MEETING SITE

The PWSBiA Conference and Congress Centre
9 Bobrowiecka Street, WarsawBuilding A, 4th floor

PROGRAMME

Thursday, 3 April, 2008

12.00                Registration (main hall, 4th floor)

13.00-14.30     ENOS Investigators Meeting (room A-406 ONZ, 4th floor)

14.30-17.30     Workshops - simultaneous interpretation English-Polish
                             (room A-401, 4th floor)

• Michael Strupp - How to examine the ocular motor system
• Michael Strupp - How to examine the vestibular system
• Michael Strupp - Current medical treatment of vestibular ocular motor and cerebellar disorders

17.30-18.00     Coffee break (4th floor)

18.00-18.30    Opening Ceremony - Introduction and welcome
                           (room A-401, 4th floor)

• Anna Członkowska
• Zoltan Nagy                                 
• Vida Demarin

18.30-19.00     Peter Sandercock - Clinical trials in stroke -where next?
                             (room A-401, 4th floor)

19.00                Welcome reception (5th floor)

Friday, 4 April, 2008

9.00-10.50      Acute Stroke (1) (room A-401, 4th floor)
                          Chairmen: Zoltan Nagy, Ale Algra

• 9.00-9.20 Markku Kaste - Well organized stroke care is best for the patient and the society
• 9.20-9.40 Gillian Sare - Management of blood pressure in acute stroke
• 9.40-10.00 Martin Denis - Feeding after stroke
• 10.00-10.20 Hubert Kwieciński - Polish registry of thrombolysis in ischemic stroke
• 10.20-10.40 Nils Wahlgren - Safe implementation of thrombolysis in stroke - Pan-European perspective
• 10.40-10.50 Discussion

10.50-11.15     Coffee break (4th floor)

11.15-13.05     Acute Stroke (2) (room A-401, 4th floor)
                           Chairmen: Vida Demarin, Nils Wahlgren

• 11.15-11.35 Daniel Bereczki - Evidence based thrombolysis 11.35-11.55 Peter Sandercock - The use of thrombolysis outside the 'classical' indications: should we or shouldn't we?
• 11.55-12.15 David Školoudík - Thrombolysis enhanced by sono-thrombotripsy
• 12.15-12.35 Daniel Hanley - Minimally Invasive Thrombolysis for IVH and ICH
• 12.35-12.55 Martin Denis - Prevention of venous thromboembolism after stroke
• 12.55-13.05 Discussion

13.05-14.00   Lunch (5th floor)

14.00-15.00   Poster session (room A-401, 4th floor)

15.00-16.30   Prevention (room A-401, 4th floor)
                         Chairmen: Veronika Skvortsova, Daniel Bartko

• 15.00-15.20 Ale Algra - An update on secondary stroke prevention with antithrombotic drugs
• 15.20-15.40 Laszlo Csiba - Antihypertensive theapy in stroke secondary prevention
• 15.40-16.00 Gudrun Boysen - Accellerated prophylactic treatment after TIA and minor stroke
• 16.00-16.20 Bojana Zwan - Carotid disease and stenting (CAS) procedure
• 16.20-16.30 Discussion

16.30-17.00   Coffee break (4th floor)

17.00-18.30   Epidemiology (room A-401, 4th floor)
                         Chairmen: Danuta Ryglewicz, Daniel Bereczki

• 17.00-17.20 Agnieszka Słowik - Genetics of stroke
• 17.20-17.40 Janika Korv - Epidemiology of stroke
• 17.40-18.00 Veronika Skvortsova - Development of stroke care in the Russian Federation
• 18.00-18.20 Zoltan Nagy - Our experiences on thrombolysis in the NSC. Analysis of 320 lysis cases
• 18.20-18.30 Discussion

20.00                Dinner (5th floor)

Saturday, 5 April 2008

8.00-9.00       CEESS General Assembly (room A-406 ONZ, 4th floor)

• 9.00-9.20 Danuta Ryglewicz - Post-stroke epilepsy
• 9.20-9.40 Korczyn Amos - The vascular contribution to dementia
• 9.40-10.00 Markku Kaste - Strategies to reduce the burden of stroke
• 10.00-10.20 Wojciech Kozubski - Post stroke depression
• 10.20-10.30 Discussion

• 11.00-11.20 Karl Mauritz - Evidence based motor rehabilitation after stroke
• 11.20-11.40 Daniel Hanley - Stroke rehabilitation with repetitive exercise
• 11.40-12.00 Vida Demarin - Enhancement of stroke recovery
• 12.00-12.20 Konrad Waldowski - New approaches to stroke rehabilitation
• 12.20-12.30 Discussion

12.30-13.30     Lunch (5th floor)

13.30-15.30    A holistic approach on neurotrophicity, neuroprotection and neuroplasticity
                          – applied in stroke treatment (room A-401, 4th floor)
                          Chairmen: D. Muresanu and Z. Czernicki

• Hari Shanker Sharma - Pathophysiology of heat stroke. Current perspectives
• Dafin Muresanu - Neuroprotection and Neuroplasticity, two aspects of a Continuous Process, Genetically Regulated and Powered by Neurotrophic Factors
• Bogdan Popescu - Roles of trophic factors relevant to cerebral ischemia
• Valentin Bohotin - Clinical application of transcranial magnetic stimulation in stroke patients
• Anton Alvarez - Neurotrophic treatment in Vascular Dementia: Effects of Cerebrolysin

Session organised jointly by The Romanian Society for the Study of Neuroprotection and Neuroplasticity and Central and Eastern European Stroke Society.

15.30                 Closing  (room A-401, 4th floor)

 All lectures are given in English language.