
Dr Vairavan is an Associate Professor of Neurosurgery and Consultant Neurosurgeon in the Faculty of Medicine of University Malaya.
He did his basic surgical training in Malaysia and subsequently completed his neurosurgical training in Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge in 2012. He was appointed a Consultant Neurosurgeon in UMMC in 2013.
His clinical interest lies in Complex Neuro Oncology and Epilepsy Surgery while his research interests concentrates on Traumatic Brain Injury, Neuro Oncology and Surgical Innovation.
He is actively involved in academic teaching and supervision of both undergraduate and post graduate students. He is the Department of Surgery coordinator for surgical research and education as well as the post graduate coordinator for Neurosurgical training.
Dr Vairavan’s primary interest is to be a clinician scientist, contributing to the growing medical knowledge as well as to share this knowledge with both his students and the general medical fraternity at large.
Chairperson
Dr Kay Ng is a consultant neurologist with the National University Health System in Singapore, and has an interest in nerve and muscle diseases. She was awarded the Health Manpower Development Plan award in 2014 to do a neuromuscle clinical and research fellowship under the mentorship of Professor Alan Pestronk at Washington University, St. Louis, USA. She also teaches about Neuromuscular disorders to Neurology residents as a member of the faculty.
Committee
Dr. Anwar Norazit obtained his B.Biomed.Sc (Hons) and M.Med.Sc from University Malaya. He went on to complete his Ph.D from Griffith University, Australia focusing on Parkinson’s Disease. He is currently the Head for the Central Unit for Advanced Research Imaging (CENTUARI) and a senior lecturer at the Department of Biomedical Science, Faculty of Medicine, University Malaya. He is also the current Honourable Treasurer for the Malaysian Society of Neurosciences. His current work focuses on Parkinson’s disease, traumatic brain injury, the neuroscience of Kratom and cerebral small vessel disease using neuroimaging and molecular modalities.
Department of Neurology, Graduate School of Medical Science, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine (Japan)
Special expertise: Clinical Neurophysiology, Neuromuscular ultrasound
Department of Neurology, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine (Japan), MD (2003), PhD (2012)
2009-2011 Research fellow at Department of Neurology, Chiba University (Japan)
2015-2017 Postdoctoral research fellow at Brain and Mind Centre, The University of Sydney (Australia)
From 2017 Assistant professor at Department of Neurology, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine (Japan)
Dr. Fitri Octaviana was born in Jakarta on 7th of October 1975. She graduated as a Neurologist from the Medical Faculty of Universitas of Indonesia in 2006. She did a fellowship at Tokyo University in 2008 and got her PhD from Universitas Indonesia in 2018. She has been working at the Neurology Department, Faculty of Medicine, University of Indonesia – Cipto Mangunkusumo Hospital, Jakarta since 2008. Her interests are Epilepsy and Peripheral Nerves field and she has conducted several studies in those fields. Dr.Fitri has been doing a study on HIV Neuropathy in collaboration with Curtin University. She has been active in some international organizations such as the Indonesia Chapter of the International Federation Clinical Neurophysiology and the Indonesia Chapter of the International League Against Epilepsy.
Dr Ohnmar is a senior consultant Neurologist with more than 17 years of clinical experience and Associate Professor of Department of Neurology, Yangon General Hospital, University of Medicine 1, Yangon, Myanmar. She finished her medical degree in 2001 from University of Medicine 1, Myanmar. She has obtained her M.Med.Sc(Internal Medicine), MRCP, FRCP (UK) and Dr.MedSc (Neurology). She did her fellowship in Neuromuscular diseases at National Neuroscience Institute (Singapore) in 2016. Currently she is an executive board member of Asian Oceanian Myology Center (AOMC) and also an active member of International Peripheral Nerve Society (PNS).
Consultant Neurologist at Kedah Medical Centre. Graduated from PPUKM, with MD, and MRCP from Royal College of Edinburg in 2004. He obtained his Fellowship of Neurology from ministry of Health, HKL. He underwent his fellowship in Neurophysiology and Neuromuscular at National Neuroscience Institute, SGH & TTS campus, Singapore.
Dr Ong Beng Hooi has been actively involved in the setting up of neurophysiology clinical laboratory in Hospital Sultanah Bahiyah and his main interest is in neurophysiology and Neuro-diagnostic utilty of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) for various neurological disorders. He had presented numerous poster and abstract at hospital. He has received numerous invitations to lecture locally. He is also an examiner for the MRCP mock examination from Hospital Sultanah Bahiyah, which held annually and supervises master students from USM & UKM in neurological teaching as part of 2 months attachment since 2012.
He is a life member of the Malaysian Society of Neurosciences and was part of the organizing committee member of Neuroscience in year 2008 and has been a regular invited speaker for the neurophysiology chapter in 2013, 2014 and 2015.
Dr. Pramod Kumar Pal was the Founding Secretary of the Movement Disorders Society of India, served as member of the Education Committees of International Association of Parkinsonism and Related Disorders (APRD) & MDS-AOS and in the Editorial Boards of Movement Disorders and PARDS journals. Currently he is the Editor-in-Chief of Annals of Movement Disorders, Secretary-Elect (2017-2019) and Secretary (2019-2021) of MDS-AOS, President-Elect (2018-2019) and President (2019-2020) of the Indian Academy of Neurology (IAN) and member of the Rare Movement Disorders Study Group of IPMDS, Education Committee of the International Parkinson and Movement Disorder Society, Parkinson’s Research Alliance of India, Parkinson’s Disease Society of Karnataka and the Neuromodulation Society in India.
Dr. Pal joined the Department of Neurology, NIMHANS as a Faculty and is currently Professor of Neurology. In addition he is the Program Director of the post-doctoral Fellowship Program in Movement Disorders.
His areas of interest are Parkinson’s disease, dystonias, essential tremor, progressive supranuclear palsy, psychogenic movement disorders, Spinocerebellar ataxias, secondary movement disorders, Human Motor physiology and Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation, advanced neuroimaging (structural and functional) and cognition in movement disorders. He mentors several DM and PhD students in Neurology and has 250 publications in National and International journals and Books.
Pattamon Panyakaew, MD. is a movement disorders specialist at the Chulalongkorn University, Thailand. She earned her medical degree and trained as a neurology resident at Chulalongkorn University in Thailand. She received the King Scholarship to pursue a research fellowship in clinical neurophysiology in movement disorders at the Human Motor Control Section, the National Institute of Health under Dr. Mark Hallett.
Her research interests are clinical neurophysiology in movement disorders, gait and balance disorders in Parkinson’s Disease and atypical parkinsonism. She has been involved in a significant amount of research on Parkinson’s disease and the physiology of tremor, myoclonus and dystonia.
Dr. Jung E Park obtained her M.D. at Dongguk University located in South Korea. She trained at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital and completed her Neurology training there prior to doing a movement disorders fellowship at the National Institute of Health. Dr. Park trained under Dr. Mark Hallett in the Human Motor Control Section at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. After nearly three years in the Human Motor Control Section where she was active in both research and clinical duties, she returned to her alma mater at Dongguk University Ilsan Hospital where she is currently Assistant Professor in the Neurology department.
Dr. Kyung-Seok Park received his Medical degree from Seoul National University College of Medicine in Seoul, South Korea. He was trained at the Department of Neurology, Seoul National University Hospital, and completed a one-year clinical neurophysiology/neuromuscular diseases Fellowship at the same hospital.
Dr. Park has been serving at the Neuromuscular division of the Department of Neurology, and also working as the Director of Clinical & Intraoperative Neurophysiology at Seoul National University Bundang Hospital. He is currently a Professor of Neurology at Seoul National University College of Medicine. Dr. Park’s main research interests include neuromuscular/spinal diseases and clinical neurophysiology, particularly intraoperative neurophysiology. He is the current President of the Asian-Oceanian Society of Intraoperative Neurophysiology (AOSIN).
Walter Paulus is Professor and Chair and Clinical Director of the Department of Clinical Neurophysiology, University Medical Centre Göttingen, Germany since 1992. He is also a member of the supervisory board of the University Medical Centre. He started his career in neurology at the University Hospital for Neurology in Düsseldorf in 1978, spent 6 months at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery in London and worked at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich from 1984 to 1992. He mainly investigated motor cortex physiology by means of transcranial stimulation, further refined by co-application of CNS-active drugs in altogether some 632 publications with ~ 40.000 citations. He was involved in the development of new stimulation methods for induction of neuroplasticity such as tDCS, tACS and tRNS. His clinical focus encompasses Parkinson’s disease, restless legs syndrome, epilepsy and pain. Two years ago, he was awarded with the Hans Berger Preis of the German Society of Clinical Neurophysiology. Since 2018, he is President of the International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology.
Dr Sitaram K Raman is a Senior consultant anaesthetist practising in Singapore General Hospital, with an interest in neuro and spine surgery. He did his MBBS followed by the FFARCS(I), and a neurofellowship in Toronto, Canada.
In addition to his anaesthetic duties, he is also a lecturer in the three medical schools in Singapore, and an examiner for the M.Med(Anaes) exams in Singapore.
He also published in various journals on anaesthesia related topics and on neuro anaesthesia and monitoring.
His other main interest is travelling and learning about other cultures.
Dr Rabani Remli is an Associate Professor and Consultant Neurologist at the UKM Medical Centre, Kuala Lumpur. Dr Rabani received her medical degree from University of Sheffield, United Kingdom and completed her Doctor of internal medicine training at the National University of Malaysia. Her main interest is in the field of neuromuscular and neuroimmunology disorders. She is currently served as Honorary Secretary of Clinical Neurophysiology and Neuromuscular council in Malaysia Society of Neurosciences. She is also served as Honorary Secretary of Neuroinfection and Neuroimmunology Council and a committee member of Therapeutics Plasma Exchange Task Force Group.
Raymond L. Rosales is a University Medical Full Professor-3, Current Chair and Head of the NeuroScience Institute of the Dept. of Neurology and Psychiatry, University of Santo Tomas (UST) Hospital, Manila. He obtained his BS and MD from UST, and Neurology & Psychiatry Training from the University Hospital. His Dissertation PhD in Neuroscience was obtained as a Japanese Gov’t Scholar, at Kagoshima University Graduate School of Medicine. Further Subspecialty training in Neuromuscular and Movement Disorders was completed from the Dept. of Neurology and Geriatrics of Kagoshima University Hospital. He also did Clinician’s Programs in the EMG laboratory of Mayo Clinic (Rochester) and in the Dystonia Clinic, Columbia University (NY).
He was former President of the Philippine Neurological Association, MDSP and PSNR. At IPMDS, he was formerly an Executive Board member and Secretary of the AOS. Currently, he is the President of the Asian and Oceanian Myology Center. He is Chief Editor, Journal of Medicine UST (Open access), Associate Editor, Basal Ganglia Journal, and Editorial Board Member of Journal of Movement Disorders, Nature Parkinson’s Disease Journal, among others. He edited 3-books, done Chapters and published >150 articles in peer-reviewed journals. He received various Rector’s Gold Series Research and international Publication Awards from UST. Dr. Rosales founded the CNS Ambulatory Neurological Care of Metropolitan Medical Center (Manila) and also Active Staff in the Units of Clinical Neurophysiology and Movement Disorders of St. Luke’s Medical Center (QC).
Dr Rosales was bestowed the Philippine-based Promising Star Awards for world-class Research (yrs 2006-2015, in Neuroscience and Behavior), and among 100-Top Asia Scientists (The Asian Scientist, 2016 and 2017 issues, through Thomson Reuters).
Dr. Yanuar received neurology and neurophysiology training at the Universitas Indonesia, Cipto Mangunkusumo Hospital. He had also conducted intra-operative neurophysiology monitoring training at Duke University, USA under the guidance of Prof. Aatif M. Husain.
Since 2010, He with his Senior Dr. Manfaluthy Hakim pioneered neurophysiology intra-operative monitoring services for brain tumours and spine deformities surgeries in government hospitals Cipto Mangunkusumo. Until now, this hospital has become one of the government hospitals in Indonesia that conducts routine intra-operative neurophysiology monitoring for spine deformities, spinal cord and brain tumours.
Dr. Sanders is Professor of Neurology and Director of Neuromuscular Research at Duke University Medical Center, in Durham, NC, where he founded, and for 25 years, directed, the Duke EMG Laboratory and the Duke Myasthenia Gravis Clinic. He received his medical degree from Harvard University and developed an abiding interest in the diagnosis and treatment of myasthenia gravis and related diseases while training in Neurology with Professor T.R. Johns, at the University of Virginia. He trained in Electromyography and Neuromuscular Physiology with Professor Edward Lambert at the Mayo Clinic, and has been at Duke since 1980.
Dr. Sanders has served as President of the Board of Directors of the American Association of Neuromuscular and Electrodiagnostic Medicine and of the Medical/Scientific Advisory Board of the Myasthenia Gravis Foundation of America. He has been a member of the Editorial Boards of Muscle & Nerve and the Journal of Clinical Neurophysiology and is a reviewer for many American and international medical journals. He is currently Chair of the North American Chapter of the International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology and a member of the Executive Committee of that organization.
Dr. Sanders has authored more than 200 scientific publications on neuromuscular disorders, including early work on experimental autoimmune MG, diagnosis and treatment of neuromuscular diseases, the development of computer-assisted analysis of neurophysiologic signals, single-fiber EMG, the development and management of clinical trials in MG and Lambert-Eaton myasthenia, and, most recently, immunologic biomarker discovery in autoimmune neuromuscular disease.
Chairperson
Dr Margitta Seeck is a professor of Neurology at the University of Geneva, Switzerland. She is director of the presurgical epilepsy program Geneva-Lausanne, which became a reference center for difficult-to-treat epilepsies in adults and children. She also heads the in- and outpatient unit of the EEG and Epilepsy Unit of the University Hospital of Geneva. She is past president of the Swiss Neurophysiological Society but she is still actively involved in teaching of EEG and epileptology.
She received her medical and doctoral degrees at the Ludwigs-Maximilians-University of Munich, where she also received her neurology training. After her medical studies, she did a postdoctoral fellowship at the Free University of Berlin and moved then to the United States where she was trained in EEG and epileptology at the Beth Israel Hospital, Harvard University. Her main interests are epilepsy surgery, EEG and EEG-based imaging in epilepsy, neurophysiology of intracranial EEG recordings. She is author of more than 170 papers on epilepsy in national and international journals, serves on several editorial boards of epilepsy journals, and is expert for the Swiss national science foundation and research agencies of other European and non-European countries. Furthermore, she is also actively involved in the Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences and in the International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology.
Dr Ahmad Shahir bin Mawardi
RESEARCH ACTIVITIES
1. Principal Investigator for “Prospective double-blind placebo-controlled, randomized, parallel-group, multi-centre study with an open-label extension period to investigate the efficacy and safety of two different doses of NT 201 in Botulinum toxin treatment-naïve subjects with Blepharospasm (2015-2017)
2. Sub-investigator for A Multicenter, Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled, Phase 3 Study to Evaluate the Efficacy and Safety of Satralizumab (SA237) as Monotherapy in Patients With Neuromyelitis Optica (NMO) and Neuromyelitis Optica Spectrum Disorder (NMOSD)
3. Sub-investigator for A Double-Blind Trial To Evaluate The Safety And Efficacy Of Eculizumab In Relapsing NMO Patients (PREVENT Study) (2016-On-going)
4. The Prevalence of Osteopenia and Osteoporosis in a patient with Parkinson’s Disease in UKMMC: A case-control study (2012)
5. Turn-around –time radiographs in Neonatal Intensive care Unit (2005)
ABSTRACTS & SCIENTIFIC PRESENTATIONS
1. Poster presentation at XXIII World Congress of Neurology, Kyoto, Japan
2. Poster presentation at 17th International Congress of Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders 2013, Sydney, Australia
3. Poster presentation at 24th Annual Scientific Meeting of Malaysian Society of Neurosciences 2013, Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia
4. Resource utilization of medical ward admission in the district hospital in the year 2012
SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
1. Hospital Kuala Lumpur Neurology Update (2014)
2. 1st Malaysian National Multiple Sclerosis Symposium (2015)
3. Chairman for Neurology teaching course for the junior medical officer (2016)
4. Chairman for Clinical Neurology workshop organized by Hospital Kuala Lumpur (2019)
OTHER ACTIVITIES
1. Panel for Medical board for Malaysia Ministry of Health
2. Panel for Malaysian Employees Provident Fund (KWSP) medical board
3. Members of “Medical re-evaluation board’ for Malaysian Medical Council for years 2016-2017.
4. Invited as an expert guest in the health segment in TV9 for a morning talk show on ‘Headache” on 3rd July 2015
5. Invited as an expert guest on National Television (TV 1) for news segment to give an explanation on “Multiple Sclerosis” on 28th July 2015
6. Invited as an author for MyHEALTH portal (2016)
Committee
Dr. Nortina Shahrizaila is a Professor of Neurology at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya and Senior Consultant Neurologist at University Malaya Medical Centre in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Her subspecialty clinical and research interests are in the field of clinical neurophysiology and neuromuscular disorders.
She is the current Chair of the Clinical Neurophysiology Section, Malaysian Society of Neurosciences. She serves on the board of the Inflammatory Neuropathy Consortium, Peripheral Nerve Society, the Pan-Asian Consortium for Treatment and Research in ALS (PACTALS) and the Electrodiagnostic Expertise Task Force for the International Guillain-Barré Syndrome Outcome.
Dr. Bun SHENG is a consultant and Head of Neurology & Adult Centre for Inherited Metabolic Disorders in Princess Margaret Hospital, Hong Kong. He is also serving as Chairman of the Subcommittee on Clinical Neurophysiology of the Hong Kong Neurological Society. Dr. SHENG’s main academic interests are neurodegenerative disease, clinical neurophysiology and inherited metabolic disorders. His Inherited Metabolic Disorders Centre is the first of its kind for adults and now the only designated enzyme therapy Centre in Hong Kong.
Chairperson
Dr. Kazumoto Shibuya, M.D., Ph.D., is Assistant Professor of Neurology at Chiba University Hospital. He has worked with Professor Satoshi Kuwabara and worked as a visiting researcher at Brain and Mind Centre, University of Sydney, between 2014 and 2016, with Professors Matthew Kiernan and Nortina Shahrizaila. His clinical focus encompasses motor neuron disease, neuropathy and myopathy. He is now focusing on nerve and cortical hyperexcitability in motor neuron disease. He is an editorial board member of Annals of Clinical Neurophysiology, official journal of Korean Society of Clinical Neurophysiology, and recently received Young Investigator Award from Japanese Society of Clinical Neurophysiology.
Professor Masahiro Sonoo now works as Professor and Chairman, Department of Neurology, Teikyo University School of Medicine (Tokyo, Japan) and Dean of Graduate School of Medicine, Teikyo University. He graduated from the University of Tokyo, School of Medicine in 1982. He serves as Director of the Japanese Society of Clinical Neurophysiology and Japanese Society of Neurology, and also is a member of the editorial board of Muscle and Nerve and Clinical Neurophysiology Practice. He majors in concentric needle EMG, single-fiber EMG, quantitative surface EMG, somatosensory evoked potentials, myotomal chart, diagnoses of ALS, cervical spondylotic amyotrophy, true neurogenic TOS, CTS, and non-organic paresis (Sonoo abductor test).
Jia-Ying Sung graduated from the Medical Department of Taipei Medical University. She finished the neurologist training course at National Taiwan University Hospital and went to Japan to complete her PhD at Chiba University between 2000-2004. She was the Chairman of Sleep Medicine and the Director of the Clinical Research Center in Wanfang Hospital. Now she is the Chair of the Department of Neurology in Wanfang Hospital and an Associate Professor of the Department of Neurology, College of Medicine, School of Medicine, Taipei Medical University. She is corresponded member of the neuromuscular group in the Taiwan Neurology Society.
Jia-Ying Sung has extensively studied on peripheral neuropathy and clinical neurophysiology. She has a special interest in nerve excitability measurement of patients and has published her research topics about neuromuscular diseases such as diabetes polyneuropathy, inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy in peer reviewed articles in the journals of SCI, such as JNNP & Brain.
Dr Tan has been for many years Head of Neurology and the Clinical Neurophysiology laboratory in the University of Malaya Medical Centre. He has helped to build up the Neurophysiology laboratory into an important service and training centre in Malaysia and the neighbouring countries. His training in Neurology and Neurophysiology includes the Institute of Neurology, London, UK. He frequently participated in the teaching of EEG under the Asian Epilepsy Academy (ASEPA), ILAE. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Neurology Asia.
Dr. Tan Cheng Yin is a consultant neurologist at the University Malaya Medical Centre. He obtained his Medical Degree (MD) from the National University of Malaysia (UKM) in 2003 and Membership of the Royal Colleges of Physicians of the United Kingdom (MRCP) in 2010. He graduated with the Master of Internal Medicine (MMed) from the University of Malaya (UM) in 2012. He completed his Neurology training in 2015. His areas of interest are Neuromuscular disorders and Clinical Neurophysiology. Besides clinical work, Dr. Tan is active in research in the University of Malaya and has published several papers in international journals.
Committee
Prof Dr Tan Hui Jan graduated from UKM and pursued the Masters and Membership in Internal Medicine. After completed her post graduate studies, she did her neurology training in St Vincent’s Melbourne. She is currently the head of neurology unit, medical department Hospital UKM where she is actively involved in the undergraduate and postgraduate studies. She heads many studies and researches and has papers in local and international journals. Her main interests are in Epilepsy and its related disorders.
Dr Tan Kenny is a Consultant Neurologist and Physician at Loh Guan Lye Specialists Centre, Penang, Malaysia. He completed his undergradduate medical degree with Honors in University Kebangsaan Malaysia and obtained his MRCP from UK, London. He had his training in Neurology in Malaysia and obtained a Fellowship in Parkinson’s Disease and Movement Disorders from Northwestern University, USA. Dr Tan is well versed in treating various neurological conditions with special interest in movement disorders. He actively participates in Neurology academic development and is currently serving as the Honorary Secretary for Malaysian Society of Neurosciences.
Chairperson
Shozo Tobimatsu received a M.D. from the Faculty of Medicine, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan, in 1979 and a doctorate in medicine from Kyushu University in 1985. He was a research associate in the Dept. of Neurology, Loyola University of Chicago (Prof. GG. Celesia), USA from October 1985 to October 1987. After returning to Fukuoka, he was a lecturer in the Dept. of Clinical Neurophysiology, Kyushu University. Since December I 999, he has been a Professor and Chairman, Dept. of Clinical Neurophysiology, Faculty of Medicine, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University. His current research interests are higher brain functions and cognitive neuroscience in humans using non-invasive methods such as EEG, ERP, and MEG. He is a former president of the Japanese Society of Clinical Neurophysiology.
Claudia Trenkwalder, MD, started her clinical education in neurology and movement disorders at the Dept. Neurology of the University Hospital in Munich in 1988, moved to the Max- Planck Institute of Psychiatry from 1993-2000, before continuing at the University of Goettingen. Since 2003 she is Medical Director of the Paracelsus-Elena Klinik in Kassel, center for Parkinsonism and Movement Disorders. She is Full Professor of Neurology at Dept. of Neurosurgery, University Medical Center Goettingen, Germany.
She has published more than 390 peer reviewed articles and is currently President-Elect of IPMDS, and was President of WASM (World Association of Sleep Medicine) from 2011-13 and is an active member of many national and international scientific societies and committees.
DM Neurology, NIMHANS, 1996
• Awarded the NIH Fellowship in EPILEPSY at the prestigious UCLA, USA, from 2005-2006. Awarded Penry MiniFellowship in Epilepsy from the Wake Forest University in North Carolina. Alumni of the San Servolo School of Epilepsy.
• Awarded the Asian Oceanian Achievement Award in Epilepsy 2016 and AIIMS Research Award (Clinical) 2018.
• International League Against Epilepsy (ILAE) Faculty 1000, ILAE Task Force member for Stigma in Epilepsy, Paediatric Epilepsy Surgery Sub-commission under ILAE.
• Neuroscience Task Force member of the DBT for Epilepsy. She heads the Disability Task Force for Epilepsy in India.
• Coordinator of National Epilepsy Control Program- Ministry of Health India.
• Co-PI, Centre of Excellence for Refractory Epilepsy and MEG Center- DBT.
• Secretary General of the IES, a member of IEA, Member of International Professional societies like AAN, AES, AASM.
• Core Committee of Guidelines for Epilepsy Management in India (GEMIND).
• 230 research publications including in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM). She has research projects in Epilepsy funded by DBT, DST and ICMR.
• Her main areas of interest are Epilepsy, especially Drug Refractory epilepsies, epilepsy surgery, Women with epilepsy and functional neuroimaging in Epilepsy. Also has interest in sleep disorders, cognition and autoimmune disorders of CNS.
• Has delivered guest lectures at various National and International epilepsy conferences & Numerous Orations.
• National Course Director of Epilepsy and EEG workshops of IES started by her.
• Organizes epilepsy awareness. Has written patient handouts. Director of an NGO for epilepsy (EKATWAM). She also runs rural outreach programs in Epilepsy in tribal Orissa and North Eastern India.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
1978: Graduate from School of Medicine, University of Tokyo
1978-2007: Department of Neurology, the University of Tokyo (July, 1987 – December, 1989 under Professor Marsden at the Institute of Neurology, Queen Square, London)
May, 2007- March, 2018 : Professor and Chairman, Department of Neurology, School of Medicine, Fukushima Medical University
April 2018: Professor and Chairman, Department of Neuro-regeneration, School of Medicine, Fukushima Medical University
MEMBERSHIPS
International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology (IFCN):
• Secretary General of International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology (IFCN) 2014-2017
Movement Disorders Society
• Asian Oceania Section of the Movement Disorders Society: Executive Committee, Treasurer 2013 - 2015
Japanese Society of Neurology
• Executive Board Member
Japanese Society of Clinical Neurophysiology
• Executive Board Member
• Auditor 2017
Movement Disorders Society, Japan
• Executive Board Member
• President 2015-2017
• Past President 2017-
Nens van Alfen MD PhD is an associate professor of Neurology and clinical neurophysiologist from the Radboud university medical center (RUMC) in Nijmegen, The Netherlands. In 1997 she finished her medical training and she has been a board-certified neurologist since 2004. In 2006 she obtained her cum laude PhD. Dr. van Alfen is the medical director of the Clinical Neurophysiology laboratory and coordinator of the clinical neurophysiology residency training program. Her areas of expertise are neuromuscular ultrasound, peripheral nerve pathology and brachial plexus neuropathies, and electrodiagnosis of neuromuscular disorders. The RUMC clinical neurophysiology laboratory performs a 1000+ nerve and muscle ultrasound studies yearly and receives visiting clinicians from all over the world for short training programs in neuromuscular ultrasonography. Dr. van Alfen’s current focus is on developing a national teaching and quality program for neuromuscular ultrasound in the Netherlands.
MD, Universidad de Chile, 1981.
Neurologist, Board Certified. Universidad de Chile, 1985.
MSc. Neurosciences, Universidad de Chile, 1987.
Fellow in Neuromuscular Diseases, Oregon Health and Sciences University, 1989-1992.
Associate Professor of Neurology. Faculty of Medicine, Universidad de Chile, 1995-
Professor of Neurology. Faculty of Medicine Clinica Alemana-Universidad del Desarrollo, 2010-
Chair of the Service of Neurology. Clinica Alemana, 2011-
1994-1999. Postgraduate Director. Department of Neurology. Faculty of Medicine, Universidad de Chile.
1999-2003. Director Department of Neurology. Faculty of Medicine, Universidad de Chile.
2003. Secretary. Panamerican Congress of Neurology.
2004-2006. President Chilean Society of Clinical Neurophysiology.
2006-2007. President Society of Neurology, Psychiatry and Neurosurgery, Chile.
2007-. Member of the Neuromuscular Board, Cochrane Collaboration.
2009-. Chilean Delegate to the WFN.
2009-2012. President of the Latin American Chapter of the International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology.
2011- Director of the Program of Neurology. Faculty of Medicine, Clinica Alemana-Universidad del Desarrollo.
2014-2016. Vice President of the Pan-American Federation of Neurological Societies in process of formation.
2013-2017. Member at Large of the International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology.
2017- Secretary of the International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology.
2015. President. XXII World Congress of Neurology.
Dr. Vijayan is a consultant with the Division of Neurology. He graduated from India and has several years of experience in Neurology, having worked as a faculty member at Christian Medical College, Vellore and the National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, Bangalore, before moving to Singapore. He is a Member of the Royal College of Physicians since 2012 and received his specialist accreditation (SAB, Singapore) in 2016. He also holds Diploma of the European Board of Neurology and Certifications by the Royal College of Physicians (UK) in Neurology and by the American Board of Electrodiagnostic Medicine in Neurodiagnostic investigations.
His interest includes disorders of the peripheral nerves, clinical neurophysiology and nerve ultrasound. He is actively involved in the Peripheral Nerve Surgery Clinic which is run in conjunction with the Hand and Reconstructive Microsurgery Division. He has a very keen and special interest in neurological and functional disorders of the hand and upper limb.
Committee
Dr Shanthi Viswanathan is a Consultant Neurologist with the Department of Neurology, Kuala Lumpur Hospital, Malaysia. She has interests in Demyelinating diseases and related disorders.
Professor Vucic is an internationally recognized specialist in the management of a variety of neurological diseases including:
• Motor neuron disease (MND)
• Diseases of nerve and muscle
• Multiple sclerosis
• Neurophysiology (nerve conduction studies, evoked potentials, transcranial magnetic stimulation)
• Botulinum toxin therapy for
o Migraine headaches
o Axillary hyperhidrosis (excessive sweating)
o Hemifacial spams
o Cervical dystonic
o Blepharospasms
o Spasticity
Professor Vucic also has expertise in general neurological diseases consulting at Westmead Hospital (one of the largest hospitals in Australia), as well as Westmead and Norwest private hospitals.
Speaker
Committee
I am Dr Law Wan Chung. I obtained my MBBS from University Malaya, Kuala Lumpur in 2001 and became a member of Royal College of Physician, United Kingdom in 2008. I completed my neurology fellowship under Ministry of Health, Malaysia in 2013 and has had attachment at Royal Perth Hospital, Australia in 2014.
Currently, I am Head of Neurology Unit at Sarawak General Hospital, Exco member for Malaysia Neurosciences Society and Vice president for Malaysia Stroke Council.
Einar Wilder-Smith is a Senior Consultant Neurologist at the Kantonsspital in Lucerne, Switzerland and Professor in Neurology at the University of Berne, Switzerland. He graduated in medicine from the University of Heidelberg, Germany and worked as a Neurologist in Singapore at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore from 1998 until recently. His main interest in Neurology is neuromuscular medicine.
Chong Wong completed his undergraduate medical training at the University of Sydney. He completed his neurology training in Australia and epilepsy fellowship in Cleveland Clinic, Ohio. He has a PhD in the neuroimaging of patients with intractable epilepsy. He is a staff specialist neurologist at Westmead Hospital and The Children’s Hospital at Westmead and participates in ANZAN and ASEPA Epilepsy and EEG teaching courses.
Current Positions:
Attending Physician at Department of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taiwan
Chief of Child Developmental Center, Taipei Veterans General Hospital.
Associated professor of Department of Physical Therapy and Assistive Techonology, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan
Education:
Department of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University
Professional Experience:
Director of Division of Neurological Rehabilitation, Department of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taiwan
Areas of Specialization:
Pediatric Rehabilitation
Neurological Rehabilitation
Swallowing disorder
Intraoperative neurophysiological monitoring
Speaker
Dr. Mohamed is a Clinical Pharmacologist, Neuroscientist and Psychiatrist. His basic and translational research targets the investigation and development of novel treatment for neurodegenerative disorders using animal models as well as clinical trials. Dr. Mohamed got his PhD from PSU, USA and is currently working as an assistant professor in IIUM Medical School, Malaysia. Dr. Mohamed has been invited to deliver more than 100 lectures locally and abroad. He published over 50 peer-reviewed articles related to Neuroscience/Psychiatry with an h-index of 10 and total citations of 228. He received research funding from many national and international funding agencies including: FRGS-Malaysian Higher education, INDO-ASEAN, ISN, STDF, and IBRO. Moreover, he is an editor in Frontier in Neurology, Scientific Report-Nature and PLOS-ONE Journals
Dr. Siti Rafidah Yusof is a lecturer at Centre for Drug Research, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang. She received her PhD in Neuroscience from King’s College London. Her research interest is the blood-brain barrier (BBB) which regulates molecular traffic across the blood-brain interface. Her research group have established cell culture models using brain endothelial cells which allow study of the BBB function, particularly transport across the BBB. She is also interested to study alterations of the BBB function in disease conditions. Dr. Siti Rafidah Yusof is currently holding the position as MSN Assistant Treasurer and Co-Chair of MSN Basic Neuroscience Council.
Director of the Department Neurology & Stroke, and Co-Director of the Hertie-Institute for Clinical Brain Research, University of Tübingen, Germany.
Research expertise: Human motor cortex, excitability, plasticity, motor learning, TMS, brain state-dependent stimulation, neuropharmacology, TMS-EEG.
Current positions: Editor-in-Chief of “Clinical Neurophysiology”, ExCo member of the International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology (IFCN), Deputy Editor of “Brain Stimulation”, Associate Editor of “Journal of Neuroscience”.
Awards: Richard-Jung Prize of the DGKN, NIH Merit Award, NIH Fellowship Award for Research Excellence. Publications: 350 peer-reviewed publications, 38 book chapters, 6 Books, Cumulative IF: 1.754, ISI Citations: 23.293, ISI h-index: 78.
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