7:30am

EXHIBIT HALL OPENS

8:00am

BREAKFAST

8:55am

Welcome

Ingrid Loma-Miller, MD

Conference Chair

Will Jens, MD

President

9:00am

Updates on Neurostimulation in Epilepsy Management 

Alexandra Urban, MD

Neurology Clinical Vice Chair & Professor

Interim Chief of Epilepsy Division

Interim Director, UPMC Epilepsy Monitoring Unit (EMU) & 

University of Pittsburgh Comprehensive Epilepsy Center (UPCEC)

University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine & UPMC

9:40am

Presentations of Emergent and Reemergent Neuro- Infectious Diseases

James Sejvar, MD

Clinical Associate Professor of Neurology

University of Pittsburgh Medical Center

10:20am

BREAK

10:40am

Neurodevelopmental Disorders: Transition from Pediatric to Adult Neurology Care

Robyn Filipink, MD

Associate Professor

Clinical Director, Children’s Development Unit 

Director, Movement Disorder Clinic

Director, Tourette Syndrome Clinic

Director, Fragile X Syndrome Center

UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh

11:20am

Multiple Sclerosis and Neuroimmunology: Diagnostic Criteria for Multiple Sclerosis, Neuromyelitis Optica Syndrome and Myelin Oligodendrocyte Glycoprotein Antibody-associated Disease

Ghaida Khalaf Zaid, MD

Clinical assistant Professor of Neurology

Multiple Sclerosis and Neuroimmunologist specialist

The University of Tennessee Medical Center

Knoxville, TN 

NOON

LUNCH WITH EXHBITORS/VISIT POSTERS

BOTOX TRAINING

1:30pm

Neurologic Complications of Chemotherapy

Amy Pruitt, MD

Vice Chair for Education, Neurology

Division Chief, General Neurology

Advisory Dean

William N. Kelley Professor of Neurology

Penn Medicine

University of Pennsylvania

Philadelphia, PA

2:10pm

How to Choose your Biomarkers: Neurodegeneration and Neuromuscular Disorders

Glen Finney, MD

Director, Geisinger Memory and Cognition Program

Geisinger Health

Wilkes Barre, PA

Divisha Raheja, MD

St. Luke’s University Health Network

Center Valley, PA

2:50pm

BREAK WITH EXHIBITORS/VISIT POSTERS

3:10pm

Neurological Causes of Shortness of Breath

Michael M. Rey, MD, MSHP

Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine

Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine

University of Pennsylvania

Philadelphia, PA

3:40pm

Neurology Department Chair Panel:  Challenges and Opportunities in Neurology: Education, Workforce, and Patient Care

Chairs of Neurology Programs in the Commonwealth 

Daniel Ackerman , MD

Medical Director of Stroke and Vascular Neurology

St. Luke's University Health Network

Bethlehem, PA

4:30pm

Adjourn

Residents – please join your Program Directors for a photo at the front of the room.