7th Asian Oceanian Congress on Clinical Neurophysiology
Speaker
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.
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
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.
Speaker
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.
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.
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.
Committee
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.
Speaker
- 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)
Speaker
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.
Speaker
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.
Speaker
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.
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.
Speaker
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.
Speaker
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.
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.
Speaker
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.
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.
Speaker
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).
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.
Speaker
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
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
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.
Speaker
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. 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).
Speaker
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.
Speaker
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.
Speaker
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
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.
Speaker
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.
Speaker
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.
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.
Speaker
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.
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.
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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).
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.
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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.
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.
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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)
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A. Prof. Eman Tawfik
Dr. Eman Tawfik is an assistant professor in Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Department, Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt. She is also the founder and the president of the Egyptian Neuromuscular Ultrasound Society.
She is specialized in Electrodiagnosis & Neuromuscular Ultrasound, and received her neuromuscular ultrasound training in the United States and Europe.
Dr. Eman is the pioneer of Neuromuscular Ultrasound in Egypt, and is a national/ international neuromuscular ultrasound tutor.
Dr. Eman has several publications including the first consensus-based guidelines for neuromuscular ultrasound training and a chapter entitled ‘Pediatric Neuromuscular Ultrasound’ in the ‘Pediatric Musculoskeletal Ultrasonography’ textbook.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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.
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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).
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Name: Erik Valdemar Stålberg
Education:
Medical School: Uppsala University. Graduated in April 1963 from Medical faculty, Uppsala University, Sweden.
PhD Thesis 1966: Propagation velocity in human muscle fibres in situ, Department of Pharmacology, Uppsala University.
Academic Position:
Professor of Clinical Neurophysiology since 1991, University Hospital, Uppsala.
Professor emeritus since April 2001.
Mentorship:
Professional organizations:
Member ofmany international
Honorary member of IFCN, 2010
Chairman of the European Chapter of IFCN 1997-2005
Publications:
About 450 papers and about 70 book chapters in clinical neurophysiology mainly in the field of electromyography. Scientific focus on studies of motor unit microphysiology and on the development of quantitative analysis methods in neurophysiology.
Also working in the development of Telemedicine – neurophysiology for national and international applications.
Editorial board Archieves of Neurology
Editorial Board, International advisor J Neuromuscular diseases, 1999-
Editor: "Clinical Neurophysiology", vol 1
Referee for manuscripts from various journals
General interest
Prof Stålberg has developed a number of EMG methods such as SFEMG (together with Ekstedt, and later with J.V Trontelj and D.B Sanders)), Macro EMG, Scanning EMG and methods for quantitation of conventional EMG. He has studied the microphysiology in normal and diseased muscle. He has also worked on Telemedicine in neurophysiology for routine applications.
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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.
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.
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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.
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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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